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rhythMN MNation
August 21, 2009, 1:34 pm
Filed under: pop culture

Mea Culpa:  Beauty Myth: Scientist Says Women Not Necessarily Getting Better-Looking

Take a look at the first place winner’s tutorial on making a dress out of old tees for the Generation-t tee recon contest!

The ten best kitchen gadgets

Interesting photos from Google Street View

One music student has transformed The Office into an opera – to the delight of Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais

 ROCK AND ROLL, THESAURUSIZED.

10 Levels of Intimacy in Communication

 ”In truth this get-up was pretty much the unvarying male uniform last summer also, but this year an unexpected element has been added to the look, and that is a burgeoning potbelly one might term the Ralph Kramden.”  (Also, I realize this is the NYT, but their reference for a pot belly is really Ralph Kramden?)

Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World (in comic and video form) I am almost weeping reading this. Seriously.

I have a subscription to a You Tube Channel called The Book of Law which does a bunch of Lost speculation vids. They’ve started a new round: here’s 1 of 9 . If you don’t want to slog thru, at least (in pt. 1) skip tp 9:21 and watch a few seconds.

Top Ten food shows that are NOT about cooking

Cat-olic.

Chubby Jewish Boy Dreams Of One Day Being Next Apatow Muse

 A year after completely scrapping a 500-page follow-up to “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert’s mega-best-selling spiritual travelogue, she has delivered a new book that Viking will publish in January.

 What popular / acclaimed art did you come to too late in life to really enjoy?  

Inventory: Songs of the 612  (A couple weeks ago I went to the Hancock Fabrics at Southtown, and couldn’t help but think of the #1 song on this list and line, “Meet out front of the fabric store.”)  Additionally, I’m pretty sure I had a Jimmy Jam sighting yesterday.

  An alternative Big Mac index  

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Kells FTW
August 13, 2009, 10:08 am
Filed under: pop culture

At The State Fair With Garrison Keillor

The Best Place To Hide Money: Conversation With A Burglar

And yes, several attendees (cell executives) admitted to me, point-blank, that the voicemail instructions exist primarily to make you use up airtime, thereby maximizing ARPU (Average Revenue Per User).

Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal Netflix Presentation

Do you do bad things at work?

It’s called the world’s greatest granola because it really and truly is the world’s greatest.

VIDEO:  November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008, one year on foot – 4646km through China, unlimited beard & hair growth

Send someone a call from Tim Gunn.

I feel like that if I did this project I would just look like I was wearing a cut tee shirt.

My question is, what celebrity do you think would make a good best friend?

So You Think You Can Dance’: The 15 greatest routines

A blog entry by a woman who was a pen pal of John Hughes when she was a teenager.

Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce the greatest photo on the internet…. the squirrel photobomb.

‘Funky Cold Medina’ and ‘Wild Thing’ are the Same Song

The Most Disappointing Episodes Of The Greatest Shows

State-by-State Drug Use (Or, Rhode Island Needs More Rehab)

Reality check: The success rate of TV career contest winners

It’s Weird To Think That One Day I’ll Photoshop You Out Of These Very Vacation Photos.

Don’t know why it’s taken this long, but these cocktails are named after the four legendary ladies of television’s The Golden Girls.

Girl forgets boyfriend is in Europe, loses it

Naming the beams for Dana Farber patients

How Outlet Malls Have Convinced Shoppers into Thinking They’re Getting a Sweet Deal

Titles From The Baby-Sitters Club: The College Years Series.