The Bloggies, annual awards for blogs, come in 30 different categories, but really only come in two categories.
Blogs that are very very popular (a la BoingBoing)
Blogs that best harass their readers to vote for them on a daily basis
That pretty much sums it up.
The Democrats
The Democratic Party will split into two warring camps wrestling for control as we creep towards 2008: the “fighting democrat” led by General Wesley Clark and the “moderate democrat” led by Senator Hillary Clinton. Hopefully it will resolve itself by 2008 with a Clinton/Clark or Clark/Clinton ticket. The sad part about all [...]
Marc, my workmate, built a kickass fence that builds around his tree. I then turned around and entered him into a contest over on treehugger. It made the finals and is now open to a public vote, so head over there and give his fence the blog glory is deserves. All prize [...]
You have to feel bad for parents who are trying to dig up an Xbox 360 for their kid. Microsoft seems to be failing to meet anything close to demand and then JCPenney pulls crap like this. They are charging $800 for a system that should only cost $400. That’s right, it’s [...]
It’s worth taking a moment, for a number of reasons, to check out these two sites of graffiti in Iran. Culturally, there may be fewer places in the world that are more of a mystery to me just due to a sheer lack of information, but these stencils of Bob Marley on walls in [...]
I noticed that every two-bit blog on the internet has a holiday gift guide and I thought “Hey, I have a two-bit blog”. As a result, I have put together this lovely gift guide based on past posts and other miscellaneous stuff I prefer to waste my free time with. Note to friends: [...]
In the next few weeks, Washington Mutual ATMs (or as my east coast friends call it, MAC machines) will no longer be free. I know a lot of you out there rely on these usually free ATMs for cash withdrawals, so I thought I’d spread the word to start changing your habits now before [...]
There’s a fantastic audio interview with Swoon in the New York Times. It’s the audio slide show in the left hand bar. I love her work and lived with it when I was in the Lower East Side of New York. Discovering one of her pieces in a forgotten doorway or scarred [...]
With Bamboo being the ‘it’ material among designers and the eco-conscious, I figured I should point out my favorite hair goop for a few years running now. Kusco-Murphy Beach Hair give you a pretty similar texture to actually having been at the beach, but it gives you the texture of a little sand without [...]
What lesson have we learned from the current Grand Theft Auto scandal? Beheading someone and then kicking their head down the street is permissible, but if you’re going to have consensual sex, well, then we need to have some congressional hearings. If we were talking about a book that had a sex scene [...]
