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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:46:25 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:10:14 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:09:56 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

DC Women Kicking Ass: DC Comics to buy today

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:06:03 -0400

DC Women Kicking Ass: DC Comics to buy today:

dcwomenkickingass:

Here’s what I am picking up this week from DC Comics:

Justice League Dark #5

I have been enjoying this book, especially the art, but have been a bit concerned by the pace. This issue looks to pull the team together.

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know I was looking forward to…

Photo

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:04:23 -0400

7billionactions: Watch this Video: Jakarta: Youth & The...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:03:12 -0400

7billionactions:

Watch this Video: Jakarta: Youth & The World at 7 Billion

This video was made during the Youth and World at 7 Billion Campaign in Jakarta on October 30th 2011. The campaign aimed at increasing public awareness on the world’s population reaching 7 billion.

Coordinated by the Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) members, the campaign invited the youth population from all over Jakarta and the wider public to the Car Free Day event along Jakarta’s main roads: Sudirman and Thamrin to state their opinion, concern and plan on how to make a world of 7 billion people a better place in the future.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Al Pacino and Christopher...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:01:45 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Al Pacino and Christopher Walken

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:00:17 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

DC Women Kicking Ass: DC Comics to buy today

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:39:25 -0400

DC Women Kicking Ass: DC Comics to buy today:

dcwomenkickingass:

Here’s what I am picking up this week from DC Comics:

Justice League Dark #5

I have been enjoying this book, especially the art, but have been a bit concerned by the pace. This issue looks to pull the team together.

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know I was looking forward to…

Photo

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:38:32 -0400

7billionactions: Watch this Video: Jakarta: Youth & The...

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:51 -0400

7billionactions:

Watch this Video: Jakarta: Youth & The World at 7 Billion

This video was made during the Youth and World at 7 Billion Campaign in Jakarta on October 30th 2011. The campaign aimed at increasing public awareness on the world’s population reaching 7 billion.

Coordinated by the Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) members, the campaign invited the youth population from all over Jakarta and the wider public to the Car Free Day event along Jakarta’s main roads: Sudirman and Thamrin to state their opinion, concern and plan on how to make a world of 7 billion people a better place in the future.

barackobama: Another reason to like Obamacare.

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:01:30 -0400

barackobama:

Another reason to like Obamacare.

textsfromhillaryclinton: A submission from Secretary Hillary...

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:00:42 -0400

textsfromhillaryclinton:

A submission from Secretary Hillary Clinton.

Original image by Diana Walker for Time.

Allen Paltrow: My Experience with Jobs and Apple

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:57:29 -0400

Allen Paltrow: My Experience with Jobs and Apple:

allenpaltrow:

Update: I have appended this follow-up. All Photos are by Sara Krulwich, staff photographer at the NYT and my mother, with two exceptions. The last is a Reuters picture taken at the event, and the first is credited AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh.

Growing up I was a huge apple fan-boy (fine, still am.)…

seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”,...

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:56:24 -0400

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

getstooobsessed: “Mommy, they are just like me.” My oldest...

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:55:26 -0400

getstooobsessed:

“Mommy, they are just like me.”

My oldest son is six years old and in love for the first time. He is in love with Blaine from Glee.

For those who don’t know Blaine is a boy…a gay boy, the boyfriend of one of the main characters, Kurt.

This isn’t a ‘he thinks Blaine is really cool’ kind of love. It is a mooning at a picture of Blaine’s face for a half hour followed by a wistful “He’s so pretty” kind of love.

He loves the episode where two boys kiss. My son will call people in from other parts of the house to make sure they don’t miss his ‘favorite part.’ He’s been known to rewind it and watch it over again…and force other to, as well, if he doesn’t think people have been paying enough attention.

This infatuation doesn’t bother me or his father. We live in a very hip-liberal neighborhood, many of our friends are gay, and idea of having a gay son isn’t something that bothers either of us. Our son is going to be who he is, and it is our job to love him. End of story.

He is also six. Six year olds get obsessed with all kinds of things. This might not mean anything at all. We always joke that he’s either gay, or we have the best blackmail material in the history of mankind when he’s a 16 year old straight boy. (Take that naked bath time pictures!)

Then the other day we were traveling across the state listening to the Warblers album (of course), and in the middle of Candles, my son pipes up from the back seat.

“Mommy, Kurt and Blaine are boyfriends.”

“Yes, they are,” I affirm.

“They don’t like kissing girls. They just kiss boys.”

“That’s true.”

“Mommy, they are just like me.”

“That’s great, baby. You know I love you no matter what?”

“I know…” I could hear him rolling his eyes at me.

When we got home I recapped this conversation to his Dad, and we stood simply looking into each other’s eyes for a moment. Then we smiled.

“So if at 16 he wants to make a big announcement at the dinner table, we can say ‘You told us when you were six. Pass the carrots’ and he’ll be disappointed we stole his big dramatic moment,” my husband says with a laugh and hugs me.

Only time will tell if my son is gay, but if he is I am glad he’s mine. I am glad he has been born into our family. A family full of people who will love and accept him. People who will never want him to change. With parents who will look forward to dancing at his wedding.

And I have to admit, Blaine would be a really cute son-in-law.

Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr.

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:54:35 -0400

Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr.:

barackobama:

It’s nice to meet you.

There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.

We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…

Jack: Hey, you know what sucks?

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:53:34 -0400

Jack: Hey, you know what sucks?
Lindsey: vaccuums
Jack: Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense?
Lindsey: black holes
Jack: Hey, you know what just isn't cool?
Lindsey: lava?

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Al Pacino and Christopher...

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:21:41 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Al Pacino and Christopher Walken

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:20:34 -0400

MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY':

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…