Montly archives
02 June 2008
Tori Amos + comic book illos == surprisingly hawt. Plus, who doesn't love chicks in tattoos?
02 June 2008
Uh oh, M.I.A. to marry? Someone put
Rex on suicide watch STAT!
03 June 2008
Become your dream.
03 June 2008
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.
03 June 2008
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
04 June 2008
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?
04 June 2008
A Storm Trooper's life. zomg, you gotta got look at EVERY PHOTO in this set. It is teh funny.
05 June 2008
Alright kiddos I'm outtie for a
long weekend. See you next week!
10 June 2008
N.E.R.D.'s 'Seeing Sounds' is out today and it's refreshingly funktastic. This
might be my new summer driving album.
10 June 2008
Citypages [dot-com] got a redesign today.
10 June 2008
This week in vita.mn: Summer Guide 2008. Turns out LOTS of cool stuff is going down this summer. Start bookin' your tickets now.
10 June 2008
A collection of grown-up toys. Sadly, it's the SFW kind. Hipsters everywhere have something new to spend their cash on.
10 June 2008
Gnarls Barkley hittin' up the MN State Fair this year. Gather up your cheese curds 'n git!
10 June 2008
Five unusual Top Chef production crew titles.
10 June 2008
Morning farmer's market in Portland, Oregon. Lover-ly.
10 June 2008
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!)
10 June 2008
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.
10 June 2008
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?
11 June 2008
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.
11 June 2008
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.
11 June 2008
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.
11 June 2008
Purity. Poor sociologists.
11 June 2008
Some pretty cool "space" wallpapers. I'm a fan of the wanderingspace planet collection.
11 June 2008
The Eco-Cooker. For cooking green. Pretty!
11 June 2008
I was out of town the past several days and apparently missed the Minnesota Monitor relaunching as
The Minnesota Independent. Green.
11 June 2008
SLUG CUT HIS HAIR!!!! Apparently he got the memo about the greasy pedophile look. I'm totally lovin' on the polished look (again).
12 June 2008
Candy design gone terribly, wonderfully wrong.
12 June 2008
WoW sequel lets gamers play a character playing 'Warcraft'.
12 June 2008
Photo gallery of phone sex operators. Yup, it's pretty much just what you thought it would be.
12 June 2008
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.
12 June 2008
New Yahoo! logo spotted in the wild. I like the new 'o's but take a pass on the rest of it.
12 June 2008
Tipping -- with incentive. I want to know if any bloody noses happened and how much was stolen.
12 June 2008
The Executive coloring book. "This is my pill. It is round. It is pink. It makes me not care."
12 June 2008
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.
13 June 2008
KARE 11 gets a redesign. Feels like ... I'm floating!
13 June 2008
OMFG there's a Gossip Girl casting call this weekend! Before heading over ask yourself, "What would Blair wear in this situation?"
13 June 2008
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.
13 June 2008
Tim Russert died of an apparent heart attack after collapsing. Geez, sad.
15 June 2008
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.
15 June 2008
Avatars Microsoft's response to Wii?
16 June 2008
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.
16 June 2008
Time Magazine makes a pathetic attempt at naming the 50 Best Websites. Oops, I totally didn't mean to say that out loud.
16 June 2008
M.I.A. r-r-re... retiring?! First she's engaged and now this? I call bullsh*t and give it 20 months TOPS.
16 June 2008
Your moment of
long exposure photographs of crowds.
16 June 2008
Coming to the
Vita.mn Poolside Fashion Show Thursday? Your excuse for not attending isn't good enough ... we're talking booze & bikinis people.
16 June 2008
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.
17 June 2008
50 best PUN! store names. Dang, and not a single name from Minneapolis.
Boy we got some good'uns too.
17 June 2008
100 greatest movie posters of all time. I demand a recount! James Bond at number 5?! What?! WHAT?!?!!
17 June 2008
New albums out today from
My Brightest Diamond and
Coldplay.
17 June 2008
Firefox 3 being released at noon today. Get, get!
17 June 2008
One of the world's largest malls
is also the emptiest. [
with pix]
17 June 2008
Internet data caps becoming a reality? OMFG there will be some
serious bitch-smacking if this goes down.
17 June 2008
Spore, you know that one game being released Sep 7th,
has made available their character creator for download. Free.
