December 2010
79 posts
Portland.
So, my friend Chris and I are planning on going to Portland later this month. What should we do?
Watchwillw:
Lip Dubbing: Crazy - Jake Lodwick
This still makes me laugh a lot. Reminds me of Vimeo’s early days when it was all low-res pocket camera videos, and the best ones were by the sites creators.
Also, in case you didn’t know: the fourth, long-lost Wilkinson brother has been found.
Bizarre.
It was long reported that the final written words of Walt Disney were Kurt Russell’s name scribbled on a piece of paper. Russell confirmed that he had seen the paper himself, but did not know what Disney was trying to convey.
-Kurt Russell wiki entry
kaitmooney:
Song of my week.
Please, Please,...
“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can...”
– Milan Kundera
Tim Wilkinson Moment
Thought of a great idea for a christmas/mobster movie:
“The Three Wiseguys”
Hopefully we can get one of the Baldwins.* *I’m praying for Billy!
New order - Leave me alone
Claude Shannon.
“Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master’s student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical...
Hipster Racism →
camillerlite:
callmebrandy:
borednschooled:
Hard on the heels of my discussion about liberal sexism, I think it’s time to talk about hipster racism. I’m borrowing the term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove over at Racialicious, because it really is a perfect word to describe the phenomenon, and I note that other people are using the term as well. Hipster racism is a pretty...
“As soon as man comes to life, he is at once old enough to die.”
– Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
“Media spectacles of sex, drugs, crime, violence, murder, and disease have...”
– Debora Culhane, Their Spirits Live Within Us
This is what I’m writing on today. All day.
Big love to Deb Culhane.
(via heathermck)
Media seems to ignore the extreme diversity of the eastside. Why aren’t the great pubs described? The ever growing artistic culture? The gentrification of...
Craig's Life! →
Today is Craig’s birthday! I have started a blog about the remarkably unremarkable parts of his life!
I really like this record.
Synth-pop CD has makings of a classic. Aaron... →
iamtalia:
CREAMBOT.
i love aaron. i am so proud of aaron. i love aaron.
This is really great. So excited for the show, and I’m happy for the man.
Diogenes.
He became notorious for his provocative behaviour and philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man. […] When Plato gave Socrates’ definition of man as “featherless bipeds” and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato’s Academy, saying, “Behold! I’ve...
