Montly archives
01 July 2008
Oh My God. Try not to love it, I dare you.
01 July 2008
List of the day: best date movies. "Whatever she wants to watch." At least there's
one guy smart enough to have listed it. ;)
01 July 2008
Sandgirls. Perch!
01 July 2008
'Hulk' filmmakers used flickr photo for $0. As a film studio, duh. As a photographer, it blows so much that they couldn't even put him in the credits.
01 July 2008
Minnesota dropping the effort to fine underage buyers of violent video games. In other news, parents still giving kids ridiculous amounts of money to
buy and
play the games online, asshats.
01 July 2008
Nikon announces mid-size full-frame in the new D700. For all the size-queens in the house.
01 July 2008
A 1984 Olympic gold medalist, Dara Torres is training to make the 2008 US Olympic swim team. Um, I feel fat now. Thanks Dara.
01 July 2008
Chuck Klosterman asks 100 German college students to name the most interesting 20th Century American. Michael Jackson had more essays written about him than anyone else. More than Ryan Adams even.
01 July 2008
Joystiq gets 30 mins with 'Spore' and Will Wright. Lucky bastards.
01 July 2008
The Superest. Who is the superest hero of them all? Perhaps it's the
Dashing Delver, digging holes with SUPERHUMAN SPEED!
02 July 2008
Superfly retro messenger bags. Have I told you how much I love etsy? Yeah I bought
one, as if I had a choice in the matter.
02 July 2008
Christian Bale photographs! *gasp* Oh yeah, and a very cool poster for 'The Dark Knight' but but but CHRISTIAN BALE PHOTOGRAPHS!
02 July 2008
Designer glasses. Where's the hipster?
02 July 2008
Re-writing AP headlines for noobz 101. Hahahaha ... "Homosexual barely averts major flop in 100..."
02 July 2008
Bulletin boards for designers. Pink pink there's so much pink!
07 July 2008
I threw together a new muxtape for you this morning. Just cuz. But also because I remembered 'Charlie Big Potato' has the best intro to a song EVAH.
07 July 2008
Kickass wallpapers for your desktop. And, in pink too!
07 July 2008
The Bubble Calendar. Where it's all about the self control.
07 July 2008
NBC bought The Weather Channel. Alotta money in someone's forecast.
07 July 2008
Have a question? Any question at all?
Text it to ChaCha (242-242) where a caring customer service rep does the google work for ya. I actually used this while out the other night and, well, it was pretty awesome!
07 July 2008
Muxtape colors by frequency. #000000 is ruling the roost -- I should have suspected.
07 July 2008
Remember that "forrrevvverrrr" scene from the movie 'Sandlot?' Yeah, apparently my brother and I are the only ones on the planet that do. Whatevs.
Now you'll never say "forever" in the same way too.
07 July 2008
Why I am a designer.
07 July 2008
From the 'Last Trax On Albums' mixtape challenge,
this dude has my vote, what with his keeping the funky all kinds of fresh.
07 July 2008
EA launching an officially official Scrabble on Facebook this month. Poor Scrabulous, EVERYBODY PANIC!
08 July 2008
Abandoned movie theaters. Funny what a little HDR does to sex up abandoned spaces.
08 July 2008
CP photos from CONvergence 2008. Nerd alert! (omg I so wasn't there fyiz)
08 July 2008
After going back and forth and back and forth about whether I should support crazy f*cking Scientologists and buy
the new Beck album out today, I made some peace and decided to support producer Danger Mouse. Cuz I can get behind that.
08 July 2008
I recently acquired a couple of books, fantastic enough to have earned esteemed placement on Le Coffee Table De Sopheava:
Historic Photos of Minneapolis and
Historic Photos of St. Paul. These are really cool if you've ever lived in either city .
08 July 2008
List of the day: If I were a superhero (name & power). I am THE MIGHTY ORGASMA!, with the unparalleled ability to distribute orgasms freely to unsuspecting passers-by.
08 July 2008
Decorate your yard with the living dead. BRAaaAaAAINS!
08 July 2008
Who wants to be Susie Homemaker? With a pair of high heels and a tray of muffins? Tres hawt.
08 July 2008
TinyURL creator makes more money than you. My favorite comment is from
hendersonmj whose panties were in a bundle until he wrote: "Note to web master: brace yourself. It is just a matter of time until this article is featured on slashdot and a gazillion techy nerds come browsing. Add bandwidth." Feel better?, noob!
08 July 2008
2008 Most Beautiful People at the MN State Capitol Contest is so on. It's hard for me to look at this and not think Most Eligible Bachelor/ette contest, cuz that might actually drastically swing my male vote.
