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There will come a day sometime soon when I want some wine but...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:55:00 -0600

There will come a day sometime soon when I want some wine but don’t have a bottle opener and will try this. I’ll report back on the results, but I’m giving it a 50-50 chance at being a permanent-stain and glass-shard injury-inducing disaster.

Via Lifehacker

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:37:47 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1): The National (38) Clipse (15) Arcade Fire (6) The...

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck Wow,...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:57:15 -0600

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

Wow, hard to imagine a more pointed Onion hit-job than this…

Cell Size and Scale

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:19:42 -0600

Cell Size and Scale: This is awesome. That’s all.

GMail - All Mail Although I keep my inbox tidy, I intentionally...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:37:52 -0600

GMail - All Mail

Although I keep my inbox tidy, I intentionally delete almost nothing so I have a record of everything. In the 3.5 years that I’ve had my GMail account, I’ve had 21834 conversations. Not individual messages, whole threads. (That translates to 16.56 a day.)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:10:58 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25): The National (130) Ratatat (72) The Walkmen...

Ukraine war memorial given eternal LED torch, cell antenna

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:30:05 -0600

Ukraine war memorial given eternal LED torch, cell antenna: There’s something really sad about...

"The Macalope thinks there’s probably another axiom about how people who are too lazy to Google..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:58:19 -0600

““The Macalope thinks there’s probably another axiom about how people who are too lazy...

Microsoft Store Grand Opening For comparison, this is an Apple...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:42:00 -0600

Microsoft Store Grand Opening

For comparison, this is an Apple Store Grand Opening.

Daring Fireball:

It’s creepy, as in like stalker-ish creepy, just how blatantly they’ve copied Apple. (Via Cabel Sasser.)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:36:49 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18): Broken Social Scene (50) Cat Power (41) Grizzly...

“The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:34:00 -0600

“The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.”

This is oddly entrancing. via Fake Steve Jobs

By Vivian Maier, a Chicago street photographer in the...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:17:01 -0600

By Vivian Maier, a Chicago street photographer in the 1950’s-1979’s.

via vivianmaier.blogspot.com

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:27:42 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11): Sufjan Stevens (25) Four Tet (20) Raekwon...

Long video, but my favorite part is around the 7:30 mark onward....

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:16:31 -0600

Long video, but my favorite part is around the 7:30 mark onward. Amazing.

via Kottke

The Brocycolopedia - McSweeney's

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:21:02 -0600

The Brocycolopedia - McSweeney's: More gold from McSweeney’s. My personal favorite: A...

Matt Damon after the credits in the season finale of...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:43:21 -0600

Matt Damon after the credits in the season finale of Entourage

If you watched the last episode (and even if you didn’t, really) this is hilarious.

Fix a Dented Beer Pong Ball

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:21 -0600

Fix a Dented Beer Pong Ball: Clutch.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:24:56 -0600

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4): Red Hot Chili Peppers (48) Clipse (39) Arcade Fire...

An answer to a question for an application I just wrote

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:45:45 -0600

The question was, “What is your least favorite thing about Northwestern?” It gave me a...

A unified theory of Superman's powers

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:15:25 -0600

A unified theory of Superman's powers: via Kottke: Here’s the abstract of a new paper seeking...