Archive for February, 2008
If the Democrats can’t landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up…
— Ralph Nader, who recently announced he’s running for President (again) as a 3rd party candidate
The photography, typography, and general art direction of the new Goldfrapp album (and website) is pretty and dreamy.
Apparently a few thousand (?) of you got here today via this USA Today blog post about the CD Cover Meme. Welcome. Feel free to stick around or just snag my RSS Feed to subscribe to posts and try The Very Daily Weblog out for a bit.
I’m interested in Tarsem Singh’s new film The Fall. According to the trailer, Fincher and Jonze have some sort of producer/presenter roles, and Tarsem’s previous film The Cell, while a clear case of style over substance, was a gorgeously odd bit of style.
The visuals for The Fall look stunning, and I’m a sucker for a good fantasy story, so I hope this doesn’t disappoint.
With the success of No Country for Old Men, it looks like Hollywood thinks Cormac McCarthy’s stories are now bankable movie adaptation fodder. The Road, my personal favorite McCarthy story, is already in production.
Stuff White People Like for the win! For example: #73 Gentrification, #69 Mos Def, #57 Juno, #48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops, #10 Wes Anderson movies, #8 Barack Obama. I’m sure you’ll find one or two to connect with. (via Ben Coleman)
Naz might be more domain restless than I am… nzrn.com is now a personal blog, and a (of course) snazzily designed one at that. I love his attention-to-detail(s).
Yes, please. I think I have a new shoe love.
We have weapons… of mulch destruction.
— the constantly changing Mulch Mart sign I pass on the way to work everyday
Get it before it’s gone: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performing Falling Slowly from the film Once at last night’s Oscars and their acceptance speeches.
At just a tad under $3000-a-square-foot, this 25-room townhouse at 603 Park Avenue is a steal. A $35mil house that’s only 20′ deep. Amazing.
Sigh… we were busy moving into a cute little duplex this weekend, so I had to miss the Whiskerino Throwdown in Nashville. It looks as if a good time was had by all.
From the little-known summer excursion Antoni Gaudí took to Phoenix, AZ in the Spring of 1897 (or thereabouts)
1. Packing and Moving
2. Being a jerkface
3. Getting hit by moving vehicles
4. Inadvertently whittling your own finger
5. DTR talks*
* I don’t miss this one. At all. Not even a little.
EMAIL is EFAIL. Pass it on. There is a strong cultural bias among technology workers…to use email as the default solution for all communication, whether 1:1, signing up for services, or registering to leave a comment on a blog… [We] have to tell people that they are wrong, that their cherished communication tool is inefficient and does not scale.
— Tantek Çelik, Email is Efail
Clever staircase library. It’s of course wildly impractical (“why yes, I do own 1,200 books that are the same height!”) but I’m still a tad fascinated that it exists.
So I knocked Hulu pretty hard, but I do admit it’s nice to be able to watch The Office for free during my lunch break on the occasional days I stay tethered to my desk. The rest of my critique still stands.
I got my development css file and my live css file switched today, so the styling and floats on comments a few elements have gotten a tad screwy today. I’ll try to look into it later.
Doing some minor post on old files. This was Chattanooga circa Nov ’05.
