godblessu

i present for your consideration: tissue box

lookin clear

google traffic map of wyoming

the long tail of birdwatching

starlings, tits, and ducks























etc

intellectual banana

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana." - Bill Gates

k thx bye

omg, thx for saving the galaxy!

oh also, thx for fixing ma sign.

but most importantly, thx for all the memories.

the crap keeps flowing

Could it be that as the daily crappy swarm of "where to drink lychee martinis in NYC" mailing lists run out of cheap puns to make on the term "sample sale", so too are they running out of over-priced restaurants to cover?

Two leaders of the crap pack today provide double-coverage of the best new place to find clustering douche bags over the next couple days:
Roll the Dados [dailycandy.com]
Who's Your Dados [thrillist.com]

Update: a THIRD daily email weighs in with even more witless banter about this place! amazing.
The Next Mex Thing [raredaily.com]

new panda bear album

Like the stained glass sky of the beautiful dawn of a summer morning, revealed to dry and weary cracked-out eyes, awake all night on cocaine-fueled partying, the new Panda Bear album is upon us. The future is here. The world is beautiful. There is nothing to be afraid of. You can go home again.

track 1, Comfy in Nautica
track 3, Bros

great -- sans irony

These are some really good ideas!http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Top 5 Remainder Ideas from blogger Ironic Sans

His terrorist logo taxonomy is pretty good too. oh! and the list of Economist articles cheapunned by their headlines is also good.

hrm ... maybe i just found a new favorite blog.

if LA is Mars then NYC is Venus

yo this confirms what I've been saying for years! proof at last. I feel so vindicated -- my hypothesis proven.

Single Guys Live in LA, Single Girls in NYC

... from strange maps (via today's VSL)

knock knock, who's there, summer hilarity

Some knock knock jokes for summer:

Wayne who? ... Wayne, Wayne, go away, come again another day

Panther who? ... Panther no panths, I'm going thwimming!

Bugspray who? ... Bugs pray that frogs won't eat them!

Oliver who? ... Oliver you there are bugs!

Lucy who? ... Lucy Lastic lets your pants fall down

Tank who? ... You're welcome!

life returning to chernobyl

This is a really interesting link via slashdot about wildlife returning after Chernobyl

Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl [slashdot]

"One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield."

wow, first Chernobyl and now this ... that poor old lady really cannot get a break.

the sun has risen on the summer of positivity

art baran

My homey JB Jessica Baran just got a writeup in the Voice!

Let's Be Frank

"Frame Narrative," a solo show by L.A.-based mixed-media sculptor Jason Meadows, presents a kind of natural-history-museum display of a monstrous batik-loving hunter-gatherer, evidently made extinct by his insatiable bad taste.

nice!

web two point oh jeez

my (2nd) hasty, partial-formed idea of the day:

the abundance of new "social" "web 2.0" sites is actually hurting the cause they are purporting to be encouraging ...

this is all about social exchange collaboration etc ... its about folksonomy etc and organizing the worlds information ..

but the more things we have like this springing up (delicious, stumble upon, diigo, etc etc etc) the less valuable they each become. if everyone used say delicious that would make it much more valuable than if half the people use something else ....

i guess the "solution" here is that eventually competition will drive others out and people will naturally standardize ... i just hope that happens soon ... and think of all the wasted annotations that will fall away when these other endeavors start to fall off.

the other angle is that if web2.0 philosophies are truly adopted, these sites will all be able to freely exchange and intermingle their data ... but then what will be the value that each provides? just a slightly different UI on this massive annotated database? so they all will ultimately merge then.

the place for people who love places

half-baked idea of the day:

new york as "the place for people who love places" ...

new york is such a great place, and therefore populated by people who love great places and that is why people get so preoccupied w/ it. which is to say, new yorkers are not obsessed w/ nyc because it is a great place per se, but because people who care about places concentrate here. many new yorkers would probably be obsessed with any place they live if they happened to live there ... but it just so happens they concentrate here ... because its a great place to live ;) ... ok, so maybe its circular logic.

