February 2009
47 posts
jakehurwitz:
This is great. Considering one of my other favorite online videos is that acoustic Hey Ya cover, I’d say there’s a definite trend.
More heartfelt renditions of rap songs please.
Brilliant.
Working on a Sunday is nice
Because no-one interrupts you with other work to do.
You may like to see the attached obituary.
– Thanks Dad.
bendelaney:
Every creative person really needs to watch this video by Zack Arias. It’s directed at photographers, but it applies to everyone. I just watched it three times in a row. Great great stuff. (Don’t get dissuaded by the first minute or so… it starts out cheeky, but gets then gets really serious.)
Bad New Zealand made me change my avatar.
Choosy - A smarter default browser →
bendelaney:
This just became infinitely more useful. In a nutshell, Choosy lets you open links in the browser (OR OTHER APPLICATION) you want. It’s an awesome tool for people who are constantly opening files of a particular type, but in various different apps.
Check out this about page to see a video. It’s simpler than it sounds. And it works great.
Ooh my friend George made this.
Sexy time lapse video… I can only dream.
White whine
I hate it when someone registers with my preferred username and then does nothing with it.
Bad Movie Club →
What a great idea - this site organises people to watch a bad movie starting at 9pm GMT every Friday, and takes tweets with #hashtags to aggregate all their comments in one place. Ingenious.
Communal bad movie watching via Twitter. Just one more reason to sign up.
BeardCam2.0™
Laura: Wait, is an oxymoron when two words contradict each other?
Me: Um… yeah.
Laura: So, it's not a spot cream?
karenabad:
(via blakewhitman: SCINTILLATION by Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo)
Wow. That is all.
One of my true loves, Neil McSweeney started a tumblr.
I urge you to follow and fall in love too.
(via neilmcsweeney)
Now following Dalai Lama #14
Bill Gates Unplugged
Uh oh, Tony Blair's going up against the atheists.
God help him.
Lost: Orientation
How do I download music off Tumblr?
– Shebs
Mac users (I don’t know the Windows solution):
1. Open the audio post in Safari. 2. In Safari’s menu, click “Window” -> “Activity”. (This opens a window that shows what files Safari is loading.) 3. On the audio post, hit play. 4. Among the URLs in the Activity window is one starting...
You grew up with comforts, without danger, and now you have to seek it out,...
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via unicornology)