On New Years Eve Radiohead released a 52 minute live performance of On Rainbows titled Scotch Mist. It features some poetry as well as imagery selected by the band (Current is also playing it on the teevee). Yet another move that makes me think Radiohead totally gets the web. I hope they sell a billion albums.
In the webloggian tradition, my year in cities and towns for 2007:
One or more nights spent in each place, with italics denoting places I visited multiple times. Lots of vacations this year, but sticking to one city at a time. Lots of overlap with one person in particular.
Grow a beard like Lincoln’s by his birthday (February 12th) and be the envy of your block. N.b., Lincoln looked like a pedophile without his mustacheless beard.
What happens when you throw a paper airplane out of the 30th floor of a building? It could nose dive into someone’s head and kill them, or it could sail gracefully for minutes in front of the splendor of the Brooklyn Bridge. This video reminds me of the plastic bag video from American Beauty, only much less canned and cheesy.
Every year, Rick Webb and his fellow Barbarians take an incredible health pledge for a month to clear their systems of the unwholesome indiscretions of the holiday season. This involves no alcohol, no caffeine, no fat, and a laundry list of other rules. The fun commences after Keith Butters birthday, January 5, or the following Monday should his birthday fall on a weekend (i.e. this coming Monday at 12:01am).
I’m in. Scratch the caffeine clause. Add swimming 4 times/week.
If you’d like to take part, or just show your support, join the Health Month Facebook group. Wish us luck, we’ll need it.
On days like today (high of 20°F in New York City), I often wonder how close I am to hypothermia. Wikipedia defines three stages of a cooling body temperature:
The verdict: keep your head covered and don’t fall in the water when it’s butt cold outside. If you take off all your clothes and start burrowing, the end is probably near.
Have you ever spent hours looking for the auto-keypad-locking feature on your Nokia phone? Wondering why you have to manually engage the lock function on a Blackberry? It turns out that Sony-Ericsson has a patent on the “activation and automatic inactivation of keys on a mobile telephone terminal keypad.” Please Sony and Ericsson, for the love of god, and the eradication of pocket-dialing, give this patent up.
The New York Times has a nice visualization of candidates naming each other in the recent debates. It’s surprising to see how little most of the candidates are referred to, and also how much Obama and Clinton vary despite their close poll standings. (via infosthetics)
I have the unhealthy expectation that Facebook = Reality, and sometimes I forget that not everyone has a news feed (or reads theirs every day). In case you missed them, here are some recent events in my life:
These are, of course, in some order of importance. More on each of these in due time, but I should state a few caveats to quell the fidgeting audience:
Happy New Year! See you in 2008.
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