May 2009
62 posts
A Serious Post
ryanpurtill:
Everyone is battling over gay marriage, but I think we should be questioning why marriage is a legal institution at all. Why have the government involved in your love life at all? How did we manage to allow the government to get involved in who we fuck!! Orwell had it backwards, big brother isn’t watching us…we are watching big brother as it dances and pounds our senses with shit...
WatchEmpire on Vimeo (via Vimeo, via Prolly is not Probably)
This is a video about people having fun riding track bikes and fixed gears in the city. The song used is “Fractured Skies” by Parts and Labor. partsandlabor.net. Be sure to visit our site at empirebegins.comregularly once we launch the riders blog.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Mobb Deep (4)
Notorious B.I.G. (3)
Big L (3)
Method Man (3)
Ledisi (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Joey Stuckey
Came across this exceptional piece on my beloved Bay Smooth Jazz:
Joey Stuckey - Oceanside
Steel drums and Smoothjazz - heaven!
Jerkin Music - Hot Chick.mp3 -
The song from some posts ago.
Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped... →
Not really convinced because the same logic could be applied to every other mammal.
The flat universe
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Universe ‘proven flat’
Yesterday I talked to a cosmologist (which is pretty awesome by itself as he worked on microwave background radiation data) only to find out what the world apparently knows since 9 years. Only me never heard of it before: The discovery of a flat universe around 1999/2000. Can someone outline this for me or point me to a good read online?...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17) →
Faith Evans (7)
Keyshia Cole (6)
Kelly Rowland (5)
LeToya (5)
Mya (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
JPL NASA Podcast: Kepler: Are There Other Earths...
WatchI guess in most European countries Google Streetview has to blurry faces. In this case it might have gone too far :-).
Explorer-Scouts Train in Post-9/11 Law Enforcement... →
Briefly watch the slideshow and you get the idea. BOY-Scouts..
Ashanti - Love Again
How I love that most...
Star Trek
So, am I the only one on the interwebs who didn’t like the new Star Trek that much?
It wasn’t the instant classic I hoped it would be.
It was way too violent and action-centric.
Putting the theme song at the end sucked.
For me Star Trek was never an action movie/series. It was about reflecting “current affairs”, philosophize here and there with a social twist between...
tumblr.com/listen →
Try this, click on any green bubble and get a constant stream of all music you and your “followingers” posted.
“Lectures are the worst possible learning format”
– iPod touch, iPhone required for journalism students
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-10) →
Floetry (7)
Jill Scott (5)
Ginuwine (3)
Amel Larrieux (3)
Tempa T (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It’s a tough holiday for [Emanuel] … He’s not used to saying the...”
– Barack Obama makes his comedy debut at White House correspondents’ dinner | World news | The Guardian
Watchpatrickcassels:
“Philip Seymour Hoffman,” a video about late-night phone calls written by me and Josh Ruben for CollegeHumor’s All-Nighter, starring Josh and Pete Holmes as Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
My favorite of the All-Nighters. Great acting.
Watchiamdanw:
I think it’s interesting to see the design process as it happens. Quite a lot of the footage shows me working on designs that never made the deck. Every time I design something I find it hard and I worry about the outcome. I think it’s cool to show people that ideas just don’t fall onto the canvas.
Mike Kus in Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard
Grooveshark -- Listen to Free Music →
Since this week Last.fm stopped working at work due to their new radio player. So I found Grooveshark which works pretty much the same way. Except their recommendation engine is (yet?) not as good as…
WatchSean Gourley on the mathematics of war | Video on TED.com
Not strictly scientific but still interesting findings.
Watchdanmeth:
Phone Sex Pranks: Early 90’s Slang
College Humor asked me to animate this 100% real prank call by comedian Gil Ozeri to a phone sex hotline. You might want to plug in your headphones for this one, as the audio borders on NSFW.
In case you care about fresh music as much as I...