Tight pants manifesto

Really, tights are not pants. Please read and remember the manifesto.

Ira Glass believes in you

Ira Glass is really on the money right here with this. I kind of get the feeling I’ll be deep in my twenties before I breakthrough my own faults as a photographer…but I guess that’s what I’m about to find out sooner than later.

(via kottke via not cot)

Links for Apr 9th, 2008

• Japanese women stay young and healthy with a sip of The Placenta 10000.

• Photographer Sze Tsung Leong explores the history and transient change of China’s cityscapes in History Images, now showing at the Yossi Milo Gallery through May 17th, 2008.

• For anyone who ever wondered, here are the hand signals used on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

• Lies I’ve told my three year-old recently.

Links for Mar 11th, 2008

• Informative comparison of male and female orgasms (sfw).

• Next level periodic table rings.

• This whole time I never figured out how to use proper smart quotes and en/em dashes via the keyboard.

• If celebrities moved to Oklahoma.

• This political pokemon YTMND got me chuckling.

Links for Mar 05, 2008

• The awesome flash game flOw that has been remade for the PS3 is coming out for the PSP tomorrow.

• Nine Inch Nails release Ghosts I-IV through their new distribution system of torrents, tiered downloads, and special edition box sets. He scores big, selling out of the $300 boxset, garnering $750,000 from that alone.

• Don’t use Crest Pro mouth wash or else your teeth will turn brown and rot to hell.

• Popular Mac rss reader Newsfire is now completely free.

• Steve Jobs overcame a rare, but treatable, form of pancreatic cancer in 2003 but did not seek medical care for nine months before giving into surgery.

Links for Mar 03, 2008

• Programmer Jason Rohrer follows up on his wildly successful 300kb game of mortality, Passage, with his newest game, Gravitation, that reflects on the struggle of fame, mania, and the creative process.

• YouTube video of Mario mashed with Half-life gaming mechanics and graphics.

• The Sundance Channel has a weeklong documentary series going over the lives and stories of famous photographers starting today. (nytimes.com)

• Apostrophe Atrophy looks at all the misuses of apostrophes in popular media and advertising. On the subject of grammar, punctuation, and the overall English language, Singapore seems to be doing a terrible job of promoting it as a secondary language. It’s okay, we suck at it too.

• A cool experiment on making decisions and the importance of choice, or the illusion of it, given to the testers. They have to choose between a three doors and each one has a different monetary reward; if they change which door they click on, though, they would get penalized a fee.

Links for Feb 29, 2008

• Since I’ve been growing my hair out for a year, I should have figured the new shit would be not washing your hair. I might reconsider, though, considering how cracked out this woman looks after not washing her hair for eleven years.

• So there’s a reason why we have leap years. Ignoring the Gregorian calendar system, the Chinese are throwing in an extra leap month. That’s a helluva lot of extra time.

• They’re running out of ways to compare the two candidates: Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? I will admit, though, Hillary’s is much more sterile and boxy then Obama’s site, which has a bit more openness and web 2.0 flavor to it. A good choice of font by Obama’s campaign as well; it strikes a similar chord to his slogan.

• A new trailer for Iron Man is out, and damn does it look good.

• Gizmodo reviews Apple’s new external hdd and wireless router, Time Capsule.

• The New York Times report on the ‘Venus and Serena Williams’ of golf, Ginger and Robbi Howard. His father says, “My philosophy, which my kids understand, is that they play the best of the best so they’ll know who they are. Earn what you get. It’s O.K. to be on TV and all, but you have to prove your worth, too.”

Links for Feb 28, 2008

• The New York Times has a small slideshow on MOMA’s newest gallery Design and the Elastic Mind.

• Desiree Palmen has an extensive body of camouflage photography, integrating a seamless transition into background details with a painted body suit. It reminds me a bit of the aberration one would expect from an invisibility suit.

• Google is now offering free lifetime phone numbers and voicemail for the homeless in San Francisco. While it’s not the free city-wide wifi that I’ve been looking for, it’s another step along the way. Sandy told me recently that MUNI and BART just got wifi capabilities too. It’s come a long way.