Pig Bladders
"Life is short, misery sure, mortality certain. But on the way, why not carry those two inflated pig bladders labeled Zest and Gusto." Ray Bradbury
It's art. It's happy. It's love. Jonathan Calugi's Lovers Town.
I'm sensing a theme here, because Larry Mayorga, Max-O-Matic, and Martijn van der Linden & Maranke Rinck are also art and love.
Irena Sendler passed away on Monday 12 May 2008 at 8:00 am CEST in Warsaw, Poland. (via conscientious)
It's hard to improve on perfection. Louis Armstrong, St James Infirmary.
Blandness is a shame. Strangeness wonderful. Luna Park.
I never tire of visiting Sauerkids. Do you? So much yummy goodness!
Whoa.... that actually is an Insane Spiderman Tattoo.
Octopus jewelry made from real octopus? I'm so there! OctopusMe. (via notcot)
Good Things Should Never End.
Go ahead, watch any or all of the 63 Short Films at Ringling. Or perhaps you'd prefer a public service announcement, MST3K style.
Totally adore this men's Haversack Linen Scarf, fellas. It's versatile, trendy and guaranteed to enhance your already delicious self.
MP3s: Until We Bleed. The Sweetest Tooth. Room To Breathe.
Games: Driller. Attack of The Buggles. Police Brutality.
Retail Therapy: Monkey House.
Recipes: Pineapple Meatballs. Grilled Margarita Wings.
Other Points of Interest: Mecedes Benz Mixed Tape Magazine. Mozy. Icojoy Webdev Icons 4.
Revisits: Kiwi. Daniel Peacock. You Have to Burn the Rope. Imogen. Being A King.
Listening To: The Divinyls
Found Sentence: Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
What's the last thing the devil whispered in your ear while you were sleeping?
Wingless Flight
Yes, it looks a tad peculiar, but when one considers its 300 miles to the gallon, ability to accomodate taller drivers, safety features, and availablilty in electric or plug-in hybrid -- at an afforadable price, no less -- well, i don't believe we'll mind looking a bit dorky as we pass other motorists weeping at the pumps. Will it be the car that saves the planet? We'll have to see. At the very least, the Aptera is going to set the bar for change in the automotive industry, and we'll be cruising a whole lot happier.
Dear Mom
I'm sorry i scared you so badly whenever i got hurt doing something you said i shouldn't. I'm sorry for being daddy's little girl when you were always the one who tried hardest and sacrificed most. I'm sorry for each time i could have done my best but didn't. I'm sorry i cannot send you flowers today, or take you to dinner, or give you a hug.
But mostly... i'm sorry i never told you how much i loved you before you left me.
Life Tip No. 329
It's hard to see with spicy taco sauce in your eyes.
Spandex Underpants
I think life in general would be greatly improved if i had a cape, long johns, spandex underpants and a stun gun. Would whoever's in charge of these things please get to work!
Still working on a catchy superhero name.
Zippy
Flyp is about what moves America and Americans, covering everything from politics to lifestyles, social issues to cultural developments, war to peace, music to movies. Our goal is to connect the dots in ways that both inform and entertain. Flyp combines video, text, animation, high-quality design and interactivity in a new kind of storytelling. (via MoMB)
Found Sentence: "Why we have to die?" "Same reason milk has to curdle. Everything's got a shelf life."
If the way my day is going was reflected on my t-shirt, it would read "Zippy the Wonder Slug". What would your t-shirt say?
Unpredictable
Jim Seffens creates wonderful things, as does Celia Richards.
While i'm not some naive dipstick who just fell off the turnip truck, it saddens me that kindness often comes as a surprise. Low Expectations.
Lamponi's Lamps, function in form. (via Idea Magazine)
Stop, in the name of Love!
Dream the Electric Chacundum. Tasty art and design, horizontally. (via Coolstop)
Enjoy the illustrative delight that is Never Been. (via Stuart Kolakovic)
Few experiences are likely to affect us as profoundly as an encounter with death. Yet most deaths occur almost covertly, at one remove from our everyday lives. Life Before Death, Portraits of the Dying. (via Swissmiss)
Enquire Within is an online version of the famed Victorian self-help guide, 1884 edition.
