October 2007
9 posts
Justin Tuggle v. Jeff Giddens, at the catchweight of 200 lbs, No Decision, round 1, due to window breakage.
Paste Magazine, a fine magazine which I currently subscribe to, offers on their website the opportunity to subscribe or renew a subscription at a price to be named by the subscriber. This is an interesting move, obviously in light of Radiohead’s recent release of In Rainbows at a user-defined price. For Paste, however, I felt no inspiration to support an artist in their attempt to circumvent the...
I just read this amazing article in Wired about these two dudes who broke the record for the Cannonball Run, which is the journey from New York City to Los Angeles. They were inspired by C’etait un Rendez-vous, in which Claude Lelouch drives his vehicle at a maniacal pace, driving through 16 red lights and reverse down one way streets. The whole story is amazing, primarily because it is an epic,...
Here is a post of some incredibly inventive uses for shipping containers. Most impressive is the 12-container house that looks a little bit like my childhood dream of living in an old oil-change facility.
michel gondry’s mind truly works like no one else’s. his latest offering.
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I was listening to NPR’s Fresh Air podcast on the way to Austin today and heard an interview with Ricky Gervais about his HBO show Extras. He was talking about the desire for fame, and how (through the main character of the show) he explores being famous vs. being great at what you do or very well respected. It brought to mind the following people. Why are they famous? What did they do to get in...
Flying into Nashville, I realized that something that I thought was gone was actually pretty prevalent: the above ground pool.