Archive for April, 2008
Charlie Rose Interviews Charlie Rose, My Head Explodes
Via Boing Boing, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s video “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett”. If you’re a Charlie Rose junkie like I am this is funny on an existential level.
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Jack J. Valenti School of Communication
From the Houston Chronicle: Welcome Wilson Sr., A Fitting Way to Remember Valenti, on renaming the University of Houston School of Communication in his honor:
Those who didn’t know him need only turn to his memoir, This Time, This Place, in which he celebrates his childhood growing up in modest circumstances on Alamo Street, attending Sam […]
Living Out Every Kid’s Fantasy for those Infuriating Claw Games
Video: Australian Kid Stuck in Lucky Dip Game, via Engadget: Enterprising youngster gets himself stuck in a claw machine
Toogle Search: Image to Text
Very cool, Test it out in Toogle Search: Houston Cougars
Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images, later we will endeavour to create images out of the search terms entered by users past and present.
via Digital Inspiration: Six […]
LOLVANT GARDE
modern art + lolcats = the lolvant garde
Etymology of Nerd
Overlooking the potential for irony for a second - did you know the word nerd was first coined in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo? Not that that’s…um… cool or anything…
Free Range Kids
New York Sun Columnist Lenore Skenazy touched a nerve when she published an article about dropping off her nine-year-old son at Bloomingdale’s in New York and letting him find his way home on the subway. She continues the theme in a new blog, Free Range Kids. The story seemed to trigger a nigh universal response […]
Jordan Crane’s gorgeous cover art for Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends
I really don’t have time to read anything besides law books anymore and my time as a graphic designer now seems a far distant memory, but I may have to pick this one up on looks alone. Yes, yes, I know, so it turns out you can in fact judge a book by its cover.
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Twitter Account for Sale, With Friends Like These Who Needs Telemarketers?
Via TechCrunch we learn that former Rocketboom-er Andrew Baron has put his Twitter account up for sale on Ebay
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I really love my Twitter account but I feel like I haven’t been using it the way I want to. Quite honestly, I feel sorry for all of my followers because they wind up with my tweets […]
New York Review of Books, The Case for Judas
In the forthcoming New York Review of Books, Harold W. Attridge, Dean of Yale Divinity School, expounds The Case for Judas, Continued, revisiting the subject of a 2006 article in the same publication - The Betrayer’s Gospel - in light of two new works - Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King, Reading Judas: The […]