i always love that convo about like "whats it like out there" re: any city or region. like when you meet someone from somewhere and just talk about place generalities ... like, "ya, california is nice. the weather is great. but the people are fake". it is so not of the internet era .. i mean we are in the age of free information transfer ... you can instantly know anything no matter where you are ... but the info of what its actually like to be in a place cant be teleported

fame: I wanna live, period

ok, sit down ... new theory brewing ... This episode of "The Resident" reminded me of this idea i've been having

Earning the American Dream"

my new hypothesis is to view america's obsession w/ fame as just like a desire for community ... media now operates on an (inter)national level much more so than before... didnt people's attention used to be more locally focussed? wasn't it the case in the golden-olden days that media had more emphasis on the local? and international was kind of secondary? ... so you would see the goings on of you or your friends or relatives or neighbors or neighborhood in the paper or whatever other chanels were popular then. so maybe the desire to be famous these days is just the desire to be on tv or in the news, ie to be acknowledged, validated ... ie to see that your friends know about your existence ... maybe not your friends per se, buut, your community ... where "community" is defined as all the people you communicate with by viewing the same channels. by becoming so globally focussed we kind of put our own immediate existence in a less prominent position ... and then end up looking for validation by trying to participate in that new arena

also think about all those "famous to 15 people" quotes ...

homophobic military recruiter email exchange

this is just too hilarious.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Here's some of the email exchange between Corey Andrew of Jersey City and Sgt. Marcia Ramode on Feb. 27 and March 1 as provided to The Jersey Journal by Andrew.


Misspellings, capital letters and grammatical errors are as they appear in the emails:

Sgt. Ramode: My name is Marcia Ramode, and I am United States Army recruiter. I saw your resume on career builder and we have lots of vacant positions in Logistics, Administration...If interested please give me a call at my toll free number.

Andrew: Awesome! Sounds great! The US Military has so many vacant positions and opportunities. I had no idea. I'm seriously considering contacting you. One thing, I'm not up on current politics but since its 2007, I would imagine also that I am now able to serve in the US military as an openly gay man, right?

Ramode: WELL IF YOU ARE GAY WE DON'T TAKE YOU. YOU ARE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED.

Andrew: Wow! Unqualified to serve my country just because I'm gay? It's because they think I might all of a sudden desire one last kiss from my fellow male solider if ever facing death at the hands of the enemy in a fox hole, isn't?... Funny, the US Government doesn't mind taking my "gay" dollars every tax season or out of my paycheck every two weeks. I'm stunned that the US ARMY could afford to be so choosey when I see sergeants on my school campus and in the local shopping Mall...begging teenagers to enlist.

Ramode: YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY. AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU PAYING TAXES THEN MIGRATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.... AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU ABOUT THE US MILITARY RECRUITING THEN YOU GO TELL THE BOARD OF EDUCATION .... AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE RECRUITERS RECRUITING IN FRONT YOU HIGH SCHOOL THEN COMPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR BETTER YET TRY COMPLAINING TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY... YOU SHOULD SAY THANK YOU MILITARY PEOPLE FOR WHAT YOU DO SO THAT YOU CAN LIVE A FREE LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.

Andrew: Before you go on waving your flag all over the place let me first inform you, that as an African American who's ancestry is most likely MORE deeply rooted in American history than yours ever will be...I respect the millions of soldiers fighting to protect my rights every day but just so you know, those rights include me being gay... I applaud servicemen and women everyday for their role in our country's protection. However, for you and the government to deem homosexuals "unqualified" to risk their own lives and defend their own freedom as well as their country's freedom, is moronic.

Ramode: OH I FORGOT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YES YOU MIGHT TO TRY TO KISS A SOLDIER IN THE FOXHOLE SO THAT IS A NO NO.