17 June 2008
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
17 June 2008
Girl Talk on the album he's got coming out. THIS WEEK!
18 June 2008
Circle circle dot dot ... cootie shots? I've never heard of such a thing. Must be a FL thing.
18 June 2008
For all you colourlovers,
classic palettes like you've never enjoyed classic before.
18 June 2008
A beginner's guide to Spore porn. Bow chicka wow.
18 June 2008
Both Flickr co-founders have officially bailed. Wow, it's almost like they worked for a newspaper or something.
18 June 2008
Oregon Trail available for your cellie. Oh great, that's just what I need. MORE GAMEZ.
19 June 2008
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.
19 June 2008
I want to be a Coal Miner. Vintage '63 children's book.
19 June 2008
Vegetarian tortilla soup. You can tell it's lunchtime cuz this looks good.
19 June 2008
12 bikes for girls. I have it on good authority that no girl-bike is complete without a bell.
19 June 2008
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*).
20 June 2008
Old album made new and wonderful for the day:
The Trainspotting Soundtrack. OHyeahz, you know you need to tap that today.
20 June 2008
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.
20 June 2008
Butter London nail polish. So delicious you'll want to eat it (and good for you too!).
20 June 2008
Robot City. *beep beep* I. Am. A. Robot.
20 June 2008
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.
20 June 2008
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?
20 June 2008
Video for Coldplays 'Violet Hill.' Prolly my favorite tune off their new album.
20 June 2008
This
typographic scarf would look so hot in a Mini Cooper convertible. Just sayin.
21 June 2008
Good morning
Solstice Moonrise in Greece.
22 June 2008
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.
23 June 2008
The coolest swimming pools you'll see all month.
23 June 2008
Wall-E comes out this week.
Check out these kickass posters for it.
23 June 2008
Eddie Van Halen like you've never seen him before. Clearly someone slipped someone a 5'r under the table for results like that.
23 June 2008
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.
23 June 2008
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.
23 June 2008
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. !!?!?!!
23 June 2008
Just another day at the office for taulpaul. Sux to be you, dude.
23 June 2008
I know this video shouldn't be all that funny,
yet I'm red in the face with tears rolling down my cheeks.
23 June 2008
Photo of a record store c.1950. Read the comments for even
more record store goodness!
23 June 2008
Tricky has a new album coming out? Tricky A.N.D. Portishead in the same year? Someone hold me.
24 June 2008
The Swedish Furniture name generator. I'm so using this to create my next MMO alter ego.
24 June 2008
A cat is not a pony. Heh. Except for WHEN IT IS.
24 June 2008
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."
24 June 2008
15 wedding and shower gifts under $40. Noted.
24 June 2008
Candice sandals. Me likey! New mission for the next week: justify a reason, ANY REASON, to buy these.
24 June 2008
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.
24 June 2008
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.
25 June 2008
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.
25 June 2008
Vita.mn is giving away a 40" widescreen LCD tv. Winning has never been so easy.
25 June 2008
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.
25 June 2008
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.
25 June 2008
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.
25 June 2008
Delicious swirly artwork from Natasha Westcoat. Yay for pink swirlies!
25 June 2008
Trailer for Guy Ritchie's new film RocknRolla.
26 June 2008
Recipe for Cold Peanut Sesame Noodles. Mouth .... watering ...
26 June 2008
UK vs. England vs. Great Britain. fyiz
26 June 2008
If tattoos actually told the truth.
26 June 2008
Photos of thousands of Golden Rays migrating. Ah-maze-ing.
26 June 2008
List of the day: subtle ways to annoy co-workers. "Cause a printer jam and then walk away."
26 June 2008
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]
29 June 2008
Friends with benefits. A benefit summary prospectus.
29 June 2008
Sky Factory. Luminous SkyCeilings.
30 June 2008
Tips for Road-Trip photography. Filed away for the SUPER MEGA AWESOME ROADTRIP I've got planned in a few weeks. w00t.
30 June 2008
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.
30 June 2008
Albums for $5 bucks. Sweet, cheaper than iTunes *and* already mp3s. (Follow the new releases
on Twitter if you like, too.)
30 June 2008
Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, interview over at the HuffPost. On politics, presidency, and purple states.
30 June 2008
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.