hypertexty

• 2010-01-01

  

• 2009-12-08

  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  — Oscar Wilde (via sumfight)

• 2009-12-07

  Parisian Love

  Storytelling through searches. Much more beautiful and compelling than ads for Bing.

  (via Yongfook)

• 2009-12-06

  Do I dare Disturb the universe?

  — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• 2009-12-05

  

  Gimme Coffee! In Ithaca NY.

• 2009-11-30

  Your Annual Guide To Holiday Romance

  My personal favorite:

  41. Avoid any girl who won’t wear a skirt in winter. The winter is too long as it is without having to do without legs. You’ll end up in the stairwell of a Christmas party making out with a girl in skirt.

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  A Better Understanding of Stoplights:

  The way a person becomes smart is to store in their brain only the information that they have to know, dismissing the rest. If it’s written down, I don’t need to know it. That’s what Albert Einstein would have you believe. But not Damjan Stanković. In an ideal Damjan Stanković world, you’d know how long you were at that stoplight because it would tell you what it’s up to. Tell me what you’re up to, stoplight!

  Stanković promotes this stoplight as an eco solution in the following ways: If you’ve got the amount of time you’ve got to stop in front of you, you can shut your engine off, wait, be calm, and turn it back on again when the time is almost up. This not only lessens the amount of gas you use sitting still, but it lessens the amount of crazy madness you have wondering if the stoplight is stuck, or just really, really long.

  Not sure about the environmental angle, but this design would be a nifty addition to the traffic light.

  (via geekystuff)

• 2009-11-26

  

  I’m thankful for my amazing sister Meggan.

• 2009-11-23

  Roulette

  Apophenia is the name for our brains’ tendency to seek patterns in random data, like looking at the blinking vertical sign next to the roulette table and thinking you know what the next number is going to be. I believe it’s also the reason New York feels so special. When you cram millions of people onto a tiny island, you start noticing what seems like more than mere coincidence. In a place like New York, that wheel gets spun so much more frequently—the friction generates so much more data to pick from—that your apophenia’s working in overdrive. Sooner or later, you notice the same number come up a few times in a row and it feels like magic.

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  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  — Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 (via tmblg)

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  A remix of one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite films, starring one of my favorite actors. Hilarity ensues.

• 2009-11-22

  [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

  Vampire Weekend’s single from their upcoming album, Contra, coming January 11.

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  Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir … open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us … guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love … the clarity of hatred … the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.

  — Joss Whedon (via patrickrhone)

• 2009-11-21

  Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)

  If you have thirty minutes, and you’re contemplating playing Farmville, watch this instead. It will be worth your time.

• 2009-11-20

  Reefer Madness, which I recently saw at The College of New Jersey, is a brilliant musical based on a propaganda film from the 1930’s, and this movie version looks pretty great too.