PAC-MAN in Google Maps

have you ever wanted to play PAC-MAN in your neighborhood? me neither.
but now you CAN! Thanks Google Maps! I tried downtown Memphis since it's basically a grid. Enjoy!

nErD aLeRt

here's a pretty interesting article about atlanta and the architecture of john portman and how both been used as futuristic dystopian backdrops in recent pop culture.

paula pell on tv

thx seth for bringing her around every now and again.

janelle monae - yoga

is this the sound of janelle monae selling out?

Happy RIP Selena Day

Even the white kids I grew up with in Texas knew to be like “Fuck you, Yolanda Saldivar!” #RipSelenaQuintanilla

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) March 31, 2015

you will never believe the things that came out of martha stewart's mouth at the justin bieber roast.

new basketVol coach

#VolNation, please join us in welcoming Rick Barnes to Rocky Top as the #Vols new head coach! http://t.co/plfPLIMtBP pic.twitter.com/P3v4iSTVRj

— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) March 31, 2015

did you watch Going Clear on HBO yet?

a girl worth fighting for!

Disney is planning a live-action version of 'Mulan' http://t.co/jEPRUPzqNi pic.twitter.com/WqaoIDAdTS

— Vulture (@vulture) March 30, 2015

um. hello? is anyone there?

The struggle to save the pangolin, the planet’s most frequently trafficked mammal http://t.co/6LMkrmt5jR pic.twitter.com/ge0YHOqkOL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 30, 2015

your daily ri ri

(via)

i'm sure you have better plans than me, but i'll enjoy mine just fine.

just being honest.

MU$☝☾ M☝NUT€ W/ M$D∆NG€L$ - SPRING IS HERE & HERE ARE THE JAMZ

March is outing like a lamb - 

GRIMES REALiTi - a supposedly "failed" attempt at a song according to Grimes - part of her "lost album" that she trashed a few month ago because she thought it wasn't up to snuff.

KELELA - A MESSAGE PRODUCER BY ARCA - Apparently Arca and Kelela meet by randomly dancing with each other at a club - which I don't buy since Kelela is one of the gods of "weird R&B" and Arca worked on FKA twigs album and Bjork's so ya know. 

ACTIVE CHILD - 1999 - kind of a "back to basics" for this guy after a very dancy snyth heavy ep featuring Ellie Goulding and those kinds of people.

because of what happened to pommes frites

How & Why & When To Get Renters Insurance http://t.co/Z8UOXIOOnm

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) March 27, 2015

jake gyllenhaal made a movie about a sexy boxer

rabbithOWLe.

oh, jesus christ.

i wanna chill with these ladies ASAP.

"are ya lookin' at yourself or are ya lookin' at us?"

dogs making mistakes.

pommes frites can see the future.

You don't want to look back and think, "I could have eaten that." (Instagram by pojogeoffwilson) pic.twitter.com/sWSQX95cCG
— Pommes Frites (@PommesFritesNY) March 25, 2015

pommes frites tweeted this the day before their building collapsed due to the explosion. makes me real hungry.

holy moly.

go ahead and full screen this. your boss won't mind one bit.

1:35 forever.

titus andromedon does jennifer hudson

ok it's really tituss burgess but i can pretend. the song starts at 3:01. team #pinotnoir

this could have been you

Occupied East Village building appears to have collapsed after an explosion http://t.co/MWFZtQiZgf (photo: @nypmetro) pic.twitter.com/nAgX8OdFZv

— Daily Intelligencer (@intelligencer) March 26, 2015

kiddinnnggggggg.... just kidding...

Frenemies 4 with Eliza Coupe from Funny Or Die

bryan safi told me to watch this.

unveil a statue of yourself

The Queen unveiled Diamond Jubilee statues of herself and Prince Philip at @No1Cathedral (via @BritishMonarchy) pic.twitter.com/MxIunkEbbs

— Royal Central (@RoyalCentral) March 26, 2015

your daily ri ri

i guess this is rihanna's new single. i wish i could hear the swears.

togays news

.@LookingHBO has been cancelled: http://t.co/laekvKQaoE pic.twitter.com/dHECrEECPC

— Vulture (@vulture) March 25, 2015

NOOOO ZAYN!!!! At least we have these beautiful hair GIFs to comfort us? 😭😭😭 http://t.co/tDUnw7Cxh4 pic.twitter.com/tSWUD5QrAb

— MTV Style (@MTVstyle) March 25, 2015

how to build a tunnel between denmark and germany

infrastructure!

fran lebowitz in elle

her style is certainly not my favorite thing about her, but i could listen to her talk about anything.

