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Category: things
Long overdue: my favorite new music.
Them Crooked Vultures. So often, musical groups try to steal and end up copying. Them Crooked Vultures have pulled off at least a half-dozen perfect heists on t...
How we’ll get there: the future of cars and cities.
Wonderful, exciting review of future cars and cities.
metal frame sofas
Alcove by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Basket by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Yale by Jean-Marie Massaud Dehors by Michele De Lucchi & Philippe Nigro
floor lamps made out of a tube of metal
Zorro by Stephanie Knust Stick by Todd Bracher Studio Bend by Michele Menescardi PLOF by Yonoh mr. light by Tomás Alonso more than a tube of metal but I like th...
Amazing things, of late.
Brilliant idea: Balance the U.S Budget by Auctioning off 10 Million U.S Passports. A monologue that could make a great dialogue: you’re angry because you&...
Art by substraction.
Masse Critique by Kilian Rüthemann & Niklaus Wenger Out of the White by Michel de Broin
A fresh American movie. Or is it a TV reality show?
Watching The Girlfriend Experience on Netflix Instant Play: it’s like a movie, but not. It’s also like a reality TV show, but not quite that either....
On seeing the new Titanic a second time.
I’ve read and heard bits and pieces of arguments that claim Avatar is an old, racist narrative: the white man who comes to rescue the dark natives. Yes an...
You assigned what ringtone to me?
Seinfeld famously explored the social meaning of speed dial. Who has explored the mores of the ringtone? (The “secret lovers” ad for T-Mobile notwit...
Facebook, the world’s biggest MOO.
Games that spit out inane status updates will be the death of Facebook as a social messaging tool. It may very well thrive as a gaming platform — and, per...
Do you respect wood?
Corruption in Russia – norms in China + clueless European and US consumers = massive illegal logging.
Lost in Afghanistan.
We literally do not know where we are in Afghanistan. via Yves Smith
Like a great New Yorker cartoon, only, better.
The excellent every day is the same dream has been making the rounds online this week. It’s a very modest experiment but one yields has rich results; yet ...
What you see is what you get.
Avatar is as close to perfect as a movie gets – and certainly one that is oriented, by market forces, for a PG-13 release. Others will do a much better job asse...
Roger Ebert gives Avatar four stars.
Just passing that on. via Jon Gruber.
Open licenses to DIY.
Lindsey Adelman makes beautiful lighting. She also teaches visitors how to reproduce her own works in a detailed PDF document supplemented by links to online re...
High class marketing copy.
Marketing copy for millionaires: The blue map, curving into the black distance is familiar but has none of the usual marked boundaries. The incredibly narrow ri...
Hawk breakfast.
Yesterday morning I looked out our bedroom window and saw what looked like a pile of gray debris. “Concrete?” I wondered, “how did that get th...