eBay Platinum Reserve - easter egg or great feature idea? You make the call!
Nerve.com Interview with Park Chan-wook - a short discussion on his revenge trilogy (highly recommended by yours truly, if you like movies that make you feel distinctly uncomfortable).
revenge is an endless circle of evil, going around and around until the chain breaks. We tend to justify vengeance, but it’s not my idea to justify it [...]
Code Monkey Like Fritos… Code Monkey Like You - so yes, it’s just a joke song, but ever since Dave pointed me at the song, I’ve been listening to it all the goddamn time since then. It’s just so… catchy.
Fantastic Journey - The SF Chronicle revisits Journey’s “Escape” 25 years after its release. Conclusion: “It rocks!”
Listening to the song “Escape” is the equivalent of getting a personal two-hour life-coaching session by Tony Robbins and then smoking PCP. Each time “Escape” finishes, I am completely convinced that I can dunk a basketball, break a [...]
Pitchfork Interview with Neko Case - this has been sitting in my bookmarks toolbar for a while now. There’s some good stuff in here.
Some of my favorite bits:
On people talking during shows and the bands that yell at them:
..bands shouldn’t come and act like, “You’re here to stand and be quiet while we do [...]
sabifoo - this is a really interesting idea. Basically, you IM a bot and it will add it to an RSS feed for you. It’s sort of the worlds most lightweight blog. If you didn’t have the desire to set up a full blog, this could be really nice to have. [...]
National High Five Day! - Be sure to celebrate - “Up high!”
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
WWED? - I might have to see if I can get one of these bracelets made - such geek goodness.
An Open Letter to the People Behind the “Now That’s What I Call Music!” Series.
LOOK AT ME BEING SERIOUS! - Some people have no sense of humor. (fair warning: this video contains foul language and lots of off-camera violence against balloons.)
Cingular MusicID - it seems Cingular has this service where, for $0.99, your phone will identify music for you. You just hold it up to the speaker for ~15 seconds and Cingular will text you with the artist and title. If they can’t identify it, you don’t pay. This sounds really cool, [...]
Peep Research - Just in time for the Easter season, we bring you a classic.
The synergistic effect of smoking and alcohol in Peeps produces a rapidly exothermic oxidation reaction, leading to a chemical and morphological divergence from the wild-type Peep phenotypes.
Cadbury Egg Cake [via]
Hypothesis:
THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME
Phil Does Fish!
Originally uploaded by bigphil.
Thanks to Steve for the photo.
I’m really getting tired of this sort of thing.
The structure of this song is unique, giving us a couple of verses before gaining momentum and shifting into a semi-chorus, and finally erupting in a coda (lasting half the length of the song, mind you) that is more triumphant and powerful than any finale since “Hey, Jude.” It’s rousing and exciting and everything a [...]
Closed-Heart Surgery - this is pretty cool… especially as I’ve been told I’ll probably be forced to have a heart valve replaced some time in the (distant) future.
All of the moral superiority, none of the soy. Get the shirt too!
And while we’re on Cat and Girl - Hurrah for Patriarchy!