When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references.

I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative. Designers now, they all have these things called mood boards. I suppose they think a sense of discovery equals invention. It would be as if every writer had a board with paragraphs of other writers—'Oh, I'll take a little bit of this, and that, he was really good.' Yes, he was really good! And that is not a mood board, it is a stealing board.

READ IT.

streeeeyyyyuuuutttchhhhh!!!

thank you hannah for sharing this very important internet blessing.

serena x beyonce

     

 
read serena's vogue cover feature.

What is remarkable is the shot itself, given that , a non-size-zero woman, does not appear tightly-cropped in an explosion of hair and kohl (see Adele, whose portrait goes cleavage-deep), or distractingly framed by polka dots and headlight-eyes (see Lena Dunham). Rather, she is photographed by Annie Leibovitz face on at hip height, not shielding her body from the camera or wearing sleeves. When Mindy Kaling appeared in US Elle’s “Women in TV” issue, as one of four women (Zooey Deschanel, Allison Williams and Amy Poehler were the others) she was the only one shot in black and white – you can imagine the op-eds that followed. The same thing happened – super close crop – to Gabby Sidibe on the cover of US Elle in 2010. That Williams is black, not a model, and not dressed thematically in tennis whites is a big win for solid diversity representation. Let’s just hope it’s not a one-off. (via)

another year, another triangle shirtwaist factory fire anniversary...

never forget by watching the PBS doc on your PBS roku channel tonight.

bless his heart.

thx hb!!

another subtweet for Mike

“Sumptuous: East Asian Lacquer” is drawn entirely from the permanent collection. http://t.co/BA7zeJ4BzG #AsianArt100 pic.twitter.com/79kjbLJbNU

— metmuseum (@metmuseum) March 24, 2015

sharing the good news

Truth of the Day: Fox Confirms the Return of the 'The X-Files' #TheXFiles http://t.co/WH9q2IszFr pic.twitter.com/5ZXTSpm9o1

— The Daily What (@TheDailyWhat) March 24, 2015

monica lewinsky takes back the night

she gave a TED talk, in which she names herself "patient zero" of cyber-bullying. worth a watch/listen.

FYI Millenials: our sick patriarchy, circa a nascent Internet, made a slut shame martyr out of @MonicaLewinsky. She rose like a Phoenix.
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) March 22, 2015

"The Sweet Sound of Beale Street" NPR On Point

just a little something else.

something to see here

.@FKAtwigs nails it in her new film for "Glass & Patron." Have you seen it? http://t.co/8HVTXndpie pic.twitter.com/pzFnjd86nx

— V Magazine (@vmagazine) March 23, 2015

nothing to see here

Post by Dr. Fábio Augusto.

kendrick + seinfeld

oh that's rich.

courtney barnett - sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit.

it's here! one day early! and it's 11 biscuits.

here's a grantland feature if you need more convincing.

enjoy.

Tim Gunn's Sunday Routine, or How I'm the Same as Tim Gunn if Everyone Left Me Alone

"GET UP, SIT UP I love getting up before the sun’s up, so I’ll get up at 6. I throw the covers back and I do 50 situps, in bed. I need to raise my resting heartbeat. I’m never going to join a gym. I bought these Pilates tapes and yoga tapes and a yoga mat. Did I ever open any of it? No."


find out more here.

world's first ever royal corgi race

to decide what the royals should name their next baby.

march madness georgia state coach falling down

more vines here

welcome back, jill scott.

get after it gurl.

new tinashe mixtape - amethyst

vanderpump realness

she asks a lot of the questions that i have.

first and last frames

full list on the vimeo page.

jealous no shade

North West getting dragged through the airport living the goddamn dream. http://t.co/4ahd9FFyej pic.twitter.com/bUpR2maHSA

— Gawker (@Gawker) March 18, 2015

somebody brought this baby sheep to five leaves for brunch

cute, but???

the internet has given us a gift today!

(via)

nbd. (YBD!)

