This looks interesting: Leaning with Intent to Fall by Ethan Clark. Ethan recounts a life on the fringes, filled with all the great punk pastimes: dodging cops, shoplifting, trespassing, drinking too much, and working crappy jobs that barely pay the rent on dilapidated houses filled with down-and-out roommates. But rather than succumbing to the jaded …
Category Archives: Miniblog
Any night can be the best night of your life
Jason Anderson preaches the gospel of music to the wayward hipsters of Florida.
2008: International Year of the Potato
The Economist heaps praise upon the humble spud: "Mashed, fried, boiled and roast, a humble tuber changed the world, and free-trading globalisers everywhere should celebrate it."
Maybe I should start going to church
What if this is hell? You have to sit in a room and listen to every word you said while you where alive. theshortestblogintheworld strikes terror in my heart.
“Danny Boy” performed by Muppets
A difficult song rendered memorably: Danny Boy Link thanks to Ze Frank.
Making sense of the superdelegates
"Anti-democratic elements are everywhere in our political system. The presidential veto is undemocratic. The rules governing filibusters and the closing off of debate are undemocratic. The procedural devices by means of which floor leaders or committee chairmen can prevent issues from coming to a vote are undemocratic. The fact that Rhode Island and California have …
The Polaroid is dead. Long live the instant snapshot
"It’s true that new technologies have marginalized instant photography. But it was consumer-friendly innovation — easy, fun, instant — that made Polaroid cameras and film into mass hits in the first place. In a way, the company’s products were the digital photography of their time." From Consumed in the New York Times.
Moved to the top of my Netflix queue: “The Cat’s Meow.”
I moved it up from #140 when I read the Eddie Izzard interview in today’s NYT. "His strongest screen role so far has been as Charlie Chaplin in Peter Bogdanovich’s underrated 2001 film, “The Cat’s Meow,” about a 1920s murder on William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. His Chaplin is a driven, complex character, self-absorbed yet madly …
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Ready-to-wear
“I didn’t jump out of a not-wearing-dress box into a have-to-wear-dress box.” Eddie Izzard explains to the New York Times that he’s selected a new wardrobe for his four-month U.S. tour starting next month.
Trusted sources
A 2007 study by the "Icon Kids & Youth" project showed that more than half of six to 19-year-olds trusted the user-created encyclopaedia blindly – yet reputable news sources like Spiegel.de were only trusted by 40 per cent. Hoax, Wiki-style: Internet encyclopaedia spoofs mock reality : Internet Technology Link via Brad King.