July 2007
Richard Pryor - The Star Wars Bar
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Spot on
“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.” -Thomas Jefferson
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Gotta run, I'm sure you'll be fine.
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Purge for your health.
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Classical Barbie Girl
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Classical Barbie Girl
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Kanye West "Cant Tell Me Nothing" Video
Kanye West put up an alternate music video on his website for “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” which features comedian Zach Galafianakis and Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) as farmers. Submitted by SiobhansBeard (via jratlee’s shared items in Google Reader)
Bill Maher - The Decider
There are 8 parts that you can find to the side if you go to YouTube (Sorry, too lazy to link to all of them today) Update: Bibi, created a playlist for the clip. (via jratlee’s shared items in Google Reader)
The Beast Interviews Noam Chomsky
From BuffaloBeast.com:
Why do you hate America?
I realize that the question is not intended seriously. However, there is a serious point lurking behind it. A crucial totalitarian principle is that the state is identified with the people, the culture, the society. For those who adopt that principle, criticism of the state is hatred of the country. In the old Soviet Union, for example, dissidents...
What Happened to Us
Dan Perjovschi:
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will present, staring with May 2, an exhibition of the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the artist will draw witty and incisive political images, in response to current events, on one wall of The Donald B. and Catherine C.Marron Atrium. (via Panther House) (via jratlee’s shared...
Nobody's perfect.
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Asch’s Conformity Experiment
From Wikipedia:
The Asch conformity experiments, published in 1951, were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
Experiments led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a “vision test.” In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to...
No Woman No Cry
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The Darjeeling Limited
The much-abuzzed Wes Anderson movie has a new trailer out. For even the most jaded of Wes Anderson fans, you know you’re curious about it. Watch the trailer.
Best 6 Links:
The Best Thing You’ll See All Day
Trailer Features My Favorite Kinks Song Ever!
“Cinematical” Geeks Out over the New Trailer
Is...
John Mayer Addresses Concert Arrests
John Mayer has posted a blog about his recent arrest filled concert.
Message from JohnThis weekend, at my concert in Hershey Pennsylvania, 63 audience members were arrested for various drug and alcohol offenses. Seeing as I have always kept a strong line of communication with my fans, I’d like to take a moment to address this unfortunate incident.
First, to the 46 people accused of...
Derren Brown - Subliminal Advertising
Derren influences two guys who work in the advertising industry. (via jratlee’s shared items in Google Reader)
Richard Pryor on Prison
NSFW (Duh, it’s Richard Pryor).
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Getting Rich By Doing What You Love
Last year, I interviewed an entrepreneur named Ed Bazinet. He had made millions by launching a company called Department 56, which produced miniature ceramic villages that people collected and put around their Christmas trees during the holidays.
Ed had worked 18-hour days for more than 20 years to make the company successful. When I asked him if it was all worth the money, he looked puzzled....
I think what I like most about this is your face....
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Celebs photoshopped to dumpy normalcy
Cory Doctorow:
Planet Hiltron takes photos of celebs and photoshops them so that they look like normal people — poorly dressed, flabby, nourished by fast food and a little bit wrinkly. The Johnny Depp is amazing but Madonna (shown here) is by far the creepiest.
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(Thanks, Bill!)
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The 4AM Conspiracy
Rives is a charming spoken-word artist whom I had the chance to befriend before I spoke at Taste3 this year. He’s got a true gift for speaking to an audience, as you can tell in this clip from TED Talks about the conspiracy that takes place at 4AM. He performed this piece at Taste3 as well, which is where i first saw it. Still no word on whether Gwen Stefani has weighed in on the conspiracy.
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Email: Limit your email messages to 5 sentences
Designer Mike Davidson says many email messages he receives take more time for him to answer than they did for the sender to write. So he’s instituted a new email policy: no message he sends out will be more than 5 sentences.In order to politely explain the systematic brevity with a similar amount of brevity, I will link to a new site I just set up called five.sentenc.es in my signature...
Copyright, the napkin-doodle edition
Cory Doctorow:
Denise sez, “Lawyer Erik Heels took Sharpie to legal pad to help a friend’s daughter grok copyright law. He does a great job of distilling a convoluted subject to its essence.”
Link
(Thanks, Denise!)
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171 Starbucks In One Day
Incase anyone was wondering just how many Starbucks there actually are in Manhattan, the answer is 171. For some inexplicable reason (perhaps to become the next big viral video star), New Yorker Mark Malkoff decided to hit them all up in just one day. On June 29th at 5:30am Malkoff makes his first of many purchases at 181st and Washington Heights, then for over twelve hours he travels by bike...
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face
Maddox reviews the iPhone. (via jratlee’s shared items in Google Reader)
Greatest Living American Ignored
It’s difficult to get any publicity when all you’ve done is saved a billion people from starvation.
Born 1914 in Cresco, Iowa, Borlaug has saved more lives than anyone else who has ever lived. A plant breeder, in the 1940s he moved to Mexico to study how to adopt high-yield crops to feed impoverished nations. Through the 1940s and 1950s, Borlaug developed high-yield wheat strains, then patiently...
Two O’Clock Trailers - The Karate Kid
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Remember the Batusi?
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Remember the Batusi?
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Do your thing.
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Do your thing.
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wake me up
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the rules have changed
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“I must create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s.”
– William Blake
My Crazy Roomate
A blog about this person???s crazy roomate: At the beginning of this year, the new guy at work needed a place to live. I ended up letting him sublet one of the rooms in my house. After only a couple of days it became obvious that he is totally insane. The crazy constantly flows from his mouth and is just way too good to not share with the world. Names have been changed to protect the innocent, but...
I Want a Lucky President
All of the major candidates for president of the United States are qualified. They know the issues. They’re smart. They’ve all shown leadership, and they obviously know politics.
But which one is luckiest? I want the luckiest person as my president. That’s what I liked about Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. They were lucky people, and it seemed to rub off on the country. The trouble is, how do...
Tiny people art project
Mark Frauenfelder:
Slinkachu makes itty-bitty handpainted people and photographs them in the streets of London. This guy is clinging to a drain grating.
Link (Via haha.nu)
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Famous cartoonists draw with their eyes closed
Mark Frauenfelder:
In 1947 the fun-loving editors at Life magazine asked the celebrity cartoonists of the day to wear blindfolds and then draw their famous characters. The results are very pleasing.
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The Best Song (And Dance) In The World Today!
Forget chocolate in your peanut butter, You Got UNK In My Fosse! What? Here’s what: Last September Atlanta rapper UNK dropped Walk It Out, a catchy little dance number you probably heard blaring from finer house parties and parked Escalades the nation over. Of course, catchy hip hop songs are like romantic relationships with Paris Hilton, they wither and die after about three months. Enter...
Love as a predictor of technological success
Cory Doctorow:
Clay Shirky’s ten-minute keynote from the Supernova conference, “Love, Internet Style,” is a sweet and magic mind-opener. Clay explains how the best predictor of whether a technology will succeed is whether it inspires people to love it.
We have always loved one another, we’re human, it’s something we’re good at. But up until recently, the...
