May 2009 Archives
A 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' remake?! Ok, I'll give you 'Footloose' but don't you fuck with my GJWHF! Not amused. #
Germany's banning Red Bull Cola after traces of cocaine are found. #
Phun photos of 1940s NYC. Swell. #
Local news station WCCO is going high-defs. For those of us without tvs, we're gonna need to see that sh*t on Vimeo Jason. Pix or it didn't happen! #
The Palm Pre will be able to sync with iTunes. Save yourself from the dark side! #
100 abandoned houses. Creepsville. #
The new trailer for 'Bruno' is cracking my shit up. I'm pre-ordering my tix today if they'll let me. #
How to torture a designer. I'm breaking out in hives just reading it. #
Mad Men returns to your living room in April. Double dog crap. #
Hulu launches a desktop client. Oh. Crap. There went my untainted, beautiful, no tv watching summer. #
Is Riding the Wave the new Doing the Dew? #
I hate your HDR. BEST! #
Henry Clarke illos for Edgar Allen Poe. c.1920s #
Typekit is ready to rock your font. Yay interwebz! #
Google throws its weight behind HTML 5. Thus, the Lord spoke and on the 7th day he rested. #
Q&A with architect Donald MacDonald. He's designed over a dozen bridges, including an upcoming design for the world's largest suspension bridge. #
If the Nano & the Kindle had a love child. Blargle, I say. Why does the interface look like my Macintosh from 1988? #
Through the eye of a needle. Lovely and inspiring. #
Foods you can bring into your mouth simply by sticking out your tongue. POP ROCKS!! #
The vendor-client relationship IRL. Cringeworthy. #
Richard Avedon, Master Photographer. #
Ghostbusters DS. I might have to get this /geekingout. #
What to do when you're in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn't have sex with you anyway. When in doubt, always play the time-travel card (I guess). BTW this won't work on me now. #
Report: Increasing number of educators found to be suffering from teaching disabilities. All my teaching friends are gonna love this (and are totes nodding their heads in agreement right now). #
I didn't have $3 dollars so I took this photo instead. #
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie ... without SMG or Joss Whedon? Annnnnnd, queue outrage of a million hipsters on twitter. #
Listen to Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn get their duet on. Apologies Scarlett, I am not a fan. #
y so srs? Captain LOLbat strikes again. #
Student runs secret squirrel library of banned books out of his locker. Man, that kinda rocks. That kid's gonna go places. #
Remember Cameron's glass house in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Yeah, IT'S UP FOR SALE!! Ferris Bueller you are my hero. [more pix] #
The happiest people ever. Wah wah. #
Brooke Hogan's new album cover is a whole new level of ... wait, nm. #
A long time ago in a galaxy far away George Lucas turned out some complete shit Star Wars scripts. Thank you budget constraints and the internet. #
Dennis Leary does a cute advert for Hulu. #
Nation's girlfriends unveil new economic plan: 'Let's move in together.' #
Prison economy spirals as price of cigarettes exceeds two hand jobs. #
You are what you eat. Literally. #
Take this year's vacation in a treehouse. #
Alan Clarke's proposed posters for the 2010 Olympics in London. Si, si, I approve!! #
6 of the creepiest abandoned places around the globe. A photographer's dream. #
Time Magazine celebrates 50 years of the Mini. Sure wish they'd send me a cupcake or something for participating in this milestone. #
Introducing: the pedi-sedate helmet. God bless parenting at its best. #
Top 50 txt acronyms parents should know. ffs im old. #
Kern in space. Damn, this is a hard game! #
This week's cover of Vita.mn is all sorts of ridiculous hotness. I may require a print and some empty wall space for this. #
Yesterday local artist Dennis Dumm was killed while riding his bicycle to work. So heartbreaking, please be safe. He was a talented, amazing photographer. #
Awkward family photos. I resisted this for almost a week, but upon actual inspection turns out it lived up to the hype. Hilarious (and awful!). #
Three wolves tees now top selling item on amazon apparel. A 2,300% boost in sales. #
The Pope encourages you to use the internet. Oh, well, thank god I can sleep now. #
Richard Smith is hosting the Dollar Redesign Project, which is starting to attract some interesting redesigns of American paper currency. #
My Little Stormtrooper. Oh man, if I ever have little girls THEY'RE GETTING THESE. #
Outlier tailored performance cyclewear. Dang... I'm kinda hot for these! #
Mission to culture. The sketches are cute as a button today. #
You can't afford to be slow in an emergency. Is my love for firemen that obvious? #
'The Hangover.' I'll spend the $10 to see this in the theater. Holy crap it looks funny. #
Trailer for the new 'Sherlock Holmes' movie out later this year. Mmmm. #
Grand Complication. Video of a watch, a 648 piece jigsaw puzzle, being assembled. #
I took my friend Joe to see a sneak preview of 'Terminator: Salvation' last night. Here was his assessment before we saw the flick, which I kinda wish I'd read before I saw it too. The verdict? 3 out of 5 stars purely for the production / entertainment value. Writing was pretty much the worst ever. #
"I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses." -- Anna Wintour, 60 Minutes outtake. Oh no she di'nt! #
'Dollhouse' LIVES! I'll be honest, I thought it was gonna get canned. #
