The Sartorialist captures the upside of the summer heat in the city I call home.
Single serve Tumblr highlighting the best of and most interesting articles on Wikipedia. There's also Wikipedia's own list of unusual articles on their site.
YMMV.
A long list of Wikipedia pages on creepy, bizarre, and weird things.
Humorous infographic of some of "Wikipedia's lamest edit wars."
Tiger The "most powerful living cat"? 5,303 editsArachnophobia Appropriate to include a huge picture of a tarantual on a page about fear of spiders? 640 edits
U2 Are Bono's harmonica skills relevant in an encyclopedia entry? 10,367 edits
Ann Coulter Was the right wing US commentator born in 1961 or 1963? 10,790 edits
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Must read synopsis on Wikipedia of Warren G and Nate Dogg's "Regulate."
On a cool, clear night (typical to Southern California) Warren G travels through his neighborhood, searching for women with whom he might initiate sexual intercourse. He has chosen to engage in this pursuit alone.Nate Dogg, having just arrived in the east side of Long Beach, seeks Warren. On his way to find Warren, Nate passes a car full of women who are excited to see him. Regardless, he insists to the women that there is no cause for excitement.
Warren makes a left turn at 21st Street and Lewis Ave, in the East Hill/Salt Lake neighborhood, where he sees a group of young men enjoying a game of dice together. He parks his car and greets them. He is excited to find people to play with, but to his chagrin, he discovers they intend to relieve him of his material possessions. Once the hopeful robbers reveal their firearms, Warren realizes he is in a less than favorable predicament.
I see what your collaborative users did there.
During lunch I discovered the secret location where all of my MTA complaints go unanswered and unaddressed.
The red circled building is where my office is located.
More big picture photos of New York City.
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A Sony print ad from a 1973 National Geographic.
The child silently cursed his great-grandfather. Old bastard. I wanted an iPod.
Relatedly, my father got me the first ever iPod for a Christmas gift, but unfortunately he had to return it because my mac didn't have a USB port.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBnxZpNcBWc] YouTube user Eugenietung created this time lapse video of last night's brilliant sunset over New York City.
My future bachelor loft will have this chair by designed by Alessandro Mendini to add a splash of color in the living room.
The Grey Lady looks into whether breast movement impacts running form is a question of serious scientific inquiry.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth in England and other schools recently attached reflective markers to the breasts of a group of female runners and had the women jog along a track while wearing various types of bras or forgoing breast support. The researchers charted the trajectories of the women’s breasts, using infrared cameras.
The researchers conclude: Yes, they have an impact and "[instead] of merely bouncing up and down, it turns out that breasts arc through a complicated figure-8 pattern when a woman runs or walks."
My head just reflexively moved in a figure-8 pattern.
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On this kid's (terrific) blog, I read this brief anecdote shared by Larry King with Esquire recently. King says:
I once asked Stephen Hawking, the smartest guy in the world, what he didn’t understand. He said, "Women."
Great punchline.
My only objection here is that Stephen Hawking didn't say that. He typed it. His text to speech synthesizer said it.
Relatedly, this is my all time favorite photo of Larry King.
By looks of this look, Mugatu is still pushing his homeless inspired look "Derelicte" at this year's Copenhagen Fashion Week, which starred a mile-long, hot pink catwalk.
And yes, I will continue referencing Zoolander until the Internet runs out of batteries.
It's interesting to see that Inception had an impact on graffiti artists and taggers as well. By the street sign, I want to say this was taken in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, but to truly know we need to go deeper.
Some years ago on my original, now defunct, blog (a digital high five to everyone who remember mrod.xanga.com, 2003-2006) I shared a link to a site that created a portrait of Biggie as it played his song "Juicy." My friend Nick who might have been my first or second reader has since mentioned how much he enjoyed that link and had unsuccessfully searched for it.
Well, hat tip to my homie Jerome for recently resurfacing it on his blog. Here you go Nick: Please turn up your volume.
I challenge you to find a more thug reserved parking sign.
Stephen Colbert interviews painter Chuck Close during which they also discuss his piece seen above (excuse the douchebag photo bombing the picture). Fascinating and hilarious talk.
I recommend wearing this hat when listening to the Mad Men radio at Pandora. Also enjoyable if you like jazz and the Sinatra classics, which should be everyone. [Via]