June 2008
Visual Thinking →
an essay by Douglas Coupland
The Website Is Down →
“WINSTON: Don’t tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism....”
– Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott... →
Beautifully typeset PDF.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal... →
City of Gold? Isn’t that what Nicolas Cage was looking for in National Treasure 2? Are we seriously getting the plot for our shitty sequel to Indiana Jones by ripping off the plot of a shitty sequel to a shitty knock-off of Indiana Jones? Hilarious.
Wall.E
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We wanted to get the nuance of a live action film, and actually put mistakes in with zooms and framing to give it a more immediate feel.
Antiheroes by George Saunders →
Then he bursts into tears, an ability that, apparently, is one of the last a human being ever loses.
Diesel Sweeties ebooks →
The first 2,000 DS comics in 10 volumes, free.
Watch‘World of Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘World of Warcraft’. Genius.
Read at Work →
Check out the Animal Farm Powerpoint.
Singapore Bus Stops and Bus Services Map →
Major update to SinGeo’s fantastic map, now including Transitlink buses.
Mystery on Fifth Avenue →
Great story about a young architect who built an insanely complicated scavenger hunt into his client’s home, complete with hidden panels and coded puzzles.
Flight of Transcendence
ET: did the singer say
ET: F.O.T is a very refreshing,, oral ... wait
ET: i hear again
Me: aural
Me: experience
ET: ok
Me: ..
ET: i was thinking oral
Me: ....
ET: Lol
Me: .....
ET: ahaha
WatchZebra Crossing
iPhone 3G $199 8GB →
The old one was $399.
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“What is wrong with you? Why are you always so fucking cheerful?”
– Marcus Brigstocke
WatchBrilliant remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” by James Houston featuring a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer, HP Scanjet 3c and an array of old hard drives.
Bar Requests 10 Year Disbarment for Jack Thompson →
Woohoo. Also he stormed out of his own hearing (!)
280 Slides →
Web-based Keynote clone. Especially handy if you have to create presentations on a Windows machine I suppose.
Wayward Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus... →
How the Web Was Won →
Fantastic “oral history of the Internet” over at Vanity Fair, with interviews of everyone from Paul Baran, who envisioned packet-switched communications circa 1960, to Fake Steve Jobs.
Natasha, by Vladimir Nabokov →
From this week’s New Yorker: Written around 1924, when Nabokov was in his mid-twenties (five years after his family fled Russia, and two years after his father was assassinated in Berlin), [the story] was discovered in the writer’s archives at the Library of Congress a couple of years ago, and was translated by his son, Dmitri.
