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It’s Time to Declare War Against Apple’s Censorship...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:31:46 -0600

It’s Time to Declare War Against Apple’s Censorship - Gizmodo

Want: Zen Magnets

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:44 -0600

Want: Zen Magnets

Jimmy Kimmel: “Handsome Men’s Club” This is...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:52:47 -0600

Jimmy Kimmel: “Handsome Men’s Club”

This is simply brilliant. Well done, Mr. Kimmel.

Mugshot Monday - “Handle Deficient Mug titled ‘Mae’”...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:12:41 -0600

Mugshot Monday - “Handle Deficient Mug titled ‘Mae’” w/ Nicaraguan Medium Roast by Peace Coffee.

I made this mug in 1991 while studying abroad in Osaka, Japan at Kansai Gaidai. My sensei, Yoshio Inomata, was this incredible instructor who learned to speak English with his students by teaching his Japanese Ceramics course over the years. His hands were like clay.

All of my mugs died in the kiln because I couldn’t make the damn handles work. I really wanted a mug, so I made one without a handle. And I thought it would be a good idea to somehow indicate which way was the front of the mug, so I chose the Japanese Kanji character “Mae”, which means ‘Front’ or ‘Before’, as art.

Other than being a little difficult to hold, this has become one of my favorite mugs.

See all Mugshot Mondays at www.MugshotMonday.com.

Four thoughts: 1) This is awesome. 2) I am old. 3) I miss the...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:21:00 -0600

Four thoughts: 1) This is awesome. 2) I am old. 3) I miss the old big fat boomboxes. (Today’s models suck.) 4) Interesting to think how this scene would have been different, or may have never even been scripted, if the movie was made in 2010.

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Posted by @sallyjos on twitter today: Today’s @mngop...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:35:00 -0600

Posted by @sallyjos on twitter today:

Today’s @mngop hashtag #ss2 is totally global, also fetching tweets about Korean boy band Super Junior’s Shanghai tour. Best mash-up ever!

Photo shoot outtake: trying “Jack D’Or” by...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:34:04 -0600

Photo shoot outtake: trying “Jack D’Or” by Pretty Things beer and ale project

Trying “Jack D’Or” by Pretty Things beer and ale project for 1st...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:24:00 -0600

Trying “Jack D’Or” by Pretty Things beer and ale project for 1st time. Awesome bottle. Good beer.

More info on this brew here.

Don't be an ass: credit the artist.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:52:16 -0600

soupsoup:

homeofthevain:

If you’re posting someone else’s work, credit them. Don’t deliberately remove the name of the artist. That’s just wrong. If your reasoning is that it’s own personal scrapbook — then keep it personal, not public. If it’s public, the least you can do is credit the artist and link back to their site, or at least their Wikipedia entry.

When I see something I like not credited — I try to track down the source, if for no other reason than to find more art by the same person. Consider this a small payback to the artist whose art you liked enough to post on your Tumblr. Use Tineye to track down original visual art — it’s easy to use, and takes no more than 10 seconds to do a search.

And that was your PSA for today. In the next episode: public shaming.

Love, Nikola

Totally agree with Nikola, and I try to do the same thing — try to track down the source. It’s important. (Appreciate the tip of using Tineye, thx!)

“Republicans turned off by size of Obama’s...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:07:51 -0600

“Republicans turned off by size of Obama’s package”

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Social Media Breakfast Panel getting started - MOA, Minneapolis...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:59:31 -0600

Social Media Breakfast Panel getting started - MOA, Minneapolis #smbmsp

Little organic shopper dude in training! Seward Coop,...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:06:35 -0600

Little organic shopper dude in training! Seward Coop, Minneapolis.

“Just gave Billings prof permission to use my Kickback...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:01:00 -0600

“Just gave Billings prof permission to use my Kickback Mountain parody in an upcoming book about cultural significance of Brokeback Mountain” - @CoreyLAnderson

This is one of Corey’s best photoshop jobs, in my opinion, published back in our citypages.com days on his American Idle blog in December 2005. Heard him get the call today from the book publisher asking for permission to republish. Cracks me up that this image bubbles up every now and then. But then again, it is awesome.

Trying Full Sail ‘Wreck the Halls’ for 1st time. Very good:...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:45:00 -0600

Trying Full Sail ‘Wreck the Halls’ for 1st time. Very good: Hoppy, kinda light. Don’t know if it’s old, but was on sale at Zipps. Recommend it!

UPDATE: To clarify: I’m not enough of a beer snob to know if a “2009 reserve” is “old” by 03/2010. It’s really really good regardless.

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:44:40 -0600

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Literature at the dentist today — “Oral Piercing: Is...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:26:02 -0600

Literature at the dentist today — “Oral Piercing: Is it worth it?”

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version Amazing. These guys...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:18:03 -0600

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version

Amazing. These guys went BIG in this video. Aweseom.

Mugshot Monday - “Crappy Little Plastic Pizza Hut® mug that has...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:42:00 -0600

Mugshot Monday - “Crappy Little Plastic Pizza Hut® mug that has Sentimental Meaning” w/ Guatemalan Dark Roast by Peace Coffee.

I took my first sip from this mug in 1990 in a 6th floor dorm room in Towers Hall North on the upper campus of the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. This girl I had met had a personal coffee maker along with a few choice mugs.

She’d buy her own coffee and brew up a pot whenever she wanted in her dorm room. This stood out to me as being really cool. First, college kids don’t have a lot of money, and beans ain’t cheap, but she decided drinking really good coffee was important. Second, most college kids had a microwave (not me, but my roommate did) and a mini-refrigerator (not me, but my roommate did), and here was someone who had their very own coffee maker? Dig.

Me and this girl eventually dated, and now we live together because we’re married, and I keep this crappy little Pizza Hut coffee mug around for sentimental reasons. It’s “crappy” because it’s too small for coffee and it’s plastic. But it’s actually pretty awesome to me because it brings back good memories. Reminds me of when my wife was my girlfriend and reminds me of all my college friends and of all the great times we had.

Check out all the Mugshot Mondays at MugshotMonday.com

Figure Skater II [via mediation: 9gag ]

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:11:25 -0600

Figure Skater II

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"Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves,..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:00:56 -0600

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Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distribution and printing presses: all very expensive, so once you employ enough capital to gain them, it’s damn hard to get knocked out.

The web changed all that and promised that economics in the media business would be driven by content and intent: the best content will win, driven by the declared intent of consumers who find it and share it. Search+Social was the biggest wave to hit media since the printing press. And the open technology to make better and better experiences has been on a ten year tear: blogging software, Flash, Ajax, HTML 5, Android, and more and more coming.

But the iPad, just like the iPhone, is designed for vertical integration and distribution lock in. Apple is building its own distribution channel, just as it did with iTunes, and media companies are falling over themselves to make an app for that.

But the real reason media companies love the iPad is the same reason I don’t: It’s an old school, locked in distribution channel that doesn’t want to play by the new rules of search+social.

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- “I Don’t Like The iPad Because…” by John Battelle, February 27, 2010