The NY Times kicks off a photography blog. Ack!, their struggle to win me over is slowly working. Bastards! #
I didn't forget that Coldplay released a free live album on Friday. Did you? #
The coolest photo you'll see all day. #
Your favorite song for the next 5 mins: Gossip - Heavy Cross. #
Squirrel chase. Giddyup. #
Buy our electronics, they're HOT! This catalog was in my mailbox the other day and I thought the exact same thing when I saw it. A whole pile of wtf? #
Amusing illustrations from spam subject lines. Totes SFW, and very worth the long pageload. #
Office pranks I need to file away in that deep, long memory of mine. #
Dear Dell, I am not completely fucking retarded. Della makes the baby Jesus very, very sad. On another note, I wish I was a fly on the wall for the meetings about this site cuz DAYUM. #
Wolf t-shirt will change your life. Don't believe me? Just read the comments. And in case that's not your cup of tea maybe the testimonials on this baby will convince you. #
Leslie keeps telling me Jet Blue is the coolest airline going. It must be their incredible servicey service. #
The font snob. Living with me isn't entirely dissimilar from this situation. #
Social Security system overhauled to provide 'early-death incentives.' No laughing, you know it's only a matter of time. #
Edamame hummus. Genius! Taking all the things I don't like about hummus and replacing them with things I do. #
Condiment gun. Resisting urge to make jokes involving the words shoot, sauce, squirt, weiner, etc. because it's the adult thing to do. #
An awesome set of ads for Star Wars weekends at Disney. #
The NYT on eBook piracy. Cory Doctorow has the coolest t-shirt collection ever. There's no way the Times knew what was on his shirt. NO WAY. #
The Current pew pew's twitter. That is one fine Demi Moore impression. #
Have you noticed how Cheney is all over the place like he's promoting a new sitcom? Excuse me, your D1ck is out. #
Leslie created a virtual sh*tstorm on vita.mn when she said she prefers going to concerts where the lead singer does something besides just sing. I'm BFF-translating though, some people seem legitimately offended by her preference! #
'Punch Out' returns to Nintendo after 15 years in retirement. EeeEEeEeeeE!!1oneone #
Do yourself a favor and install a new wallpaper on your desktop. My Monday morning gift to you. #
Noma Bar's beautiful Star Trek inspired cover for Esquire. Check out some of the others that didn't make it too. #
Motherlover. Timberlake is my new favorite SNL cast member ;). #
What Chuck [Bass] wore. Fucking fabulous. As if Project Rungay were paying attention to Señor Bass. #
The cast of 'The Goonies' reunites after 20 years. I could watch this movie 386,911 more times. #
Curious squirrel. A squirrel tries licking any of my equipment and there's gonna be a bitch-smack all up 'n in his shit. #
RIP Duke Nukem. Sad. He was my first FPS long-term boyfriend. #
Microsoft cancels its 2009 Pro Photo Summit. Without hookers 'n blow what would have been the point anyway, I ask of you? #
Mike Kus videotaped himself preparing slides in photoshop for his speech at the "Future of Web Design" conference. Not educational, just beautiful. And set to freakin' Sigur Ros. Double lovely. #
Bristol Palin floods morning TV to tell America how horrible her "blessing" is. It's all fun and games until she realizes she can't have any more sex until she's married. #
Mpls's own Walkert Art Center wins a National Design Award. For Corporate and Institutional Achievement. Rawr. #
Blair Waldorf isn't the only GG with an aspiring music career. Taylor Momsen, aka Jenny, gives her vocal cords a workout. #
Star Trek failure generator. AKA sexual innuendo generator. #
Kindle engages bigass mode. Now supersized. #
Here's the Cullen house in all its vampireness. Sexy. Sad bad the wolves won't get the same 5-star treatment. #
J.J. Abrams on Colbert AAHHH!! Saw it. It was awesome. Already got tix to see it again in IMAX cuz holy crap. #
A violent but evolutionarily effective mating strategy has been spotted in spiders from Israel. Ah gahd *faintz* ... the best part about this post is the comments though. This whole thing is seriously like an episode of 'Fringe.' #
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters. Cuz I bet you were wondering. #
Trekkie fans bash new Star Trek film as "fun and action-packed thrill ride." No wonder the fans feel betrayed here. There isn't even once scene set at a long table in which interstellar diplomacy is debated in endless detail. Bastards! #
I Shot the Chef. Oh god another amazing food blog. This time the chef is married to a talented photographer who takes the most spectacular photos of her creations. New favorite thing. #
The Electric Fetus is selling music online. Only you get MP3s at 320 kbps for the same album prices as iTunes (and no patchouli aftertaste!). #
Journalists on Twitter. People with autofeeds like Katie Couric should be booted off the island. #
A view of Rockefellar Center in 1933. Click to embiggen. #
The 2009 Kentucky Derby. Mmm, I'm suddenly craving a mint julep. #
RiP: A Remix Manifesto is now available for download (view the trailer). Poor Girl Talk's parents have no idea how cool their son is. #
The house Steve Jobs hates. Ew. #
Coldplay giving away their latest album, FREE!, on May 15th. Don't be a jerk, they got it going on. #
Culture Bully reviews the Franz Ferdinand concert @ First Ave. Check out Leslie's kickass photos! #