09 July 2008
Flickr + Getty, sittin' in a tree. Getty Eds troll flickr; Getty offers select flickr photogs residuals; Getty makes a lot of money. I want to know what Flickr's getting out of the deal. ??
09 July 2008
Local dude works out with Viking Center Matt Birk and lives to tell the tale. "There is a difference in our workouts. Birk, a surprisingly lean-looking 317 pounds, uses dumbbells the size of Mack truck tires. I use small, pink, plastic dumbbells that say "Rainbow Pony" on the side."
09 July 2008
A visual comparison of fonts and their creators' handwriting. I love looking at handwriting so much I could look at it all day long. It's like my weird thing.
09 July 2008
Snack foods that sound like sex acts. The 12-year old in me is dying right now.
09 July 2008
Marimekko desktop wallpapers. Prettttty.
09 July 2008
The zombies are coming! I'm so having a 'Shaun of the Dead' moment right now.
09 July 2008
People are
always asking me how to get a photoblog up and running (fast!), well here ya go.
Yet Another Photoblog. And if you want to theme it straight out of the gate
have yourself a little Grain.
09 July 2008
Octo-pied. Artists with a sense of humor are teh funny. [Also,
trees are people too.]
10 July 2008
All kinds of old-timer class. Fire up, granny!
10 July 2008
This week is probably my favorite Vita.mn cover story ever:
Eating local: Follow your food from the farm to your plate. *heart heart heart*
10 July 2008
Google launched Lively, their live chat roomie thingy, yesterday. Ok fine. Eventho it's all so very Dora's Playpen (er whatever) it's a "Web Based Virtual World Product."
10 July 2008
Playboy picks the hottest female bloggers. Clearly they lost my name in the mail.
10 July 2008
If everyone on eBay was forced to be honest...
10 July 2008
muxtape.com/random: cuz you just never know.
10 July 2008
Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama's nuts off. Yeowch dude. Very very ouch.
10 July 2008
Flickr user SLOWLORIS was hanging out a window when she was struck by lightning. On video! WITH SCREAMING!
10 July 2008
2010 Winter Olympics village in Vancouver going green.
10 July 2008
Baman Piderman. I double dog dare you not to *snort* at the end.
10 July 2008
Time lapse video of a designer laying out an article for a magazine. Welcome to my world.
11 July 2008
Virtual drinking buddy. So you never have to drink alone again.
11 July 2008
Trailer for the upcoming movie 'Max Payne.' Time to go digging through my closet to find the old vidgame.
11 July 2008
BMW testing the waters with an all-electric Mini Cooper. Damn, this alllllmost makes me wish I had waited another year or two to buy mine. Almost, I said.
11 July 2008
Holy schnikes.
Warhammer Online removing major features to hit Fall launch date. 4 of the 6 capital cities got the axe, as did four character classes.
11 July 2008
What's in my bag, baby. Seeing the pink all lined up in a pretty little row like that makes me so proud *sniffle*. Good product recommendations for you in there tho --
iPod case,
cellphone case, calendar, perfume,
bag. What did I forget?
14 July 2008
404 errors you wish you got.
14 July 2008
Old wedding photos found in an alley near a garbage can and old mattress. So totally f*king awesome.
15 July 2008
List of the day: best local blog. Oy, the SdL keeps slipping! Where are my peepz?
15 July 2008
From the guy who did that super funny kitty animation '
Cat Man Do' comes a brand new installment of the Simon's Cat series:
TV Dinner.
16 July 2008
Trailer for the upcoming Wolfenstein to be released on the PS3 and 360. William's come a long way yo.
16 July 2008
Office designs that will make you want to go to work. Sorry, didn't mean to depress you today.
16 July 2008
20 products great for traumatizing kids.
17 July 2008
The most beautiful suicide. So tragic and yes, beautifully disturbing.
17 July 2008
Street. "That's how I roll motherf*ker."
17 July 2008
Frank Gehry comments on the architectural supermarket that is Abu Dhabi. "People choose one building by me, one by Norman Foster, one by Zaha, one by Jean Nouvel, one by Daniel Libeskind. It becomes a cabinet of horrors."
17 July 2008
The most incredible stormwater management solution you'll see all day. Looks like something out of Star Wars.
17 July 2008
Project Runway lets its freak flag fly. There was a wholelotta tragic going on last night. Best part of the show was when Heidi said "butt ugly" tho. She's been in America
toooo long yo.
17 July 2008
This week in vita.mn: The Hold Steady. On their new album and, uh, the bible.
17 July 2008
Opacity. Abandoned building photography == creepsville!
17 July 2008
Evolution of The Joker. Time appropriate. I didn't see 'Batman Begins' but am looking forward to 'The Dark Knight.' Mmmm... Christian Bale.
