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Anyone have any personal experience with Omnifocus or any other Getting Things Done (GTD) applications? Evernote? I have been browsing 43 Folders but this seems like a task I might be able to delegate ( Read more... )

We are all idiot man-children now, even the robots.

Even though I really liked Wall-E, and though it was adorable and clever and fun, I have this irresistable urge to start cutting on it. Basically, my problem with Wall-E is that the heteronormative romance projected onto the robot protagonists is just another variation on the schlub/hottie ( Read more... )

If you consider Take your time: Olafur Eliasson to be the epitome of "good trip" art - gently messing with your sensory perceptions of the environment, your body, other people's bodies, time, space, etc., (which you should) then there's another exhibit at PS1 - right downstairs from that lovely, calming rotating magic mylar mirror - that is the ( Read more... )

If you haven't been yet, please drop everything you are currently doing and head to MoMA and/or PS1 to check out the last day of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, because you will probably not have more fun at an Art Exhibit this year unless they're handing out giant flyswatters at the upcoming Louis Bourgeouis/Giant Spiders Vs. Guggenheim ( Read more... )

I think my bodega is selling counterfeit Charmin.

Some things that have tickled my fancy or tickled some other of my various humours today ( Read more... )

For some reason Amazon.com saw fit to send me an e-mail suggesting I might be interested in a new book titled Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives. Their stated reason was that I had purchased The Meme Machine (incidentally, the only book about memes I ever read that I didn't think was mostly bullshit pseudo-scientific posturing ( Read more... )

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Sighted at a Starbucks on the corner of 23rd St. and 8th ave. (or maybe 9th?): A middle-aged, swarthy looking man writing in longhand on a series of white legal pads, accompanied by a life-size skull he had placed on his tabletop. The skull had red wax drips on the forehead, and a little olive green cap on top of that (starbucks probably forbids ( Read more... )