January 2012
Interviewer: Tell us about your relationship with Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law: Oh, I love him.
Interviewer: You have a bit of a bromance going on there.
Jude Law: What is this new term everybody's using? That's a horrible term. What about just a 'romance'?
Interviewer: No, that's not the same, 'cos then you'd have to star in a romantic comedy together or something.
Jude Law: We just have! Have you not seen it?
December 2011
The Hyperlist: A List of Desired Lists
viafrank:
Suggested Names for the Dogs I See in the Neighborhood All the Time
Elvis Costello Albums We Should Pretend Do Not Exist
Grievances Against America, Volume XII
Books We Should Collectively Opt Out of Believing We Should Read
Cheese Rank Index
Preferred Pirate Nicknames
List of People I Know Who Ball Their Socks
Lucky Ones
Crazy Ones
Unnecessary Flavors of Ice Cream
Things...
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Open versus closed headphones – Marco.org →
A man devoted to rigor. A man after my own heart. A man whose results I disagree with yet whose methods and values I share intimately.
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joachimesque replied to your quote: I think counterculture lost its way when it turned…
wait up, man. denying being a hipster and calling other people hipsters IS part of being a hipster. I know, I’m not one.
I see what… you did there? Or maybe it’s what I did there. I don’t know, it’s all the same in Rastafarian.
“I think counterculture lost its way when it turned its back on the...”
– “Visions Of American Black Metal”: Liturgy’s Hunter Hunt-Hendrix Responds - Stereogum
Only having seen a little bit of the fantastic weirdo musings of HH-H, I know I’m just dipping my toe into this “sea” in which Liturgy is “only the tip of the iceberg” or whatever,...
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Jordan Morris, Jesse Thorn, and Marc Maron...
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Ryan North Is Writing the Adventure Time Comic! →
For the dummies, Ryan North writes Dinosaur Comics.
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2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark... →
Go forth, read, and be disturbed.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Big John Patton - “Hot Sauce,” Blue...
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Spatula City.
SPATULA CITY
“I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as...”
– Louis CK’s DRM-Free Thing made a million dollars, and he’s giving half to staff bonuses and charities.
GoDaddy supported SOPA, then rescinded that... →
Maxwell sez, “Following GoDaddy’s announcement backing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, many customers have started to move their domains to other hosts. I guess that throwing your customers to the wolves isn’t a good business tactic.”
UPDATE: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/23/godaddy-withdraws-support-for.html
“Q. Do you need to have implants?
A. No, the Perfect Tan Bikini can be worn with...”
– JWoww’s stick-on bikinis are “pasties you can wear to the beach, a reusable panty liner for your tits.”
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The 10 Best Albums of 2011 | Rob Sheffield |... →
10. Yuck, Yuck
London kids with guitars full of love-buzz superfuzz, so open-hearted you keep waiting for the ironic subtext to kick in. Except it doesn’t, because there isn’t one. Cool. Hey Liz Phair: you could probably write an excellent song about trying to pick up one of these guys and frightening him so bad he runs back to the hotel and writes a song about you instead of kissing you. I would...
6 myths about microfinance charity that donors can... →
In the interest of RIGOR, see also Jeffrey Tucker’s hatepost on the Grameen Bank. I recently found out about this dude and how much I don’t care for his style; however, he provides an opinion which adds some needed verve to GiveWell’s observation that “funding institutions to help people save may not have the same sex appeal as [microfinancing], but it might do more...
Google Maps Nerding Out →
secondgradefresh:
Check out the warning under the to and from fields.
Wooooo internet. I’d like to thank the QUT library for pointing this one out.
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Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking |... →
“A recent paper written by Daniel Castro of the Information Technology &...”
– Pro-SOPA study on DNS filtering cites censorship research | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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