I will echo chamber the AV Club noticing Todd Barry's webpage of suggested email signatures.
Sample:
That guy who manages the vegetarian restaurant got a pretty severe haircut.
- Todd Barry, on the vegetarian restaurant manager's new haircut.
I didn't know Sheryl Crow had a son.
- Todd Barry, on finding out that Sheryl Crow had a son.
I bought the Reflect application for $2.99. It's a cool design kaleidoscope app. Will be way cooler when the user can choose color schemes and upload (or actually design) patterns. Still, very fun! Above, the first thing I created.
This is easily one of the finest examples of band merchandise I've seen. Cast Spells is the solo-ish project of Maps & Atlas' Dave Davison. Good music.
But this shirt stands tall on it's own. Great colors, font, fabric (it's this hyper-soft American Apparel material). Great, odd message, too. Best $15 I spent between midnight and 1 am today!
Volume Inc. designed the new ad campaign for YBCA. I've seen a handful of MUNI station takeovers, which are awesome. This is the sort of advertising that I'd love to see more of. It made me stop in my tracks and stare. I spent a good five minutes in the station, and for that time I felt like I was in a loud, other-worldly museum.
I think that life is much stranger than we acknowledge, and I think creatively integrating more peculiarities could be a powerful way to integrate disparate elements (horrific and common) into a shared understanding and embrace of "what we're dealing with."
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It's about a four mile walk home from work, which I do sometimes when I can't bear the the thought of being in the MUNI tube with a bunch of strangers.
Mary-Louise Parker! So sassy. She has a recipe for pie (better than cake) in Esquire. Thanks to George for still caring about Facebook and posting about it. She's not the best character on Weeds anymore, but she's still great. These pics aren't really SFW. Whoops.
"If you don't know what that is, go look at the smaller pieces of gravel in your driveway."
I just submitted an idea to the Awesome Foundation, which awards monthly $1,000 grants for awesome ideas. Fingers crossed!
"Now if only Matador Records or DFA would team up with the Mast Brothers and Stumptown."
From the Times T Magazine. A great thought for fair trade coffee micro-roasters.
Postmodern Icee Commercials, via texts from Tai:
1. Michael Jackson moonwalks thru sea of little white pills. Sarkozy and Obama glance downwards at Cherry Icee. Fin.
2. Russian bears and grandmas dancing. Sarah Palin with binoculars on her deck, downstairs bedrooms rocking. "Icee Russia from my house."
3. Billy Mays says: "YOU GOTTA SEE THIS," sips Icee, opens mouth, zoom in, Fawcett and Carradine are pouring Icee's on each other in heaven.
Two way tie for #3:
3. The world is populated by red Icee + white Icee couples. A red Icee falls in love with another red Icee. They go to Iowa to marry.
"Terrestrial radio stations don't have to pay them directly to record companies, but satellite radio stations and music-streaming sites, which do an even better job of widening musical palates, with fewer commercials, do have to pay."
Essential reading from Fool.com.
An old workshop companion at Flatman Crooked has taken up a discussion that, I feel, is not disseminating fast enough in either the corporate or, especially, the independent publishing worlds. It regards the fast-evolving world of e-publishing.
Read the series here. Part three involves a considerable rant by yours truly!
Check out this ridiculous mutative interactive graphic the NYT posted. Say what you will about the medium, this newspaper is doing it's damnedest.
Hat tip: Sullivan.
Most hilarious sentences from the AV Club's live blog of the MJ funeral; and no, I don't believe anything is sacred (anymore). Sorry gravity-of-the-situation, but the whole thing had me in stitches all morning. Humans are soooo weird.
1. "At least Stevie Wonder doesn't have to look at the coffin while he's performing."
2. "Kudos to the editor who found that footage of Michael making out with Bubbles and said, 'You know what? Fuck it. It's going in.'"
3. "Al Sharpton first knew that Usher and Brooke Shields were dating in 1974, at the Harlem Expo...."
Welcome to the echo chamber! As you have read everywhere, you can get a new Air song by signing up to their mailing list (or googling "new Air song").
"Michael Jackson will be buried this week– without his brain." - From the Mirror.
For the record, I think this makes a lot of sense, and as macabre as it sounds, I hope this story is true. I think studying this brain is the right thing for the species. No brain will ever be quite like this one. I would expect science to unearth some alien qualities to MJ's brain.
Sperry Topsiders for Band Of Outsiders. I like the mottled pair on the right, FYI. I'd rock their body. Via Kanye and Selectism. I actually just got a pair of Vans that look kind of like this. And the Vans are made out of bamboo and shit. Very healthy for the earth.
Oh wait, it's just Neil doing his thing. Seen on the Dish. Made me laugh for like 12 seconds straight while looking for Andrew's thoughts on Palin, aka the ultimate Summer Festival.
Top Three hyperlinks in Harper's Weekly Review:
1. Toyota unveiled a wheelchair steering system that can be directly controlled by a human brain.19
2.Latvians, asked to provide collateral for loans of up to 500 lats, were offering their eternal souls (must be previously unmortgaged).33
3. A new “Indiana Jones” movie was in development.27
"My philosophy is to allow the human to operate as the magnificent machine it is."
Space suit designer Bill Elkins to Michael Klesius. Seen on Boing Boing.
There's "All My Life," one of my (many) favorites from Dave's new album. The guitar playing on this one is quite serious.
Dave debuted a new photo page last month. It's worth a few minutes, if only to observe how ridiculously awesome planet earth is.
Here's a description: "The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. A self-running record player shaped in the form of a red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker, spins around the record, bringing the music to life."
From A-Trak and Designboom because of Rhea Jeong.
Whatever Jack White is building at the beginning of this trailer is just about as cool as any riff on Houses of the Holy. Not quite as cool, but just about.
"When our children's children train their ocular feeds (our children's children will be sentient avatars) on the video cassette (sentient avatars who are really into retro) of the BET Awards of aught nine, they will look upon it not as an awards-show-turned-impromptu-Michael-Jackson-tribute, but as the historic night when Beyoncé donned a diaphanous uber-tutu, placed a tiara veil on the crown of her head, and finally married a wind machine."
A pop culture love letter from the AV Club's Amelie Gillette.
Some versatile lamps from Kjellgren Kaminsky. 
