October 2008
64 posts
The DOT is handing out free bike lights tonight from 5 to 6:30 on the Manhattan sides of the Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges!
netflix for books →
Ugh! I had this idea months ago but my friends scoffed at the concept!
(via paperbackgirl)
“Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and...”
– article in The New Yorker about sexual behavior & politics
matthewvandoren:
“There’s a Game Boy on display at the Nintendo World store in New York that was damaged in the first Gulf war. Involved in a direct mortar hit, it may be disfigured and charred, but you can still play Tetris on it.”
— via
Ouroboros
magicmolly:
What does a human tongue taste like? Can it taste itself? Can’t ponder on this unless I cross my eyes.
This is almost as difficult to imagine as borromean rings.
Arthur Russell - Close My Eyes
Arthur...
CMJ is like the best headache you'll ever get
bands I have already seen/will see (hopefully): Bell, Lykke Li, That Ghost, Inlets, Suckers, Continental Divide, Shugo Tokumaru, Women, Passion Pit, Au, Stars Like Fleas, High Places, The Ruby Suns, PB Wolf
bands I want to see, but probably won’t because they’re happening concurrently: Monotonix, MBAR, Little Boots, Dungen, Fujiya & Miyagi, No Kids, Phosphorescent, Gang Gang...
from the inbox
“Tooty had a bad night…She started yippin about 12:30 last night, dad let her out and then she started yippin about 20 minutes later and I got up and read her the riot act and told her if she didn’t cool it I was going to put her out for the night! I felt bad later because I think her allergies were bothering her from mowing the yard earlier in the day. She had helped me out by...
The Incompatible Food Triad
An interesting post on Clusterflock led me to this site devoted to a man’s quest for a solution to his quandary: Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods “going together”) but every pair of them does go together?
Surprisingly, he has been posting his progress since 2003 but there aren’t any satisfying responses...
Ok, the story goes like this: In 1935, a book was published called The Secret Museum of Mankind. It bore no author, or credits, or even page numbers. Only a publisher: Manhattan House. It featured nearly a thousand bizarre and fascinating anthropological photographs collected by explorers in the late 19th and early 20th century. The photographs are extraordinary. They come from a time before the...
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fats
Menu for the Welcome Home Fall party:
sweet potato cupcakes
kettle corn
mom’s peanut butter cookies
mom’s pumpkin soup
roasted chestnuts
nancy’s guacamole
nancy’s eggplant dip
hot cider
Just made my first FreshDirect order ever! I feel like a real cool New Yorker.
WatchThat Ghost’s first video for Open Windows premiered on Pitchfork today! Come see him play at the twosyllable records and True Panther Sounds CMJ showcase at Pianos on Saturday (25th)!
Dear National Grid,
When I called you twice to ask that you correct the SSN associated with my account so that I can login and pay my bill, and you told me, nay insisted, you did it, why did you lie to me?!?! You’re making me feel like a fool.
Let’s make amends,
Anna
I'm in the middle of nowhere.
jayparkinsonmd:
I was invited to speak at an executive retreat in Keswick, VA for the leadership of Bon Secours Health System in Richmond, VA. I was told it’s an older group (as are most of the leaders in health care) but they wanted to hear all about what this new internet thing is all about. So I sent them some homework to do before my presentation tomorrow. It was deliberately a link to a...
Calculate your carbon footprint
I’m putting less than a pound of CO2 into the atmosphere everyday with my commute. How about you?
