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These 2012 movies look good. I hope they don’t stink.
posted on Jan 10 2012


The Divide


The Dark Knight Rises


Silent House


The Hunger Games






The book I have recommended for the last 2 years, and will continue to recommend
posted on Jan 9 2012

Rework is a business book that explains who your employees and your bosses age 20-35 do what they do, and/or how you should more effectively run your business, work day, and life.






American P.O.W. blinking morse code ‘T-O-R-T-U-R-E’ during a forced interview
posted on Jan 9 2012

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr., a retired United States Navy rear admiral, naval aviator and a former Republican U.S. senator for the great state of Alabama.






Well this just hurts my eyes
posted on Jan 6 2012






Really stocked about DONDA, you guys.
posted on Jan 6 2012






If you were curious how seriously @verge would be taken at CES this year, their setup should answer that question.
posted on Jan 6 2012

My Lawd. That’s an awesome trailer.

[Not trolling here, serious question: Have Gizmodo or Engadget or others ever brought a setup like this to CES?]






Government to our grandparents: “Do not mix whiskey and gas.” (Alternate title: Our grandparents were crazy, y’all.)
posted on Jan 5 2012

From the Library of Congress’ Work Projects Administration Poster Collection.






An awesome picture of a football being kicked
posted on Jan 5 2012

“Football Kick” by Harold Edgerton
[via booooooom]






Living with a lion. No, seriously.
posted on Jan 5 2012

Lots more here.






Video: This (inoffensive) commercial spot was make a normal guy and was rejected by Doritos. I think it’s quite funny.
posted on Jan 4 2012






More product reviews need to be as simple, concise, and honest as this. Kudos, @Verge.
posted on Jan 4 2012






Video: Very cool 4 minute piece on the NYPD horse-mounted unit.
posted on Jan 4 2012






My fearless Tech predictions for 2012
posted on Jan 4 2012

  • Facebook will buy Instagram and attempt not to do to it what Yahoo did to Flickr.
  • Burbn, the creators behind Instagram will launch a similar app for video.
  • Vox Media will be acquired by a major media group. Vox is awesome, and they let their writers write what they want. I do not look forward to Vox ever being acquired.
  • Path will be dubbed the “next big thing” by those in the mainstream (the techies have already christened it as such) and Path users will begin to fight Facebook users, encouraging them to abandon the site/app/entertainment source that has become their lifeblood.
  • An Android phone will knock the socks off of the iPhone 4S.
  • The iPad 3 will debut and knock the socks off the iPad 2, moving the iPad as a whole closer to an independent computer solution [read: USB port and the like that actually make us shed our laptops... and not simply talk about shedding our laptops].
  • Apple will debut the iPhone 5 which will include 2-3 features that will make the 4 and 4S like a water boy.
  • A major player (maybe a new version of Amazon’s Kindle Fire) will debut a tablet that offers Apple’s iPad its first real competition.
  • Groupon will encounter major layoffs. As of today Groupon has 8,000+ employees, and I predict that Groupon will shed 15% of its workforce by the end of 2012. Oddly, a majority of them will come from Sales, which Groupon will spin as “We already have our customer base and don’t need to ‘seek’ as much as we used to, blah blah” type of spiel.
  • Facebook will produce some piece of hardware, though it won’t be a phone or a tablet. Why? They hired lots of folks for a phone that’s rumored to have gone belly up (or at least having major issues) yet no one major individual or group has since left or been let go. [NOTE: If they launch a browser, I get half credit for this.]
  • Gawker will launch a new blog and the Gawker readers of the world will wonder how they ever lived without it; it will shutter mid-2013.
  • A TechCrunch competitor will arise from those formerly with the now useless Aol-owned technology blog. The new entrant will actually break news, actually post on topics other than mobile apps, and actual be interesting… which TechCrunch rarely is nowadays.





  • Wish List: Microphone touch audio interface thingy
    posted on Jan 3 2012






    Birmingham has one of the most amazing motor companies creating works in downtown. If you know nothing or little about it, read this. (@confedmotors)
    posted on Jan 3 2012

    That “motorcycle” pictured above? It’s made in Birmingham.

    Inside a former flower shop, this team creates kinetic art, metal sculptures of museum quality that are also capable of moving more than 160 miles an hour. Critics have called the fruits of their labor “stunning,” “startling,” “sexy,” “unapologetic” and “astounding.”

    The Wall Street Journal actually called their new product “perfect.”






    Things that should not be on your list of New Years Resolutions
    posted on Jan 3 2012

    The photo above has nothing to do with anything below. I simply took it in Greenwood, Mississippi over the weekend and thought it might make you happy or sad or scared for your life.

  • Lose weight: By working out you will both gain weight (muscle) and lose weight (fatty fat). Jog around the block a couple times per week, do 50 push-ups 3 times per week, track your body fat and heart rate. You should be fine.
  • Blog more: Quality over quantity. This applies both to the number of posts your produce, as well as the amount of words in your posts.
  • Tweet more: [See: Blog more]
  • Talk less smack about rival sports team: Be funnier, thus getting your point across and losing less real life and Facebook friends.
  • Spend more time with friends: Meet new people, kick some of your dead-weight and poor-attitude high school and college friends to the curb, and spend time with the right friends. This will make people mad, though you will be happier.
  • Read more: Books are neat, but so is learning more than one thing at a time. Read more of the right things, and those which are summarized.
  • Increase your Klout score: What is Klout, again? Exactly.





