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The LibraryBox, parakeets, and suffering for your beliefs

Knile — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 10:01:11 +0000

Are you drinking enough water? Go have a glass or two, then come back to read this. Maybe stretch your hamstrings too. These’ll be here when you get back.

LibraryBox
Waymarking
The parakeets of London
Certainly Not!
How to suffer for your beliefs
Your Guide to Europe’s Weirdest Car Culture: Raggare
See America By Bus;You May Touch A Stranger
How English sounds to non-English speakers
Fuck Yeah Nouns
First Person Arts
That can be my next tweet

Pants, pasts, PETA, PointCast

Knile — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:00:28 +0000

What a crazy week. Here are some links about fun things and maybe some not-so-fun-weird things. Keep thinking.

Classy Readings of Terrible Fan Fiction: in the kongs banana hored
Philadelphia MOVE Bombing Still Haunts Survivors
Anti-drug PSAs
What we learned from the movie Hackers
Yak Bak and Talkboy
PointCast: The Rise and Fall of an Internet Star
National Geographic airs video of first commercial cellular phone call
Gratuitous user interfaces
Pictures of Hipsters taking Pictures of Food
Mad money in the garlic black market
Bond: Explosive (from Classified [US Version] )
PETA Kills
A guinea pig’s inner ear can power a radio transmitter.
The Afronauts
Soweto & Sowebo comparison photoset
Magritte on Words and Images
Erik Johansson
Her Secret Past
The rapper who inspired James Franco’s “Spring Breakers” character
A Three Year Prison Term for Saggy Pants?
Hi-Vis Fashion
Reporting things on Facebook: is it worth it?
This image should not be seen by the whole world

Make, Giant Robot, and Vice Magazine Up On My Auction Block (Ebay)

thos — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:41:39 +0000

Looking for some great issues of any of these magazines? Huh? Huh? Well I’ve got a few lots up for auction on my ebay. Make is an awesome DIY technology on your own time build it yourself mag. Giant Robot is Asian pop culture and beyond including tons of great bands, amazing artists, movies, books; they introduced me to David Choe (literally and figuratively) and Kaws (featured in one of the issues). Speaking of David Choe he’s a common link between them and Vice magazine. Vice is rogue journalism, debauchery, and tits. And they’re seemingly really becoming a legit media outlet and have an upcoming series on HBO. Auctions end Sunday and/or Monday. Click on the pictures to see the auctions. Cheers!

Click through to auction

Of seatbelts, of Sharpies, of things in your coffees.

Knile — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:00:39 +0000

You know, not all of my links are things I’ve found in the past week. I have a few favorite Internet WWWeb Site Pages that I revisit from time to time. Remember “Bookmarks” in Netscape Navigator? Who doesn’t!?!? Here follow some of those, and of course some new ish too.

How much is inside a Sharpie?
Putting Weird Things in Coffee
Europe Invents the Gypsies
A Well-Packed Backpack
Mary, Mary
The Gender Genie
Komar & Melamid
Behavior change in the funny papers
NYPD Drones artist arrested
Renewable energy in January 2013 in the USA
Maddie on Things
The Exorcist in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling
Glenn Curtiss
Community currency & how to start one
Vexiollology
Baked goods naming differences between the US & the UK
Shoelace tying methods

Fashion Week

DCDan — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:01:02 +0000

As one of the more fashion forward people in the world, (I mean look at the included picture) I’m reminding people that it is fashion week in NYC.

Regularly scheduled Saturday morning post

Knile — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:00:39 +0000

Oh. Hello. I am posting this from the past. Or the future. “Is all how you look at it.”

Hell’s Angels of London, BBC 1973
Better to have glove and lost…
The Society of the Spectacle
Another film of a murmuration of starlings (See also List of collective nouns)
Edward Condon
Slow-motion destruction of power plant cooling towers
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
liquid nitrogen margaritas
bread puns on Tumblr
Social media’s 2000-year history
How jeans are made
Mustreads
Steve Reich & Radiohead
Coin-operated-locker babies
Paperman
List of Super Bowl halftime shows
Old School Wikipedia Edit War
Words of the World
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Helicopter String Quartet”
Soldier Bear

Fact: Wristbands Make You a Better Person

DCDan — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:56:31 +0000

Wristbands Make You a Better Person

Steroid Awareness Month

DCDan — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:41:28 +0000

In honor of Lance Amstrong we at Common Folk are declaring it Steroid and Blood Doping Awareness month as such we ask you to don your brown ribbon and show support for getting that extra edge to put you on the top of your game.

Steroid and Blood Doping Awareness begins with you.

Co-opted and Commodified

thos — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:07:41 +0000

I’m going to call this out and say this looks like a corporate stunt, looking to mooch publicity off of the “controversy” of “street art” (all quotes specifically intended).

I personally approve of making dough off of anything. Especially street art. Co-opt to the max. But I’m also pretty broke and would just like the money.

[ed. note- just realized this is outside a gallery in Paris. Same thing, all of the above still applies.]

Tupac/Animal Chin Bootleg T-shirt Of The Month

thos — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:00:01 +0000

Toronto’s No Fun Press has added another future/present classic. Cop one before they’re gone like…

“On May 29, 2011, PBS News Hour reported Tupac alive and well in New Zealand. Since that date, until spring of 2012, there was a widespread media blackout and coverup. Following ‘Pac’s appearance at a popular music festival, another cover story, this time involving “holograms” has been spread throughout social media.
No Fun has begun the only thing that seems logical at this point – a grassroots awareness campaign. Tupac Lives! HAVE YOU SEEN HIM”