June 2008 Archives
I was presented with the challenge of making a mixtape composed of songs from the end of albums. Behold: the world's most random end-of-album song mixtape. That's right, I put Portishead next to Pearl Jam. Sue me. #
Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, interview over at the HuffPost. On politics, presidency, and purple states. #
Albums for $5 bucks. Sweet, cheaper than iTunes *and* already mp3s. (Follow the new releases on Twitter if you like, too.) #
Trailer for the new James Bond flick Quantum of Solace. In case it wasn't already known I have a huge crush on Daniel Craig. You'll know why after you see him shirtless in these previews. #
Tips for Road-Trip photography. Filed away for the SUPER MEGA AWESOME ROADTRIP I've got planned in a few weeks. w00t. #
Sky Factory. Luminous SkyCeilings. #
Friends with benefits. A benefit summary prospectus. #
This week in vita.mn: Your guide to the weekend's Pride events. Don't miss the cover story on drag queens either. [with pix] #
List of the day: subtle ways to annoy co-workers. "Cause a printer jam and then walk away." #
Photos of thousands of Golden Rays migrating. Ah-maze-ing. #
If tattoos actually told the truth. #
UK vs. England vs. Great Britain. fyiz #
Recipe for Cold Peanut Sesame Noodles. Mouth .... watering ... #
Trailer for Guy Ritchie's new film RocknRolla. #
Delicious swirly artwork from Natasha Westcoat. Yay for pink swirlies! #
New Sigur Ros album out this week. Dare I say it's downright ... cheerful?! Ticket alert for Minneapolizens: tickets go on sale this weekend for their show at the Orpheum later this fall. #
Check out Grossmeier's excellent tilt-shift of the Stone Arch Bridge. Now there's a version I never saw Prakope do out of his 9671 shots of the same bridge. #
Ferocious attack kitten needs a home. This attack cat has trained himself to seek out his food anywhere you hide it and rip the bag open to feed himself, great for those who travel extensively. #
Vita.mn is giving away a 40" widescreen LCD tv. Winning has never been so easy. #
Best ad campaign for detergent I've seen. Where the manufacturer sends you a sample in the mail ... wrapped in a white t-shirt. You know, so the t-shirt is the appropriate amount of disgusting to test it with. #
Kickass tatts for your iPhone, Blackberry, Nintendo DS, Guitarhero guitar, and several other accessories that could use some spice. I've been using one of these on my Blackberry since I got it. Best $5.99 I spent that whole month. #
Some lovely, lovely jewelry all over this site. You know, in case you need gift ideas that are way out of your pricerange for me or whatever. #
Candice sandals. Me likey! New mission for the next week: justify a reason, ANY REASON, to buy these. #
15 wedding and shower gifts under $40. Noted. #
If movie studios developed video games. "Puzzle Farter needs a love interest, someone who can match him toot for toot. We think Rachel McAdams would be perfect." #
A cat is not a pony. Heh. Except for WHEN IT IS. #
The Swedish Furniture name generator. I'm so using this to create my next MMO alter ego. #
Tricky has a new album coming out? Tricky A.N.D. Portishead in the same year? Someone hold me. #
Photo of a record store c.1950. Read the comments for even more record store goodness! #
I know this video shouldn't be all that funny, yet I'm red in the face with tears rolling down my cheeks. #
Just another day at the office for taulpaul. Sux to be you, dude. #
I'm not sure how to post this link today ... so I'm just gonna throw it on up there for ya to do with what you will. The, um, cough, local newspaper finally gets ahold of Twitter. MUST. CENSOR. SNARKY. COMMENTS. !!?!?!! #
The Simpsons map for Quake III arena. Incredibly detailed map of Springfield, including Moe's and Homer's. I have a sudden urge to play Quake III REALLY BAD. #
Sleeveface. I don't know how to explain this one but it's pretty fun. Album art meets ... ______ ??? I'm lost, you fill in that blank. #
Eddie Van Halen like you've never seen him before. Clearly someone slipped someone a 5'r under the table for results like that. #
Wall-E comes out this week. Check out these kickass posters for it. #
The coolest swimming pools you'll see all month. #
Yeah, DeRusha's wife totally caught Miss SdL out in the wild. Sure wish you could see the almost FOUR INCH heels I was wearing in that photo. Way hawt and totally worth the effort for the kickass photos I got. #
