January 2012
30 posts
“We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over...”
– The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
“Robert Merton: “Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your...”
– Language Log » Snowmanteaux
Cut the Rope →
“The robbery took place in Nice in 1976. A team of 20 men, led by Mr. Spaggiari,...”
– Albert takes a bubble bath « gimcrack hospital (PG)
Parents Drop Fake Treating-You-Like-An-Adult Act... →
“A lot of my songwriting in the Hold Steady has to do with this place in your...”
– Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn talks to us about his unflinching new solo album. (via pitchfork)
Joe Mohan, dance your dance: I’m paying attention and liking the wordwork of Craig Finn (probably because I can’t hear his voice).
“MR: Everyone loves to quote Oscar Wilde’s line about how all bad art is...”
– An Interview with Michael Robbins [by Robert P. Baird] - The Best American Poetry
How Not To Do Your Twenties: Goethe on Being in... →
hownottodoyourtwenties:
“We are so made that we compare everything with ourselves and ourselves with everything. Therefore, our fortune or misfortune depends on the objects and persons to which we compare ourselves; and for that reason nothing is more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, by its nature inclined to…
Look at These Fucking Boots! | VICE →
“The whole thing with LiveJournal, WordPress, and Blogspot was oversharing in a...”
– Some Tumblr-on-Tumblr analysis from Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth. (via pitchfork)
The Ballad of @Horse_ebooks | Splitsider →
surprisingly thought-provoking
Stealth Mountain (stealthmountain) on Twitter →
What twitter looks like from here
Northern Calloway, Sesame Street's David: 1948 to... →
Metafilter’s best of the year is fantastic, as to be expected.
This company wants to charge you for not... →
The author is missing the point - the people who would use this program are the ones who need to get punished (financially, here) before they’ll begin the process. That hurt is worth it to them! The shame will compel them to shape up or continue the revenue loss, I guarantee.
“Having concluded from the fact that he wasn’t dead that the bullet had not...”
– You’ve Been Shot | The Awl
December 2011
31 posts
Gunshow - The 26th →
Slow motion magnets →
science!
TWOYOUTUBEVIDEOSANDAMOTHERFUCKINGCROSSFADER.COM →
“He says that good games usually offer meaningful opportunities for achievement,...”
– The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit | Magazine
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a...
The Google Goblins Give Firefox a Reprieve--But... →
required reading.
Favorite videos of the year
http://dancomono.tumblr.com/post/13938708712/flyboard-zapata-by-zapykrys
God bless you, insane inventors.
http://dancomono.tumblr.com/post/12483211609/chevy-sonic-stunts-skydive-2-by-chevrolet
Paid for, sure, but beautiful.
http://dancomono.tumblr.com/post/10269204588/i-cant-think-of-enough-good-things-to-say-about
One of the funniest short films of the year.
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hungry in the saddle « gimcrack hospital (PG) →
‘As Tex fell, he pulled out his own chess board and shot the Kid 35 times in the King. The Kid dropped in a pool of whisky. “Aha,” Tex said, “I hated to do it but he was on the wrong side of the Queen.”
better to be leaving than arriving « gimcrack... →
'Craigslist killer' case highlights the plight of... →
Top Ten Albums, 2011
This will go up on CHIRP later in the month, but I’m impatient and already waited three whole days. Here’s my top ten albums of the year. (and songs at the end!)
10. Bibio – Mind Bokeh
Always a treasure trove of found sounds, warped cassettes, and general hazy bliss, Bibio’s book has more than a page or two borrowed from Boards of Canada. But his most recent records have revealed a...
