May 2007
26 posts
Photographer opens cameraphone exhibit →
“Even LG Electronics Inc., maker of the handset Elmi uses, initially didn’t believe her photos originated from its LG8100 phone when she asked the company to sponsor a recent gallery exhibit of her camera-phone art.”
“Publishing is founded on the ultimate contradiction. The process of writing a...”
– Can video save the book-publishing star? | CNET News.com
An Interview with Ze Frank →
“If you draw, you start seeing the edges of things, and you start seeing the deformities of their shape when you move around them. When you start playing guitar, you start noticing notes in all the music you play, and in fact, the music that you listen to never sounds the same from that point on.”
PRAISE GOD, JERRY FALWELL IS DEAD →
Being able to say things like this is why we blog.
In Palermo, Life Vibrates in a Fading Market →
“There’s an expression in Sicily: “Quannu s’asciucanu i balati dà Vucciria,” which means “when the streets of the Vucciria run dry,” the equivalent of when hell freezes over. In other words, it could never happen. But it is happening.”
“Let’s try twitter haiku: interesting service probably will not succeed...”
– Twitter / brettsinger
Shaving yaks
From the Wikipedia: Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occurs when you find something you need to do. “I want to wax the car today.” “Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I’ll need to buy a new one at Home Depot.” “But Home Depot is on the other side of the Tappan Zee bridge and getting there without my EZPass is miserable...
Top baby names of 2006 →
Girls - Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. Boys - Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew.
The Greatest Mystery: Making a Best Seller →
NYT: Publishing books is like playing the slots.
“Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama (update: or not)
Baby Rock Records →
Karma Police makes a good lullaby.
The persistence of memory →
“As humans, we forget by default; maybe it’s the greatest sign of the Internet’s inhumanity that it remembers.”
Silly season [dive into mark] →
“I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously?”
“To be a leader in an area, all you have to be is a little bit better than...”
– Everyone looking for the most recognition with the least effort
The Lesbian Bride's Handbook →
“Now that I know what is involved in throwing such an event, it is difficult to remember exactly how we decided to do so … hard to retrace the steps that led to my standing in front of a three-way mirror in a $3,700 canary-yellow Donna Karan trapeze dress, completely panicked, knowing that soon, very soon, everyone I knew and loved would be joining me for this hell of my own making, this...
He/ She Ratio →
Number of occurrences of “he“‘s vs “she“‘s on any web site.