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Every web meme animated gif ever compiled into one video.
Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
World's scariest job? I couldn't even finish watching the video.
sounds like a fun band
Yard Dogs Road Show
Yard Dogs Road Show: In 2005 the Yard Dogs embarked on their first full fledged national tour (25 shows in 35 days). Seven shows sold out, including a magical homecoming show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The Yard Dogs started out seven years earlier as a three piece jug band performing in road houses and dance halls. Most notably here in Oregon where they partook in modern day acid tests with the likes of Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters. After many sleepless nights they moved on. For the next year they traveled up and down the west coast, with a trunk full of instruments and props. A 1967 Ford Galaxy 500 was their tour vehicle. One cold night they pulled off Interstate 5 at a place called Dog Creek Road. After situating themselves - laying out sleeping bags, building a campfire - they fell into conversation. The possibilities were discussed. Spirits revealed themselves in the fire: dancing girls with feather fans, a man in silver sunglasses eating fire, a dreamy guitar boy with big hair, a bearded swami swallowing swords. And it was from this night of fantasy that the Yard Dogs Road Show was born. One by one these apparitions climbed aboard. Eventually the Ford was replaced with a fleet of vans. The original three were now thirteen. And the offspring of that night by the fire was a wicked and mobile cabaret. They told their stories minutes after they were lived. This was the new vaudeville, as portrayed by professional misfits and creative thrill seekers.
roky erickson in park slope 11/10
http://www.thebellhouseny.com/
if they escape into the wild, we're doomed, i tell ya, doomed
Join us on the lawn at Chapman School most evenings in September for a spectacular display of Vaux’s Swifts as they gather to roost in the school’s chimney. Volunteers from Portland Audubon will be present with information about the swifts, binoculars and a spotting scope for viewing.
I don't know if it will work for everyone, but this sounds like one digital future for book publishing.
Are we living in a designer universe? I know it's in the Telegraph, but Gribbin is a serious guy, and it's just a thought piece anyway. Fun to think about and I suspect this is basically the case.
i know this has made the rounds many times already but worth another watch
kittens inspired by kittens
I know Steve has told this story, but have we ever seen the video?
tv hat
What could go wrong? Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction?
Pretty goofy, but holy cow, yoyo freestyle world champion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UXlL0FIF9Q&feature=player_embedded
spoof in use
for you bill
found here @ unhappy hipsters
There is no way you will ever be this hip.
last week it was radioactive wild boars in germany
this week....
According to the New York Times, one of the 100 or so passengers stood up to retrieve his baggage from the overhead compartment before the plane had reached a complete stop and refused Slater's request that he sit down.
Slater, a career flight attendant, approached the passenger, who continued to pull his baggage from the compartment, striking Slater on the head with it in the process.
When the passenger refused to apologize, the paper reported, Slater used the public-address system to berate him, then deployed the emergency chute, grabbed a beer from the beverage cart, yelled "It's been great!" and slid down and went to his car.
He was arrested later at his home in Queens.
i love mona simpson, but i never knew she is steve jobs long lost sister. apparently, he was adopted, while she was raised by their birth parents. wow.
Website: http://portlandbrooklynproject.org
Company Overview: We're creating a platform for cultural exchange between the cities of Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York. We see this DIY cultural sister city initiative as amplifying an existing web of connections and projects, building on the shared DNA of the two communities with their strong neighborhoods, vibrant food cultures, thriving art-making and music communities, and forward-thinking arts and educational institutions.
anyone going to jump in a dumpster?
15 Green Cities 51
by Grist 19 Jul 2007 5:08 PM
These metropolises aren't literally the greenest places on earth -- they're not necessarily dense with foliage, for one, and some still have a long way to go down the path to sustainability. But all of the cities on this list deserve recognition for making impressive strides toward eco-friendliness, helping their many millions of residents live better, greener lives. If your favorite green city didn't make the list, tell us why it deserves recognition in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
1 Reykjavik, Iceland
Remember the grade-school memory device "Greenland is icy and Iceland is green"? It's truer than ever thanks to progress made by Iceland and its capital city in recent years. Reykjavik has been putting hydrogen buses on its streets, and, like the rest of the country, its heat and electricity come entirely from renewable geothermal and hydropower sources and it's determined to become fossil-fuel-free by 2050. The mayor has pledged to make Reykjavik the cleanest city in Europe. Take that, Greenland