Born Under Punches

Delicious vegetarian curry at Blah Blah Blah’s - and they still provide crayons for doodling...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:19:47 +0000

Delicious vegetarian curry at Blah Blah Blah’s - and they still provide crayons for doodling on the tablecloth. Excellent.

5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted | Cracked.com

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:02:36 +0000

5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted | Cracked.com

anglepoised: Double Cocker. Turn your back for 5 minutes and...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:01 +0000

anglepoised:

Double Cocker. Turn your back for 5 minutes and someone hacks your chocolate bar.

Awful Library Books: Thin is In Best blog I’ve seen in...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:22:25 +0000

Awful Library Books: Thin is In

Best blog I’ve seen in ages.

No Kill No Beep Beep

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:53 +0000

No Kill No Beep Beep

The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:40:29 +0000

The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards

stickybits

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:40:29 +0000

stickybits

Photo

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:00 +0000

Shift Run Stop

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:09 +0000

Shift Run Stop

"Consider the case of Maureen Evans. A grad student and poet, Evans got into Twitter at the very..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:12:44 +0000

“Consider the case of Maureen Evans. A grad student and poet, Evans got into Twitter at the very beginning — back in 2006 — and soon built up almost 100 followers. Like many users, she enjoyed the conversational nature of the medium. A follower would respond to one of her posts, other followers would chime in, and she’d respond back. Then, in 2007, she began a nifty project: tweeting recipes, each condensed to 140 characters. She soon amassed 3,000 followers, but her online life still felt like a small town: Among the regulars, people knew each other and enjoyed conversing. But as her audience grew and grew, eventually cracking 13,000, the sense of community evaporated. People stopped talking to one another or even talking to her. “It became dead silence,” she marvels. Why? Because socializing doesn’t scale. Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote. “They feel they can’t possibly be the person who’s going to make the useful contribution,” Evans says. So the conversation stops. Evans isn’t alone. I’ve heard this story again and again from those who’ve risen into the lower ranks of microfame. At a few hundred or a few thousand followers, they’re having fun — but any bigger and it falls apart. Social media stops being social. It’s no longer a bantering process of thinking and living out loud. It becomes old-fashioned broadcasting.”

- Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity | Magazine (via lloydshep)

(via zdeslava) This is now in my hood! Sort of.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:45:27 +0000

(via zdeslava)

This is now in my hood! Sort of.

RT @naomihatesyou: You have a week left to vote for us here http://bit.ly/aTaEi7 so do. Otherwise we...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:16:14 +0000

RT @naomihatesyou: You have a week left to vote for us here http://bit.ly/aTaEi7 so do. Otherwise we might cry.

Watch "Logorama", the Oscar-winning animated short

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:14:53 +0000

Watch "Logorama", the Oscar-winning animated short:

fairlyinteresting:

May not be up there forever. (Via Daring Fireball.)

RSS Graffiti on Facebook

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:14 +0000

RSS Graffiti on Facebook

YouTube Closes Down For The Night Hahaha! Sadly only Brits will...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:30:05 +0000

YouTube Closes Down For The Night

Hahaha! Sadly only Brits will be able to appreciate this.

(via Robert Popper)

beeps: ACTUAL BOOK found in Matlock bookshop. Pure canine...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:59:24 +0000

beeps:

ACTUAL BOOK found in Matlock bookshop. Pure canine culinary gold.

shelbot: Whoa. Got sent a page from an interview I did with a...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:54:20 +0000

shelbot:

Whoa. Got sent a page from an interview I did with a magazine from Switzerland.

tinycartridge: Akira scene from the film’s Famicom adaptation,...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:41:53 +0000

tinycartridge:

Akira scene from the film’s Famicom adaptation, which Taito released only in Japan in 1988. Wikipedia tells me the 8-bit title is a graphic adventure game, but the Japanese box says it’s a psychic adventure game. Who to believe?!

See also: “4h30” by Danger with rad 16-bit videos

[Via Pixelstyle, Fort90]

Save BBC 6 Music A Mark Thompson/Thick of It mashup… (via...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:38:29 +0000

Save BBC 6 Music

A Mark Thompson/Thick of It mashup…

(via The Guardian)

shelbot: Where next? LONDON!!! (London UK)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:35:36 +0000

shelbot:

Where next?

LONDON!!!

(London UK)