Italian painter Antonello da Messina created this masterpiece painting that I should probably gaze at in reverence and awe, but instead it makes me go "awwwwwwwww" for such a sad face Jesus. :-(
These are taken from Flat Black Cars, a website devoted entirely to matte black painted luxury and exotic cars. They all look like something Bruce Wayne would have in his garage. I should have done this to my Toyota Camry. Drats.
Meaty accessory for your wrist. $32 here.
It reads like a scene out of How I Met Your Mother, but here's an amusing tale of one New Yorker asking out a New Yorkette on the L train via his smartphone app...
That’s when I decided I had to ask her out, but how to do it without being publicly embarrassed on a packed train? So I took out my phone and wrote “how about a cup of coffee sometime?” on my evernote app.
Find out what happened here.
Candid interview with Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist. Disses on kids! Makes money! Only reads girlfriend's blog!
Mr. Schuman, nowadays teenage bloggers like Tavi Gavinson are getting flown around the world to sit on the front rows of fashion shows in order to write about them. Isn’t that getting a little absurd?
Well I don’t think her audience is that big. I think her success is a little bit of a conspiracy by established print media that wanted to show that this blog thing is not that important, that it’s done by a bunch of twelve year olds. But a lot of us are serious grown-ups.
Do you make money off your blog or do you make money because of what you have created around your blog?
American Apparel bought advertising for the whole year and then I just got an email yesterday that Net-A-Porter.com is going to buy advertisements for the rest of the year (2010) as well. So those two ads alone are a good fraction of a million dollars: more than a quarter million and less than a half a million.
A friend once told me Scott stopped to look at her while she was walking down the street. He raised his camera. Then put it back down again without snapping a photo of her. I told her this meant that her life is now no longer worth living. I'm a thoughtful friend.
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Daniel Eatock, Unicycle & Stabilisers, 2011
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I must visit this resort in Kakslauttanen, Finland that features glass igloos that allows guests to comfortably and warmly view the aurora borealis. Or I suppose I could just go back home to Alaska.
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Rather fascinating article about the ongoing debate online about Jake Gyllenhaal's height. And in case you're wondering what the heck this piece is doing in GOOD, don't worry, it ties back to climate change. Yup.
Friends, the CelebHeights entry on Jake Gyllenhaal runs to 11 printed pages. It spans 21 months. It is the Infinite Jest of Jake Gyllenhaal–height-related discourse: a maelstrom of heated debate, contested recollections, and esoteric theories of mind-numbing potency.
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A Harvard business prof and a [Duke] behavioral economist recently asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth is distributed in the United States. Most thought that it’s more balanced than it actually is. Asked to choose their ideal distribution of wealth, 92% picked one that was even more equitable.
See more infographs that illuminate this massive wealth gap in this country, although I suspect I could count on one hand the number of readers who'll click on that link. In the meantime, keep calm and carry on.
Update: So far four clicks on that infograph link. True, I only get six visitors a day, but lets make my "count on one hand" assertion a fact!
This New York Times article "Alphabet Soup" is responsible for producing both the best sentence and best correction ever in its illustrious history.
Best sentence: Typically, the letters are spoken: it’s “oh em gee,” not “ahmguh.”
Best correction: A previous version of the article incorrectly said that "swag" stands for "stuff we all get."
Obviously "swag" stands for "Something We Asians Got."
This picture is most likely a form of visual torture to the aquaphobic, but I like 
This is the signature of Obama's budget chief 
Moritz Resi created a new font designed from the average of all 900 typefaces installed his computer.
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On Saturday, I hopped on my bike to speed down a few blocks to Chelsea to take a look at David Byrne's "Global Inflation" installation, which I had previously blogged about, as well as the Social Media exhibit at The Pace Gallery. I also hopped around to the other galleries.
These images don't do this justice. It's quite a wonder in person that is immediately accessible, especially to kids, who are allowed to touch and poke at the globe.
The good inanimate samaritan who agreed to watch my bike while I gallery hopped.
Is this a gallery?
I love this piece which was part of the Social Media show. This is a wall of photographs of people in front of sunsets discovered by the artist Penelope Umbrico who searched for the tag “sunset” on Flickr.
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) art by Aram Bartholl. These things are the bane of my existence when I try to sign up for a new web service. Maybe...I'm...a...computer.
Another fantastic piece by Aram Bartholl. The artist designed these working hand drawn QR codes which links to the Google search results for a specific individual. I liked the hand drawn aspect of it.
One in a series of four "apps." I can't wait to download Yums: an app that will create all my favorite noms instantly.
Illuminated globes.
And of course I had to get my Serra on again at the Gagosian.
Here's 
This is a poignant and heart-rending, but must read essay that, contrary to the claims of luddites and media traditionalists, demonstrates that modern technology and the Internet can play a meaningful and earnest role in fostering and preserving emotional connections and memories.
Nearly four years later, I sometimes type his email address in the search box in my Gmail. Hundreds of results pop up, and I’ll pick a few at random to read.
The last sentence in this essay... Get those tissues ready.
Los Angeles resident Chanel Tapper has the longest tongue in the state of California as verified by the Guinness Book of World Records with a 3.8 inch long tongue. The world record however is owned by Stephen Taylor of the UK with 3.86 inches.