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Yearly Link Round-Up

Here are my favorite links from 2009's Weekly Link Round-Up.
Aaron Rose's DIY America Series is killing it.

Where Did The Web Touch You? video is too funny. Via: What Consumes Me.
Amazing continuous fight scene via: Don Q's Lady Data
Andrew Zuckerman's Bird Book photos are AMAZING. Via: Kottke.
Savage Illustrations Via: Drawn.
The Botany Of Desire documentary is online in full for free.

Portion Size Then and Now. Via: Coudal
NY Times article on Pandora's song recommending methods.
Michael Pollen's Food Dos and Don'ts.

Outside Magazine's most difficult shots. Via: Kottke
Dallas Clayton just started up a the Awesome World Foundation. Check the video too.

Diagrams of sleeping problems. Via: Slate's Twitter
Hookworm cures Asthma! Read about it here and hear about it on Radiolab.
Photos and video from Photographer/Installation artist Georges Rousse.
Just discovered Black Panther artist Emory Douglas on Studio 360.
Huxley V. Orwell comic Via: Kottke.
Color Tips for design, decorating, and life.
The Harper's Index is now searchable.
Inside the CBC Radio sound effects kitchen.
Opt out of getting phone books.

The Known Universe

Science, you gotta love it. This video has been getting a lot of hits on the web in the past week. I suggest watching it in hi def.

A Very Terry Christmas

A Very Terry Christmas - watch more funny videos

cali on xmas eve

Look Here... this gal gave'rself some ding-dang...

ELF EARS!

the current state of my 'fridge:

Have a slurry Christmas and a sloppy New Year

WWASH Photos

Over at the WWASH Picasa page you can find lots of photos from WWASH #1 that are good both for looking at and seeing.

WWASH #1 Is Tonight

See you there.

WWASH #1 at Yia Yia's
1423 O Street
Lincoln, Nebraska
Monday, December 21, 7:00 pm.

Come by for five minutes or five hours. Kids, adults, and all the rest are welcome.

This Crazy New Mountain Bike Thing

This DK x Cornbread colabo is about as sweet-ish as it gets.

Channel 10/11 Off the Beaten Path - Off Road Bicycling from Cornbread on Vimeo.

Weekly Link Round-Up

I got that fox up there from Gif Party. which is on the best new blogs of 2009 list
Huge collection of George Nelson desk clocks.

One hellova camera review for the Panasonic Lumix GF1.

Life's year in pictures.

New Zealand Book Council's new ad is incredible.

Slow motion holiday destruction.

The Jazz Loft Project is well worth a look for those who like jazz or W. Eugene Smith.

HELL YES!!!

sleding and finishing part of a project.

Lookin' for a Really Cool Bontrager?

Details are over at The Dirtblog...

Happy Friday!
MG

Tandem unicycle

The build here

stuff

bike ski bike is good.

i'll let you know how the 'upgrade' goes.

random pic.

bought a small soldering torch. it's rad.

Fight Club Fans ...

... we have friends working at Avery Label Company

best of 2009

2009 was a fun year! Here's some highlights.

Best of 2009 from SPONTAZY on Vimeo.

WWASH = While We're All Still Here

The first-ever WWASH get-together is next Monday — the winter solstice — December 21, and it's nothing more (and nothing less) than a chance to say hi to friends, eat some eats, and drink some drinks.


But why?

Because it's much easier to say hi to people when they're here as opposed to when they're not.


Yia Yia's
1423 O Street
Lincoln, Nebraska
Monday, December 21, 7:00 pm.

Come by for five minutes or five hours. Kids, adults, and all the rest are welcome.

Weekly Link Round-Up

Aaron Rose's DIY America Series is killing it.

Chris Glass tips on how to speed up your Mac.

I caught Between The Folds on PBS' Independent Lens and was super impressed.

Where Did The Web Touch You? video is too funny. Via: What Consumes Me.

10 Minute Doc on the History Of The Boom Box. Via: Coudal

The Encyclopedia of Counterintuitive Thoughts.

Blood Into Wine

Good Idea

Johnny Wikkerink has a good idea. And good execution of said idea. Recycled inner tube wallets...

Hunger Strikes

Red Kite Prayer's Da Robot has posted another worthy winter musing — this one, about killing yourself to stay alive.

Or something.

The Minutemen — Cut

pigs on ice

Just for kicks here is an experimental film I did about 15 years ago.

I all dizzy now

cheap fun

except for you could lose a finger due to frost bite.

it could be too cold to even spectate

CHONTO

Snow Day

hi

this dude is good on one of those little kick scooter things



picked up a new toy.



Count so far is 2.5 pinball machines and 1.5 arcades. Swing by sometime and play. The keg fridge is down there too :)

What the?

Photo courtesy of Craig Schmidt

Weekly Link Round-Up

Radiolab benefit posters! Via: Drawn.
Seven principles of human behavior that con artists exploit. Via: What Consumes Me.
The making of the new OK Go video is more interesting than the actual video.
Chain restaurant flow chart.
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach. Long but interesting.
Andy Warhol, The bellwether of the art market video.

