January 2008
94 posts
This American Life - Ira Glass - Television -... →
morgen | Many People Hate Their Alarm Clocks, Few... →
Morgen is based on the idea that while many people hate their alarm clocks, few hate their mothers.
Idea Sandbox Blog: Starbucks and Invisible... →
Starbucks is going to stop selling heated breakfast sandwiches because the smell of the food competes with the scent of the coffee. That’s a gutsy move. After all, it has taken Starbucks years and investment to figure out a strategy and product to help pr
Something Rotten at the NYT. Or Not. →
nostrich: The New York times contains a brief article entitled One Pot describing the Spanish dish known variously as cocido or olla podrida literally “rotten pot” According to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, podrida may have an admiring connotation, similar to the use of “filthy rich” in English. Curiously, instead of the correct podrida, the article gives...
'Frauenzimmer' - Bordelle in Deutschland: Lack,... →
Photos of the bedrooms in german brothels.
Today's Pictures: Bored Couples →
Has 'Canadian' become a racist euphemism? →
Georgios Makkas - K6 red phone boxes →
Red phone boxes in the Welsh landscape. With numbers.
Dinas Cross - Pembrokeshire Holiday Cottage →
Mountain top cottage sleeps up to 4 plus infant (1 double 2 singles + travel cot) also ideal for a couple wanting complete peace and quiet.
Periodic Table Printmaking Project →
Ninety-six printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. The end result is a periodic table of elements intended to promote
EeeUser Wiki →
The Programmes Ontology →
nostrich.net » One Upped →
Good things donât happen very often. Really great, brilliant, life-changing things. And when they do, the natural compulsion is to tell someone. Brag, in fact.
Facebook's Popular Applications | The Onion -... →
Shove: Members can “shove,” with varying degrees of intensity, other members who are really starting to annoy them. Carbon Offset Offsetter: With every click, a 6-year-old child in India is forced to dig up 50 pounds of coal and set it on fire
Mostly This: Reality Breakfast →
First in a series comparing the product shots vs the product. Starting with the all new Mcdonalds Bacon Roll.
Art Garfunkel - Library →
a listing of every book Art Garfunkel has read over the last 30 years
“He said he knows this is considered distasteful, but he’s sending them anyway,”...”
– LA Weekly - News - You Cum Like a Girl - Margy Rochlin - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
Pizza Orgasmica and Brewing Company →
Cow Hollow/ Marina
EveryBlock San Francisco: A news feed for your... →
EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of whatâs happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over San Francisco. We compile news sources, public records and other local sites so you donât have to.
“After all, Web 2.0 isn’t about having computers solve problems, it’s...”
– uncov / Kwuot. Um, what? (kwuot)
'The city is mine' →
Comment is free, but facts are sacred | Newsroom |... →
To celebrate the centenary of the Guardian and his 50th anniversary as editor, CP Scott wrote ‘A Hundred Years’ in 1921. The essay’s famous sentence ‘Comment is free, but facts are sacred’ has endured as the ultimate statement of values for a free press a
Love, Power, Sacrifice - Life with the Jesus Army... →
“the Guardian has created an intellectual environment in which aggressively self...”
– Comment is free: The bullies’ charter
“Hit the right buttons or get left behind, you medieval dunce. Do you want the...”
– Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | I love complex gadgets. What I can’t stand are idiots who don’t know which buttons to press
Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter -... →
CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.
“I can honestly say I’ve never met a man more dedicated to the twin...”
– 70cities blog: Sad news - paul tweedy
Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Scott Carrier →
FlickrBlockrs: Say NO To Online Photos →
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World... →