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Reggie Watts on muxtape
May 1st
Visualizing The Grid
May 1st
Carousel
May 1st
“The Web is built on distraction. Hyperlinking is the...”
— Redub LLC
Apr 30th

Chasing the future.

Sometimes you read a bit of text and it sinks in. The idea of it makes you stop and chew on it for a...
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
Onwards by James Jarvis is amazing. Here is a little background on the film from Jarvis: The film...
Apr 29th

Why do you blog?

I have been invited to speak at my local library’s Bookfest celebration this weekend. I will...
Apr 28th
By Mikko Walamies [via]. Related: the CDC has a counter of...
Apr 28th
Seed Bombs
Apr 28th
Dangerous Diagram: The Jumps of Evel Knievel
Apr 28th
Climigration
Apr 28th
“? OR #musicmonday OR blipfm OR hypem OR imeem OR song.ly OR...”
— The suggested search string to...
Apr 27th
Is The Big Picture a bummer today?
Apr 27th
my son had an art class in a middle school this weekend....
Apr 27th
“I remember some [boom]boxes so big, they required 20 D-size...”
— Fab 5 Freddy from A Eulogy For...
Apr 26th

The second call.

The first call came while I was in a meeting. I took it to find out if everything was ok. She took...
Apr 25th

Shrooms and foxes.

I was on the lookout for Morels while walking the dog this morning. Sadly I did not spot any of the...
Apr 25th
flier. the bees were buzzing today. hello spring.
Apr 25th

Paper nerds rejoice.

Jason Santa Maria’s latest article is an ode to the sketchbook and is most inspiring. The best...
Apr 24th
snail by the_kegs
Apr 23rd
Yahoo announced that GeoCities will close...
Apr 23rd
Clive Thompson on the Revolution in...
Apr 23rd
The Oprah effect
Apr 23rd
Last Year's Model
Apr 23rd
American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions...
Apr 23rd
“It was kind of like pitching in high school again....”
— Washington Nationals pitcher...
Apr 21st
In a series he calls Babel Tales, photographer Peter Funch...
Apr 21st
From my new favorite Tumblr: Screen Caps. Right now...
Apr 21st
Warch Watch
I’ve always wanted to do a Take Away Show on [a San Francisco Cable Car]. But first we needed a band...
Apr 20th
Mole Man of Hackney:
Apr 20th
Listen Listen
A mash-up of Matt and Kim “Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare” and the Beastie Boys...
Apr 19th
“I owned many, many cassingles”
— Matt Haughey from...
Apr 19th
We Are Hunted
Apr 19th
Baker Tweet
Apr 19th
Space-Based Storm Control:
Apr 19th
i was messing around with the macro setting during a hike...
Apr 17th
Madden retires,
Apr 17th
Snow rollers
Apr 16th
The FADER
Apr 16th
The Free Music Archive
Apr 16th
Biggie biggie biggie cant you see, sometimes your words just hypnotize me.
Apr 16th
I really appreciate the navigation schema of this Roadside Attractions site. For example: Giant...
Apr 16th
Aerial reconnaissance pigeons. [via]
Apr 15th
Special Ed
Apr 15th
The Road to Area 51
Apr 15th
reach. [embiggen]
Apr 14th
Yelp Will Let Businesses Respond to Web...
Apr 14th
★ I was kind of interested in The Elkhart Project, but I can’t get past the huge ad for Colon...
Apr 14th
I took the boy to the library on Saturday. On the way out I...
Apr 13th
The bastard chairs of China
Apr 13th
The American Merchant Mariners’ Memorial
Apr 13th
A Portrait of the American Craftsman
Apr 13th

Happy Eggster Bunny Day.

Face slaughtered by disposable razor. Check. Contacts to eyeballs. Check. Crisp new blue shirt....
Apr 12th
Would you help this little dude out? They did.
Apr 12th
Moon
Apr 11th

Germans, board games, and my brain.

Within this Wired Article about the board game, Settlers of Catan, lies this interesting...
Apr 11th
a little fairy statue in my mom’s yard. [embiggen]
Apr 10th
FaceOut Books
Apr 10th
“Twitter’s rapid growth and slow-but-sure push toward...”
— Dan Frommer from Alarming...
Apr 10th
“The single worst Internet “feedback” I have ever seen was a...”
— Neven Mrgan from Internet...
Apr 9th
Finally, a book based on a blog I may actually purchase.
Apr 9th
q-tip by getinet (© mekuria getinet / mekuriageti.net). By...
Apr 8th
The Dyatlov Pass Incident:
Apr 8th
Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers:
Apr 8th
How do I live with no current address?
Apr 8th
★ The year is 1918 and my amazing flying machine can take us to Mars in 46 ½ years. [via]
Apr 8th
“it’s a lesson in how the future of music is working - fans...”
— Musician Amanda Palmer on her...
Apr 8th

San Fran maps.

I stumbled upon two interesting maps of San Francisco today. The first is a visualization of a new...
Apr 8th
Pulp Books
Apr 8th
“These are houses that have been converted into cannabis...”
— Sam Jacob from The...
Apr 8th
The Dough-Nu-Matic Doughnut Maker
Apr 7th
Listen Listen
Tiger Woods by Dan Bern. Contains this gem of a line: My balls are as big as small dogs. Great song....
Apr 7th
Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud
Apr 7th
JPZenger
Apr 7th
A whistlepig is another name for a groundhog. Just thought I would share this random fact I learned...
Apr 7th
“I don’t want to be restricted to my blog’s subject or any...”
— Marco from Avoiding the...
Apr 6th
Panoramic Photo of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake....
Apr 6th

Spam, spam, spam, spam!

Did we win the war against spam? Did I miss the victory parade? Wasn’t it just a couple of...
Apr 6th
Run DMC and the Beastie Boys 1987. Nice.
Apr 5th
“I just made out with that piece of pizza so hard that...”
— Jessabelle [via]
Apr 4th
Warch Watch
Bounce That – Girl Talk [via]
Apr 4th
Ghetto Bird Hotline
Apr 4th
“Teaparty not just in Boston anymore. We have change, but...”
— Drawn in the grime of a...
Apr 4th
Listen Listen
Mos Def - Quiet Dog. It’s good to hear you going off again Mr. Smith.
Apr 3rd
The Question
Apr 3rd
Robotwisdom’s favorite tweets
Apr 3rd
Eat me crunchy
Apr 3rd
Check Your Head
Apr 3rd
“The Internet was so annoying yesterday. One or two April...”
— Binky the doormat
Apr 2nd

Programming note.

For the last couple days I was messing with importing tweets here (this didn’t work with...
Apr 2nd
★ As a wallet nerd, I love The Pocketwallet by Hand Graft.
Apr 2nd
★ I saw a History Channel show about this haunting and it scared the bejesus out of me.
Apr 2nd

Not just a clever title.

Did the creators of Life on Mars make a weird finale because they were pissed their show got...
Apr 2nd