Archive for January 2009

*That* close to a per­fect car.

Her Morn­ing Ele­gance by Oren Lavie, fan­tas­tic.

All humans are 99.9% genet­i­cally iden­ti­cal, so don’t even think of end­ing any poten­tial rela­tion­ship begun here with ‘I just don’t think we have enough in com­mon’. Sci­ence has long since proven that I am the man for you (41, likes to be referred to as ‘Wing Com­man­der’ in the bed­room). Box no. 3501.

from Guide to dat­ing: The clas­si­fied ads of the Lon­don Review of Books. Heh.

This is some­thing I wouldn’t mind get­ting the Dell Mini 9 to boot on, looks super good.

The U.S. just got the best Brazil­ian wax job in history.

via a com­menter on metafilter.

the impos­si­ble project

I can’t say I’m not skep­ti­cal about this aus­trian Polaroid “sav­ior”, more even so that it appears this is all some­what inter­twined with polapremium and it’s prices, but I guess some­thing is bet­ter than noth­ing and I’ll take what I can get.

At Home in Brook­lyn: The Nooney Brook­lyn Pho­tographs, 1978–1979

From the image archives in the New York Pub­lic Library. Pure style.

Awe­some!

Usu­ally, SNL–type humor falls short on me, but Neil Patrick Har­ris is just *that* good.

120 frames per sec­ond is a oh-​​so-​​smooth video of Back­door tube by Jamie O’Brien (on which he switches stance halfway). Shot in HD with a RED One from a RC heli­copter, as if this wasn’t crazy enough.