January 2011
December 2010
“Sometimes I see tweets go by where stupid girls with duckface avatars say things...”
– Regretsy – My Top Five Etsy Purchases of 2010
(via Rach)
No Pardon for Billy the Kid - NYTimes.com →
I was all ready to hate on this, but it’s kinda cool on all sides.
Ned Hepburn: 2010: The Year Of Shitting On Things →
nedhepburn:
NEVER HAS SUCH A YEAR GONE BY WHERE EVERYONE EVER WAS SHITTING SO MUCH ON EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN IT.
THE KANYE ALBUM WAS GOOD. TRON WASN’T THAT BAD. MICHAEL CERA IS A NICE GUY. THE WIKILEAKS GUY HAD SOME DUBIOUS ENCOUNTER BUT IF WE’RE GONNA JUDGE SOMEONE ON THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE SEX…
Good shit!
“Okay, I’ll call my mom right now so I can be like ‘Water’s...”
– Rachel, after putting pasta on, before calling to tell her mom we got domestic-partnered.
“The Times Square Church has installed a billboard on the New Jersey side of the...”
– One Billboard’s Journey to Faith - NYTimes.com
LOL @ everyone involved in this.
This press pitch was sent to Urlesque today –...
Name: XXXX URL: Subject: Gillette Odor Shield $100 Giveaway Hi, Hope all is well! The holidays can be a stressful time for everyone, with all of the travel, planning, gifting and family gatherings. Gillette wanted to find out what stressed out their men the most. A survey released by Gillette Odor Shield found that shopping for and the cost of presents are the most stressful aspects of the...
Gawker was hacked six months ago, say sources... →
Whoops!
Play on: Judge tosses suit against Inwood Hill... →
'I Am Under 18' Button Clicked For First Time In... →
Two years old, fuck you. (via meme-meme)
Demise of the Pork-Belly Contract - WSJ.com →
Because bacon got so popular, fewer pork bellies are being frozen, which means one of the classic commodities is hardly being traded, which means prices fluctuate more.
Is this what pop is?
I feel like all the music I’ve been hearing/getting into lately is Matt & Kimmish, Vampire Weekendish, music with an echo that sounds like you’re supposed to be, or already are, playing it out a second-story window.
Rach says she doesn’t know what I’m talking about.
Classmates.com Employees Don't Have Heart To Tell... →
:(
“Poole’s own experience on the Web has something of the acceleration and scale of...”
– Names You Need to Know: Christopher Poole, Canvas - Forbes
This paragraph is the whole reason that most of what people try to predict about Chris Poole and his new startup Canv.as is bullshit. Maybe he’s a genius, maybe he got lucky, but so very few people have enough information to say...
Neven Mrgan: The man who wore my password →
Outtake from my Esquire piece
Screwing with Justin Bieber This year, Justin Bieber got slowed down 800%, deleted from the internet, and called a 51-year-old pedophile. 4chan told Google that he had syphilis and tried to send him to North Korea. On the upside, all the attention meant 3% of Twitter traffic was dedicated to him. But when he kept dominating Twitter’s trending topics, they changed their algorithm to...
2010 in Time Wasters: What we wasted our time on... →
I’m in fucking Esquire(.com). Motherfucking Esquire(.com). I grew up idolizing this magazine, reading their books, imagining my future life as a dapper gentleman (ha), and now I have a piece published there(.com)!
Jesus, a season pass to Community Season 2 is $55 →
Put it on fucking Hulu and keep it there! Show me ads! Charge me maybe $20 for the season! But jesus, fifty-five bucks?
So am I being a dick if I torrent a show that's...
Does this mean I need to get a TV and a DVR? Or do you think I’m forgiven for torrenting until there’s an online option?
Torrenting Season 2 of Community 'cause Hulu only... →
I'm kinda loving that I failed the Twitter... →
Neil Patrick Harris tweeting about Urlesque’s celebrity Twitter spelling report card. Day: made.