17 July 2008
Feeling crafty?
Try your hand at homemade deodorant.
18 July 2008
Yeti-bama. Hope or die!
18 July 2008
North Holland. Green and delicious.
19 July 2008
Is your favorite Starbucks closing? Here's a full list.
21 July 2008
The skinny on the Vimeo font. I tend to agree with this analysis.
21 July 2008
Photos of lost cities.
22 July 2008
Physical theories as women. "Newtonian gravity is your high-school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she's amazing. You will never forget Newtonian gravity, even if you're not in touch very much anymore."
22 July 2008
New foods to the MN State Fair this year. Big Fat Bacon: one-third pound of bacon, fried and caramelized with maple syrup and served on a stick.
22 July 2008
In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold.
Here are the results.
22 July 2008
TOC inspiration.
22 July 2008
Dinosaur on the loose makes learning fun. I'd be one of the kids crying FO SHO.
22 July 2008
Font conference. A little typography humor to brighten your day.
22 July 2008
Cake wrecks. Just the spot for that inappropriate cake that found it's way to your office in '03.
22 July 2008
LOTRO's Book 14 went live today. Get the rundown here.
22 July 2008
Wear science. Ride that pony.
23 July 2008
Brett Favre ... MN Vikings ... This is like one big incestuous soap opera.
23 July 2008
Baby's first internet. "It doesn't matter what you say, just publish it 12 times a day."
24 July 2008
This week in vita.mn: List of Lists. I'm sorry but the great place to eat is
not Pizza Luce. Clearly I don't live in the same Twin Cities as the rest of you.
24 July 2008
Mix Turtle. Faster than a speeding songza!
24 July 2008
10 most amazing ghost towns.
24 July 2008
20 features the next iPhone should have. iPhone ... ball shaver?
25 July 2008
Rush attempts to play their own song on Rock Band. EPIC FAIL.
25 July 2008
Wall decals at ... Target.com? It's true. I'm a fan of the baroque -- very SdL.
25 July 2008
Jillian Lewis's Fall '08 collection. Dear god with the coats. See what you hath wrought Project Runway? SHE CAN'T DESIGN ANYTHING ELSE. Bummer.
28 July 2008
Evolution.
28 July 2008
Trailer for 'W', Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic.
28 July 2008
No more gaming vidz on Vimeo.
28 July 2008
If you were stuck on an island with 10 fonts, what would they be? "Trebu-f---ing-chet? Who put that on there?" [thx
tayloriation]
28 July 2008
10 ways to uglify your bicycle. This is prolly the only time you'll see me post about making *anything* ugly. Savor it.
28 July 2008
I put up a new muxtape for you to enjoy. And it's a good'un if I do say so myself: The Cool Kids, Beta Band, AND spankin' new Doomtree. [... Cool Kids for
Marsh.]
29 July 2008
Gossip Girl video teasers for your Tuesdayjoyment. I hate admitting to being addicted to anything on tv, but I'm pretty excited about this one.
29 July 2008
Cold War Kids have an album coming out soon.
Check out the first track for freebs: 'Something Is Not Right With Me.'
29 July 2008
Holy shit, Gnarls Barkley covering Radiohead. And it's GOOD!!
29 July 2008
5 possible reasons why women's magazine sales are plummeting. Check! on all accounts.
29 July 2008
Trailer for 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.' Dang this looks good. Can't wait!
30 July 2008
You need the new Doomtree album. Post-haste!! Best hip-hop album of the year (no kidding).
30 July 2008
In which DeRusha writes a love-letter to the local newspaper. Without really expressing my p.o.v. on the situation, I'm clearly posting this from a neutral standpoint. (But not really...)
30 July 2008
Harper's Bazaar attempts an Olympic-themed fashion photoshoot with Lucy Liu. Hahaha
attempts. I'd hate to be in the post-mortem for this issue *gulp*.
30 July 2008
Mario's enemies have something to say about being a Bowser minion. "The Mario jumps over me every time. I don't know why Bowser put this goddamn chain on my body."
31 July 2008
This week in vita.mn: Doomtree. I love that someone finally asked what's up with their freaky
wings-and-teeth logo.
31 July 2008
You can't txt msg and drive in Minnesota as of August 1st.
Find out what constitutes 'texting' here.
31 July 2008
A judge in CA has ruled early cellphone termination fees are illegal. \m/
31 July 2008
Sonia Pitt, former MNDoT emergency response executive who was fired for hanging out with her boyfriend in NYC instead of coming back to Minneapolis to deal with the 35W bridge collapse,
has been hired by the US Department of Homeland Security. Gross, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.