Sunday, September 6th, 2009
From Slow Moscow past David Lynch’s Inland Empire discussions to Maya Deren and her prescient Meshes of the Afternoon and now at Netflix watching Berlin: Symphony of a Great City.
A full circle somehow.
I need to stop this and get some work done, but I love indulging my other brain parts for a change.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
So much contradictory-seeming thoughts and actions, I can’t yet articulate. So saving any prose for later, but look at these:
LetterCult has some very creative hand (and digital) lettering.
SmashingApps collected some fantastic stop-action shorts. I love this stuff. Want to find time and focus to do some time.
And NYTimes Nicholas Kristof describes how (40 years on) the “War on Drugs” is a failure.
PS: I need to curl up sometime and read this extensive NYTimes article on data centers and the cloud and I’ll bet there’s a creepy ending.
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Around last weekend, I changed my life. I’d folders of saved crap on my desktop, about 2500 links in my bookmarks keeper, an OmniFocus that meant nothing, and bits and pieces of projects and ideas and germinations scattered here to Sunday. I’ll write about what happened later, but in the meantime, here’s one of the few remaining tasks. In random order*. Enjoy.
30 unforgettable opening movie title sequences (videos)
A reference to Fairytale Of New York in Andy Ihnatko’s blog. That’s a fave song. Especially poignant as Kirsty died a few years later (while Shane is still trooping along; go figure)
A site about the art of foley. Y’know, making noise in movies.
Bartleby.com looks to be a huge reference for book lovers, readers. I can actually search for a section of text in a lot of classic books.
A video bicycle tutorial site. Bike repair. Cool.
Learn a lot of obscure stuff about your birthday. What happened on date, various esoteric bits of info.
The ever popular BMI site has a BMR calculator (basal metabolic rate).
Four links about braceros.
The bubble calendar. You love to pop them. Do it every day.
Louis Wain was an 19C. artist who drew/painted cats. He developed schizophrenia and his art changed. (video)
If you want to buy your cat entertaining DVDs, here’s the place.
Change.org – ideas for change in America
If you always forget what Chinese New Year it’s going to be, check here.
One of the best cartoons I’ve seen in a while on my profession. (How to kill a web designer in 6 steps)
This post on shower power was tweeted and I replied that I’d long (2004, 2006) had an idea for a whiteboard in the shower. Someone already patented it.
The scientific angle on exercise and health. Note to self: remember this.
A lot of cool hemp products. Hemp is a terrifically sturdy fabric/thread and it’s ignorance and bias that keeps American farmers from a useful crop.
Why Google is the best way to download MP3s. (video)
Self-chosen top “most Canadian” songs.
Because I can’t put this on my business site: 20 signs you don’t want that web design project (real examples) from Zeldman
A recent sideways turn in an iChat brought me a-cappella.com and the Kings Singers with lots of madrigals I used to sing.
WSJ (!) editorial by Ethan A Nadelmann: Let’s end drug prohibition. Too commonsensical for the ideologues.
A fantastic compendium of millions of historic photos from 1860s forward through the decades, from Life magazine, hosted by Google
A list of unusual words beginning with B. I’d been looking for a good alliterative mate.
A most unusual artist, Ashleigh Talbot: Madame Talbot’s Gothic Lowbrow
Movie-O examines the historic truth of “based upon” movies
Mukhtar Mai is a brave and admirable Pakistani woman. Read this to get some perspective. I wish I had the dough to send her school tons of my books.
Don’t look now. Non responsive tuberculosis could be sitting nearby.
A few very interesting thoughts on what’s “fair”.(context: the bailouts) Note to Detroit: You’re history.
Paul Krugman’s depression economics – how it works (Salon)
Because I always want to know where to find that photo of soldiers returning from World War I to Prohibition, bearing the sign “We want beer”
Retro-food.com could be the source of a lot of great recipes
The Right to Quiet Society.
The way to save (native) squirrels in England may be to consume the invaders.
The way to mulitply numbers in your head. Pretty cool. (video)
Spirals. More spirals. If it’s spiral and it’s not here, it’s not really spiral. Gallery of photos.
Learn Lord of the Rings elven languages.
An interesting idea that didn’t work out. Sort of a lottery. The Eleven Dollar House.
Change is come today. The country’s new robots.txt file
Steampunk Workshop. I just find this stuff fascinating.
Love it. Hate it. Pick it apart. Feel renewed by it. Barack Obama’s inauguration speech.
WSJ on Walmart and the shopping death. I have my opinion.
The Beguiling is Canada’s finest purveyor of comics, graphic novels, etc.
What do women want (sexually). It’s not simple.
(*They’re actually in alpha order by web page title, but that’s pretty meaningless in this context.)
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I hoarded links for almost two months. I think I’m doing well by not spreading them all over my (immense) desktop as much as I used to. A few minutes ago I sorted them. Three “geeky” (see previous post). Then, 34 of a political nature. Well, it’s not like you’re unable to see the nose in front of your face, so I’m just going to toss out that folder. That leaves this mix and match set.
Miraz told me about these tattooed NYC toughs who have no pity for those that abuse or neglect animals. Rahhh!
A German prosecutor is checking into Bayer CropScience’s pesticide chlothianidine for links to mass bee deaths. Bees be critical to everything, beeeesides being cool creatures.
If you have a September birthday (or just know someone who does), check out this brilliant project to provide clean water in Ethiopia. (I hear the rest of the months will be coming in 2009!)
A stunning pictorial memoir: Days With My Father
Ack! Push-ups!
If you’re serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you’ll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!
Diet as metaphor for life + time. I’m not putting it right. Just read. Good to ponder.
What worries me are the consequences of a diet comprised mostly of fake-connectedness, makebelieve insight, and unedited first drafts of everything. I think it’s making us small. I know that whenever I become aware of it, I realize how small it can make me. So, I’ve come to despise it.
Life maybe requires ‘an evening class in failure’.
Various vintage absinthe photographs.
Netflix envelope origami. What can I say?
Everything I should have been reading all along (why do I throw these links everywhere?) about recovering from a bad ankle sprain.
A new book blog AAAAAAAAA “Today I read…” (very nicely designed, too!)
Okay, tell me true: you want one of these fun TRIKKEs, don’t you? Watch the movie. Starting to sway back and forth, aren’t you? Yeah.
Interesting to read the comments. We’re nasty narrow little people, just a bit: Beauty standards have sure changed (since 1919).
Having fun with time lapse movies. Another thing way down on my list of stuff it’d be a kick to play with.
Read! Ten simple ways to live a less stressful life.
Silly (custom(expensive!)) sock monkeys!
Which is your favourite creature? Silly animal slippers. Bonnie Bunnie!!!
Japanese home made specially especial for kitties!!
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