Modern Pictogram is a great opentype typeface by designer John Caserta
This is perfect for interface design, just install the font and use it as whatever size you need it. This was just release Jan 19th, 2012 and is a great resource for designers.
Enjoy!
Download: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/modern-pictograms
Using @font-face is sooo much quicker than making tiny icons. Kill me in the face.
This part about spilled milk is going to kill.
Am I the only one who thought that was spontaneous? I don’t even know why I think it, so probably.
Facebook proves that even if we have good friends somewhere, we won’t go there.
And that all good friends, no matter where they live, will continue to be good friends even when they never move to live with you and hang out on Friday and Saturday nights.
They still love you.
This is one of the covers of my second book of short stories, poetry and ephemera, called “Some Strands of Thread, Some Knotted Coils.“
I was asked a short while ago by a close friend why I wasn’t writing a novel. “Your short stories are great,” he says, “I mean, I’ve never gotten through one and been like ‘I didn’t like that.’ I’ll either be like ‘All right,’ and move on or I’ll be like ‘Man, I really have to think about that one some more.’”
Which, I realize, isn’t so much a critique of the experience of reading a book of short stories versus a novel as it is a critique of the feeling that one thing isn’t connected to the next thing. “I read one, I read another one. I want a whole.”
But a whole is problematic: if I want you to read some of my writing, which are you more likely to actually get through - a novel, or a few short stories? I choose the short stories (I’m sorry, but if you ask me to read your book, I probably never will. That time is precious and I spend it on sure things - and I expect the same of any audience I’ll ever have) every time. And so should you. First, you don’t have to set aside time to read a bunch of short stories. Second, if you don’t like one you might get another one that you do like.
So this time it’s not a novel. It’s short stories. It’s an EP in lieu of an album, and I’ll keep putting out mixtapes until I’m album-worthy. Then I can start the next thing, and the next.
That’s what I told my friend.
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But still: It’ll feel like I’ve really done something when it’s a novel.
The feeling surrounds the issue of the substantial. Many little bits are insubstantial, while one large bit is substantial in the way that a novel is. It’s a one thing. A single unit of thought. So much harder to hold in the brain at once, so much of an accomplishment when it’s sitting there and you know how good it is, and you’re proud, before anyone even reads it.
Maybe next time.
At some point in every writer’s life
he begins to think that the things he thinks are important and that he should try to explain them because gee golly heck he’s a writer isn’t he and Mark Twain did it and why shouldn’t everyone get to be a witty columnist and still write novels everyone reads and talks about and have a following like Joss Whedon and
then he snaps out of it and reminds himself all the words he hasn’t written still have to be good. Really, really, really good.
The Cake President
Every night The Cake Boss initiates his secret Cake-Comm, in the Cake-Vault deep below the catacombs beneath Carlo’s Bakery.
“Cake President? It’s me, Buddy.”
“What is it this time, Buddy?”
“Look, I got a real problem! Just this week the water went brown, Mauro didn’t bring enough sugar, and a bride came in and squirted colors all over one of my cakes! And also Danny didn’t take the poundcake out the freezer so I had to wait two-ta-tree hours to wait for it to Thor out.”
“Listen, Buddy. When I made you Cake Boss of Carlo’s Bakery so you could infiltrate the mouths of America, did you complain?”
“No, but I was gonna be cake boss anyway. Mia familia runs Carlo’s.”
“When I told you to make a Submarine cake for my special Navy ceremony, did you complain?
“Well, I…”
“Did you complain? Or did you make the cake?”
“I made the cake.”
“So why this time is it so hard to make the cake?”
“The taxes on fondant and modeling chocolate are too high. I can barely keep my business afloat, what wit brides and Stretch breaking all the cakes, and Frankie’s too big to even move around in my little kitchen.”
“You want a cake bailout?”
“No, I need money.”
“All I can do is make you a specialty cake of you putting your feet up in a bathtub full of gum paste money.”
“Really? I can have that?”
“No.”
And every night the Cake Boss tiptoes back up the stairs, climbs back under the covers where his warm wife is, and cries icing tears.
Un-Blackout Wikipedia with jQuery and jsshell.
Make a custom command that will autorun every time you’re on en.wikipedia.org.
Have that command: Remove the SOPA overlay on hover (basically as soon as it appears), make visible every element, and hide html tags that clutter the page.
Like:
$('#mw-sopaOverlay').live('hover', function(){ $(this).remove(); $('*').show(); $('style, script, title').hide(); });
Homework away, my beloved techno-dependents.
4. I heard there are ads on Hulu Plus. Why?
We include advertisements in Hulu Plus in order to ensure that the ads we’ve sold to companies get seen, so we can amass the largest possible amount of capital by providing a service that is basically we do nothing and still get money.
Hulu Plus offers what no other streaming content service on the market today can: episodes, and shows, and seasons. All of them. This means full series runs (which we’re explaining to make seem impressive) of the shows you watched when you were growing up but since convinced yourself you imagined like Alf, Doogie Houser MD, Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman, and Road Rules.
We have found that by including just enough ads to annoy you enough to look up why we’re serving ads on a service you’re paying for, Goddammit, we can keep the price for Hulu Plus under eight bucks, which we’d like to remind you is less than you can buy a sandwich for at most airports, while still providing you addicts with access from most devices that vibrate.
We’re continually working to tailor the ad experience, so that when you see the ads they’ll be about how you’re a man if you’re man and otherwise about something else if you’re not a man. In addition, we are always trying to find out how to squeeze more money out of you, so if we decided to release an ad-free Hulu Plus-Plus, you can pay for that instead, sucker.
REVENGINEERS - SELF TITLED EP
hi go peep this i love you
A cool guy named Jim has a cool band named the Revengineers and this is the cool EP they made and it’s cool.
OK HERE’S MY WHOLE BUNTAIN SIMPSON COMIC from LAMEZINE (which you should buy because it’s good!!!)
I can’t get this out of my head.
It reminds me
- of the dreams my brain’s drugs give me when I’m falling asleep
- of memes about cats
- how much I relate to Homer Simpson
- and how much I miss Jerry Buntain
(via tomippen)
Q:Adam, what does the word "leadership" mean to you?
Anonymous
I’m glad you asked, Anon!
What is a good leader? Self-reliant. Knows what needs to be done and does it without being told. Looks forward to possible things (s)he might be asked to do, and does those too. Assists every other in situations where his/her expertise supercedes theirs on the spot and without complaint. Does not dump off easy jobs or frivolously ask for help simply because (s)he has the authority to do so. Leads by example, not by voice. Never agrees or disagrees with an idea simply because of who thought it. Is never fake.
NEXT!
SIMONF: Go Daddy shows how desperate they are by calling customers to ask them to stay.
Oh hey! I will be doing this!
After a successful boycott attempt endorsed by Anonymous and Reddit users, Go Daddy denounced their support for SOPA.
Customer Service reps are now calling customers who plan to transfer domains and begging them to stay.
Do not be fooled by their decision, Go Daddy not…
Friday cool tie day.
Hey look, I’m right next to Marc Maron on Vimeo’s Comedy/Stand Up category page.
Sure, it’s just for doing an annoying lip-dub of an annoying comic, but still. I’m right next to Marc Maron.
This is weirding me out.
So now you have a choice: Watch my video or watch Marc Maron.
EDIT: It’s random, which makes sense. But still what are the chances I’d randomly be on the front page of a website I wasn’t even logged in to and was just browsing the site map? It freaked me out. Not to worry though, false alarm.
It is strange to have a random internet sighting of yourself though, because that should never happen.
