I know I have one pal in Japan who understands The Cure.
I know I have two friends in France who understand The Cure.
I know I have have one friend in Costa Rica who understands The Cure.
I have too many friends in the states who understand The Cure.
And I thought of them all tonight as I posted this:
A Forest (Fuck Robert Palmer Version)
Endtroducing…
An after-school percussion group playing DJ Shadow’s Building Steam with a Grain of Salt and Changeling – pretty near perfectly as far as I can tell. This is fucking awesome! For high school drum geeks a project this has got to be infinitely better than playing Wipeout at the pep rally (right, Dave?).
The Shadow Percussion Project (movie file)
Note: The file is around 65.4 megabytes and plays much better if you save it to your own computer first by right clicking the link and selecting “Save As”.
(thx to steveo for the tip)
I badly needed a laugh
McSweeney’s delivered:
7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
Why I no longer have no hope for society
Cooing at new-born babies banned
“A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.”
That is all.
Kamakiri macro
Mantis on the wall.
Blacky Brand Cookie Sandwich
This might not fly too well in the states.
No fertilizer used.
Organic veggie vending machine.
BREAKING GIANT SQUID NEWS
Japanese scientists (AKA “ika otaku”) have caught Architeuthis on film!
GO GO GO
Fist Full o’ Organa
Click image for larger version.
The verdict is still out on if this is photoshopped or not; the EXIF data shows it was at least saved in Photoshop most recently. Anybody know the origin of this photo if it’s real?
Via Technorati?
Regarding my previous post about QOOP, the fact that the service rep found the review I wrote and responded in the comments in less than half a day just blew my mind. I imagine that they probably found my post by monitoring a search subscription like this, which, I might add, is a really smart thing to do when a significant portion of your target market is likely to have a blog.
QOOP states publicly in my comments that they are improving their service and willing to make good on the product with which I am less than happy. That’s just awesome! Other companies, take note.
I really want this service to work out – if it does, QOOP has gained a loyal customer and free advertising via any future commentary of mine as well as the photo books I will be showing off to everyone I know.
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The other thing I wanted to mention is that Technorati really got their act together just as Gen Kanai promised in an earlier post here, and as Technorati founder/CEO Dave Sifry posted on his blog. Searches are super fast again, and Cosmos (URL) search is back up. This is great news, because when Technorati was suffering from overload (a product of their own popularity), I searched long and hard for a suitable replacement. There was none.