This will be funny only to Mad Men watchers. Highlights: Amy Sedaris makes an appearance at 2 minutes in (”I smell strips of bacon on your breath!), and shortly after Dan Draper lights a menorah candle like a cigarette.
I love yiddish. Even when I have no idea what is being said (that’s most of the time) I still want to wrap up each word like a candy and take it home to suck on later.
P.S. I totally want that peppermint ring.
Via the travel writer David Farley on Twitter.
It’s time again for that stupid Hallmark holiday where everything is repacked into containers shaped like hearts, like all of sudden that equals romance when before it equaled low quality milk chocolate. Blech I say, blech.
But hey, single or paired up, everyone likes to get that little glowy feeling in the pit of their stomach. And so I give you the blog Cute Things Falling Asleep. I will not even give you an image, but I will say that there was recently a squirrel. Eeep!
Yep, a collection of videos of cute things, falling asleep. Ranked on a scale of 1 to 5 by CUTENESS and SLEEPINESS. And now there’s a companion blog, Cute Things Laughing.
I’m pretty sure this is why the internet exists.
I’ve mentioned before that I get all my news from blogs.
Well–shocker alert–I get all my blogs from blogs too. And it turns out Lolcat/Fail blog also has a little bloggy something called Fun with Charts. And it too has updates about the President that resonate with me:
Give me the bacon! Give your friend the bacon! Grease your friends.
Via How About Orange, a cute site.
Some days YouTube just saves the day. This is one of those YouTubes for one of those days.
Favorites:
“I’m her mom.” “No, she’s not!”
The various “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”s
“I have to go potty. Down by my feet. Psssssshhhhhh.”
“I’m a magician!” “I’m a rabbit!”
Thanks to Sean McGrath, who sent this to encourage us all to attend his comedy radio show LiveWire!. Fortunately, LiveWire! has a podcast!
I have a silly habit of falling for pretty things, web 2.0, and personal projects by designers. Last year I ordered the Feltron 2007 Annual Report after reading about it on a website. Last month the New York Times featured the designer who created it, Nicholas Feltron.
In short, it’s a gorgeous collection of graphs and pie charts cataloging Feltron’s year of life (and it’s sold out). What he drank most, how many flickr pictures he took, the restaurant he visited most, the number of miles he walked, the best day of his year, etc. etc. All in all, it’s very much like life blogging except not as lame, stringently self-curated, and in pleasant graphic representation.
And now you can have a report of yourself, for yourself, on a beautifully designed site. Track whatever you want. You just have to request a beta account.
Here’s my Daytum site, and a sample from it: (more…)
More adventures in Gchat:
me: hmmm. I just googled “intellectual ADD” and got no results, “creative ADD” had a few
Michael: What do you mean?
me: well, I have this issue, where whenever I start thinking about something, my mind maps out all the other obscure things that are associated with it.
Like, if I think, watermelon, then I also start to wonder if those square watermelons are real, and then also that there was this book I wanted to read called Watermelon Sugar, and then also that you can fill one with alcohol and place it in the sun.
So, I really just wanted to think about watermelon, but there’s about 5 other tangents that are worth pursuing.
So, how do I do that in writing?
Emily Dickinson used to do this cool thing on her manuscripts where when she wasn’t sure of a word she would put a + above it, then stack all the alternative words above that or, if there were too many, make a footnote of them. (more…)