April 2008
20 posts
WatchThe Daily Show - Let’s Get Ready to Stumble
"Why Bother?" by Michael Pollan →
There are so many stories we can tell ourselves to justify doing nothing, but perhaps the most insidious is that, whatever we do manage to do, it will be too little too late. Climate change is upon us, and it has arrived well ahead of schedule. Scientists’ projections that seemed dire a decade ago turn out to have been unduly optimistic: the warming and the melting is occurring much faster than...
WatchAnother Etsy/Bre classic. With #6 plastic, Shrinky Dinks, and mustaches!
WatchEtsy Video: Never Use Plastic Again! - Open Source Shopping Bag Project I love Etsy’s short video features on their minisite, The Storque. Especially the ones that Bre Pettis is responsible for. I wish I could make things!
On Wanting To Be Joel Fleischman
We’ve been catching old episodes of Northern Exposure on Universal HD. Both Becky and I were diehard fans of the show when it was orginally on. Seeing it again, 15 years later, made me realize how enduring it is. We couldn’t get enough, so we also started renting the DVDs. A few years back, I was looking for information on when the DVDs were going to get released. Apparently,...
WatchThe third season of, the always inebriated but never boring, Three Sheets is starting up on Mojo on April 10. You can watch the first episode a week early on Hulu. Let the drinking games begin!
Snoopers on Subway, Beware Digital Books →
The Kindle may rob New Yorkers of a subway pastime that’s more specific to this city: judging people’s covers by their books. That young guy slouched in his seat, with the hoodie pulled tight over his head — his posture suggests sheer indifference. The book in his hand, “Egyptian Cosmology,” suggests something otherwise (to guess what, exactly, would require a passing familiarity with Egyptian...