african elephant Asali who lives in the memphis zoo is preggers and about to pop. its going to be the first elephant birth in the zoo's history, and everyone is on pins and needles anticipating it all.
animal babies are so much fun.
04 June 2009
any day now
african elephant Asali who lives in the memphis zoo is preggers and about to pop. its going to be the first elephant birth in the zoo's history, and everyone is on pins and needles anticipating it all.
project natal - wii kiiller
microsoft has announced a new innovation for their XBOX360 platform that will look to make everyone who bought a wii look like a fool. PROJECT NATAL
the experience looks really impressive, but i cant help but imagine all the unintended funniness that playing a video game with your whole body will inspire. especially drunk.
FUNemployment!
Funemployment: when you're unemployed, but it's fun! This is in contrast to "Unemployment," which is when you're unemployed and forced into prostitution in order to buy flour. No such worries for the funemployed! (gawker)
thx g.
thx g.
RHoNJ: they're everywhere!
i hope everyone caught this week's real housewives of new jersey. lots of s went down.the housewives got themselves a little article in the new york times this week as well. it has a couple of slideshows of some really gorgeous homes. and by gorgeous, i mean heinous.
thx g.
self-sustained water-based living
ONE afternoon last week, Mary Mattingly, a 30-year-old sculptor and photographer who has been living in a two-bedroom walk-up in Queens, gave a reporter a tour of her new home, a 30-by-100-foot barge moored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.“This is the living quarters,” Ms. Mattingly said, standing on deck and pointing to a half-built shed made of scrap wood. “And over here,” she continued, walking toward an area enclosed by an iron fence, “is where the greenhouse will be.” (nytimes)
thx g.
RIP jake
its with a heavy heart i report the passing of anna's childhood dog jake. pictured here.
"he was a really good puppy and was only 9 years old but he had alot of leg problems and had to have his back acl's fixed last year. they said he died from a heart attack or stroke. :( poor jake. i am attaching a picture of him with lulu. they liked to chew on sticks together. i think she will be sad. his mom (katie) kept looking for him this morning after my dad took him to the vet."
Depressing Headline of the Day: "Soon, you'll have to pay for Hulu"
Thanks Daily Finance.com, thanks.speakeasy resurgence
ON a nondescript block in Williamsburg, not far from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a new bar and restaurant called Rye opened last week.Try to find it.
There’s no sign out front. The facade, an artfully casual assemblage of old wooden slats, gives the place a boarded-up, abandoned look. It does have a street number, painted discreetly on a glass panel above the front doors, but that’s it. Like a suspect in a lineup, it seems to shrink back when observed.
There are a lot of bars like this right now. They can be found all over the United States, skulking in the shadows. Obtrusively furtive, they represent one of the strangest exercises in nostalgia ever to grip the public, an infatuation with the good old days of Prohibition. (nytimes)
celebrity power
forbes just released their annual celebrity 100 list. my understanding is the rankings are based on forbes' systematic appraisal of celebrity "power"? i'm sure there is some well-respected mathematic formula they're using.n-e-wayz, this is the top 10:
1. Angelina Jolie
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Madonna
4. Beyoncé Knowles
5. Tiger Woods
6. Bruce Springsteen
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Brad Pitt
10. Kobe Bryant
oprah has been at the top for years now, so it's kind of a huge deal that she has been dethroned by angelina. like there's anything angelina can do that oprah couldn't if she wanted to. she just doesn't WANT to. and finally, i think we all know who should be number one.
sweeeeet!
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday that it expects to hire more than 22,000 people to staff its new or expanded domestic stores this year. "During this difficult economic time, we're proud to be able to create quality jobs for thousands of Americans this year," Eduardo Castro-Wright, vice chairman of Wal-Mart U.S., said in a statement. (cnn)
music video mgmt
the song is old, but the video is brand new. its enjoyable... in the way that the labyrinth and little monsters were enjoyable... in the way that will haunt your dreams until way after puberty.
stay tuned towards the end for the cartoon hotdogs and cartoon andrew vanwyngarden.
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