In a rare interview with the New York Times in January, 2015, Douglas—who described his brother as "a true psychopath"—spoke about the deaths of Robert's seven Alaskan Malamuts named Igor:

"Before the disappearance of my sister-in-law, Bob had a series of Alaskan Malamutes, which is like a husky," Douglas Durst said. "He had seven of them, and they all died, mysteriously, of different things, within six months of his owning them. All of them named Igor. We don't know how they died, and what happened to their bodies."

"In retrospect," he says, "I now believe he was practicing killing and disposing his wife with those dogs." Douglas also mentions that Robert would use Igor as a verb, claiming,

"When he was in jail in Pennsylvania, he was recorded saying, 'I want to Igor Douglas.'"
In that same interview Douglas said, "There's no doubt in my mind that if he had the opportunity to kill me, he would." (via)

2ooPz HooPz

we're doing it again. fill out a bracket and join the group. winner will be rewarded bragging rights only, although side bets are encouraged.

CLICK HERE!!!

tell me if you have any problems signing up.

i'm NOT going to be lazy on the couch this weekend.

(wink)

pewp.

 

stop wiping your b. with wet wipez

this is fascinating.

the university of tennessee will be making the licensing switch from adidas to nike this year. nike has proposed to unite all programs, both athletic and academic, under one brand. this includes making the power-T the official logo and doing away with the "lady vols" brand for women's teams. all in the name of "one tennessee".

the lady vols, however, object. and it's mixing up my feelings about feminism and gender-quality and brand strategy and pat summitt. 

On Nov. 10, 2014 the university announced plans to transition all men’s and women’s athletic teams under the “Power T.” The decision coincided with a dual-rebrand between academics and athletics that would make the “Power T” the universal logo for the University of Tennessee, not just its athletic department. Under the new plan, which coincides with a shift from Adidas to Nike in athletic apparel, all sports programs except women’s basketball will be known as “Volunteers,” the nickname that’s defined the men’s side for decades. The change will be official on July 1.

UT first formed its women’s athletic department prior to the 1976-77 academic year, and the school had separate athletic departments until 2009. During that span the Lady Vols grew into one of the most impactful women’s brands in college sports. Lady Vols teams have won 11 national championships, including eight in women’s basketball, and 68 conference titles. The basketball team is the only program to play in all 33 NCAA tournaments since the NCAA began sanctioning women’s sports in 1981-82. An average of 11,038 fans attended Lady Vols home basketball games during the 2013-14 season, the highest average in the country.

But that success hasn’t been relegated to basketball. The Lady Vols softball team has reached six Women’s College World Series in the last 10 years. The women’s swim team has finished in the top 15 at the NCAA Championships in a school-record nine consecutive seasons. Tennessee won two women’s indoor track and field national championships (2005, 2009) within the last decade. That’s why many former student-athletes view the Lady Vols decision as a blow to a historic brand.

“Former Lady Vols always look after current Lady Vols,” Mansson said. “I got really upset because it felt like they took away my, and others’, identity.” (via)

in the end, the university has decided to let only the women's basketball program retain the lady vols logo, out of respect for the program's storied success under pat summitt, which seems like the worst possible solution.

meanwhile, deadspin's trying try to find a tennessee resident to request emails between nike and the university, if anyone feels like helping...

feeling bad about how wrong you were about #thedress

make it worse by taking this color-seeing test from pantone.

i got an 8 out of 100 (which is nearly perfect, 0 is perfect). no surprises there.

what did YOU get?

pritzkah!

your 2015 pritzker prize winner is....frei otto!!!!

!!!!!111111

!!!??????

...........whom?

he's some kinda tensile structures kween. and he died two days ago so he doesn't even get to enjoy it.

did he do world's fair park or what.

happy 311 day!

jicydak, 311 was like my faaaaave back in middle school. here's a playlist if you're inclined to listen to about 6 hours of ska-infused-punk-rap-rock today!

tink - ratchet commandments

if you don't know, read this.

180 days!

#IfYouHearRockyTopItsTooLate pic.twitter.com/wtce4Qn9KS

— Butch Jones (@UTCoachJones) March 9, 2015

high speed puppeh chase!

use it or lose it.

jicyww

(via)

this octopus steals a go pro and takes it for a swim

stay tuned for the end when the octopus tries to steal the diver's ray gun. via.

this animal is called a quokka and they are proven selfie kweenz

quokka selfies: so hot right now.

thx bun-bun.

buy it for me!!!!!!!!

