February 2012
What if Horse_ebooks is the future of celebrity...
Red carpet coverage and the Academy Awards. Algorithm just scans the visual data coming into the camera, spits out a word cloud of things it recognizes. “Annette Benning. Neck. Wearing Oscar de la Renta. Red. Sparkly. Sequins. One shoulder. Diamond necklace on loan from Tiffany. Man is Husband. Not taller.”
A separate algorithm scans Twitter for reactions. “Trending words to...
Man, Romney just can't catch a break on Pinterest. →
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FOLLOW THE TALENT
FOLLOW THE TALENT
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This is a big deal. →
Four Weird Things the Internet Is Doing to Our... →
I wrote something for All Things D.
WatchI just want to know how they came up with the meatball thing, which is brilliant.
(via seanbury:attentiondoozers:heyelaine:joshruben)
L.A. County supervisors respond to Frisbee fine... →
latimes:
chriscantwell:
spiegelman:
Los Angeles bans frisbee and football throwing on the beach.
$1,000 fine.
Don’t worry, you can still apply for a permit.
This is good, because all my frisbees and footballs were getting soiled by dirty condoms and syringes anyway.
This turned out to be untrue: “Erroneous reports that L.A. County had enacted a $1,000 fine for playing football and...
Watchawlmusic:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings Father John Misty
This is very probably my favorite music video of the year so far.
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An open apology to the Pinterest team
Judging by some of the links to pop up on my Internet the past hour or so, this fake Mitt Romney thing is starting to be about Pinterest changing the name of my parody account, and not about the fact that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President asked them to dilute criticism about him. This was never my intention.
Pinterest is a site suddenly hitting the mainstream in a...
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Mitt Romney didn't like my Pinterest page. →
:(
Los Angeles bans frisbee and football throwing on... →
$1,000 fine.
Don’t worry, you can still apply for a permit.
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PAY ATTENTION TO THIS
this is what it looks like.
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A new, innovative morning coffee blooper:
Made coffee. (Successfully.)
Took mug out of cupboard, put it on counter.
Poured milk into mug. (I pour milk before coffee so I don’t have to stir.)
Grabbed coffee pot.
Poured coffee into mug.
Except, poured coffee into different, dirty mug that just happened to already be sitting out there on the counter, unwashed, with day-old coffee left in it, from yesterday.
(previously)