LINK 99Matters »
Various musicians answer the question: What is really important to you?
McCain’s Old Veto Pen revealed to be a Harvest Sharpie. Context: YouTube clip, jump to 1:00. »
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Signage fail.
LINK Sarah Palin Disney Trailer »
"An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar?"
This building is just a few blocks away from our office.
“Three people live in this building. It was bought in 1966 for $102,000. Now real-estate brokers estimate it’s worth at least $30 million.” (full story)
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LINK Chock full of drawings »
in journals.
The Iridesco field trip to visit The Glass House has been slated for June of 2009. Get your tickets while the ticket getting is good. (via Front Studio) »
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LINK Feasting at the Table of Taipei »
Beijing hosted the Olympics, but Taipei takes the gold for food with a breadth of offerings.
Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals” – Waxy.org
Andy Biao uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to map the sample release dates in the latest Girl Talk album.
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Saha highly recommends this book, so here at the Iridesco Book Club, we're giving it a go.
Harvest pens and Sharpies arrived at Iridesco offices last week. Want some? Just stop by our office.
LINK The Bad Plus and Benoît Delbecq »
The Bad Plus (which I recently discovered via Tuneage) plays ecletic jazz renditions of modern songs from the likes of Nirvana to Aphex Twins. They will be performing at the French Institute in NYC this Saturday.
Things has become one of the most indispensable productivity tools for me recently. The effortless syncing between the iPhone app and its desktop counterpart keep things organized on the go or at the office.
(shown here are sketches of the Things iPhone interface)
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LINK The Next Little Thing? »
Love the audio slideshow accompanying this story.
9/11/08
La Tercera, an exceptionally well-designed newspaper from Chile we
received while on the flight back to NYC.
Tourist dorks.
Last night in Buenos Aires and we somehow got into a heated competition of TypeRacer on the roofdeck.
“… All the news-stands and book shops – what a literate place, one thinks; what wealth, what good looks. The women in Buenos Aires were well-dressed, studiously chic, in a way that has been abandoned in Europe. I had expected a fairly prosperous place, cattle and gauchos, and a merciless dictatorship; I had not counted on its being charming, on the seductions of its architecture, or the vigour of its appeal. It was a wonderful city for walking…” – The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux (1979) »
having a bite in "the most beautiful bookstore" in the world? perhaps
so. el ateneo, an old theater converted into a
bookstore.
LINK Shazam »
The most amazing iPhone app which will "listen" to a song for a few seconds and tell you the artist and title of the song.
Late night nerd session in Buenos Aires.