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"We suggest that this manoeuvre should be considered in cases of intractable hiccups before..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:39:32 -0500

“We suggest that this manoeuvre should be considered in cases of intractable hiccups before proceeding with pharmacological agents.”

- Termination of intractable hiccups with digital re… [J Intern Med. 1990] - PubMed result

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:34:00 -0400

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place

Herbie Hancock - Rock It

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:56:00 -0400

Herbie Hancock - Rock It

thedailywhat: Photo of the Day: A farmer protesting declining...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:42:06 -0400

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: A farmer protesting declining milk prices sprays riot police with milk outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels.

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Photo

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:57:00 -0400

Asobi Seksu - Walk On The Moon

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:45:51 -0400

Asobi Seksu - Walk On The Moon:

Best Halloween Idea Ever.

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:48:09 -0400

merlin:

Are we too old to trick or treat? | Ask Metafilter [comment]

Wonderful anecdote from MeFi:

I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreaters— but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said “Please knock.” So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our “costumes” and tell us we were “such cute trick or treaters!” One even pinched my cheek. Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house.

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Do you LOVE Nutella? Apparently, people do (these comments crack...

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:44:00 -0400

Do you LOVE Nutella?

Apparently, people do (these comments crack me up). Here’s a recipe to make your own, approximately.

POS Design 002 If I see one more of these...

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:43:00 -0400

POS Design 002

If I see one more of these “architect”-designed epic wastes of material, I am going to have to smack a topological bitch up! Goddamn, quit copping out and learn to use materials competently. This is not only a humongous waste of materials, time, efficiency and budget; it is also extremely heavy and impossible to move. I have never seen one of these assemblies that, despite their massive bulk, didn’t seem to be right on the verge of crumbling. The waste of material here is not simply one or two times more than what a responsible + decent designer could have come up with. It is more on the powers of ten scale of exponentially too much material. This is a Piece Of Shit.

What I like about AMC’s Mad Men is that its creator Matt...

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:47:00 -0400

What I like about AMC’s Mad Men is that its creator Matt Weiner is very conscious of the outside forces that are implicitly shaping his characters. The fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper is set in the very real early sixties where revolutionary ideas are fomenting. In design, George Lois is challenging the traditional advertising aesthetic. In the third episode of Mad Men conventional ad executives are mystified by his ‘Think Small’ campaign.

____Ron Simon

In Which Don Draper = George Lois/George Lois = Don Draper?

MCN: Did you go back to some of the icons of the era? Are some of the characters composites of the big names from Madison Avenue’s past?

MW: It depends on what you think are icons. When you read the history of advertising, there’s David Ogilvy, there’s Bill Bernbach, George Lois and so forth. Ogilvy is the only person who worked in anything like a place like ours, and I did read his book. Who I really modeled it on — when I read these histories about agencies in the ‘50s — were these super White agencies. I guess McCann was like that, BBDO was like that. There were some characters at these places … There was a guy named Draper Daniels, who was considered one of the great copy guys ever, and that’s where I got that name [series protagonist and resident creative genius at Sterling Cooper], John Draper.

____Mike Reynolds

“Book’s good. By the way, it has Julian Koenig’s fingerprints all over it.”

____Don Draper

Of course, it is ironic that Draper, as Lois’ proxy, would act as protective mouthpiece to the works of Julian Koenig, considering Lois’ own dubious relationship with plagiarizing from Koenig. As it would turn out, George Lois was partners with Julian Koenig and Koenig has gone on record saying that George Lois unfairly took credit for work that should have been credited to Koenig including the “Think Small” campaign. He also describes George Lois appropriating some of Koenig’s personal experiences as his own. This myth of origin parallels Don Draper’s own self invention. While this sociopathic urge to only move forward, at all costs, leaves flotsam in its wake, it also points out that we need and desire heroes and that without these inherent tragedies, there is no possibility for myths or heroes.

For the definitive word on Mad Men and its extensive roots, see The Footnotes of Mad Men.

Keggers Of Yore

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:40:00 -0400

Keggers Of Yore

POS Design 001 Today, I am christening a new feature here called...

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:31:00 -0400

POS Design 001

Today, I am christening a new feature here called Piece Of Shit Design, POS Design for short.

Typical entries will fall under the broad category of things that may have seemed cool to a student or other dilettantes as well as dazzling but useless bestsellers which may have bilked the layman.

This “chair” is, for starters, an ergonomic oxymoron. There is a reason the “model” is not only fully clothed but wearing a black sport-jacket with white sneakers (kicks), which is, in itself a great look. Rather than this being staged poolside, as an apparent outdoor lounge ought to be, this is only suitable for the split second the designer can get in and quickly get out. This can only be accomplished in a studio, be it the photographer’s or the designer’s. Let’s just consider exactly how would one sit in this chair. Does he walk up that four foot long section past where his resting feet are and somehow awkwardly squat while flipping 180° around like some kind of balletic esplanade? Up that ramp, that see-saw like some bouncing pirate with a cutlass at his backside being forced to walk the plank? What is the point of all that extra length anyway? Ostensibly, it would be to create a bouncing, lounging hammock-like effect. In reality, it’s a diving board waiting to eject grandmothers and crush small children. A true sign of a poorly designed chair is mirroring such as this. The man has used twice as much material as necessary. Well, three times as much as necessary perhaps as that long ramp is completely unnecessary. Only an amateur would build an 8’ long chair because he thought the sketch on paper was kind of neat. Clearly, all or at least a portion of the bottom could have been left out altogether. I guess, in Korea, they haven’t heard about Amazonian deforestation or global warming yet. So, I don’t hold this clunky redundancy against him. On the other hand, the immortal Henry Fonda villain Frank, from Once Upon A Time In The West, may have had words for him, “How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can’t even trust his own pants.” I hope this guy does the right thing and sends this to New Orleans so it can be re-purposed as a fishing platform or the lumber can be reclaimed and turned into a house.

