NEWSROOM: Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck
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Here we have my good friend Peter Weiss, President, GWU College Democrats, testifying at a city council hearing for marriage equality in DC on Monday. Following him is a fellow College Dem who testifies to how great Peter is.
Complaint: Local governments must stop issuing public record using odd, streaming-only Windows Media Video formats. It shouldn’t require this much work to extract and publish on YouTube, you know, so that it can actually be watched and discussed.
The Douchebag Solidarity Movement begins now! [via]
White House a special stop for treats - AP
His president costume is sick.
I’m 90% certain this photo was taken around Lorimer and Jackson, next to the BQE. That car is beautiful enough to remember.
My favorite group costume of the night:
This traveling pack of Tetris pieces that had with them a loud, female handler not-in-costume that shouted, “AASSEMBLLLLE!” periodically to allow photo-ops.
(23rd St & 5th Av(?))
“The weirdest thing is I found this shirt at a thrift store.”
(Lower East Side)
I’ve Discovered Something Amazing! Again!
Here is the first discovery. Count me in for the third revelation.
Android 2.0 features free, in-built, turn-by-turn GPS, a car-dock UI, and Google Map directions.
(Love this infographic.)
Google shot Garmin and TomTom in the face yesterday. Above, their stock prices tumbling with the announcement that decent, full-featured navigation software for phones is now free. Permanently.
The Verizon Droid campaign rates well with dickchickens and working professionals 18-35.
(via lolatejeda)
WANT. SO. BADLY.
Apple’s Jonathan Ive, aka The-Dude-Who’s-Designed-Everything-Since-The-Blue-iMac, explains that the hole cut out for the iMac’s screen provides just enough aluminum to make two keyboard frames. The more you know.
You never think about the workshop that their products are first forged in, but there it is.
Screencap from Gary Hustwit’s Objectified. Very neat documentary (visually, too).
“ [Sirens] didn’t seduce with beauty or carnality — not with petty diversions — but with the promise of unending knowledge. “Over all the generous earth we know everything that happens,” they crooned to passing ships, vowing that any sailor who heeded their voices would emerge a “wiser man.” That is precisely the draw of the Internet.
Peggy Orenstein, for the NYTimes, likening a free Mac utility, Freedom, to Ulysses tying himself to his ship’s mast in The Odyssey to keep from following the call of the nearby Sirens. Freedom forcibly disables your Macintosh’s internet connection for up to 8 hours as a means to eliminating distractions. [NYT]
The wonderful part of Storm King is how surreal it looks. The park is on a very large property in Hudson River Valley and the sculptures are placed far apart, so you’ll be gazing across this swath of bucolic scenery and there’s just a shock of industrial-looking art in the middle of it all.
I graduated from the Storm King School, a boarding high school 10 minutes away, and I’ve still never been here.
