Jul 6 9:06 pm
A good recipe for African Pineapple Peanut Stew form the Mousewood cookbook.

A good recipe for African Pineapple Peanut Stew form the Mousewood cookbook.

Jul 4 9:11 am
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87 Plays.

What’s your favorite song with “America” in the title?

This is mine.

Update: America songs from Ryan, and from Hrrrthrrr

Jul 3 11:25 am
mareen: I am on the Nike+ Human Race page! Almost looking sporty. (You have to have picked your country before to get to exactly this page.) Woah! Mareen, that’s so cool! :D

mareen:

I am on the Nike+ Human Race page!

Almost looking sporty.

(You have to have picked your country before to get to exactly this page.)

Woah! Mareen, that’s so cool! :D

mareen Via mareen fischinger's blog
Jul 2 11:29 am
guy: The Mustache Handkerchief for those of us that have ‘stache envy. (via) Sweeet. If I ever had cause to carry around a hankerchief, this is the one I’d carry.

guy:

The Mustache Handkerchief for those of us that have ‘stache envy. (via)

Sweeet. If I ever had cause to carry around a hankerchief, this is the one I’d carry.

guy Via @random
Jul 1 11:17 pm

Cute video shows off the new American Apparel Hypercolor shirts. (Pink shirt microwaved to turn it white, then worn in a freezer to turn it pink again.)

I was pretty excited about hypercolor the first time it was out. If I walk by an AA store, I’ll probably buy one.

Jul 1 12:24 pm
clawfoot (via ljc@flickr)

clawfoot (via ljc@flickr)

Jul 1 11:09 am
Here’s the full output of the Tumblr survey I ran last week. 496 responses as of just now. If you do anything interesting with the data, drop me a line, I’m curious to see what comes out of it. Anything surprise you? Ideas for questions I should have asked but didn’t? (We can do another.) p.s. Google Docs seems to screw up row numbers for large spreadsheets, at least for me in FF 3. But you can export to Numbers/Excel/HTML/PDF/etc. p.p.s. If you followed me just so you’d know when the results of this survey came out, here’s a reminder to unfollow me. ;-)

Here’s the full output of the Tumblr survey I ran last week. 496 responses as of just now. If you do anything interesting with the data, drop me a line, I’m curious to see what comes out of it.

  • Anything surprise you?
  • Ideas for questions I should have asked but didn’t? (We can do another.)

p.s. Google Docs seems to screw up row numbers for large spreadsheets, at least for me in FF 3. But you can export to Numbers/Excel/HTML/PDF/etc.

p.p.s. If you followed me just so you’d know when the results of this survey came out, here’s a reminder to unfollow me. ;-)

Jun 30 7:48 pm
Just a reminder: You can make SQUARE watermelons! Anything that is normally spherical is cooler when square. (And vice-versa) Here’s instructions on how to do it. I don’t know why there aren’t any organic growers in the Bay Area growing and selling these. Organic SF Hipsters would totally pay the extra scratch to be square.

Just a reminder: You can make SQUARE watermelons!

Anything that is normally spherical is cooler when square. (And vice-versa)

Here’s instructions on how to do it.

I don’t know why there aren’t any organic growers in the Bay Area growing and selling these. Organic SF Hipsters would totally pay the extra scratch to be square.

Jun 30 5:23 pm
The “Tyrant” concept by designer Alice Wang is the latest in a growing line of alarm clocks designed to torture their owners into facing the day. The Tyrant doles out punishment by hijacking your cellphone contact list and making random calls every three minutes until you get up to turn it off. Alice Wang’s Sleep Inventions

The “Tyrant” concept by designer Alice Wang is the latest in a growing line of alarm clocks designed to torture their owners into facing the day.

The Tyrant doles out punishment by hijacking your cellphone contact list and making random calls every three minutes until you get up to turn it off.

Alice Wang’s Sleep Inventions

Jun 30 1:53 pm
dearyouloveme: Back to the Future. The Hyperdunk. Out soon! But they won’t tie themselves. As long as they will auto-inflate to fit my foot, I will be happy.

dearyouloveme:

Back to the Future. The Hyperdunk. Out soon! But they won’t tie themselves.

As long as they will auto-inflate to fit my foot, I will be happy.

dearyouloveme Via Dear You, Love Me
Jun 29 10:29 am

Buy n Large »

(via topherchris)

topherchris Via topherchris
Jun 27 4:30 pm
saha: Hey folks, my friend Khoi at the NY Times nominated Rumplo in this year’s BusinessWeek “Best and Worst of the Web”. Yeah, I’m surprised too! We’re in there with some big guns (including personal fave Vimeo), so we could definitely use your vote on the ‘Best Of’ side!!! I promise to give you a giant hug if you do. Or bake you some cookies. Or something. Vote Here. A minute ago we were tied with NetFlix, the geniuses! You can read the accompanying article and notes about Rumplo here (we’re number 13, using the nav at the top right). If you haven’t checked out Rumplo please do and let me know what you think. This is so awesome! Go vote for Saha and Ian, they are totally awesome and so is Rumplo.

saha:

Hey folks, my friend Khoi at the NY Times nominated Rumplo in this year’s BusinessWeek “Best and Worst of the Web”. Yeah, I’m surprised too! We’re in there with some big guns (including personal fave Vimeo), so we could definitely use your vote on the ‘Best Of’ side!!! I promise to give you a giant hug if you do. Or bake you some cookies. Or something.

Vote Here.

A minute ago we were tied with NetFlix, the geniuses! You can read the accompanying article and notes about Rumplo here (we’re number 13, using the nav at the top right). If you haven’t checked out Rumplo please do and let me know what you think.

This is so awesome!

Go vote for Saha and Ian, they are totally awesome and so is Rumplo.

saha Via Saha. Period.
Jun 25 4:03 pm

Pigeons deliver drugs to prisoners via tiny backpacks »

katydid:

The British and the Germans (and I think Americans) all used pigeons for messaging during World War 2, but oh, those were the days…when pigeons had integrity. A sense of ethics. Since then, their reputation has really taken a nosedive; they have been uselessly pooping on the streets of our metropolises for decades, and now, they’re soaring to new lows.

Apparently a very smart prisoner (the Einstein of drug smugglers?) living in a Brazilian jail has been breeding pigeons to deliver drugs and cell phones to inmates using tiny backpacks. How does it work? The pigeons are released and later, they return to their clandestine roosts in this man’s cell with their mini-Jansports filled with contraband prisoners’ dream about.

How did Einstein get busted? The prison guards noticed that pigeons around the prison were having trouble flying, allegedly due to the weight of their cargo (not to drug use).

PS. on a mostly unrelated note, if I could title this post, it would be “jail birds (no really!)”

PPS. did you catch my bird puns in the first paragraph?

PPPS. did I mention pigeon backpacks?

katydid-deactivated20080715 Via Katydid...did you?
Jun 24 10:34 am

Type about:robots into Firefox 3’s addressbar.

Jun 23 6:05 pm
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106 Plays.

Dance Dance Dance by Lykke Li.

I love this song today.