Skateboarding is for losers.
“Why not tennis?” I’m asked, “or golf? Why does it have to be skateboarding?”
Category: things
Boundary issues
Friston draws a carefully regulated boundary around his inner life, guarding against intrusions, many of which seem to consist of “worrying about other people.”...
Mother, the movie, is a milestone.
The movie Mother is the best all-out movie I’ve seen in a while. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho, written by Park Eun-kyo and Mr. Bong, with amazing shots by Hon...
Contains 11 tracks, some in English, some in Spanish.
Funny this. Good old Cuban-Mexican-American Flight of the Conchords / Future Sailors material from 1999-2000.
Earbud headphones you wear all the time for enhanced sensory perception
Are wireless, motion-powered earbuds coming soon? We wear contacts to improve our sight. Why not wear miniature headphones to improve our ability to hear “...
Do Americans listen as much as they talk? We might be able to answer that.
In “Go West,” Peter Hessler returns to America after years of living in China and finds that we Americans like to talk about ourselves and are good ...
Toys for telepresence.
AR.Drone, a hovering video camera you control via your phone combined with “augmented reality” gaming software. Racer, a racing video game with actu...
carbon fiber furniture
Karbon by Konstantin Grcic for Galerie Kreo Surface table by Terence Woodgate and John Barnard for Established & Sons
four bent wood chairs
reflect chair from postfossil (2010) table bench chair from established & sons (2009) CH24 from Carl Hansen & Son (1950) Chair no. 14 from Thonet (185...
Crate & Barrel vs. Blu Dot vs. Cappellini
Walker table from Crate & Barrel, 2010, $999 Strut table from blu dot, 2005, $1,099 Fronzoni ’64 color table from Cappellini, 1964/2009, $2,469 fwiw:...
Dungeons & Dragons vs. Google Wave
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Her...
Paging Cato Fong: on interacting with a doppelgänger.
I’m being tailed by a Google AdSense agent. Everywhere I go, the agent is there, hiding behind a billboard or a kiosk poster, reminding me of questions I&...
Clever marketing by LaRoux’s tour publicists.
Putting up posters all over town that say your concert is sold out.
The last mile: the human answer.
In retail, the last mile, the human touch, is the most important. Especially when you’re trying to launch a new kind of product, one that requires consume...
Mirrors in forests.
Superficial by Michel de Broin Tree hotel by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter
Why there are no more geese in Prospect Park, NYC.
Unintended Consequence #824,357 of humans “filtering” nature (aka, how evolution happens), from KingEdRa, a commenter at MetaFilter: First thereR...
Movie: The Damned United
My second favorite soccer movie of the last two years. If Rudo y Cursi is an “A+”, The Damned United is a solid “A”. Michael Sheen’...
#worldcup #brunch #somewhatarbitrarybutrivetingoutcome
what i’m making: tortilla española and shaved brussel sprouts with fresh walnuts and pecorino. spanish wine and belgian beer to accompany.
Bersuit Vergabarat “Toco y me voy”
Bersuit Vergarabat “Toco y me voy” on iTunes.
Inflated furniture.
“Inflatable luxury twin sofa” by unknown. TWB, inflated wood bench by Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay. Plopp, inflated metal stool by Oskar Zieta. Apollo,...