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Weekendly clickables VIII
- If you haven’t already, give Thru YOU about 46 seconds to blow you away. It’s a series of songs assembled DJ Shadow-style from YouTube clips.
- For years and years, the New York Times referred to rappers by their ‘real’ names while keeping the pseudonyms of rockers such as Moby, Bob Dylan, and Marylin Manson (“Mr. Manson”).
- Just say no to voice mail.
- Sex, Lies and Photoshop (nothing you haven’t heard before).
- Hmm… the stock prices of a couple of gun companies seem to be doing pretty good.
- The McGangBang — a McChicken sandwich stuffed inside a double cheeseburger. I’m bummed ‘cause I’ve had this open in a browser tab for over a week and Kottke beat me to the link.
- You missed my birthday? The least you can do is buy me these pants. I’m a 32.
- .htaccess syntax is about 10 times as complicated as it seemingly needs to be. This handy online app creates the file for you based on simple input.
- The future of photography is cameras like this Samsung — all the power of an SLR, but small enough to slip into a pocket. Want.
- Jim Cramer had his ass handed to him by Jon Stewart Thursday. (Stewart needs to drop the “we label our show as snake oil” bit — he’s now the USA’s #1 de-facto media critic.) Whether you saw it or not, you should check out the unedited version posted on the show’s site: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Troy Patterson has a modest breakdown. Update: MSNBC staff ordered not to mention the segment on the air.
Mysterious ways in which the lord works
Mysterious ways in which the lord works, a list from McSweeneys.
Instructions for celebrating the Chinese new year
Weekendly clickables VI
- Ann Coulter outtake foom SNL.
- Book Cover Archive.
- The Hype Machine’s top 5 albums of 2008.
- “I don’t know what you’re talking about, Hal.” Neave: television without context.
- Ross photographs some abandoned sites outside Beijing. Ariel has a winter garden.
- Anyone who cooks sooner or later has to come to terms with knife sharpening. (More information then you require, but most of this is important stuff.) (via the MetaFileter upgrade me thread)
- Jon Aquino built an RSS feed for the 329 works owned by the National Gallery of Art.
- The website is horrible, but JeanYves Lemoigne’s work is pretty great.
- Crash the Inauguration. (via Scott Heiferman’s Notes)
- My one-year hourglass is bigger then yours.
- Mia proposes knuckle tattoss. PAPA BEAR.
- Gratuitous eye candy: Sailing around the world.
- Foreign Policy.
- Make your razor blades last much longer: dry them after use.
- The Daily Routines blog – “How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.” (via VSL)
- Just as I got into using it, Google Notebook is going away. Bleh! Any suggestions for a web-based GTD app to replace it?
- Gaza City, Illinois. The mosque of the Islamic University of Gaza. History of Gaza.
- Another month, another awesome Animal Collective album.
- There’s not much of Wolfgang Tillmans’ work on the web, but here’s some: truth study center, Andrea Rosen Gallery, a few portraits, and his own site. A couple of interviews: You photograph what you love, and Page 3 stunnas!, a discussion of the nude from the waist down photo of John and Paula of Franz Ferdinand. Oh, and there’s a documentary?
You can order supplies of Carmex in the original glass jars directly from the company
You can order supplies of Carmex in the original glass jars directly from the company (but supplies are running low). (via TaulPaul)
Vote for the most important cause EVAR
For those of you who enjoy voting in online polls, I hesitatingly point out the Post of the Month poll over at South Florida Daily Blog, wherein my Art Basel photo post is somewhere in the runnings.
The BennyHillifier
The BennyHillifier replaces the sound of any YouTube video with Yakety Sax, which for some reason is almost always an improvement. Try it with 100 faces, South Park’s history of the USA … even Chris Matthews becomes bearable. (via ArtFagCity)
Weekendly clickables V
Argh. Sorry to lay this on you people on Sunday night, but I have a cubic assload of open browser tabs and I need someplace to dump them. Bees a dears and clickie away:
- Tech policy books of 2008. Probably on Rex’s list. And here’s just one “best-album” list.
- A series of photos of folks kissing the ceiling.
- Things Bears Love.
- GoDaddy is a bunch of assholes. I always knew, but it’s nice to have confirmation.
- Remindr — reminds you of things. Still not quite what I’m looking for.
- Groovy photos of an abandoned police station
- Publishers need better websites, and so does just about everybody else.
- Something to read at Design Observer: Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Google book search is gradually picking up magazines, slowly making my dream come true.
- Seminars About Long Term Thinking.
(This, and all future clickables, are variously via kottke, fimoculous, Waxy, Cynical-C, Meta Filter, and others.)
Weekendly clickables III
- I may have more to say later about the Ortolan, but this should get you started.
- ‘Pre-1995, Stereolab were just amazing. After that… Not so much any longer… ‘ (With videos.)
- Native Americans in the United States (not to be confused with Indian Americans) have an interesting history in American football.
- How to make a chocolate cake in a mug. (Not the greatest chocolate cake you will ever have, but better then no chocolate cake at all.)
- Viola jokes, math jokes.
- “I’ve been on business in Thailand for the past few days and let’s say I’ve caught “wealthy Anglo fever” as they call it around here. Yeah: sex slave shopping. … It’s a lot harder than they make it seem on TV. They don’t just sell sex slaves at the mall over here. Not even behind the mall, like in Hialeah.”
- Let’s have a 70s party. And let’s make, like, a science of it.
- NYTimes Data Visualization Lab. Are you paying attention over there at the Herald?
- More money more Gladwell.
- If you’re super-important, and you’re going to be away from your e-mail for a few days, and you’re worried your world will blow up because someone can’t reach you, you can include a message in your autoresponder that lets them contact you by text message without giving out your phone #. If this is something you need then I am glad I am not you.
- Seriously, the problem with reading Lifehacker is that you end up spending your whole day downloading and playing with nifty little “product enhancement” toys.
- A profile of photographer Annie Lebovitz from last year’s Vanity Fair.
- 2 watch: BBC’s How Buildings Learn series.