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
Something Else
Believe it or not, this was going to be a discussion on "faith". I have a very short attention span.
Totally besotted by the images at Retro-Furturismus.
Breathtaking, isn't it?
Plane Jane. Vroom vrooom! (propeller -- use your imagination).
Link Dump Friday should keep you busy for a while.
Lovely. But i have definite questions and reservations, don't you? Rotator.
Fascinated by airships (ads).
Prompted by our Ernest Hemingway/die in the rain discussion earlier this week, i'm ordering A Farewell to Arms from Alibris. The copy i had was borrowed and never returned. Ill be standing by the mailbox looking all anxious-like.
Revisiting: Ghostschool, Eugenio Recuenco, and My Faith.
Now go. Fly a kite. Seriously.
Odds Bodkins
"Ollie Johnston, one of the greatest animators/directing animators in animation history and the last surviving member of Walt Disney's elite group of animation pioneers known affectionately as the 'Nine Old Men,' passed away from natural causes at a long term care facility in Sequim, Washington on Monday April 14th. He was 95 years old." Cartoon Brew has several wonderful entries on Ollie Johnston. Start with Apr 15th, work back.
Ahh, sweet romance. Don't Fuck with Love.
Blogville: Dear Cat Owners. The Weather in April. Pink Window. The Other Sarah Brown. Pulp Covers. YipYop iPhone. Five Years. The Geyser Riders.
Matching music (mp3s) to images: The Lion. (via it's nice that)
Blue Moon Rising's take on Sarah Mensinga.
Is there interest in seeing BookLamp become a functional service? Should we seek venture capital or partner with a company that has a book database? Do we open source the project, build a book scanner and start scanning books? In a way, this is now a "choose your own adventure" -- we need you to join the forums and help us decide the pros and cons of our different options.
Black Letterhead is quite a nice wordpress theme. Easy to adorn.
Skydeck unlocks the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill.
We all know i'm no fan of YouTube, but great animated shorts deserve appreciation. Hedgehog In The Fog.
MP3s: Sore. Hey Grandma. Atmosphere. Ain't Gonna Worry No More. Silver Lining.
Games: Netshift. Doeo. Planet of the Forklift Kid. Pac The Man X (for mac). Rich Man (find the differences).
Retail Therapy: Handstamped Bracelets.
Recipes: Cincinnati Skyline Chili. Chinese Roast Pork.
Other Points of Interest: Round RSS Feed Button Creator. Bonne Anniversaire. Rules of Thumb. CSI: The Experience. Ginga Font. ColorToy.
Revisits: Paper Forest. Tao of Photography. The Vanishing Point. The Yore. Googly Eyes (clip preceded by ad). C.I.C.L.E.
Mr and Mrs Kirby are a fun loving couple who discover they've died in a car accident. Topper (google video, comedy 1951).
Listening To: Blues Radio (streaming).
Found Sentence: Goals for the Voyage: 1. Plunder 2. Meet new people. 3. Learn valuable new skills.
Okay you wingnuts, what sets you apart? Tell us your idiosyncrasies or phobias.
One
Off to see the wizard doctor. Only had a few moments before leaving, and spent most of it enjoying (again) the work of writer/poet Patrick O'Leary.
later, tater.
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