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Absolutely stunning photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge smothered in rolling fog. I wonder how much retouching was applied and I think this is the photographer. Regardless, I hope to take just one photo that is as great as this before I move on from this world.
High-res photo for your desktop pleasure here.
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The Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel uses labels with images of Captain America to brand their marijuana bundles of which 8 tons were found in a recently discovered tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego.
Never forget the day we all learned the shocking truth about the cannibalistic preferences of Donald Duck's nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Mental Floss collected some real honest to god political campaign slogans that used to be tossed around. The above was from the political battle over Prohibition where opponents such as Al Smith against banning alcohol were called "wets."
The police all across the country are just pepper spraying everyone nilly willy. The Super Committee, despite sounding like a poor man's version of The Justice League, can't get their shit together to help try to repair our country's economy. A California teen just admitted to killing his gay classmate. A Major League Baseball player was stabbed to death in the Netherlands. This was all on the front cover of a news site. How about some items that won't make you want to just give up on civilization?
- Woody Allen
I never quite understood the sex appeal that Woody Allen had for women until I saw the recent two-part documentary profile on PBS on Woody Allen from where I heard him utter the above quote which just made me step back and say "wow." Now I understand why women were so attracted to and smitten by him. It's his ability to put into words and express the things that I feel but often can't articulate. Also, being a noteworthy comic, writer, and prolific director whose films wins actors the Oscar helps in getting the ladies too. I should on work on that as well.
Drinkify is a website that turns your favorite artist or band into a drink with an accompanying single for your enjoyment. It was created in 24 hours at the 2011 Music Hack Day in Boston. Next step? IPO. DUH.
Snapped this in Times Square this past weekend. Here are a few other photos from my life the past couple weeks.
According to Mental Floss, AT&T ran the first online banner ad, seen above, and it was displayed on HotWired.com on October 27, 1994. Cue NBC's "the more you know" public service announcement.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ihwi_w_xQ] Someone unearthed this old commercial starring Stephen Colbert before he became The Stephen Colbert. That the commercial is for a bank is mildy ironic considering his satirical posturing during these tough and turbulent economic times.
Semi-relatedly (so far as actors appearing in commercials before they were famous...), here's a young Jared Leto and Rebecca Gayheart in a Noxzema commercial.
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Apple's lawyers oh snaps HTC. If you aren't sure when to oh snap, this handy flow chart will lay it out for you.
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Meant to post this a few days ago when it was actually 11/11/11 but I was too busy tweeting that it was 11/11/11. Anyhow, here is the New York Times elucidation on this date a hundred years ago.
The Highline Park makes its appearance in a recent issue of Daredevil, our favorite blind superhero.
[Hat tip Lawrence!]
On a sunny day in New York City where thousands of people of all shapes and sizes each ran 26 miles, I had an equally arduous day: I woke up, ordered Chinese for delivery, took a nap, watched some more TV, took a walk to get pizza followed by some hot chocolate on my way home. I did enjoy watching NBC's coverage of the marathon. I woke up in time to catch the thrilling homestretch sprint for the number one spot among the women, which was won by an Ethiopian, Firehiwot Dado. I tweeted: Even more badass than the way Firehiwot Dado won the NYC marathon is the fact that she has FIRE in her name. I also said that watching the NYC marathon was more enjoyable when you imagined that all the runners were trying to escape a zombie invasion.
Anyhoo, here are my entries last week on Sundance Channel's SUNfiltered blog that I hope you read and enjoy, and if you don't a KITTEN WILL DIE.
One cheering supporter at this year's NYC marathon.
Salman Rushdie tweets about the Kim Kardashian divorce in limerick form. The reader comments are great. This is my take:
There was a famous author named Rushdie. Renowned worldwide and knighted was he. But even he couldn't ignore, News the marriage was no more, And thus he found the plot for his next story!
There are only a few hours left of All Hallow's Eve (at least in New York). What shocks me weren't the costumes I saw tonight, but the fact that October is over and November is already upon us. On that unrelated note, here are some entries of mine you may have missed at Sundance Channel's SUNfiltered blog.
I mentioned it 
I'm not aware of the reason myself, but in the past year I've become addicted to the Charlie Rose show on PBS, which makes 
