Theatrical Taxidermy is a selection of taxidermy that “brings animals to life whether it be to sip tea or to savage prey.” I think I am going to have nightmares about Walter Potter’s Kitten Wedding. [ via clusterflock ]
My friend Alex put together his history of mobile devices from 1998 to today on his user experience blog EverydayUX and I got all nostalgic reading through it just now. I got my first cellphone (a Nokia 2110) in 1995 and that didn’t even have the Snake game on it—now you can watch YouTube videos easy peasy on an iPhone. We’ve come a long way!
Believe it or not, Germaine Greer wrote an entire essay on Posh Spice—and it’s positive: “Victoria Beckham may have seemed the least talented of the Spice Girls but her real talent lay elsewhere. She is an artist in the same genre as Damien Hirst: marketing. In an era of bare bellies, painted legs, visible underwear, junk jewellery and grisly computer generated prints, she is a lone champion of elegance for working girls.”
(This makes more sense if you read Greer’s essay in gallery view, with accompanying photos.)
Besides the MTA and DesignNotes, are there other .info sites worth a damn? I realized a long time ago I was getting a lot of comment spam linking to sites on that top-level domain, so I added it to my filters and have been pretty happy since, but I wonder if there are any other sites besides these two that I should know about.
(Um, so since comments with .info in them automagically get junked, if you’re sharing an url please just type .ofni instead and I’ll change it manually after it goes through.)
Bea Arthur’s 10 Best Moments: “In honor of her Bea-Day, if you will, we’ve decided to scour Youtube for some of her greatest moments. What we found, ladies and gentleman, might be the greatest collection of televised moments in the history of the medium.” #9, #8 and #1 make me especially happy. [ via B.A.’s Weblog ]
5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley. My friend Mike: “I really like the attempt to represent Wilford in all his divine aspects.”
Chris Rock at Time‘s 100 Party, on whether Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race: “If you leave a club at 1 a.m., it was your choice not to get laid. But if you wait till the club closes, you’re ugly, and that’s why you didn’t get laid.”
See also: Hillary GTFO, Hillary is 404
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Polygamist Style: “Let’s redefine the prairie dress. Lets get this some style. Let’s give it some chicness. And let’s help these women look great!” And yes, in case you were wondering about those shoes—he totally recommends “a cute little ballet flat, in a metallic.” Thank you for this, Mo Rocca.
Wylie Dufresne + PDT = the $5 Wylie Dog, “a deep-fried Crif Dog wiener nestled against a baton of WD-50 deep-fried mayo” breaded with hot dog bun-crumbs, topped with tomato molasses, freeze-dried onions and shredded romaine. Yes, please! [ via Eater ]
Dial a Human! I super duper love this site and always forget it exists until I have to call Con Edison because their voice menus are so tedious; DaH! tells you which buttons to press and in what sequence so you can bypass the menus and talk to an actual person.