“look at this fucking hipster”
The commentary is a bit dumb, but the photos are great.
Hoping I find one of my friends on this site. Or possibly myself.
“Thank you, but we prefer to be called Hipspanics.”
Archive for the ‘Gray Matter’ Category
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Maureen Dowd H8z Twitter
Friday, April 24th, 2009To Tweet Or Not To Tweet - NYTimes.com
Columnist Maureen Dowd has “HAD IT UP TO HERE” with twitter. Here are some highlights for the ADD-inclined:
- I was here on a simple quest: curious to know if the inventors of Twitter were as annoying as their invention.
- Aren’t you worried about being swallowed up by google?” “they don’t swallow you up. they call you up.”
- I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account. Is there anything you can say to change my mind?
The interviewee’s (Twitter inventor Biz Stone) first response to her question is golden, howevs:
MAUREEN: We now know that on the president’s trip to Trinidad, ABC News’s Jake Tapper’s shower was spewing brown water. Is there any thought that doesn’t need to be published?
BIZ: The one I’m thinking right now.
I like to imagine him thinking, “you’re a dumb ho.” Apparently i’m not the only one, as someone wrote a spoof:
“Maureen Dowd Interviews the Inventor Of The Telephone”
Texts from Patti: Susie Qs
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Patti: Tony, you left your q-tips!!
Me: I still have an untouched box of 500 from last time.
Patti: I got them for you! I’ll save them for next time you come home!
Online Dating Minus Ugly People
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Darwin Dating is a site that uses a Hot er Not process to weed out the uggos so only the good looking survive. Thus preventing a “future filled with more Charles Darwins” To become a member, provide the basic info and a picture, which will then be voted on by site members on a scale from 1 “chimpanzee” to 5 “sexy human”.
If you make the cut after a two week voting period, you’ll get access to a “dazzling array of complete narcissists”.
Let me know how it goes!
via thrillist
Brand Names Live On Long After Their Owners Have F-ed Them Up
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009The New York Times published an article on retailers like Sharper Image, Linens ’n Things and Circuit City are bankrupt, but liquidators are breathing new life into their brands. Brings up the value of a brand. You can kill a store, but that doesn’t necessarily kill the brand. For example, new merchandise with the Sharper Image name is available at retailers like Macy’s, J. C. Penney and Bed, Bath & Beyond. A new Web site for the Linens ’n Things brand, lnt.com, is up and running.
Consumer response: As long as I can still get 95% off merchandise when a retailer goes out of business, I’m fine.
Branding response: Told ya branding works. We’re increasing all retainers 15%.
New Jam
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Keri Hilson featuring Ne-Yo and Kanye West.
CHIMPANZEE RIDIN’ ON A SEGWAY
Friday, April 10th, 2009BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM
Tweet On My Cat.com
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Ok, while I did post about this in my other blog, I felt as though its topic was quite relevant and interesting so I’m posting it again here.
Some lonely cat nerd loser genius decided it would be entirely important and relevant to find out the utilization of his cat door. Not only that, he wanted to know who was using it and when. So, he simply:
- Gave RFID chips to his cats Gus and Penny (an RFID chip is something you’d find in your CTA card…it’s a unique identifier)
- Gave himself a twitter account
- Got himself a cheap digital camera
- Wrote himself some code
What did he end up with? THIS:
IT’S AN AUTOMATICALLY TWEETING CAT DOOR. WOW!
Gus walks in. His RFID chip passes by the sensor, identifying him as Gus. This triggers the camera to take a picture of Gus in action. Then, with the photo, his program creates a tweet that shows the picture and the cat entering the door. This way, when he’s at work, he can monitor his cats using the door and thus see what they’re doing! it’s like nanny cam (for cats) 2.0! I really want sometjing like this.
read all about it at engadget
Dance Moves that ROCK
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009There’s something entirely inapprops about 2 little kids dancing to Flow Rida - but when they’re pulling off moves like THIS, then all instances of bad parenting are forgiven:
URL Shorteners
Sunday, April 5th, 2009Twitter has a lot more people using URL shortners. I hadn’t even heard of the concept pre-twitter. Sites like bit.ly, tinyurl take long urls and make them short. But there is so much more to consider. Interesting nerd read on Joshuas blog.