Andrew: You are living proof that "Don't Ask Don't tell" is a fallacy. You initially rejected me without any consideration whatsoever of my integrity, or abilities. This behavior is at the very core of the discrimination that has plagued the USA for decades. You should know that I never had any intention of joining the military; I simply wanted to have this discussion to prove a point. With over 2,500 cases of anti-gay harassment acts against gay soldiers, including bashings and murders, for you to say the US Military only takes "straights" is delusional.

Ramode: YOU HEAD OFF TO THE GAY LAND OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO MORALS AND GET RID OF YOURSELF. PERSONALLY I THINK BEING GAY IS DISGUSTING AND IMMORAL.... AS AN AFRICAN HAVE NO PLACE TO SAY YOUR ROOTS ARE DEEPLY ROOTED HERE. MY ROOTS ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN YOURS. YOU WERE BROUGHT HERE BEING YOUR WILL POWER WHEREAS MY ROOTS RUN FROM THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN. I HAVE MORE RIGHTS HERE THAN YOU AND MY ROOTS HAVE BEEN HERE EVER SINCE BEFORE THE AMERICAS WERE DISCOVERED...YOU TAKE YOUR GAY A-- OFF SOMEPLACE AND GO TO SOME OTHER COUNTRY AND BADMOUTH THE MILITARY...TAKE YOUR A-- BACK WHERE YOU BELONG NOT HERE.

Andrew: Clearly with your limited vocabulary and poor spelling, the Army mayhave been the only option YOU had in life. Granted, there are highly intellectual people in the military. You're just not one of them. ...Native American history you are so proud of and research their position on homosexuality. They are very tolerant and accepting of homosexuals believing that the inner spirit is true to itself in its nature. They are less tolerant of fools than they are of homosexuals. So take that to your next rain dance.

Ramode: YOU GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE AND PRACTICE YOUR GAY MORALS OVER THERE THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG....I AM REPORTING YOU AS SPAM AND ADDING YOU TO MY BLOCK SENDER LIST SO I DO NOT HAVE TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN....

web2.0 uncoverd

Alot of people ask me, "what is this 'web 2.0' stuff all about?" To which I never really knew what to reply. Until now. I cracked the code. the key to starting a web 2.0 business is:
1. put a random number in your business name, or
2. delete the last vowel from your name.

http://37signals.com/
http://16bugs.com/
http://www.88miles.net/
the 43's:
http://www.43places.com/
http://www.43things.com/
http://www.43people.com/
http://www.height1percent.com/ (slimtimer)

1000tags
14Dayz
23
30Boxes
3Bubbles
3Jam
411Metro
83Degrees
9cays

and,

flickr
flagr
Wrickr
preloadr
Retrievr
gpokr
scanr
grazr
gtalkr
isolatr, and its big competitor, socializr
blufr
browsr

tenor saw, skateland, mmmassive

Some of the best videos on YouTube are the few floating around of these old early dancehall parties in Kingston Jamaica. And my favorite of all those is the mmmmmmassive rrrankin'est skankin'est a'dem all, Tenor Saw. takin it live n direct at Skateland. with Nicodemus and others. ere dis:



n more where dat a'come:
YouTube, search Skateland (ignore the skating videos)

By the way, if you don't know the tragic story of Tenor Saw its time ta lern aboooot eeet:
Tenor Saw, aka Clive Bright [wikipedia]
huge reggae sensation in Jamaica, finally came to the US, was sure to make it big, got hit by a car and died in Texas. as if we needed another reason to hate Texas.

daily crappy craps again

Those sample sale loving bimbos over at Daily Candy are at it again. Longest day of the year? what? I guess on the subway to work this morning someone must've read in am New York that today was the "equinox". Equinox, ladies. Not the longest day (aka, "solstice"). Which, if you paused to think about for 2 seconds you'd realize would be sometime in summer right? Anyone want to go buy some anti-wrinkle cream though? No really. Natch. obvs. Its fab. hearts!