November 2008
63 posts
“You need to put a width on your div, ta.”
– -katie (via juliaheffernan)
It was true. She did.
Chasing Pavements →
Lili just showed me this video - the dancing is so cool!
(youtube wouldn’t let me embed the good version - only the trash version - bastards)
WatchThe Attractive Girls Union drives a hard bargain. I am loving the onion lately.
The Onion: 26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He... →
pile:
On some level, this is my favorite part of Thanksgiving (via caro).
ughh
Watchcaseydonahue:
“Julia’s Store” Written by me, directed by Myself and Blake.
The first official original vimeo video, check it out!
Great job! Julia - very scandalous.
“Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will...”
– Op-Ed by David Brooks, NYT - the personnel of the smarty-pants administration
Get out the vote
ok well the main thing you have to vote for is over BUT there is still one big thing remaining - vote for my company (outbrain) for best blog plugin at Mashable’s Open Web Awards
Also - vote for vimeo as best video sharing site while you’re there.
tumblove
Anyone who knows me well knows that being a good friend to my little sister Julia reserves you a permanent soft spot in my heart. This morning my tumblr dashboard was chalk full of sympathy notes for the now infamous toilet-spoon story (thanks for making it so easy to visualize sox).
While this is clearly more of a tribute to how great Julia is - it also, I think, shows what an awesome community...
Bamboo
Today I assembled bamboo shelves and watched a movie about POWs in Vietnam - Not surprisingly it stirred up some curiosity about bamboo.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth; it has been clocked surging skyward as fast as 121 cm (47.6 inches) in a 24-hour period, and can also reach maximal growth rate exceeding one meter (40 inches) per hour for short periods of time (thanks...
Barak Obama’s first interview since becoming the President elect tonight on 60 mins - as soon as Sunday Night Football is over. Ugh. I hate football. I cannot wait they are currently running 20 mins over - I need my Obama fix. I’ve been detoxing since the 4th.
“People find it difficult to resist your persuasive manner.”
– Fortune Cookie (via noahkalina)
I just got this same fortune two nights ago - actually i got a double
Google uses search data to predict the flu →
Google found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional flu surveillance systems.
Article I just wrote for our school newspaper
jimiheffernan:
Dear Republicans, So you lost the election. It stinks, right? You’re probably a little down in the dumps. Well don’t be. Here’s a few reasons you can be happy about this election:
1. Indiana and Massachusetts agreed: Obama won the blue states, but he also won many red states. Indiana, which hasn’t voted democrat since 1964, voted for Obama. This is an expression of national unity...
From Face the Nation, comment by Bob Schieffer
jpheff3:
Seeing the television pictures of that crowd in Grant Park that had come to celebrate Barack Obama’s victory was a sight I’ll never forget. But I was disappointed at first in Obama’s speech. I was expecting another of those rousing, old time, “Yes, we can” orations that had so captivated crowds during the campaign. It was a fine speech, I thought. But why didn’t he ramp it up as he...
