Give generously: Red Cross, CARE, World Vision, Oxfam and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all operating in the area.

Posted in Asia on Mon May 12, 08:32 am. Shoutouts.

A bullet-proof plan to ensure those IT people passing you in the corridor are laughing at you, not with you:

1. Hold large meeting
2. Invite IT people
3. Begin spittle-flecked rant
4. Insinuate IT people are overpaid
5. Use the word “Logarithm” in the place of “Algorithm”
6. Do it again
7. And again
8. Now storm out

Brilliant, you’re well on your way!

Posted in Tech on Thu May 8, 08:00 pm. Shoutouts.

WTF Nature is a group blog about biological curiosities such as the Peacock Mantis Shrimp, fainting goats and earwig penises.

Posted in Linkage on Thu May 8, 08:21 am. Shoutouts.

If you use Flickr for your photos, Photojojo’s Time Capsule is a pretty neat way to revisit shots from a year ago. They email you every couple of weeks, the layout is great, and the photos successfully capture that special “blast from the past” feeling. I’m digging it.

Posted in Shutterbug on Mon May 5, 08:31 am. Shoutouts.

Posted in Gastros on Sun May 4, 12:29 pm. Shoutouts.

But, still, I can’t believe he’s here. Stooped as he ducks through the door, beside those three concrete walls swathed with thick stripes of green. Modern art for the mediocre. Through nerve, or habit, or sheer bloody-minded stubbornness, he’s here and I’m here and I’m not sure that’s what I want. Not now. I feel my heart flutter, and race, and pick up its legs and run, jack-hammering against my ribcage as it pirouettes in frantic sweaty escape.

“Let’s go, come on, it’s time to leave – do it for me, if for nothing else. Fuck. No. No, it’s not like that at all. You’re misunderstanding and that’s not what I meant.”

I don’t think he understands what’s going on.

Posted in Shutterbug on Sat May 3, 11:03 am. Shoutouts.

Fake Steve on Facebook:

Kids, let’s face it. Facebook is Webkinz for adults. Facebook is a Ponzi scheme. A handful of VCs have created the illusion of an actual market by funding apps companies and then doing deals with each other — passing cash back and forth among to make it look as if money is being made.

Funwall anyone?

Posted in Tech on Sat May 3, 10:21 am. Shoutouts.

GOD: I own you like I own the caves.
THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison.
GOD: I made you. I could tame you.
THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now.
GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you.
THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what’s happened to me.

(From How We Are Hungry, which I read again today and love dearly. Thanks A)

Posted in Textism on Sun Apr 27, 10:51 pm. Shoutouts.

Yoko Tanaka, Igloo Head and Tree Head and Fritz Lang’s M.

Posted in Artrage on Sat Apr 26, 05:54 pm. Shoutouts.

Study: Nearly 80 Percent Of Roommates Got So Drunk Last Night

Posted in Vidiot on Sat Apr 26, 03:05 pm. Shoutouts.