Little Family Tree is a creative collective featuring an impressive list of Japan's current top creators and artists.
MP3s: Seydou. Let us pause in life's pleasures. Better Things.
Games: Polcarstva. Twin Hobo Rocket. Meet In. Powder. In The Woods. Toribash.
Retail Therapy: Fiendish Curiosities. My Little Cthulhu.
Recipes: Baked Apples. Pineapple Upside Down Cake.
Other Points of Interest: Unusual Plants. Large-Hearted Gentleman. Lost City. Mother and Child. Moon After Berceuse Duet.
Revisits: Vintage Mac Museum. Mars-1. Starry Night Photomosaic. 221B Baker Street.
Listening To: Aviad Cohen.
Found Sentence: Animals, from cows to deer, are unpredictable and seem to come out of nowhere.
What do you hope no one discovers about you?
That's Different
Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization.
Free Comics
Yay hooray! Today is Free Comic Book Day.
Holy Hell
Plenty of bloggers have a "things to do before i die" list. Thanks to the following video link sent in by Mr Natural, we may all begin our "things to do AS i die" list.
El camino del Rey
Sight
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Light Bulbs by Pieke Bergmans
(via Inspire me, now!)
Peaches
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I am satisfied." Alfred Nobel
Create your Chinese Zodiac character.
Deep Chalk is a game that goes beyond the usual point 'n clickery, to a realm where observation and logic are key, and objects may be influenced by mouse movement. If there's a disappointment to be found with Deep Chalk, it's only that the fun ends far too soon. Fortunately, creator Zack Stone hears our pain.
Studio Psyho has pie. (via rbw)
Leading post-production studio Rushes helped Dangerous Films develop an incredible series for Discovery US. View a montage of Rushes' impressive work -- Human Body: Ultimate Machine.
As always, The Clerkenwell Kid drops a whisp of enchantment for passers-by.
Tibao has whimsical animations and small games. Cute for you, fun for the kids. By Grégory Korzeniowski.
I try to learn something new each and every day. Many times, the only effort required is a visit to Curious Expeditions, such as The Concrete Castle. For even more wonder, explore their flickr collections and photo sets.
The Basement Mechanic's Guide to Building Perpetual Motion Machines.
View Bjork's Wanderlust video by Ghost Robot and UVPH.
MP3s: Atlas Sound and the blog
Games: Milo. Invisible Beard of Contemplation 2. 10 Gnomes 4. The Sewer Goblet. 64Digits.
Retail Therapy: Horton. DaySpring.
Recipes: Mango Buffalo Wings. David Eyre's Pancake.
Other Points of Interest: Icojoy Free Web Icons. Gibson's Influence. Intel Mash Maker. Definr Bookmarklet (Firefox). What's Happened (font). SpecGram.
Revisits: Kevin Rolly's Journeys. New Orleans City Insane Asylum. Christophe Huet.
Listening To: Juanes.
Found Sentence: Welcome to the dog end of discontent. It's all peaches from here on out.
Do animals matter to you?
Bittersweet
I was an only child, adopted at birth. Driven by a misguided desire to keep me safe, my parents isolated me from the world. School aside, i remained largely alone, if not in the company of adults, until i rebelled at age fifteen. But patterns develop, habits die hard, and instinct is difficult to ignore. Rebellion, therefore, was short-lived. I live my life in self-imposed near-isolation, far, as they say, from the madding crowd. This is why i once sabotaged an opportunity to appear in more films, and why, two years back, i declined the chance to publish a novel or autobiography. I tell you this so you might understand what was going through my head when i happened upon Lonesome Town, an aching reminder of all that was bad and good about my life in the 50s.
Les is Less
Maybe it's me, but Survivorman's Les Stroud seems a bit more dorky than usual today. And it's BOGGY, Les, not boogy.
