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Freak Dance

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:06:25 -0700

Freak Dance

A series I edited launched today. It explores the social...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:51:38 -0700

A series I edited launched today. It explores the social boundaries of motherhood!

You know what they say: leave comedy to the professionals. Professional moms. Stay tuned this week to see full sets from all four moms featured here!

Photo

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:22:37 -0700

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Groucho Marx (70) and Diana...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:37:03 -0700

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Groucho Marx (70) and Diana Ross (22), 1966

Watch the NYC Subway Unfold

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:12:46 -0800

mashable:

The map is laid out according to the order the subway lines were built. Beautiful.

Via.

Classic HuffPo, classic Chase moment. nevver: Occupy Wall...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:45:27 -0800

Classic HuffPo, classic Chase moment.

nevver:

Occupy Wall Street Raid: Sponsored by Chase!

life: Born Robert Zimmermann, Bob Dylan borrowed his name from...

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:23:11 -0800

life:

Born Robert Zimmermann, Bob Dylan borrowed his name from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas — an apt homage, given Dylan’s status as the bard of the ’60s protest movement. Both politically and artistically courageous, Dylan first took on the establishment with folk-inflected — yet razor-sharp — songs like “Blowing in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” but throughout a career marked by regular reinvention, he has steadfastly refused to subjugate his own muse to anyone else’s cause or expectations.

(read more — Heroes of the 1960s)

Actually, most biographers cite the Gunsmoke character Matt Dillon as the original inspiration. He later changed the spelling to match the poet.

mightygoodroad: Have you heard of Squarepusher? He’s an...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:53:47 -0800

mightygoodroad:

Have you heard of Squarepusher? He’s an electronic music savant who performs with a bass guitar and a laptop, so mostly only undernourished drum-and-bass types have heard of him. If Starship’s “We Built This City” is on your iPod, you probably haven’t heard of Squarepusher.

But we thought Squarepusher’s frenetic instrumental Exciton should be unplugged and performed with washboards, spoons, kazoos and stuff. Why? Well, because. You might have to listen a few times to get the why, but just because. Download it any of these ways here and enjoy:

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And you know what? Since the electronic crowd is so remix-y, we thought some people might like to download the stems and go to town. Like, physically go to town and do the ol’ remixing thing. So we’ve thrown in each instrument on separate WAV files to download and even the artwork, if you want to remix that too. Download a big package of that here.

This is the second film in a series of golf tips I produced with...

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:10:59 -0700

This is the second film in a series of golf tips I produced with Bruce Brian Billings. Working with Bruce can be tough. He’s very mercurial, and you’re never quite sure if he’s actually going to instruct you on golf. But the final product is always rewarding, and I definitely come away feeling like I learned something about myself. Or at least something about Bruce.

mills: GPOYW: by request, ineptly modified and meme-ified...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:48:17 -0700

mills:

GPOYW: by request, ineptly modified and meme-ified pixel art by the previously-mentioned and totally incomparable David Cole.

nevver: Share the Fun

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:47:39 -0700

nevver:

Share the Fun

seldo: These are pretty nice until you realize that the medium...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:23:46 -0700

seldo:

These are pretty nice until you realize that the medium is packing tape, at which point they become amazing.

thomforsyth:

PACKING TAPE ART | Mark Kaisman

Packing tape on backlit acrylic.

seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”,...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:18:00 -0700

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

Investor Approved

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:45:00 -0700

Here’s a gif custom-made for the Internet. Share wherever someone might be questioning the feasibility of creative financial derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, or credit default swaps. Should we leverage our assets 50:1? 100:1?

nevver: Word on The Street

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:44:11 -0700

nevver:

Word on The Street

jayrosen: Could we please see this sentence in the New York...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:06 -0700

jayrosen:

Could we please see this sentence in the New York Times more often?

It’s the one that goes, “This is false.”

Somebody on Twitter sent the link to me. They knew I would appreciate it.

Here it is in context, in an article on Ray’s Pizza (the real one) closing down in Soho. Some guy who opened another, fake Ray’s says (well, actually he said it in 1991…) that no one ever heard of the founder of the original Ray’s, Ralph Cuomo.

That’s when it happened. The New York Times reporter, Michael Wilson, actually typed into the Times system, “This is false.” And the editors? Why, they let it stand! Fit to print! Then the Internets lit up…

Don’t you wish you saw those three little words a little more often? Some suit on the TV goes, “Every time we’ve cut taxes, revenues have gone up!” and the next day the New York Times calmly reports it, followed by the three little words… This is false.

Don’t be cynical. Don’t say never. It just happened with a random quote by a pizza guy from twenty years ago.

It’d also be dandy to see that when, say, Michele Bachmann says that the Founding Fathers worked to eradicate slavery, or Sarah Palin says that Paul Revere rode to warn the British. It’s real easy! “This is false.”

nevver: The Darkness, Dan McCarthy

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:25:53 -0700

nevver:

The Darkness, Dan McCarthy

I’m super proud to have produced a series of how-to...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:19:12 -0700

I’m super proud to have produced a series of how-to videos for golf pro Bruce Brian Billings!! Here’s the first and keep an eye out for 4 more!

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Salvador Dali and Harpo...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:40:31 -0700

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Salvador Dali and Harpo Marx

Gets me high this one

jondaly: erockappel: TICKLISH CAGE This JUST went up on Funny...

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:26:11 -0700

jondaly:

erockappel:

TICKLISH CAGE

This JUST went up on Funny or Die moments ago. I had nothing to do with the making of this video, but I was over at the FOD office today and watched it and had tears streaming down my face.

If you’re a Jon Daly fan, this is gonna put you on another fucking planet. This is so so stupid, and so so genius. I love it with all me heart. THE LAST MINUTE OF THIS VIDEO IS A WORK OF ART! A-TICKIE-TICKIE-TOODLE!

I’ve known Daly for almost 10 years now, and this video really captures everything that I love about him as a performer. If anybody ever asks me, “who is Jon Daly,” this is what I will show them. From now on. Forever.

Eric Appel is the best guy. Thank you so much buddy!

This review is funny because it’s true!