  • Year In Beer, 2011: 146 Different Brews Consumed
    posted on Jan 3 2012

    The second edition of last year’s new annual feature is here, and I somehow managed to try less beers in 2011 than I did in 2010.

    How it works: I keep track of the different beers I drink through a iPhone app called Untappd. It’s free, and it does a good job.

    Most notabale are the obvious lack on Pacific Northwest beers (miss u Seattle) but an abundance of Southern beers and European beers due to both our move to Birmingham and our 9-day Euro jaunt.

    *Denotes a favorite.
    +Denotes the most interesting beers of the year.

    Abita Amber
    Abita Purple Haze
    Amstel
    Amstel Light
    Anderson Valley Hop Ottin’ IPA
    Avery 18th Rye Saison
    Avondale Brewing Battlefield IPA
    Avondale Brewing Belgian Pumpkin
    Avondale Brewing Spring Street Saison Ale
    Bacchus
    Back Forty Truck Stop Honey Brown Ale
    Bass
    Bayou Teche LA 31 Bière Pâle
    Bear Republic Racer 5 India Pale Ale (IPA)
    Bell’s Batch 10,000
    Bell’s Deb Red Ale
    Bell’s Winter White Ale
    Big Al Harvest Ale
    Big Al IPA
    Big Al Pale Ale
    Bitburger Premium Pils
    Blue Moon Belgian White
    Blue Moon Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale
    Boulevard Nutcracker Ale
    Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat
    Boulevard Wheat
    Brooklyn Lager
    Brugge Tripel
    Brugs Tarwebier
    Bud Light
    Budweiser
    Budweiser Select
    Carta Blanca
    Centennial IPA
    Choc Last Laugh
    Choc Spring IPA
    Cigar City Jai Alai IPA
    Coors Light
    Copper Bell Light Beer
    Corona Light
    Czechvar
    Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale
    Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
    Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
    Duvel
    Good People Belgian IPA (cask)
    Good People Brett IPA
    Good People Hitchhiker IPA
    Good People IPA
    Good People Mumbai Rye*
    Good People Pale Ale
    Good People Snake Handler Double IPA*
    Good People Tornado IPA
    Great Divide 17th Wood Aged IPA
    Great Divide Chocolate Yeti (cask)+
    Green Man IPA
    Grimbergen Blonde
    Grolsch
    Heavy Seas Red Sky at Night
    Heineken
    Heineken Light
    Highland Gaelic Ale
    Highland Kashmir IPA
    Highland St. Terese’s Pale Ale
    Hoegaarden
    Holy Mackerel Special Golden Ale
    Hopsicle IPA (cask)
    Innis & Gunn Highland Cask
    Jever Pilsner
    Jupiler*
    Karbach Hopadillo IPA
    Karbach Yule Shoot Your Eye Out*
    Killian’s Irish Red
    Kronenbourg 1664*
    La Chouffe
    Lazy Magnolia Jefferson Stout
    Lazy Magnolia Southern Gold
    Leavenworth Whistling Pig Hefeweizen
    Left Hand Sawtooth Ale
    London Pride
    Lone Star Beer
    Lone Star Light
    Magic Hat #9
    Magic Hat Wacko Summer Ale
    Michigan Brewing Company High Seas IPA
    Miller High Life*
    Miller Lite
    Moylan’s Hopsickle Triple IPA
    Moylan’s IPA (cask)
    NOLA Blonde
    O’Fallon Pumpkin Beer
    Ommegang Three Philosophers
    Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale
    Pabst Blue Ribbon
    Palm
    Palmetto Amber
    Perino
    Pisgah Pale Ale
    Red Brick Blonde
    Red Stripe
    Redhook Longhammer IPA
    Rogue Ales Dead Guy Ale
    Rogue Belgian Golden Ale
    Rogue Brutal Bitter*
    Rogue Dad’s Little Helper Black IPA
    Rogue Juniper Pale Ale
    Rogue Mom Hefeweizen
    Rogue Yellow Snow IPA
    Saint Arnold Brewing Amber Ale
    Saint Arnold Brewing Christmas Ale
    Sam Adams 48* Latitiude IPA
    Samuel Adams Boston Ale
    Samuel Adams Boston Lager
    Samuel Adams Octoberfest
    Samuel Adams Summer Ale
    Saporo Light
    Shiner Bock
    Shiner Hefeweizen
    Shiner Oktoberfest
    Shmalz Brewing Coney Island Lager
    Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale (2011)
    Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA
    Smithwicks Irish Red Ale
    Spaten Lager
    Sprecher Double IPA
    Straight To Ale Monkeynaut IPA
    Straight To Ale Stop Work 689 Kolsch
    SweetWater 420 Extra Pale Ale
    SweetWater IPA
    SweetWater Motor Boat Ale
    Tallgrass IPA
    Terrapin Hopsecutioner IPA
    Terrapin Rye Squared DIPA
    Thomas Creek Banana Split Chocolate Stout+
    Thomas Creek Brewery Oktoberfest
    Thomas Creek Class 5
    Trappist Witte (Wieckse?)
    Vedett Extra Blond
    Warsteiner Premium Verum
    Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
    Widmer Hefeweizen
    Wieckse Witte
    Yazoo Brewing Fresh Hop IPA
    Yellowhammer Miracle Worker Tripel
    Yellowhammer Saison de Le Chasse
    Yuengling Lager






    Oh, Drudge
    posted on Jan 3 2012

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