Theslovak somehow miraculously managed to move this blog to brainspace.fastvak.com!!!
This means no more posting here, more freedom to play with the backend, more things breaking down, all sorts of things. This also means that Fastvak Productions, the crazily acclaimed pre-start-up “production house” might take off in the near future.
how is it that pictures of subway benches can look pretty damn cool? can evoke feelings of nostalgia? can make one happy? How is it that a blog about one metro stop can be coolness embodied (excuse the excessive use of the word “cool”, wine kills vocab)?
This will be answered later. In a less turkey/wine comatose state.
On a similar subject (that of metro blogs and city appreciation), it’s really too bad that the Islamabad [that’s in Pakistan] metroblog sucks very badly. Do they really need to have numerous entries about the new Xbox 360? I was actually looking forward to trying to be all intellectual and stuff and regularly reading blogs about far away foreign places. (Gee, now I sound like an American. Show this to the INS when the time comes.)
Stolen from an article here — Maddox was probably being sarcastic when he said that we need to clone Ben Stiler so that there can be more Ben Stiler movies, but I experienced profound agreement with this statement when trying to find a turkey-coma-appropriate movie yesterday and realized that I’d already seen all the Ben Stiler movies my video store has. But Cry Baby was good too and I highly recommend it.
“Police said 98 vehicles were torched on Wednesday night, marking a “return to a normal situation everywhere in France”.” BBC
The old are trying to reach out to the youngsters through da SMS lingo. First da bible, now English literature. In order to aid students in studying literary classics, a professor at University College London is spearheading a project to condense plots into short messages written in “accessible” language. For example:
FeudTween 2hses- Montague&Capulet. RomeoMfalls_<3w/_JulietC@mary Secretly Bt R kils J’s Coz &&is banishd. J fakes Death. As Part of Plan2b-w/R Bt_leter Bt It Nvr Reachs Him. Evry1confuzd-bothLuvrs kil Emselves
5Sistrs WntngHsbnds. NwMeninTwn-Bingly&Darcy. Fit&Loadd.BigSis Jane Fals 4B,2ndSisLiz H8s D Coz Hes Proud. Slimy Soljr Wikam Sys DHs Shady Past.Trns Out Hes Actuly ARlyNysGuy &RlyFancysLiz. She Decyds She Lyks Him.Evry1 Gts Maryd.
How dumb do they think the kids are these days?!?!?!
allrighty, it’s time to get some non-geeky posts. someone please help. also, google base isn’t that cool at all, but i found some interestings chicken recipes.
here’s my dose of nostalgia for the day:
Deutsche Telekom is going to transform the Alexanderplatz TV tower into a gigantic (albeit magenta) football (or, soccer ball for you amies) in anticipation of the 2006 World Cup (and continuing the tradition of crazy large scale advertising bonanzas in berlin). (link). Also, to continue the recently-started discussion of neo-bohemia I recommend this Zitty article about die Hausbesetzer.
base.google.com finally stopped teasing and went live. i anticipate busy times at work. and lots of blogbuzz tomorrow.
(image courtesy of John Battelle’s searchblog)
anyone? anyone?
Arctic Monkeys at the Leisure Anniversary Party on Saturday, Nov 19, 9 pm, at Popscene (330 Rich Street).
Random review:
All hail England’s Arctic Monkeys, the newest kings of the rock bloc. The simians on ice recently topped the UK charts with their single, “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor,” and are blessing SF with a buzzworthy show honoring the one-year anniversary of Leisure.
This rant on Fuckthesouth.com (registered to the name of Nichlas Wind, alegedly a writer at The Nation) made me smile and nod and smile. I know it’s old, and I’m so behind the times, but I have to share things that make me smile on a long sleepy Monday.
Nothing brings a smile to my face better than a website offering Germans for rent.
rentagerman.de offers a wide range of Germans for your personal and social needs.
You can select the German of your choice for an exclusive lifetime experience:
Imagine to appear with your German at parties, family events, or just hang out with them at the local shopping center.
No matter which occasion you choose, you will surely impress your environment by presenting an original German.