Good morning Solstice Moonrise in Greece. #
This typographic scarf would look so hot in a Mini Cooper convertible. Just sayin. #
Video for Coldplays 'Violet Hill.' Prolly my favorite tune off their new album. #
FireNES. Classic Nintendo vidgames right in your Firefox browser. Wonder if there's a keyboard shortcut to make it look like you're doing work when the boss comes by? #
Girl Talk's Feed the Animals is officially out in the wild. This album is nothing short of crack-cocaine addiction. Funnest stroll down memory lane you'll take all year. #
Robot City. *beep beep* I. Am. A. Robot. #
Butter London nail polish. So delicious you'll want to eat it (and good for you too!). #
Jason DeRusha gets it right in the kisserpantz. Always handy to have a camera 'round for making sure these kinds of things live long and hard on teh internetz. #
Old album made new and wonderful for the day: The Trainspotting Soundtrack. OHyeahz, you know you need to tap that today. #
This week in vita.mn: The New Pornographers. Time appropriate since they're headlining Rock the Garden this weekend (also featuring Bon Iver, Cloud Cult, and Andrew Bird AKA my future husband *swoon*). #
12 bikes for girls. I have it on good authority that no girl-bike is complete without a bell. #
Vegetarian tortilla soup. You can tell it's lunchtime cuz this looks good. #
I want to be a Coal Miner. Vintage '63 children's book. #
Try your best not to look at the title of this post and then guess what this ad campaign is for. Yeah, I don't get it either but it's still funny. #
Oregon Trail available for your cellie. Oh great, that's just what I need. MORE GAMEZ. #
Both Flickr co-founders have officially bailed. Wow, it's almost like they worked for a newspaper or something. #
A beginner's guide to Spore porn. Bow chicka wow. #
For all you colourlovers, classic palettes like you've never enjoyed classic before. #
Circle circle dot dot ... cootie shots? I've never heard of such a thing. Must be a FL thing. #
Girl Talk on the album he's got coming out. THIS WEEK! #
The Big Picture is Boston.com's super-fucking-awesome [photo]blog. I'd love for the, erm, local newspaper here to let me do something similar but the page would prolly have to be 70% ads. Hahaha KIDDING!! awsnap #
Spore, you know that one game being released Sep 7th, has made available their character creator for download. Free. #
Internet data caps becoming a reality? OMFG there will be some serious bitch-smacking if this goes down. #
One of the world's largest malls is also the emptiest. [with pix] #
Firefox 3 being released at noon today. Get, get! #
New albums out today from My Brightest Diamond and Coldplay. #
100 greatest movie posters of all time. I demand a recount! James Bond at number 5?! What?! WHAT?!?!! #
50 best PUN! store names. Dang, and not a single name from Minneapolis. Boy we got some good'uns too. #
This is my new favorite summer necklace. Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?! My friends are the bestest, truly. And since I can't decide between wearing this one and my superhero necklace ... well ... I'm just wearing them both today. pwn. #
Coming to the Vita.mn Poolside Fashion Show Thursday? Your excuse for not attending isn't good enough ... we're talking booze & bikinis people. #
Your moment of long exposure photographs of crowds. #
M.I.A. r-r-re... retiring?! First she's engaged and now this? I call bullsh*t and give it 20 months TOPS. #
Time Magazine makes a pathetic attempt at naming the 50 Best Websites. Oops, I totally didn't mean to say that out loud. #
Bon Iver jamming all meli melo style somewhere in Paris. These guys kill me with their supreme uberness. If you're in Minneapolis this weekend come check 'em out at Rock the Garden where they'll play alongside Andrew Bird, Cloud Cult, and The New Pornographers. #
Avatars Microsoft's response to Wii? #
Just got done watching the best movie I've seen this year: 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'. Ugh, get the tissues out and let the waterworks commence because it's an amazing true story. It's also the most beautiful movie I've seen since Amelie. #
Tim Russert died of an apparent heart attack after collapsing. Geez, sad. #
