Get your knees flexin’ and your arms T-rexin’.
This is not news, but it’s a Lonely Island video, so I had to post it. Also: hilarious. (via Mako)
Read MoreNIMBY vs. Vintage Sign: The Lost History of the Former Tipton’s Grocery Store
For those of you following the Bernal Heights Coca-Cola sign saga, here is the update from Bernalwood.
Read MoreHistoric Bernal Heights Coca-Cola Sign Outlawed
I had the pleasure of photographing this sign during a SFlickr photostroll a few years ago. Although I am no fan of the brand, I care about protecting the sign as a piece of San Francisco history. If you care too, please help me in searching the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection for evidence that the sign existed before 1965. I have already searched Flickr Commons, to no avail, but could always use a triple-check. The sign is located at the corner of Tompkins and Banks. (via James) Update, 17 February 2011: I searched Flickr Commons, but found no results. I also searched the San Francisco Historical Photographs collection at SFPL, but didn’t find anything there either. I contacted SF City Guides and the Mechanics’ Institute Library....
Read MoreWho the Hell is Arcade Fire? (The Song)
It’s one thing not to know of a band, and another thing entirely to trash them because they won an award you wish someone else had won. Listen to this song and let the healing begin.
Read MoreTeacher strikes nerve with ‘lazy whiners’ blog
So what is wrong with calling lazy, whining students out? This quote in particular hurt my heart: “They get angry when you ask them to think or be creative,” Munroe said of her students in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “The students are not being held accountable.” (via Ang)
Read MoreBack to the Future: Photos by Irina Werning
This photography project reenacts childhood photos down to the adorable facial expressions. (via Jez)
Read MoreThe Criterion Collection Joins Hulu Plus
After fifteen hours in three libraries over two days, I have nothing to say to this announcement but YAY.
Read MoreThe Delicious
I cannot describe one of my favorite things in the world, so I would like you to watch the first part. And then watch the second part. (via FunkyPlaid, from the first issue of Wholphin)
Read MoreAtlas Shrugged, Part One: The Movie
I did not think it was possible to make a movie trailer more tediously obscure than the book. (via Luce) For reasons I have yet to discern, I have read “Atlas Shrugged” twice, once in my teens when I thought objectivism was pretty cool, and once in my twenties when I didn’t. I cannot imagine sitting through a movie version.
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