January 2009
59 posts
Seeing an episode of "Engaged and Underage" in MTV...
Me: This show seems like a terrible idea.
Sis: Yes. Let's watch it.
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Prototypes - Médicalement
2:29 - end is worth the...
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Listen Now - The Knife
This song has me...
nubilous
PRONUNCIATION:
(NOO-buh-luhs, NYOO-)
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Cloudy, misty, or foggy. 2. Vague or obscure.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nubilosus (cloudy), from nubes (cloud).
(c/o my A.Word.A.Day email)
Tenuousness - Andrew Bird
No, I can’t stop...
Cat Found! →
Best of Craigslist is probably one of the best things about the Internet.
in collabo w/ Jue Wrang
Tower of Scrabel (or, Scrabble Babble) →
“If you’ve reached this page, you probably already recognize the importance of these words for success in winning at Scrabble, especially the two-letter words. Knowing which words are acceptable - even if you have no idea of their definitions - is a perfectly legitimate strategy, and all expert players have memorized all the two-letter words and often the three-letter words as well....
Human - The Killers
It has come to my attention...
Earth Album: flickr, geographically →
So someone has done a nice job of mashing google maps with flickr at earthalbum.com - now they need to combine it with Traveler’s IQ and cook up a new addiction for me.
again, h/t steller
Squid →
A cool little blog from Scott Beale, the man behind the art, tech, and culture blog Laughing Squid. San Francisco-based, Scott is a total meme propagator who, beyond blogging, has twice organized drink-ups for ROFLCON events so folks sharing culture online can come together in real life. What’s more, he’s doing it again for the upcoming NYC ROFLThing. More on this latez.
h/t steller
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Me: Hey, dad, did you ever run primal scream?
Dad: Yeah.
Me: You know what that is, right, dad? When kids run naked around Harvard Yard before finals?
Dad: Yeah.
Me: Dad, you went to MIT.
Dad: Yeah. We did that. What's primal scream?
Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash
If I only posted Andrew...
pneuma
PRONUNCIATION:
(NOO-muh, NYOO-)
MEANING:
noun: Spirit, soul.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek pneuma (breath, wind, spirit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pneu- (to breathe) that is also the source of pneumatic, pneumonia, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, apnea, sneer, sneeze, snort, and snore.
c/o wordsmith.org
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Fleetwood Mac - Tell me Lies
You know, I feel a...
Justice - DVNO
So I’ve decided to take...
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Duffy covering Hot Chip’s “Ready for...
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Obama picks RIAA guarddogs for the Justice Dept
“… one of Obama’s first tech-related decisions has been to select the Recording Industry Association of America’s favorite lawyer to be the third in command at the Justice Department. And Obama’s pick as deputy attorney general, the second most senior position, is the lawyer who oversaw the defense of the Copyright Term Extension Act—the same law that Lessig and...
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Things I romanticize
- Paying the rent at my new apartment for the first time (the money order glows in my hand. I don’t think it will always feel this good to drop a couple hundo, especially a few months later.)
- Record players (my god, that almost-melodic scratchy sound is… is… it’s gorgeous!)
- Being a bicycle messenger (aka asking Injury to come give me a hug. It will leave me with half...