Mr. Newton

My Father-in-law is a "collector" of shit he finds in the desert. His yard is filled with shit he brings back, some of it good, some bad.

A Letter To The New York Washington Post

But the twin towers are Hakeem and Ralph, right people?



Taken—not stirred—from delete yourself via gawker

morning ride

camera lens was fogged over.
i'm posting the pic anyways.
pre-sunrise at the north bridge, local trails.

Beer Duhlivery

nebraskan son

Doug Olson. This was a good excuse for me to plug my friend McGoo's blog Crown Lounge.

Daddy? where does polysorbate 60 come from?

I just finished this book and I have to tell you I am a little bit freaked out. But not necessarily by the things I thought I would be freaked out by. Well,,, I mean I already knew that the processes used for Bleached Flour were not good and that Natural and Artificial Flavors are really neither. But Steve Ettlinger was able to scare the bejeezes out of me regarding so many other f'ed up things about food and its current processes. Via his quest to identify the sources for the Twinkie's long list of ingredients. How would I have known that the waste incurred to make Vitamins in the pill form is so environmentally unfriendly no one does it outside of China anymore. Or that much of what we eat starts out either as corn or a petrochemical. Well, I think we all knew about corn. All that said, I am still going to make good on my personal reward for completing this book by actually having one of the 500 million Twinkies sold this year. Now that I'm fully aware of all the shit that's in it, I might even enjoy it.
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Redundant Comments

Carrie Browstein's NPR Blog is consistantly ripping, but her post today about Fugazi and Chunklet and James Burns' mp3 compilation of their stage banter is one of those things that makes you want to hug the internet and give it a big kiss on the lips of its mouth.

So, Bill Murray ... You Hidin' Out Or Something?

Mister Mark, please keep posting these so I can keep taking them from you.

Decay

Bob's Loop

Well, Are You A Bug, Bill Murray?

taked and destroyed from Waxin' and Milkin'

Curiosity

Doesn't really look possible, does it?

Shape Of ... Rhombus!

From Nedroid Picture Diary

(click comic for supersize!)

Jungle Cross 2009

More pics.

Wizard Smoke

Wizard Smoke from Salazar on Vimeo.

Weekly Link Round-Up

Amazing continuous fight scene via: Don Q's Lady Data.
Simon Page's International Year Of Astronomy posters via: Dinosaurs and Robots
I love a good Mid-Century Modern desk and this Jens Quistgaard desk is awesome.
The new Nikon Coolpix S1000pj has a built in projector.
How to visit the zoo via: Kottke
Wired takes a tour of the Leica factory.
Today is the last day to get three free mp3s from Amazon.
PC Mag's favorite blogs of 2009.

Push Pin Portraits

Eric Daigh's push pin portraits as seen on Sunday Morning.

For more about seeing this on Sunday Morning, go to A Continuous Lean.

Holy Crap! I have a blog?

Hey everybody. Been neglecting this lately. Let's see. After Thailand started semester, had a nasty bike crash, schoolin', workin' and many dentist visits. Semester is almost done and had a great thanksgiving. Hope all is well.....oh and on left the cause of the impending downfall of humanity :)

Happy Danksgiving

"Found a good image that was shot YEARS ago of an alien Thanksgiving celebration at Area 54. Nothing out of the ordinary: human sacrifice, nude aliens, giblets, gravy ... business as per usual."



More mind melting at Dank Nuggzz

tough ride

to the bar that is!!!

Objectified on PBS Tonight

The documentary Objectified from the makers of Helvetica is going to be in PBS tonight on Independent Lens. Set your DVRs.

Hi, Neighbor

From somewhere over at Julia Segal

Promo Film For The 1985 Honda VFR750R

"That jewel-like engine was a marvel though; different countries were given different states of tune, but peak power was up to 112 or 118 bhp depending on whom you ask. All RC30s were hand-built in the Honda Racing Corporation facility rather than on the regular production lines, and Honda created a promotional film to showcase its meticulous engineering."



Via Bike Exif

what soft does

A car hitting soft stuff in slow motion to the tune of "Blue Steel" by Bot'Ox.


via It's Nice That

Weekly Link Round-Up

Sick record cover collages.
Dieter Rams has an exhibit at the Design Museum in London and a podcast introducing the exhibit.
Photos of Mid-Century Modern South America.
Ansel Adams house tour.

one more quarter

When I was in high school I pumped countless quarters into this machine.  That damn Rudy was always taunting me.  I bumped into a very entertaining article that shed some light on the economics of pinball machines, and the evolution of the devices used to entice you to put one more quarter in.  If you were ever a pinball guy, it'll be worth the click.

Isle Of Man Time Trial Comic

To see more of this Dermot Walshe comic about Stanley Woods' first encounter with the Isle Of Man Time Trial in 1922, go ahead and visit The Vintagent.