A.Blog Tumbling

Jun 30 2009 ∞
“ An ideal summer should of course always have a fantasy of a love affair in it. The passion starts in late May, desire builds up to a first kiss in mid-June, consummation follows outdoors late one night, there’s happiness in July, storms in early August and a parting as the cold weather returns at the end of August. But people who enjoy such things don’t become writers. What would be the point?
— The School of Life : Alain de Botton on summer
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Jun 18 2009 ∞
deleteyourself: My friend made a font out of pancakes. Why? Well what are YOU doing in this recession besides collecting unemployment?!??! (Link)

deleteyourself:

My friend made a font out of pancakes. Why? Well what are YOU doing in this recession besides collecting unemployment?!??! (Link)
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Jun 03 2009 ∞

BLDGBLOG: The Water Menu

a menu of luxe bottled mineral waters

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Star Trek Designer to Receive NASA Public Service Medal | Underwire | Wired.com

totally cool that a designer was recognized by NASA

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Jun 01 2009 ∞
“ a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know
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Antilibraries

This makes me feel better about having piles of unread books in my room.

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May 29 2009 ∞
“ I think one of the most ironic things about a subculture that loves irony, is that the image, like any image, is difficult to keep up.
— Awww, being a hipster is too expensive (via jimray)
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May 27 2009 ∞
Hint Fashion Magazine — Hint Blog

Hint Fashion Magazine — Hint Blog

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May 20 2009 ∞

Ship to anyone with an email address

jimray:

Perhaps you’ve encountered this situation. You find someone online, via tumblr or twitter or some such, and you form the sort of casual friendship that comes very easily these days, starring their tweets, hearting their tumbls, etc. You get to know them, in a way, and suddenly, it occurs to you, that they have to {read|listen to|experience} this {book|CD|thing} that totally changed your life. You find the thing on Amazon and get ready to ship it off and then you realize, of course, that you have nowhere to ship it to. Because you don’t know where they live and because you only know this person online you think it might be, well, creepy to ask.

Amazon could solve this problem though with a “ship to any email address” feature. Here’s how it would work:

  • At checkout, you would pick a new address and one of the options would be to enter an email address
  • The recipient would then get an email, from Amazon, that would say something to the effect of “Someone would like to send you a gift!” and would contain a link where the gift recipient could tell Amazon, but not the sender, their shipping address
  • Once that happens, the gift gets shipped, the sender gets charged, all without anyone having to get weirded out

Amazon has something like this already with their wishlist, but maybe your new friend isn’t a total narcissist or never bothered to create a wishlist or used an old email address.

I realize this is a somewhat passive-aggressive, overly technical solution to what is, fundamentally, a social problem. And I can already hear Neven berating the idea for adding an unnecessary layer of communication when all you need to do is ask for a stupid address (“somethingk somethingk reinventing ways to talk to each other somethingk somethingk”). But it does solve a problem, fleeting though it may be, inherent in the disconnect between our virtual and analog lives.

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Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle - NYTimes.com

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Everything Tracy Jordan Said

(via tiff)

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May 15 2009 ∞
hrrrthrrr: I chased the internet and got tired. (via Marc Johns)

hrrrthrrr:

I chased the internet and got tired. (via Marc Johns)
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May 13 2009 ∞
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May 12 2009 ∞

F.A.T. » 500 Twitter Zombie Followers in 3 Steps

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atsween: Pig in boots. Because.

atsween:

Pig in boots.

Because.

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May 08 2009 ∞

Shows I gave up on

1. Heroes
2. Smallville
3. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
4. Angel
5. Dark Angel

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