July 2009
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No Impact Man - Trailer →
Colin Beavan spent a year living with no impact. This means eating within 250 miles, using no electricity, buying no new products and producing no garbage but compost. There will be a documentary released this fall.
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"Creamy White Thighs"
A funny little aside in what was a completely unrelated Strobist article:
A little aside: Legend has it there was an ongoing challenge between many of the reporters at The Baltimore Sun — with real money involved — to sneak the phrase “creamy white thighs” into a story in print.
Reporter Joel McCord is said to have come closest, in describing a painting over the bar at a...
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Pixies Plan Doolittle North American Tour →
“maybe Montreal”!!!!!!!! I WILL DRIVE TO MONTREAL.
MORE ON THIS AS IT DEVELOPS!
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“Pixies would return to the studio to record their fifth full length album some...”
– Pixies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT
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Mein Camp →
Anthony Lane’s poignant review of Brüno. Despite liking the film, I’m inclined to agree with him on most of his points. It seemed a little bit more gross-out where Borat was slapstick and offensive where Borat was revealing.
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The Stig's Morse Code Messages Translated
In last year’s series 12 (I’m Canadian and behind, gimme a break) The Stig enjoyed listening to some morse code during his lap trials. The blog driving spirit has decoded them here, here, here and here. They are all hilarious.
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Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental
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Readers’ Photos: Call Forwarding →
Great collection of reader-submitted cellphone pictures on the NYT Lens blog reminds me I need to take more photos with my phone.
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Ken Rockwell's Nikon D40 guide, now an iPhone app →
mrgan:
Ken Rockwell’s helpful, no-nonsense website convinced me to stop worrying and love the D40 - a workhorse of a prosumer camera. Ken is an honest, likeable, and knowledgeable dude whose advice will guide you toward cheaper gear and simpler shooting techniques - he’s a sort of Alton Brown of photography.
His Nikon D40 guide is an excellent resource for anyone looking to make sense of that...
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EyeWonder Takes Takeovers To Another Level →
As soon as YouTube goes all HTML 5 I’m turning off Flash forever. Hear that Vimeo?
via Gruber.
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Ladies and Gentlemen
mrgan:
You may have seen the YouTube video of President Obama recording the audio for his animatronic figure in Disney’s Hall of Presidents. The clip demonstrates, among other things, a little verbal habit I’m hoping Obama can drop; namely, referring to a group consisting of both men and women as “guys”.
This is feminist kvetching, of course. Perhaps you’ve already decided you disagree with me...
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Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson →
Great article. But you don’t need to read any further than the following line to see the failure in Anderson’s “Free” argument:
Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” (Hyperion; $26.99)
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WatchAs a child of the nineties. I had no idea what this was until I was three minutes in. I almost fell off my chair.
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Eutetramorium Mocquerysi →
A high definition zoomable image of an ant, composed of 400 photos taken by an electron microscope. Via: Daring Fireball
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“Gin and diet tonic tastes like dabbing your tongue with a pale watercolour...”
– Dean Allen