January 2008
happy new year from red hook, Brooklyn, usa
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
“When everybody knows that something is so, it means that nobody knows nothin’.”
– Andy Grove (via Gambetta)
green plastic radiohead: Radiohead webcast on New... →
DVR set: Channel 103 @ midnight
'Juno' Kills at Box Office, Now Expanding to 2,000... →
“It’s our country, we should take it back from these swine”
– Hunter S. Thompson 07/17/02
December 2007
David Cross eloquently and humorously defends his... →
“Live every week like it’s Shark Week.”
– 30 Rock
New Years Assignment: DO THIS TODAY! And you'll...
This was brought to my attention by Juila Allison. She gives credit to the Chicago Tribune’s longtime columnist Mary Schmich, published originally December 2005. ) YEAR IN REVIEW When you consciously review your year, you may notice how little you noticed it as it whizzed past. To review is to re-view. To rewind, pause, look again. And in looking again, to see more clearly. You may be...
10 predictions for 2008 | Digital Noise: Music &... →
Zeppelin @ MSG in August? Hmm.
“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close...”
– andy warhol via AnnaMarie
New Years Eve Trivia Quasher
Did anyone ever tell you that champagne gasses were modeled on Marie Antoinete’s breasts? Well, they were wrong.Urban Legends Reference Pages: Champagne Glass Origin
“To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest....”
– Desmond Tutu on Forgiveness
“continuing itunes cleanout. goodbye 42 jack johnson songs. you all sound the same to me.” — jimiheffernan
15:00
Whatever happens over the next 15:00 (of on-field time), tonight I’m proud of the New York Football Giants and looking forward to an exciting January. 10:32p.m. E.S.T.
The Lives They Lived - New York Times →
This weekend’s NYT Sunday Magazine is their annual year-end obit edition, which traditionally has focused on the interesting more than the famous. I’m a big fan of obituaries. Not in any kind of morbid way, after all the best obituaries usually contain only a line or so about the actual death and much more celebrating the life. I always see it as similar to meeting someone fascinating...
Epicurious: The Worst Food Trends of 2007 →
“Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count...”
– Dave Barry
Jessica Simpson vehicle opens on 8 screens, stalls...
Blonde Ambition averaged $48 per screen on Friday for a total box office of $384. Based on an $8 ticket price, that means that 6 people paid to see the movie at each of those theatres, and only 48 people went to see the movie. -via slashfilm
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, as quoted in The 4-Hour Work Week
New York Foodie Shares His Food Trends of 2007 →
Google in 2008 [Predictions] →
Blogoscoped, Phillip Lenssen’s authoritative Google blog, just posted its 2008 predictions for Larry and Sergey’s money machine. And if you’re up for trudging through his 2,701 words, by all means, go. For the rest of you, here are the bullet points. Predictions for Google in 2008 based on announcements, rumor and trends Google Health. An automated health guide. Maka Maka. The...