01 Sep 09

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Booty Groove is one of the tracks from Double Check Your Head. A free album that re-mixes the songs of The Beastie Boy’s Check Your Head. [via]

01 Sep 09

— Recycled Cycle Bottle Opener

Pretty sweet piece of work made out of old bike gears.


01 Sep 09

“If you scoff at how stupid the advertising is - then it is YOU who doesn’t get it. The advertising is perfectly clever. It is a filter. A carefully constructed, researched, smart filter.” — A commenter on MetaFilter

31 Aug 09

— When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

A Cory Doctorow short story about the Internet at the end of the world as we know it.


30 Aug 09

The sunset was pretty amazing today. Snapped this while taking the dog for a hike. We had the whole trail to ourselves.

The sunset was pretty amazing today. Snapped this while taking the dog for a hike. We had the whole trail to ourselves.

30 Aug 09

I had to break out my old painting hat this weekend. This rag is over 15 years old and it looks (smells) like it. Oh yeah, our bathroom is now Adventure Orange.

I had to break out my old painting hat this weekend. This rag is over 15 years old and it looks (smells) like it. Oh yeah, our bathroom is now Adventure Orange.

30 Aug 09

— Morocco's Extraordinary Donkeys

If you need lumber and rebar to add a new room to your house in the medina, a donkey will carry it in for you. If you have a heart attack while building the new room on your house, a donkey might well serve as your ambulance and carry you out. If you realize your new room didn’t solve the overcrowding in your house and you decide to move to a bigger house, donkeys will carry your belongings and furniture from your old house to your new one.
The roads of the walled city of Fez, Morocco are too narrow for any vehicle so donkeys are the main means of transportation. [via]


30 Aug 09

— The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare at Goats was inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction bestseller of the same name, an eye-opening and often hilarious exploration of the government’s attempts to harness paranormal abilities to combat its enemies.
Looks like a good flick. I read another one of Ronson’s book called Them a while back and it was most excellent.


30 Aug 09

“I’m a pawnbroker, mortician, spammer, multimillionaire, working TV/film comedy writer, Freemason, actor’s assistant, beekeeper, drug dealer, Catholic priest, kleptomaniac, nudist, prosecutor, suicide hotline volunteer.” — From Ask Me Anything, a post from MetaFilter on Reddit’s I Am A … series.

30 Aug 09

— Workbench

A series from Seed Magazine that lets you peak on what’s on some super interesting people’s desks.


30 Aug 09

This gnarled old tree lives on a back road I often take to and from home. During the day there isn’t much to it, but at night it’s illuminated with an old street lamp giving it a creepy yellow tint.

This gnarled old tree lives on a back road I often take to and from home. During the day there isn’t much to it, but at night it’s illuminated with an old street lamp giving it a creepy yellow tint.

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