Now, for the more obvious issue: it is totally useless as programmed. The chair, at best, is cobbled together from dining chair geometries. It is just slightly more reclined than 90° effectively making it impossible to recline comfortably. Even worse, since it is on a slight incline, it pitches the occupant slightly forward. He has to grip the “arm rests” to keep from being catapulted forward. The back, seat and arm rests - okay, the entire chair - is constructed from hard-edged rectilinear extrusions or slats which (I’m sure you cans guess what I am about to say) are very uncomfortable to lean or sit on for more than a few minutes. To accentuate this discomfort, he has the value-added feature of equidistant voids between all the slats. This way, you are guaranteed a sharp corner digging into your ass, back, arms and any other part of your body that is unfortunate enough to come into contact with this monstrosity, this piece of shit.

…Tune in next time when I trash my mom’s Dyson vacuum cleaner…

The Snuggie Sutra.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:36:56 -0400

The Snuggie Sutra.

What I Do At Work When I Am Supposed To Be Working.

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:35:56 -0400

What I Do At Work When I Am Supposed To Be Working.

Caragh: Really Funny (For A Girl)

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:38:26 -0400

caragh:

From now on, whenever I feel badly, I will remind myself that I will never have to go through junior high again.

I will drive around in search of 14 year olds (easily identified by their Trying-Too-Hard-To-Fit-In-With-One-Particular-Clique-Clothing and/or the look of misery in its purest form upon their faces), stop my car and point and laugh at them “YOU’RE 14!” And I’ll laugh and laugh and laugh. “YOU’RE 14 AND I’M 21, HAHAHAH” And I’ll be bent over at the waist because I am laughing so hard at how badly that sucks for them and, by proxy, how fucking awesome it is for me. “YOU’RE 14 AND YOU’RE GOING TO BE 14 FOR UPWARDS OF A YEAR! HAHAHA! AND AFTER THAT YOU’RE 15! OH, THAT’S RICH. THAT’S RICH.”

And then I will drive off, never having felt better about my life.

PCP - It’s A Helluva Drug.

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:19:20 -0400

PCP - It’s A Helluva Drug.

It’s not worth getting your panties in a bunch. Or, maybe...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:03:00 -0400

It’s not worth getting your panties in a bunch. Or, maybe it is.

Papillon Was True, Sort Of. The other night I was wondering why,...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:33:00 -0400

Papillon Was True, Sort Of.

The other night I was wondering why, in the opening scene of the 1973 movie, would the march of French prisoners be such a heroic parade? That is, what was the import of that moment and why was it framed as such? I just couldn’t remember what the historical significance was. As it turns out, there kind of wasn’t any. Charrière, apparently, crafted his autobiography from an amalgam of stories he had heard from other convicts. What I didn’t know though, was that he was exposed as never having even done time on Devil’s Island, which the entire story is about. So, here was an earlier example of unsubstantiated writings soaring to mythical heights, later exposed as false and even later re-entering the canon as legend. There is no mention that this film was based on a true story which at least sidesteps that cliché. Still, I grew up in the shadow of these early 70s movies and this one was frequently purported to be truth. At any rate, that was a golden period of film. Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman are, of course, amazing. The movie holds up still as an epic, nearly purely visual at moments, tale of yearning for freedom and the tolls worthy of regaining it.

There does seem to be something interesting though in the connection between Papillon and Alfred Dreyfus. They both were possibly framed and sent to the penal colony at Devil’s Island. Both for very different reasons: Dreyfus, a Jewish Artillery officer, seems to have been a victim of politics and, perhaps, anti-Semitism; Papillon was handed what was effectively a life sentence for killing a pimp. Dreyfus was very publicly stripped of his rank and there was some not unconsequential resistance* to his humiliation and draconian sentencing. When a curmudgeon warns Papillon that he can’t sit on a stone bench because it belongs to Captain Dreyfus, this is surely a reference to Alfred Dreyfus. Finally, the above photo of Dreyfus’ shack on the island looks like a frame straight out of the movie.

*Theodor Herzl, assigned to report on the trial, no doubt affected, at least in part, by the anti-Semitic conspiratorial viewpoints, later formed the World Zionist Organization, “which called for the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine.” Both actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who, as it turns out is the heiress to French billionaire father Gerard Louis-Dreyfus and granddaughter to Jewish French WWII Resistance figher Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (who flew 88 missions for Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Air Force)) and Richard Dreyfus claim to be descendants of Alfred Dreyfus.

Something I made ::: The Best Subreddit Something amazing is...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:46:00 -0400

Something I made ::: The Best Subreddit

Something amazing is starting here. This guy wants to buy my furniture. One woman asked me to marry her…

wintercheck: superamit: msg: Super tempted to buy the JetBlue...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:21:40 -0400

wintercheck:

superamit:

msg:

Super tempted to buy the JetBlue Pass

Its like being part of the Oceanic 6 but not

JetBlue Pass Details:

$599 for a month of unlimited travel, with last seat availability

Domestic taxes and fees included

International and Puerto Rico taxes and fees not included

On sale through Friday, August 21, 2009, or while supplies last

Travel Dates: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 through Thursday, October 8, 2009

Each flight must be booked no later than 11:59 p.m. MDT three days prior to the flight’s scheduled departure.

Who wants to join me?

This sounds so freaking cool!

WHAT!!?!!