TinyLittlePenis
Let me repeat this once more for the nosebleed seats.....
What's up with you guys who cruise around in your wheels with the speakers of your uber sound system blaring? First, you're annoying the piss outta me. Second, most of the ladies do not think it cool -- basically all you're attracting are other equally immature men and early onset hearing loss. Third, you won't be able to hear the sirens rollin' behind as you speed away from the ice cream man. Fourth, all the cranked-up bass in the world isn't going to make up for your tiny little penis. So quit it.
As for you gals who do likewise, keep on doin' it. Generally, you're skimming the guys the rest of us don't want and leaving us the cream.
And yes, I realize i'm a cranky old broad. DGF. Sideways, yo.
Discovering
"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see." Samuel Johnson
Totally diggin' this coolio journal by Tommy Kane.
Takes very little to blow my skirt up. Just a little magic and wonder found in the everyday. Burst.
Sit back, enjoy the short films of Guilherme Marcondes. (via Hornet Inc)
Where On Earth Is Waldo? (via dwt)
Engaging my curiosity and love of all things old: The Third Book of One Hundred Pictures. This image reminds me of my great Aunt Della's home. It always smelled of lavender, attic dust, lace antimacassars, comfort, and old family photos.
The tasty spring issue of poetry ezine Goblin Fruit is ready to delight.
Rewatching Kotori by Yves Geleyn.
Our good friend Thomas says he's made a small game that's almost unbeatable. Sounds like a challenge to me. Same Game.
New story up by WebYarns is an attempt at a definition, and as with all definitions that try to explain what love is, precision is not possible, and perhaps not even desirable. At the end of the piece, you will have the opportunity to write your own definitions of love into the site. View Love Is...
MP3s: You'll Remember. Clouds. Bukowski. Del Shannon.
Games: Mage X. Tiny Hawk. Cemet'ry Gates. Zak McKracken.
Retail Therapy: Lensbabies. (via Photojojo)
Recipes: Chicken Satay. Achieving Balance.
Other Points of Interest: Undiscovery. Mento. Juxtaposer. Circular Icons. The Animals Save the Planet. Get Out and Play. OpenSocial.
Revisits: Gallery of Nostrums. Book of Numbers. Gallery 41. Farcade.
Listening To: Ayub Ogada, Kothbiro
Found Sentence: Mormons don't drink 7-UP but Fundamentalists do.
How do you keep folks from discovering your true awesomeness?
Earth Day
participation....
Google Earth Day Mashup Map
Affremble Quotes
Joost
Green Daily
EPA
Anti-Reducible
Years ago, i read that "a lifestyle is reducible to the sum of its parts, while a life is not. If you believe that freedom is merely the ability to select from an infinite variety of packaged choices, then an agreeable lifestyle is all you need." A seeming foretelling of our new uber-social web, don't you think?
pertinent......
ExitReality
Life: Opt In!
Wish i had saved the article's permalink, but i saved the part that counts....
"More and more, society is using generic products for emotional matters. And although generic products might be a bargain when it comes to medicine or food, they are a shoddy substitute when it comes to relationships. Affection has to be real. Mimicry won't do. So I am so discouraged when I see a growing dependence on generic affection. When I see the philosophy of generics sneaking up on us so silently, so stealthily, so insidiously, that we don't even know it is happening. And then, before we realize it, this attitude of economizing begins to overlap where it doesn't belong. And soon, whether as self-protectionism, or whether out of ignorance, we stroll through life economizing emotional participation in our personal relationships. Reducing direct involvement until all we give to one another is a generic substitute for the real thing."
Roberta Smith
Bloglines? Phooey!
If you ever need help or support from the folks at Bloglines, don't hold your breath. Avoid stress later by switching now to FeedShow or some other online feed reader.
Validate Videos
So many of you embed youtube/google videos, i thought i'd find you an embed code that validates.
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/moviecode" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/moviecode" /></object>
code via Psy2k's simple tutorials
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