September 2007
31 posts
ImJasonH: In a hot air balloon high above the ground with Lauren (via Twitter / ImJasonH)
Tegan And Sara, Amanda Palmer Cover Rihanna
Really, we should be keeping a running list of all the “Umbrella” covers for posterity, ‘cause clearly it’s this year’s “Crazy.” We’ve already pointed the way to Mandy Moore’s acoustic take but never pointed out My Chem’s Gerard having his way with it. And who could forget the star treatment afforded to music’s very own LonelyGirl,...
Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Alan, our managing editor, has until very recently been held captive in a programming forced labor camp. As he recovers from his schedule wounds, please enjoy this classic Damn Interesting article which was originally posted on 06 September 2005.
Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse...
Spiral-cut fried whole potato: Korean junk-food
Tornado Potatoes — new street-food from South Korea. It’s a spiral-cut potato, deep fried and dusted with tangy cheezy powder. Yes, it’s unhealthy, but the Koreans have a long way to go if they’re going to bridge the US-Korean junk-food gap — hello, deep-fried Coca-Cola! Get that potato some whipped mayo and maybe some rat-poison (or plutonium) and we’ll be...
Spiral-cut fried whole potato: Korean junk-food
Tornado Potatoes — new street-food from South Korea. It’s a spiral-cut potato, deep fried and dusted with tangy cheezy powder. Yes, it’s unhealthy, but the Koreans have a long way to go if they’re going to bridge the US-Korean junk-food gap — hello, deep-fried Coca-Cola! Get that potato some whipped mayo and maybe some rat-poison (or plutonium) and we’ll be...
Andrew Bird - 2007 Tour Dates & presale
Andrew Bird @ Austin City Limits 2007 (CRED)
Andrew Bird just announced a slew of new tour dates, and some of them are now on presale - that includes the one happening November 30th at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. I unfortunately missed Andrew’s set at ACL because I went to the Wilco ACL TV taping (which was amazing), but there’s a picture from it above. Andrew is playing six shows...
Gullible.info for September 23, 2007
• Due to the increase in use of text messaging, linguists estimate that the American language will lose a vowel by the year 2050. Many expect the vowel to be “e”. • It is estimated that two percent of women will lose their wedding rings in the first five years of marriage. • Olympic diver Greg Louganis is an accomplished oboe player and has soloed on three different occasions with...
Jack Spade held an impromptu fashion show in...
Jack Spade held an impromptu fashion show in Bryant Park outside the giant tent where Fashion Week was happening, enlisting passersby to carry Jack Spade bags up and back on the sidewalk. Wonderful stuff. (via design observer)
(link) (via Jason H’s shared items in Google Reader)
How Willy Wonka Should Have Ended. I always...
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Floating Head
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World’s Languages Dying Off Rapidly
Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century. (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Coffee table/magazine stand
Joel on Boing Boing Gadgets spotted this kick-ass coffee-table with integrated hanging magazine folders. I know I blogged a bookcase version of this table at some point, but I can’t find it.
Link, Discuss on Boing Boing Gadgets
(via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Javascript on Facebook
Today we are moving Facebook Javascript (FBJS) out of beta and into version 1.0.
FBJS was built to empower you with the scripting functionality that you need to make your Facebook Platform applications more rich and interactive, while protecting Facebook users’ privacy at the same time.
If you are already used to Javascript, you will find that most of the syntax and functionality that you...
The Adventures Of Mr. Fly
This is the work of photographer Nicholas Hendrickx. Apparently, no photoshop is used other than for basic color correction etc and none of the flys used in his work were harmed during production. Take a look at the full collection here
click on the images to enlarge
(via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
JUNO trailer (via Lonely Sandwich). HOLY JESUS,...
(via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
ImJasonH: I got the job!!!! New York 2: Electric Boogaloo, coming to theaters January 2008 (via Twitter / ImJasonH)
GEEK: Iron Man Trailer aka My Eyes and Ears Just...
I’m not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole. I’m exhausted and I can’t touch, taste or smell, I’m guessing because my senses of sight and sound were so overwhelmed they were forced to completely drain my other 3 senses. I’m actually writing this on a Dictaphone because without a sense of “touch” I kept mashing the keyboard.
This trailer is perfect, but...
ImJasonH: I beat Super Paper Mario last night — the most fun Mario game since SMB3, highly recommended. (via Twitter / ImJasonH)
jQuery Drag'n'Drop →
Tumbl.us found some videos of custom Mario levels...
(via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Clips: Wikipedia, a fact checker's worst nightmare
FCU with Bill Murray
If you’ve never had the pleasure of fact checking at a magazine, congratulate yourself. And stay far, far away. Writers (and editors) have a tendency to pull facts out of thin air. That means the poor fact check department is often sent scavenging for ridiculous facts like the number of fish in the ocean. Worse, it has to verify information gathered from the...
Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
CHICAGO—According to the review, the popular medium that predates the written word shows promise but nonetheless “leaves the listener wanting more.” (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
ImJasonH: Playing with my new MacBook Pro!! (via Twitter / ImJasonH)
The Decemberists
Just watching this show makes me nervous. Whenever I smoke the stuff I end
up being that guy at the party that should have really just left the scene. You know; the fool so stoned that [he] becomes cemented to the cat pee smelling cracked pleather chair in the corner who’s creeping everyone out because he won’t talk to anyone and he won’t move for nothing.
So in doing this song, we thought it...
Comedy Goldmine: The Exciting World of Gameboy...
Something Awful forum goon Giant Robot Fight! has a Gameboy and isn’t afraid to use it. His weapon of choice is covering popular music in the style of the Nintendo handheld’s audio. Check out some of his songs for free! (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
BREAKING NEWS: Missing Girl Probably Raped
Bloomington, IN police say they have absolutely no information about a missing college student. Alan Fisher investigates the possible rape. (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Nameless Hurricane That Much More Terrifying
MIAMI—Thousands have already fled the popularly dubbed “Hurricane That Shall Not Be Named,” to escape its destructive winds and chilling impersonality. (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
09.03.2007
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic. (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
HOWTO - beat carnival games
I decided to brave the manure, mullets and *-on-a-stick this weekend and swung by the state fair. It seems like every time I go there are a couple people walking around all day with enormous stuffed animals, presumably won through some feat of basketball tossing or ring flinging. Enormous. Impossible to win enormous. Paid carnival employees walking around with giant stuffed bears tricking...
The samples Daft Punk uses
The samples Daft Punk uses (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
ImJasonH: Broke down and finally bought Guitar Hero. The quest to not fail out of my last semester just got interesting… (via Twitter / ImJasonH)