Cabbage patch doll signed by Amy Schumer

Visit to the Broad City set

Duck phone signed by JWoww and Sammi Sweetheart (why the f is Snooki not on this?)

PubLIZity sippy cup

all proceeds go to a very important charity. but seriously, i want all of them. 

who's excited?

a message for your weekend

tinashe - bated breath

interesting choices!

harrison ford, give me a break

Wreckage from actor Harrison Ford's crash-landing in California. Ford has been hospitalized. http://t.co/mwuejSv0QV pic.twitter.com/JV0NEe47C1

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 6, 2015

fortnightly boat (book)

erik larson, author of many narrative nonfiction bangerz, including "the devil in the white city", has a new book and it is about...

the sinking of the lusitania! it's called "dead wake"!

you can read an excerpt here, before it comes out on march 10.

toot toooooooooooot.

can you spot the snow-covered zoo animal?

it's a bear! and there's more.

tell me how you really feel...

jerry saltz did NOT care for the bjork show at MoMA and seems to be kind of mad in general:

That sadness has mushroomed into dejection of late. Since 2004, when it reopened in its bland new Taniguchi building, many art-world conversations about New York museums circle back to and then plunge into people's pain, anger, sadness, and frustration about the Museum of Modern Art. On the one hand, the museum has the greatest collection of modern art on Earth. It always will. Yet not only is most of this collection permanently held captive in storage, what little of it is on view is seen in perhaps the most unpleasant viewing conditions in any major museum in the world — in far too few galleries that are far too small and poorly designed. Then there's the museum's twisted bid to transform itself into something like a multiplex mall, specializing in whiz-bang pop-cultural events. Now comes a Diller Scofidio + Renfro expansion plan meant to fix the problems it created in 2004, which looks much more likely to exacerbate them. (via)

what do you think?

(via)

thx a lot, de blasio!

there's a whole breakdown of just wtf exactly has been going on down in those tubes the last few months...

By one of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's measures, the total number of delays in 2014 increased an astonishing 45.6 percent over 2013. Even the MTA's less drastic numbers still point to slower service. More is at work here than meandering crowds of uncivilized cretins sullying the sacred shrine to transportation the the New York City subway once was. But the agency has no clear institutional explanation for the decline. (via)

i saw this happen to a bus on my way to work this morning.

A Delta plane has skidded off the runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport in a snowstorm: http://t.co/DM9DiQ6RCZ pic.twitter.com/cbh7q9q1s5

— Mashable (@mashable) March 5, 2015

vulture's new tv podcast

tv is my favorite.

something new to worry about.

loose octopuses.


is that a sally lightfoot?

here's an octopus long read about how they are too smart for their own good.

how interesting.

here's a little insight into how house of cards is shot.

Almost every single frame of this show is composed to place a pale blue object in the foreground with a pale yellow light in the background. Now, sometimes the foreground object is more black than blue, sometimes the background veers toward a sickly green, sometimes they're outside and the background is necessarily blue or black sky, but once you begin noticing this particular habit of the House of Cards color pallete, it is hard to unsee. (via)

here's a podcast interview with the show's cinematographer.

on a related note, here's a list of ten films matthew weiner made required viewing for the cast & crew of mad men. jicydak, there's a big mad men exhibition opening march 14 at the museum of the moving image (shoutout flim).

bring back etti-cat!

(via)

awesome lady alert!

she is the only black lady to ever hold her specialized position.

In 2004 she was cross-commissioned into the USAF, a fairly rare occurrence in itself, and joined the elite U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane program. Within a year she had passed the incredibly challenging U-2 conversion syllabus and was soon flying combat missions around the globe. She has since gone on to get her Masters Degree in aeronautical science, she became the commander of the U-2 test detachment at Plant 42, served at NORAD, is now the 9th Reconnaissance Wing Inspector General and was recently selected for promotion to the rank of full Colonel. (via)

leon bridges - coming home

(via)

for some reason this reminded me of starla

I DO NOT post food but I'm just keeping it real right now and telling you what happened... http://t.co/fCwXsCcRQN pic.twitter.com/bWzsSE5CIB

— NeNe Leakes (@NeNeLeakes) March 2, 2015

you might like this mixtape from Beyonce's friend BOOTS.

i did.