The fundamental building blocks of our childhood became digital. What does that say about our generation?
…I kinda wanna build a baby version of my car and glue it to the dash.
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havingthehaving
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tfooq
Irene Allen is amazing, and so is this video of her playing along in a closed St. Louis City Museum. This is from Bill Streeter’s new site/video project Lo-Fi Sessions, which works well with Lo-Fi Saint Louis. Both sites are worth subscribing to in either podcast or RSS. If you like good music, of course.
On another note, WordPress.com needs to allow embedding of more than just YouTube (and a few other sites) videos, though I am sure they are working on that.
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havingthehaving
People are inherently awkward creatures, especially when it comes to posting personal ads. Take, for instance, a photo exhibit featuring absolutely giant 40″ x 30″ high res polaroids of people who submitted personal ads to various find-me-a-date thingies. Jeffrey Aaronson tracked them down, photographed them, then recorded them reading their statements aloud to stick it all on a national gallery wall and the lovely internet. Two of my favorites: this guy and this guy.
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jayhathaway
I got an attractive offer via spam e-mail earlier. The sender entreated me to “[u]nlease that watering hose inside your pants.” As I have been paying quite a lot on my pants-lease, for very little return, I’m tempted to take him up on his offer to buy out my watering hose. Thoughts?
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havingthehaving
I wonder if people were more productive in college before the internet happened. Probably, but then again you’d have to weigh the inconvenience of typewriters over the temptation to type absolutely irrelevant blog posts. Who would have guessed that the time consuming task of typing would become our chosen task for time consumption.
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tfooq
I actually voted for the winner of something in America! This is a first for me, as I was 0 for 3. Now if only voting in a primary were not just an elaborate illusion of choice …
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tfooq
Newsmap is on to something really huge, as my buddy Matt Baker has pointed out. Sometimes you really wonder how our current aspirations for web design will look to us in a few years. When I see something like Newsmap, which displays story “importance” (measured according to how many related articles exist in Google News) clearly and visually, while still giving you a headline, I become amazed at how little we actually understand about this Internet thing and what it can do. This design concept can be applied in so many situations. Maybe that’s what I’ll start doing …
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jayhathaway
Since you asked, Alexis, here are my new shoes. Whatever.
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jayhathaway
Twitterfeed is ace. Good call. I think seeing a show for me is utterly dependent on who’s playing and then the venue. I hate clubs that are predominantly full of teenyboppers, but a good band can overcome that. Also, going with friends.
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tfooq
i really like how you can’t tell who said what when you feed this blog into twitter. it gives it the strange sense that it is one mind. that’s kind of neat.
