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Bar Codes

By mike ⋅ June 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This story has me both fascinated and repulsed. The spread of SkyNet continues.

Best Game Ever

By mike ⋅ April 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Improv Everywhere’s newest mission was to create the best game ever, turning a typical, random Little League baseball game into the equivalent of the World Series. Complete with Jim Gray, a jumbotron, a press conference and even the Goodyear blimp. It’s interesting to note that not all their their missions come off with the intended [...]

Sequel?

By mike ⋅ March 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This almost sounds like the plot of another Pitt/Jolie film (for some reason I constantly find myself sucked into Mr and Mrs Smith on cable). I fell in love with a female assassin. A mind warping true article about a photojournalist that falls for a Columbian assassin.

Natural Born Citizen?

By mike ⋅ February 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting footnote to the pending presidential election. John McCain was not born in the United States. He was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states. “There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone [...]

Overconsumption

By mike ⋅ February 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m on record as loving the NYT’s infographics. Here is an interesting one on household consumption, a far more direct indicator of a families’ economic status than national income.

Clap Your Hands

By mike ⋅ February 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Reason #3973 why I love the internet. Kenny “Toast” French, the Michael Flately of….clapping. You’d think this clip would be boring but it’s strangely compelling.

Ork

By mike ⋅ October 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Mostly I have plans to hang my own photos or artwork on the new walls, but I do love these neighborhood city prints from Ork Posters. I think I may have to find a place for a silk screened Boston print. In some ways it reminds me of the unique maps, like College Town or [...]

Car Buying

By mike ⋅ October 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Honestly, buying a house was easier and less stressful than buying a new car. The internet has helped level the field in terms of raw knowledge for the consumer, but it has not, by and large, changed the way cars are sold. I pray for that day, but for now, the vast majority of folks, [...]

Little People, Big City

By mike ⋅ August 16, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Stumbling across, or at least the potential to stumble across, quirky things like little people street art, is what I may miss most about living in a big city.