August 2009
July 2009
Nadja - When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV →
Because you always wanted to hear sludgy doom-metal versions of a-ha, Elliott Smith, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, and a Kids in the Hall song from Brain Candy, not to mention a version of Slayer’s Dead Skin Mask that makes the original sound like it was performed by a barbershop quartet.
Why Did No One Inform Us Of The Imminent Death Of... →
So soon? The Onion is back up for sale:
It appears that in America the very business of published news is in the midst of widespread atrophy, and now carries forward as does a sickly and aging man, coughing up blood and gasping for breath and bearing the pronounced stench of inevitable failure.
Why did no one inform us of this? Great shame must now consume those who kept silent about the 87...
You Suck at Craigslist →
WatchI don’t know which I like more, the brutal and hilarious mockery of the Shatner reading of Palin’s most recent exit speech, or the more brutal drubbing given to her July 3 speech by way of a somehow and oddly sincere Vanity Fair editorial team.
[via burley & gruber]
Local Natives - Warning Sign
This band is...
Detroit's Collapse: the Untold Story →
Eamonn Fingleton presents a contrarian view on the destruction of the US auto industry. He points to Japanese and Korean protectionism, government-support, and predatory pricing, but he also tears apart the media establishment for systematic ignorance and bias. I’m not sure I buy it all, but it’s a refreshing and interesting take nonetheless:
For decades East Asian competition has...
WatchUpcoming Toy Movies by DAN METH
[via Daddy Types]
“Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going...”
– North Korean Statement on Hillary Clinton
Stay classy, North Korea!
“…Myspace basically became the Detroit of the internet.”
– BONER PARTY!!! (via madthoughts)
“The unemployment rate was rising for Japan’s robots, and, following...”
– Harper’s Weekly Review
Damn I love me some Harper’s Weekly Review.
An Open Letter to Dwell Magazine →
Perfect:
Dear Dwell:
Love the magazine. As a favor, I have rewritten the Table of Contents of your July/August issue:
Cover House with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 43 House with Vertical Wood Slats Page 52 House with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 58 Ice Cream Makers Page 66 Pavilion with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 70 Philadelphia Page 80 House with Horizontal Wood...
CDC finds US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates... →
Abstinence works!:
In a report that will surprise few of Bush’s critics on the issue, the Centres for Disease Control says years of falling rates of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease infections under previous administrations were reversed or stalled in the Bush years. According to the CDC, birth rates among teenagers aged 15 or older had been in decline since 1991 but...
Oh Starbucks, what are you doing to me?
I like Starbucks. Yeah, sure, it’s a bit burnty, and yeah, sure, it’s a bland chain experience and yeah they’re everyfuckinwhere and yeah it’s cool to hate on em, but I find their espresso decent and there usually aren’t weird crazy talky people around when I try to work there.
Don’t get me wrong: I hate that they call some bullshit caramel turd a “macchiato” when that’s already an existing drink...
Atlas Sound - Walkabout (feat. Noah Lennox)
What...
Consumerist - Jamba Juice Rips Off "Get Your War... →
NYU scientists create "dark flash" photography... →
A.V. Club: Reinventing the pencil - 21 artists who... →
The Onion - America's Finest News Source and... →
Well, T Herman Zweibel has done it. As he puts it, “Well, I’ve Sold The Paper To The Chinese.” The Onion is now a subsidiary of Yu Wan Mei Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Corporation.
Articles in the new Onion include:
American Consumer Masses Agree: It Fish Time!
China Strong
Nothing At All Happens to 28 Tibetan Protesters, Their Families
Pristine...
copycats:
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Elliott Smith...
What fast looks like →
Kottke
Alleged Nazi Guard Faces 29,700 Murder... →
That defender is, of course, Pat Buchanan, who also manages to compare the Nazi guard to, uh, Christ.
World Map of Album Covers →
Sweet Google maps app by British rock magazine The Word shows locations where photographs of famous album covers (mostly British rock) were taken. (via coudal)
“If you think of it in human terms, there is a financial incentive that will be...”
– GOP Rep Tiahrt (KS) Asks Whether Obama’s Mother Would Have Had An Abortion
Nerd Boyfriend →
So. Fucking. Cool.
Test Patterns - Situations
After 2 days of...
