November 2009
As of Nov 30, 2009, Here You Go is FULLY FUNDED!
hereyougo:
We are so grateful to all of our generous backers! We’re a third of the way to our goal! Thanks to you, we’ve reached our funding goal with a week to spare!
I am grateful beyond words. I am so incredibly moved by how many people got behind this idea and gave us some of their hard-earned money, and talked us up to their families and friends, in order to see it succeed. Holy crap...
kellydeal:
The Replacements - Here Comes A...
Many of you know my girlfriend, Julie.
If you do, you already know something of why I love her. Her affability and vivaciousness are infectious, and that’s hard not to love. That those traits point to her deep compassion for people is probably no surprise, but you might not know about the happily selfless dedication she brings to spreading that compassion around. This summer, after spontaneously giving her umbrella to a stranger...
“This blog is a proof-of-concept displaying information leakage — the...”
– Where Is My iPhone?
On a scale of 1-10, how surprised would you be to find out the author of this site - who’s gone out of his way to use photos’ EXIF data to map and publish our locations - doesn’t actually provide a contact method to have your photos removed from his site?
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Please stop it with the rudeness!
Would you all please exercise a little sensitivity up in here? I’m playing Pie Guy, but my anemic 3G iPhone coughs and sputters whenever I try to make the little Lyle Lovett head change direction. I’m seriously worried that my phone might have tuberculosis over here, so would you please stop attacking my feelings and values and lineage with all your highfiving and backslapping? Why are...
“Why isn’t there wind in houses, dad?”
– the boy, looking longingly at the kite in the corner of his bedroom. (via samhey)
Happy Birthday, Victoria!
To one of my first, and favorite, Twitter discoveries: Happy Birthday!
I'm not sure anyone does, kiddo.
Conner: Dad, would it be cool if you could clone a sheep?
Me: I, personally, don't know. Why don't you ask the Scottish scientists who did just that?
Conner: SOMEBODY CLONED A SHEEP?
Me: Yeah. A sheep named Dolly. It was within your lifetime too.
Conner: Wow... That's AWESOME.
Me: Sure is, man. But not everyone thinks so.
Conner: Because it was a sheep?
Me: No, because the supposed uniqueness of a cloned being is diminished by the act of creating an exact copy. So there are a lot of people who believe that cloning is, essentially, the contemporary equivalent of building the tower of Babel.
Conner: Dad... Two questions. First, why are science and religion always battling?
Me: That's a great question with lots of long answers. I don't think we can cover it before your bus comes. But maybe a short answer to start thinking about, for now, is: ego. What was your other question.
Conner: Okay... It's just that... Dad? I don't know what "contemporary" means.
“If you are going to insist that the dominant culture is ontologically crippled,...”
– DARK AGES AMERICA — Blog for Morris Berman
One more? Can I just share one more? Seriously. Go read this, then pick up Dark Ages America and The Twilight of American Culture, and read them both, then read everything in their bibliographies. Or, skip the reading part. Just add them to your...
“The experience of rationality, of conceptual clarity, is so overwhelming that...”
– DARK AGES AMERICA — Blog for Morris Berman
From one of those articles where I want to share every other paragraph with everyone I know.
“It’s a mythical creature. It has a donkey’s head, a bear’s...”
– 10 y.o. Conner
And then he crawled away, meowing, to the basement where The Doors’ “The End” is playing on the stereo. His brothers, also on all fours, gave chase. They have to reload, I guess.
“Skyway” by The Replacements.
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“Much of the flavor of chicken, steak, potstickers, green beans, garlic, and...”
– Neven Mrgan’s tumbl: All Clad 12”- The Fry Pan of The Gods
Neven, you’re helping neither my budget nor my waistline here. Epicurus calls.
“Recommended collects projects that we like, and we think you will too. They...”
– What’s that? Here You Go selected as a Recommended Project by the Kickstarter staff!
This project is incredibly inspiring to me, and I’m so grateful to everyone who’s donated so far to help us reach our goal. We’re almost half way there.
If you haven’t thrown a couple...
Hey Doublejack! Happy Birthday!
Runnin’ With the Devil (vocals track only)
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“This settles it, I’m giving the part of Geoff in the film to Sam Rockwell....”
– weselec
Sam Rockwell? Sam Fucking Rockwell? You knew I wanted Judd Nelson. You knew it. This is just so typical.
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“Help!! We found rotten fruit, yogurt from September, and moldy pizza in the...”
– Intranet
Yeah right, and a one-armed man broke into your house and killed your wife, Dr. Kimball.
“Freedom of speech. The freedom to disagree. That’s what I think pretty much...”
– Will Phillips, an Arkansas 10-year old who refuses to recite the pledge of allegiance until gay people can marry, on what it means to be an American. Will has so far endured a substitute teacher, his school principle and plenty of taunting from his classmates for his simple protest.
There are...
“It’s not that I know what we’ll lose by removing this artifact of one of the...”
– The death of the URL | FactoryCity
Did you know Stephanie wrote her own grease monkey...
The hardest thing about deciding to gush for a few...
Seriously. It’s ridiculous. I should go on. Even knowing Stephanie will berate me - the next chance she gets - for being openly sentimental on the Internet, I should go on. In fact, expect it.
But maybe not all at once. The saliva from all the making out might gum up the Tumblr gears.
“If you guys had better friends, you’d seem like an ass-kisser, too....”
– hotdogsladies
Maybe I’m in a gushy mood. Fine. Maybe. But would you talk about timing? Would you? Merlin’s another one whose insight and generosity are infectious, and whom I admire more all the time.