Diesel Sweeties: “America invented Coca-Cola, yet it’s the only place where Coke tastes like boiled ass.” Okay, so it’s total hyperbole—even made with corn syrup, a cold Coke over ice cubes on a hot day is one of the most satisfying things humanity’s ever produced—but cane sugar is just so much better. Damn corn subsidies!
Dockdrop makes uploading photos to Flickr or files to a server through FTP, WebDAV or SCP as simple as, well, dropping files onto its dock icon. I love it when a product’s screencast demo proves it’s as easy to use as it says it is.
Penny Arcade, on what makes a troll: “Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad”
Design world superstar Stefan Sagmeister says the framework he works with is whether you can touch someone’s heart with design: “Quite a while back, a friend of mine named Reini was coming to New York and was worried none of the sophisticated New York women were going to talk to him. So we ran a poster on the Lower East Side that had his photo on it and said, “Girls, please be nice to Reini.” He got a girlfriend out of it.”
This totally slays me: Alone In The City of Order & Desire. Oh Kfan, If I had Warren Buffett money, I’d give you a full-time position just being awesome all over the internet.
Restaurant critic Giles Coren’s nasty emails, foul-mouthed and excoriating, are so over the top that they’re hilarious, especially if you’ve ever worked as a writer and have ever been edited by someone who didn’t know what they were doing. Coren basically takes the nastygram you’d write to be therapeutic but immediately delete, ups the asshole factor by a factor of ten, and then actually presses send:
The joke is gone. I only wrote that sodding paragraph to make that joke. And you’ve fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it. You might as well have removed the whole paragraph. I mean, fucking christ, don’t you read the copy?
Garrison Keillor on the craziness of the current political attack ads:
It’s an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick. The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big ambitions for him, and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook, whereas the Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into Annapolis though an indifferent student, much like the Current Occupant, both of them men who are very lucky that their fathers were born before they were. The Chicagoan, who grew up without a father, wrote a book on his own, using a computer. The Arizonan hired people to write his for him. But because the Chicagoan can say what he thinks and make sense and the Arizonan cannot do that for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is hoping to portray the skinny guy as arrogant.
So true, and so ridiculous; hopefully people will see right through it. In the meantime, it’s pretty funny that Paris Hilton’s energy plan is better than McCain’s—unfortunate in a practical sense, but still funny.
I’ve been enjoying Fashionista for a while and was pleasantly surprised to see that they picked my friend Dan as the star of their daily street photo feature last Friday. He always looks effortlessly cool, we should all be so stylish.
The Strand‘s classic tote bags are iconic for New Yorkers and out-of-town bookworms, but the first three bags in their new Artist Series are fantastic—David Hockney’s and Art Spiegelman’s are lovely, but my heart belongs to Adrian Tomine’s. [ via Racked]
“If you think of Matthew McConaughey as a celebrity product, he’s one of the most consistently branded and immediately recognizable products on the planet. In most photos, he is a) on a beach, b) in shorts, c) holding a surfboard, d) wearing a do-rag, e) drunk, or most often f) a combination of at least 3 of these. Matthew McConaughey is his own logo, and it looks like this.“ (Posts like these are why I love Amy’s Robot so much, and why you should too.)