Brand spankin' new set of Totally Rad Actions out today: The Revenge! The first set of Totally Rad photoshop actions are my mostest favoritest everest. If you're going to buy one set of PS processing actions, as in, like, ever, I'd recommend the first set of Totally Rad Actions. You'll probably wonder what you did without them in mere days. #
OMFG there's a Gossip Girl casting call this weekend! Before heading over ask yourself, "What would Blair wear in this situation?" #
KARE 11 gets a redesign. Feels like ... I'm floating! #
Your favorite fictional characters re-imagined. The 30 Year Olds For The Rights Of Fictional Animals want to know what happened to Strawberry Shortcake's cat, Custard, ... and if she lost it CUZ SHE WAS TOO BUSY TALKING ON HER CELLPHONE?!?!! Gross. #
The Executive coloring book. "This is my pill. It is round. It is pink. It makes me not care." #
Tipping -- with incentive. I want to know if any bloody noses happened and how much was stolen. #
New Yahoo! logo spotted in the wild. I like the new 'o's but take a pass on the rest of it. #
This week in vita.mn: Summer Concert Fashion. I gotta be honest, you won't catch me in a pair of Keds again. EV-ER. #
Photo gallery of phone sex operators. Yup, it's pretty much just what you thought it would be. #
WoW sequel lets gamers play a character playing 'Warcraft'. #
Candy design gone terribly, wonderfully wrong. #
SLUG CUT HIS HAIR!!!! Apparently he got the memo about the greasy pedophile look. I'm totally lovin' on the polished look (again). #
I was out of town the past several days and apparently missed the Minnesota Monitor relaunching as The Minnesota Independent. Green. #
The Eco-Cooker. For cooking green. Pretty! #
Some pretty cool "space" wallpapers. I'm a fan of the wanderingspace planet collection. #
Capital One letting you put your flickr photos on your credit cards. I'm doing this just so my inappropriateness can spread its seed in even MORE ways. #
The I-35W bridge [re]construction draws crowds in Minneapolis. I drive by this every. single. day. and it's not nearly as fascinating as it remains just sad. #
Even BMW designers have to 'think outside the box.' I once had this job where we had to do all this team-building, trust-falls, thinking outside the box exercise bullshit ... which pretty much has nothing to do with this awesome concept car except for the fact that I imagine a bunch of suits told the designers to think "outside the box" on this one ... and they probably let out slight, inaudible designer groans at the thought. #
I know it's just the beginning of summer but I saw this jacket today AND HAD TO HAVE IT THAT VERY INSTANT. Isn't it delicious? #
Oops, almost forgot to give a nod to Haley Bonar's new album out today. Yup, I'm a fan. Chris Riemenschneider likes it too. #
Twiddict. Pwning twitter right in the face. It queues up your tweets when Twitter is down ALL. THE. TIME. (With a snappy little design too!) #
Morning farmer's market in Portland, Oregon. Lover-ly. #
Five unusual Top Chef production crew titles. #
Gnarls Barkley hittin' up the MN State Fair this year. Gather up your cheese curds 'n git! #
A collection of grown-up toys. Sadly, it's the SFW kind. Hipsters everywhere have something new to spend their cash on. #
This week in vita.mn: Summer Guide 2008. Turns out LOTS of cool stuff is going down this summer. Start bookin' your tickets now. #
Citypages [dot-com] got a redesign today. #
N.E.R.D.'s 'Seeing Sounds' is out today and it's refreshingly funktastic. This might be my new summer driving album. #
Alright kiddos I'm outtie for a long weekend. See you next week! #
A Storm Trooper's life. zomg, you gotta got look at EVERY PHOTO in this set. It is teh funny. #
A lotta people in the Twin Cities are Barry fans. I know a bunch of people in that line and they all said it was SO FUN. When's the last time you stood in line for 19 blocks and had a good time? #
If you went to the Bodies exhibit, now you’re eligible for a partial refund ‘cuz it turns out that the remains on display may or may not have been comprised of executed Chinese prisoners. *Oof #
Penguin Classics all over your cup of coffee. I can think of at least 6 people off the top of my head who are getting one of these for Christmas. #
Uh oh, M.I.A. to marry? Someone put Rex on suicide watch STAT! #
Tori Amos + comic book illos == surprisingly hawt. Plus, who doesn't love chicks in tattoos? #