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How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
24 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 0 comments
In case you want to start blogging but don't want people to know it is you. Or you are curious about how you would go about protecting your identity online. To summarize, basically don't ever access your anonymous blog from the same things/places you use to access your real stuff or from places that are tied to you legally. So, different computers, different buildings, different everything, and never mix them together. Also, don't tell anyone that you have a personal relationship with about the whole thing. Sounds hard!
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This Advertising Life
23 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 1 comment
A collection of animated gifs with captions that give a scenario in the business of creating advertising that matches the gifs. Kind of hard to explain, so I'll give some examples.
when I’m waiting on someone to compliment my clever copy:
when I take forever to decide on a headline and it still doesn’t work:
when the client says, "make this go viral":
when meetings start to go too long:
And I think this gif is hilarious! Have you ever seen a cat so uncoordinated looking?! pitching a bunch of concepts that nobody likes:
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Historical images in their modern settings
22 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 2 comments
A russian blog (so we can't understand any of it), of historical images (all from World War II?) placed into modern day images. A very, very interesting way to look at old photos. I can't even imagine the amount of work that would go into this.
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Star Wars Vocal Cover
21 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 0 comments
I missed my chance for posting this one a little over a week ago on Star Wars day, but it is still awesome, so here it is:
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Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup
20 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 0 comments
So it looks like it turns out pesticides are to blame for colony-collapse-disorder. Maybe we really should start buying organic at the store even if it costs a little more.
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The History of Whistling
19 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 1 comment
Well, you just new I was going to like this one, what with my new hobby and all!
Also don't miss their history of lyrics that aren't lyrics video, it is a lot of fun, too!
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Now Or Never
18 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 0 comments
All this Now or Never song made me feel was sad that I don't slackline anymore. I realize that I go running for hours on end these days but it just doesn't feel like I have an hour to go hang out casually slacklining. Apparently that's something I need to change about my life.
Also, I want to go to a big music festival sometime.
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Icon Bronco
17 May 2012 10:35pm UTC 1 comment
A company called "Icon" is making a business out of upgrading classic Broncos to make them usable as everyday cars. They few models they did show, however, didn't have that classic look I like. But as a child Bronco owner (my mother owns one), I think this is a very fun idea!
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Ask a Grown Man
11 May 2012 04:26pm UTC 3 comments
I have no idea what online magazine these are for, but I think this series is really entertaining!
Jon Hamm:
B.J. Novak (who I've never liked because of the character he played on The Office, but this made me like him):
And Paul Rudd (I haven't watched this one yet, but want to get this posted before my run so will watch it later):
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Abbey Road Crossing Webcam
9 May 2012 01:00pm UTC 0 comments
A live webcam of the intersection depicted on the cover of The Beatles' album Abbey Road!
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Local gravity
8 May 2012 04:23pm UTC 0 comments
I love this XKCD comic from a while ago about how because the earth isn't a perfect sphere, the force of gravity isn't constant in every place on earth. And thus, for athletic competitions (like the olympics), some places are going to vary in their strength of gravity enough that they'll actually be better for certain events (like the high jump). What an interesting idea!
I have no idea if the numbers reported in this comic are legit, but my experience with this author is that these numbers are extremely likely to have been calculated and not made up.
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April 2012 Fails
1 May 2012 05:16pm UTC 1 comment
Yes that's right my friends, another month and another fail video!
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Marijuana
29 April 2012 01:00pm UTC 2 comments
The In Focus picture blog does a series on Marijuana. Is it just me or did half the pictures take place in Colorado or Oregon? And apparently Colorado is voting on whether or not to make marijuana legal this November. You can bet your butt that I'll be voting to legalize!
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Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives
28 April 2012 01:00pm UTC 0 comments
Absolutely fantastic set of photos from the In Focus photo blog. In particular #36 is my favorite!
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Stunning Time-Lapse Portrait of Portland
27 April 2012 07:16pm UTC 3 comments
Just in case you weren't convinced that Portland is the greatest metropolitan area in the world:
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