YAS THE FUTURE IS HERE

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straddle bus

not to be confused with the struggle bus.

brought to you by the chinese.

g-d damn.

plz welcome... the next overscaled monstrosity to blot out the sun over central park. one of seven new supertall towers inching toward fruition along 57th street. UGH.

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.

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.

ciara's baby takes a swimmin class

Part 2. #BabyFutureSwimmingClasses #ProudMamma ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

A video posted by Ciara (@ciara) on Jan 1, 2015 at 11:39am PST

fUTuRE fOnTz

you should read this article detailing google's year-and-a-half long process of designing the font of the future, intended for true cross-platform use. its called rOBoTo!

which psychic animal will you get your world cup predictions from?

here are your options:

shaheen and waslawi, the mama and baby camelz. they signal their picks by eating from piles of "mushed up dates" placed next to country flags.

nelly the elephant. i think her method is fairly self-explanatory. 

an unnamed baby panda of china's choosing. the cub (who has been invited to make predictions, but not yet introduced to the world) will climb trees with flags on 'em.

the vols got two new quarterbacks today.

the weird looking one : joshua dobbs from alpharetta, GeOrGiA! (highlight reel)

and the ruggedly handsome one : riley ferguson from north carolina! (highlight reel)

we also got a real good wide receiver named marQuez north, with a capital Q. (highlight reel)

see the whole class here.

i live in the future

at&t just sent me a video bill

greenpoint is the new williamsburg

according to the always-on-the-tip-of-the-internet new york times:

On a scorching July afternoon, the frisson of hustle and bustle that delineates the weekday rush hour was in full swing at the intersection of Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenues, the dowdy commercial heart of Greenpoint. Horns blared, and unlike other times of day or night, when the traffic ranges from intermittent to invisible, pedestrians actually did have to look both ways before jaywalking. In this, the genuine Brooklyn, crosswalks are for sissies, classic apartments are walk-ups, loud is the default sound level, and burly men of a certain vintage still wear sleeveless undershirts in public.

Until Greenpoint’s artsy sister neighborhood to the south, Williamsburg, set a brash example by surrendering to glassy condominium and hotel towers and urbane renewal that yanked the cost of shelter in a Manhattan-ish direction, vinyl-sided six-family tenements were the backbone of the housing stock here. And century-old trees shaded the crumbling sidewalks. But lately the biggest shadow being cast in Greenpoint belongs to Williamsburg.

Vinyl siding doesn’t represent Greenpoint’s cachet any longer; virtual doormen, rooftop farms, artisanal gin and brick-faced condominiums do. The virtual gatekeeper is a prime amenity at the sold-out 93-unit Pencil Factory condominium on West Street, where the penthouse sold for just over $1 million, a neighborhood first. (via)

oh, just shut up.

thx liz!

holy. fucking. shit.

WOAH. i'll take cherry plz.




#mindblown

google glass

i don't know about you, but i cannot wait to be a robot. especially for the "take a picture" feature. #instantgrahamonmyface

hologram coachella

(via)

curbing sprawl in nashville

The regional planning authority for the Nashville, Tennessee, metropolitan area has embarked on a new philosophy to put the notoriously sprawling region on a less polluting and less consumptive path, anchored by walkable neighborhoods, public transportation and maximizing the efficiency of current roadways.

Meeting the laudable goal of shaping a more sustainable region will not be easy: in 2001, the Nashville metro area was cited as the nation’s most spread-out – the area with the fewest number of residents per square mile – in a review of 271 of our largest metro areas.

If Nashville’s land use challenge is daunting, its transportation challenges – in large part created by the predominance of sprawl – are similarly formidable. (via)

why you can't listen to adele's '21' on spotify.

Multiple sources confirm that Adele was willing to play ball with the streaming service, as long as the content was accessible only to paying subscribers and not to its freemium users. Spotify has a freemium-to-premium model: Users can gain ad-supported access to Spotify's entire music catalog for free; to remove the ads and gain mobile access, users have to pony up as much as $10 a month. Ultimately, Spotify decided it did not want to split up its content catalog, so as to create separate music libraries for paying subscribers and freemium users. Thus, it was essentially Spotify that decided against providing streaming access to Adele's content for paying subscribers--not the other way around. (via)

thx starla!

your national signing day football roundup

i don't know much and it's hard to wade through all this information, but here's what i can tell you.

please welcome.....DRAE BOWLES!!

he's our top recruit so far. he's from jackson, tn and he's a wide receiver and he seems real sweet. he'll join pig, who you've met already.

we're still waiting to hear from a few more but right now we are 23rd best recruiting class in the nation, a bit of a downgrade from last year.

i'll try to let you know if anything else happens.


i DO have some other football related news!

smokey had surgery! he's doing just fine!

"The surgery went well with no surprises," said Dr. Darryl Millis, orthopedic surgeon and surgery section chief at UT Veterinary Medical Center. "Smokey is a very fit dog with good muscle tone."

Millis performed the 2½-hour operation Tuesday. A day later, Smokey was on the move, just not as quickly as usual.

"He's a competitor," Millis said. "He wants to be up and moving." (via)

and finally...







that is all.

who knew.

Barack Obama, 28, photographed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Vanity Fair’s June 1990 issue, after being elected president of the Harvard Law Review. (via)

what thomas wilhelm's grandma envisioned his future to be like.

here he is....

...driving his car!

...turning books into knowledge! this position is called "churning the butter", and is reserved for the class dunce.

...working! (this one's actually pretty accurate.)

...video-chatting / cybering.

..."churning the butter" again.

...going for a hot air baloon ride.

...riding bikes on govies island.

see everything here!!

mass transit porn

New Yorkers, next time you moan about how long your commute is (i.e., when your leave work today), don't make your complaints aimlessly. Aim them straight at the subway lines that could've taken you home faster if only they'd been built! To do so, Balance Media and WNYC's John Keefe offers this handy map of the 11 proposed-but-never-fully-built subway lines in New York overlaying the city's subway system as it actually exists today. The subways-in-the-sky include a bunch of outer-borough amenities, such as the two additional trains connecting Queens and Brooklyn and another connecting (gasp) Staten Island to the rest of the city. And lower Manhattan certainly gets some love as well, with three more lines of its own going to Brooklyn, including the fabled 2nd Avenue line the MTA has actually started building in the Upper East Side (no jinx). The map's fancy and interactive, with text bubbles explaining each nonexistent line, so you ought to head over to WNYC's website to play with it yourself. (via)

yes i will!! going right now!

there's also an awesome story (with slideshow) about all the ghost stations!