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Target is the best store.

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

 
Whenever I visit my parents, I make sure to visit Target before returning to stupid target-less NYC.  I mean, targets exist here, but not in the wonderful, stocked, convenient glory of the suburbs.  Last weekend, my mom bought me this great lime/mustard green sweater dress with a drawstring.  I secretly suspect that my mom bought […]

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Summertime in THE City

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

 
May is almost over and even though that means I have to pay my June rent and my June student loan payment, it still means summer is almost here.  This is my first post collegiate summer which means a few things- investing in some summer friendly work clothes and finding things to do in New […]

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Twistori Launches New Features: Secretly?

May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today Twistori, the beautiful work of Twitter art that has already wasted hours of my time, sent out this tweet:
so secret #1 involves the letter “R”… we’ve got a fun little treat for whoever finds it first! @twistori us if you find it!
It […]

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Utu - Saving the Internet with Hate

April 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Zed Shaw’s always on some crazy shit, but here’s some crazy shit.
Utu is a new software package that hopes to “save the internet with hate.”
Here’s the premise:
The internet is overrun by trolls and aggressors who are free to do as they please, using the internet as their spambot, and are able to continue because there […]

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Dave Winer the Artist?

April 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s not cool to suck Dave Winer’s dick.
Warning: I’m about to suck Dave Winer’s dick.

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City Garden

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Gardening was an activity my mother made me do when I was young, ie: her slave. My sister and I would receive lists of chores, mostly with the header TO DO THIS WEEK. Sometimes one of the tasks was weeding. A couple of times a summer we had to deadhead rows and […]

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Why Do Old Companies Hoard Old Content?

April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Listen. It’s not that I think everything should be free. Really, it’s not.
Provide me good content for a reasonable price, I’ll make some small internal computations, and if it’s a deal, I’ll pony up.
But what about content that is outdated, is no longer available to the consumer, and is collecting dust in a […]

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Complicated feelings and observations about Hoods.

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hoods are prevalent in modern society, much like the pocket. Hoods however, are not external, provide shelter, and allow misanthropes to hide in their comforting shadow. Sometimes hoods protect heads from raindrops and snowflakes. Throughout history, hoods in various forms have provided both sexes with the aforementioned protection. Another, more recent […]

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You should be able to forward twits.

March 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

It’s 2008.
And when one friend sends out a great twit that I think another friend should read, there’s one very important thing I can’t easily do.
Forward twits from one friend to another.
And I think I should be able to.

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I see an untapped market: Instahealth Potion!

March 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m sick.
Man sick, even. The kind where the tone of my voice never changes from a whine and when I got out of bed this morning and nobody was around to console my mansickness, I had no choice but to spend a half hour describing my symptoms to my cats.
So I went to the […]

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