December 2010
65 posts
Christmas broke Twitter.
“Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along...”
– NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won’t End?
WatchBecause Tron, at its core, is a movie about skateboarding.
Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic →
Indeed, the production of PhDs has far outstripped demand for university lecturers. In a recent book, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, an academic and a journalist, report that America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships. Using PhD students to do much of the undergraduate teaching cuts the number of...
TOP 50
According to my last.fm charts, I listened to these bands most frequently in 2010.
Verdict? So many MALES. Quite a bit of “mainstream indie” content, but not enough chillwave/dubgaze to be totally down with the kiddies. I like that Mazzy Star made it to #37.
1 Male Bonding 2 Deerhunter 3 Boards of Canada 4 No Age 5 Minor Threat 6 Loscil 7 Mount Kimbie 8 Broken Social Scene 9 LCD...
“Marmite is delicious”
– Me, since always
“Ambien has been a friend for the last week or so”
– http://www.blazersedge.com/2010/12/18/1884981/media-row-report-blazers-96-warriors-95
“Crack has been a good friend for a while now.”
– Me, just now
Watchdalasverdugo:
“Portland is a city where young people go to retire.”
Ok, now I’m actually stoked to watch “Portlandia”.
Word. This actually looks funny. It also makes me want to move.
Max Fish on Lower East Side Is Closing -... →
“One patron, Kevin Long, a 26-year-old professional skateboarder known as Spanky, showed off a new tattoo on his elbow, which depicted a small broken bottle, a teardrop and the letters M and F. He and a veteran bartender there had designed it on a cocktail napkin in protest. “The top 100 times of my life have all been in this bar,” Mr. Long said.”
Spanky needs to go to some different...
“In other words: Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting...”
– Naomi Wolf (via azspot)
“I enjoyed watching some young men in Gasworks Park in Seattle doing some tricks...”
VisualTargeting® : Steven Kronick →
“The Breakthrough Of The Century In 2008, Kronick’s leap of faith into founding Visual Targeting® proved to be worthwhile, when a specialized team of research experts proved at the highest possible level of Statistic Confidence that implemeting the Visual Targeting® methods and technologies increases visual advertising performance by as much as 400% - thus, multipling resulting profits...
EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide... →
Fucking depressing.
The Waffle Game That Changed Their Lives →
“You’ve never heard of this game. It’s in only one cabinet, playable in one city and, generously estimating, maybe it makes a dollar a day. Nothing about this video game suggests it’s someone’s meal ticket, but it is. For life.”
Off The Waffle - The Game
PDX Socialite
I am going to do something “social” every evening in December.
Here is my schedule thus far:
Dec. 1 - Potluck at Azure’s, White Rainbow at Holocene Dec. 2 - Art opening at Courier Coffee, Jona’s birthday (Departure/Portabello/Ryanns) Dec. 3 - Clinton St Records, Basement Gallery, Car Hole, 811 Burnside, Project Grow, Sloans, Florida Room Dec. 4 - Together Gallery opening,...
“This changed our usual design process, forcing us to plan carefully and think of...”
– 24 ways: Extreme Design
GREAT JOB, /dev/fort!