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Hamlet (The Facebook News Feed Edition)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:30:49 -0700

Hamlet (The Facebook News Feed Edition):

markn:

One of McSweeney’s finest hours

Dr. Ronald Chevalier - The Art of Relaxating (via Aaron)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:23:24 -0700

Dr. Ronald Chevalier - The Art of Relaxating (via Aaron)

BMW owner tapes black car to white (via Bryan)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:20:25 -0700

BMW owner tapes black car to white (via Bryan)

Seth Rogen on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:12:03 -0700

Seth Rogen on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

bell: Paris Hilton Responds To John McCain’s Celebrity Ad “I’ll...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:42:47 -0700

bell:

Paris Hilton Responds To John McCain’s Celebrity Ad “I’ll see you at the debates bitches!”

You’re my boy Obama. marco: “It’s like these guys take...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:23:45 -0700

You’re my boy Obama.

marco:

“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” (via sexartandpolitics)

Ping.fm is so sweet.

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:27:29 -0700

Ping.fm is so sweet.

Grrr…

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:50:00 -0700

Grrr…

Austin's new iPhone app called Pennies looks amazing

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:17:59 -0700

Austin's new iPhone app called Pennies looks amazing: (via tmblg)

Classic Nickelodeon Creeps into iTunes

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:33:19 -0700

Classic Nickelodeon Creeps into iTunes

No Browser Left Behind

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:29:21 -0700

No Browser Left Behind: “For the past few weekends (and one frustrating afternoon trying to work around an IE bug), I’ve been working on a native Canvas implementation for IE based on the same rendering core that’s in Firefox. With an object tag, a bit of CSS, and (to work around another IE bug) a single line of script,

ProtoChart

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:24:36 -0700

ProtoChart: “ProtoChart is a new opensource library using Prototype and Canvas to create good looking charts.”

“The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:52:34 -0700

“The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing

15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:20:48 -0700

15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever

Innocent People Should Never Talk to the Police

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:13:41 -0700

Innocent People Should Never Talk to the Police

Pushup : Pushing up the web

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:07:02 -0700

Pushup : Pushing up the web: Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users upgrade their outdated browsers.

"At one point living a bohemian life meant embracing failure, squandering the opportunities and..."

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:27:29 -0700

“At one point living a bohemian life meant embracing failure, squandering the opportunities and privileges of your class background, a deliberate self-impoverishment that rejected the conventional ideas of wealth and success in favour of spiritual and aesthetic riches. Now certain aspects of bohemianism—a life dedicated to aestheticism, exquisite sensations, “experiences”, the exotic; systematic derangement of the senses (albeit as brief forays rather than a permanent condition); an unstructured and de-routinized lifestyle—have become compatible with an essentially affluent and careerist existence.”

- Simon Reynolds on his blissblog. (via sangennaro) (via tlvx)

Thank you, internet

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:26:15 -0700

marco:

After a weekend of vacation-forced brainfreeze and dealing with immense family drama, it’s incredibly nice to get back to my life of being surrounded by intelligent people doing great things and always challenging me to become a better person.

In the “real world” outside of my closest friends, I don’t fit in at all — in far too many ways to list right now when I should be going to sleep. I do a decent job of faking it when necessary, but I really don’t understand most people, and they really don’t understand me. I feel like I’m an outsider. An observer. I’m always completely puzzled (and often saddened) about why people are the way they are and why they do the things they do. The real America, away from young people living in trendy coastal cities, is a place where I absolutely don’t fit in at all — and I marvel that anyone actually does.

I’ve only ever found a handful of people through typical real-world situations who I can really associate with. But the internet is an incredibly efficient matchmaker. The same power that enables odd fetish groups to exist also enables me to find other people remarkably similar to me. I always thought I was the only one, and I was somehow incredibly weird (in a bad way) for that. But there are plenty of people like me out there. I follow 226 of them on Tumblr alone. And when I meet them in real life, I’m blown away by how easily we connect — especially compared to how poorly I usually connect with strangers. I feel like we’ve been friends for years, even for people whose tumblelogs I’ve only been following for a few months and who I’ve only met in person for a few minutes.

The internet shows me that my thoughts aren’t that strange after all. And that’s a great thing: I find acceptance, and I’m challenged to define, refine, and defend what were previously only vague notions. I’m not just some lone weirdo thinking these odd things about the world. I can’t look around and think “nobody gets it” because I know that all of you do.

Intellectually, it’s even better. I’m attacked, defied, outclassed, and proven wrong regularly — and every time, I become a better person. All of my personality flaws are called out, dragged right into the open, by complete strangers, who are really doing me the biggest favor in the world by making me improve myself.

If such a thing exists, I certainly have an internet addiction. And I don’t care. I have absolutely no desire to be a “normal” member of society, doing whatever normal people do with their time (go upstate and drive boats in circles, then come inside to watch “the game” and grunt occasionally?). I’m very happy here, doing what I’m doing, and being a part of something so amazing, challenging, and stimulating.

pile: Skate - shot on Red - 120 fps on Vimeo. Do yourself a...

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:59:48 -0700

pile:

Skate - shot on Red - 120 fps on Vimeo. Do yourself a favor and watch this in HD. If you’re wondering what a Red is, check it out.

"My new year’s resolution is to stop saying ‘You Go Girl!’ to myself."

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:31:06 -0700

“My new year’s resolution is to stop saying ‘You Go Girl!’ to myself.”

- Zach Galifianakis (via markn)