January 2009
93 posts
Just saw Snowman at the Open Eye Figure Theater. Strongly recommended. Video by 3-Minute Egg.
[via coworker Teresa]
KITTY CAM →
uwenna:
I can’t sit still. KITTY CAM! Here’s to not getting any work done.
CityPages.com Serves Local Ads to International... →
Exactly why it is a complete rip-off to buy local ads at a CPM rate with the City Pages.
[via Laura in IM]
Watch Dave’s dog Winnie be bored every day.
Utne Reader: Cheese Wars: France vs. U.S.A.
Utne Reader quoting Foreign Policy:
Apparently one of George W. Bush’s last acts as president was to triple tariffs on French Roquefort cheese. This was meant as retaliation for the longstanding French ban on U.S. beef imports. But as Charles Bremner notes, many French were quick to see it as Bush’s final shot at the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” who had so aggravated him during...
Triple J: Bon Iver - Live at the Wireless
Cover of Feist’s “The Park” at 14:00.
[Kyle]
I hate the whole “RT” thing. Just link to noteworthy tweets, don’t regurgitate...
– John Gruber
This Weekend at the Art Shanties
tumblelikeyougiveadamn:
Saturday - Croquet tournament using hand-made wickets from artist Bill Gorcica, 11AM - Gypsy-punk combo The Ex-Lovers in the Black Box Theater Shanty, 12 to 2PM - An old-fashioned pageant of survival and warfare in the Imperial Transatlantic Expedition Shanty, 2PM - Also on the ice: Bicycle Races & the recently-completed World’s Largest Cribbage Board Sunday - The...
If a man wears a ring on the middle finger of his left hand rather than on his...
– -Julia, Eden Prairie
Read: [Tom Lyden’s response on Jason DeRusha’s blog]
The Obama Presidency: the first 60 hours
edkohler:
spiegelman:
So far, Obama has (i) declared that he will “restore science to its rightful place,” (ii) closed Gitmo, and (iii) dropped by the White House press corps unannounced. If the first thing on his presidential checklist was “establish self as exact opposite of George W. Bush,” then he can go ahead and cross it off.
And he drank wine at the inauguration.
Enable Emoji Icon on iPhone 2.2 without Jailbreak →
[via Dennis Crowley and Josh Knowles in the comments]
Obama Agrees Take Oath of Office Every Morning...
brianvan:whatthefuckdoineedtoknow
WIRED: I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the... →
[Magnetbox]
TastingTable: Jim Lahey reveals his recipe for... →
[Slice]
mediation:
Steve Perry joins Politics in Minnesota →
Briscoe and Nola
Music: Érotico-Tico by Serge Gainsbourg
Steve Perry joins MinnPost →