April 2009
21 posts
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore (via affremblequotes)
It's 4:10am.
It’s 4:10am right now. I don’t usually write too much in my tumblr, using it more to share links, pictures, quotes, etc. I feel with tumblr that I can be super impersonal while giving people some impression of what I like. However, I’m supposed to be writing a detailed analysis of one of Fidel Castro’s many speeches right now and I just don’t feel like doing it....
Peep Show →
contrastcompare:
The Washington Post’s Peep Diorama contest is what I live for. The projects get weirder and weirder with every passing year. NightPeeps won (the first in the slideshow). It’s pretty adorable. My favorite finalists are Peeptown Cupcake and Peep-E. Very strange how there were two dioramas influenced by “Man on Wire.”
Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter →
“The sea of young people reflected the deep generation gap that has developed in Moldova, and the protesters used their generation’s tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter, the social messaging network.”
The interesting application and power of social networking. Although these media may seem frivolous sometimes, the fact is, the internet has...
The Anatomy of a Web Advertising Scam →
givemesomethingtoread:
The ads plead: Wouldn’t I like to click and read a flat-stomach testimonial? And from there, wouldn’t I like to click to see a product that could help me get that flat stomach without even trying? And from there, wouldn’t I like to order that product for free? And wouldn’t I like to give them my credit card info? And wouldn’t I like to investigate a mysterious charge on...