The customer reviews are pretty, well, enthusiastic:
Samantha F., 27 (London): “I had such a lovely evening with the German and my mates: After the pub, we went dancing. My friends were thoroughly impressed by the German moves. I was gobsmacked when the German even cleaned my house the next day, before I was awake! Will definitely rent again.”
But the pictures top it all off.
I don’t want to make any rush decisions, but I like whoever made this website (fingers crossed, fingers crossed, let’s hope i didn’t get suckered into some marketing scheme more genious than anything i could ever come up with.)
18-year-old mayor.
Hillsdale, Michigan broke the record for electing the youngest mayor in America. He’s 18, still in high school, and won the election as a write-in candidate. The defeated former mayor, 51, accepted the defeat gracefully and returned to running his previous business — a roller-skating rink (!). I did not make this up.
The welfare states are getting weird.
For example, Norway has an angry minister of children and family, who is pushing for a law that would mandate that the proportion of women on every executive board of every Norwegian company be mandated to 40%. The law as she wants it allows for the government to break up (!) a company if it doesn’t comply within two years. I kind of don’t know what to think.
Poop and Dubya’s new suit.
I love Mark Mardell’s Europe Diary on BBC. My two favorite quotes today:
Even before the British presidency began, a good contact in Downing Street told me that despite the politicians’ and media’s attempt to make it a glamorous affair of opportunities, the reality was more prosaic: “It’s a bit like driving your mates to the pub. When it’s your turn, you do it.” Britain now stands accused of party pooping, glumly nursing an orange juice in the corner.
…and…
When president met president the discussion somehow turned to suits, and how nice George’s W’s attire was. Po-faced, he said, “God told me to wear it”. Adding after a couple of beats: “That’s a joke.”
When a banner ad appeared advertising “Lot 49 - we welcome our new overlords,” my this-could-be-funny complusion kicked in, and I followed the link.
Lot 49 may be Brainspace’s long lost cousin. The selection of “wonderful things” matches my taste in “wonderful things” almost exactly. The tech and political news are interesting bits and pieces. My only dislike? The ‘about’ section. Could someone explain to me what it is about that style of writing that grates on my nerves?
Some of my fav posts from the past couple days:
- Hunting Season Opens for Mythical Creature (Loch Ness is next…)
- “Jesus Juice” Merlot Coming Soon (wow.)
- Bra’s in the News (he did miss the cheese bra though)
- Physics of Cow Tipping (It’s not that easy!)
- Liberal Church Threatened By IRS (boy are my parents in trouble)
Yo, Bart, careful! Muni, you too.
If you keep running late (you know what I’m talking about), people may get upset — just like in Johannesburg (South Africa), where annoyed travelers torched at least 26 carriages. Yep.
When governments care about your children’s well being…
Most governments tend to like to mess with the younglings’ minds and up-bringing. Like when they want to teach them alternate scientific theories. Or, when they introduce a curfew for minors playing computer games in order to curb addiction. Seriously.
(Or, when they imply that minority/alternative voices on blogs could be jailed for providing an insider view on things like riots.)
Your dream robot companion…
… or many of them, can be found at the Roboexotica cocktail robotics conference in Vienna next week. Thanks to BoingBoing for providing me with such wonderfully random yet useful information. More details there.
Finally, pretty things:
A recording of the process of drawing a woman, except it starts with the skeleton. Pretty cool. Link.
And: awesome photographs of Hong Kong — an exhibition called Architecture of Density, by Michael Wolf, a German - American artist.
ha! found the first bug. the damn little window claimed it couldn\’t publish my previous post yet now i see it like million times. bah. ok, i will submit constructive criticism.
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ok, i gave in. or, to put it differently, i finally alloted more than two minutes of focused procrastination to the task of exploring flock — the widely (geekily) acclaimed new web browser. due to the minimalistic state of the website, exploring meant downloading and installing. i will have to play some more to see whether it sticks (pro: everything is handed to you on a plate, con: everything is handed to you on a plate). but it looks pretty good so far. add your comments, expect more comments…
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