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TRON: LEGACY - Official Trailer

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:52:00 -0600

TRON: LEGACY - Official Trailer

I didn't think it was possible to love panic more.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:37:15 -0600

I didn't think it was possible to love panic more.

Can’t have a comedy show without hipster girls.

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:33:12 -0600

Can’t have a comedy show without hipster girls.

Make: Online : Petition to establish "hella-" as SI prefix for octillion

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:39:43 -0600

Make: Online : Petition to establish "hella-" as SI prefix for octillion

Evan

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:47:16 -0600

Evan

Green Train Percy On The Track

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:53:38 -0600

Green Train Percy On The Track

Your daily WTF. Seriously WTF? Kirsten Dunst - Turning Japanese...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:24:34 -0600

Your daily WTF. Seriously WTF?

Kirsten Dunst - Turning Japanese PV (Official Music Video) (via darkoffstrikesback)

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:37:07 -0600

You’re Despicable

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:12:27 -0600

You’re Despicable

All she needs now is an ADAM syringe.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:33:00 -0600

All she needs now is an ADAM syringe.

How Trent Reznor Can Mold Your Child's Life: A Reality-Based Parenting Lesson© Plan

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:59:19 -0600

inthefade:

This one is for califmom because maybe it will make her smile/laugh. I thought I posted this before and I probably did but deleted it in one of my “too much stuff on my tumblr” fits.

I read an article a while back (can no longer find it online or I’d link to it) about a guy taking his kids “pretend birthday shopping.” As the author tells it, he’s got three young daughters with birthdays coming up. He and his wife take the kiddies to Target to scan the toy aisles so they can make out their birthday wish lists. They let the kids put the toys they want in the cart, as a way of making a “wishlist” only to tell them at this end this was just practice, they can’t take the toys home and they’ll only get one out of the bunch. It is, of course, a horror show for them - the kids want their presents NOW, they run amok in the aisles, they throw tantrums, they want everything they see - resulting in the parents wanting to drink themselves through lunch.

I’ve never heard of this practice of taking your kids “pretend” shopping for their birthday presents, parading them down aisle after aisle of toys, leading them to believe that the toy department is their own personal shopping mall and if they wish real hard, mommy and daddy will make their Barbie dreams come true!

Mr., that’s what commercials are for.

In my Reality-Based Parenting© world, I not only streamline efforts like buying/picking out birthday presents, I take every available opportunity to toughen kids up and teach them the hard, mean lessons of life early on so they don’t turn into sissies with a sense of entitlement.

Here’s how it works in my world.

You plop your kids down in front of the tv, Nickelodeon being your weapon of choice. In twenty minutes, and without ever having to leave the comfort of your own home, your kids have found fifteen new toys they want, in addition to eight kinds of candy and four brands of cereal and thus, you are presented with the opportunity to teach your kids some valuable life lessons and harden them up for the tough life ahead of them.

After they come to you with their hastily scrawled list of toys and games, you tell them you’ll think about it, then you fold up the list and put it in your pocket. The kids are still standing there, wide eyed and shaking with giddy, over-sensitized commercial awareness.

Can we have Loaded Sugar Bomb Cereal?
No.
Can we have Chocolate…
No.
Can we have Donut Breakfast Sprink..
No.
Kool Aid?
No.
Twelve foot long fruit strips?
No.
A pint size, battery powered Lexus complete with vanity plate?
No.
That game with the six thousand marbles?
No.

You keep a harsh edge to your voice. And just wait for it. As if on cue, they howl, they cry, they pout and throw themselves on the floor and kick you in the shins and scream that they never, ever, ever get to have ANYTHING good or fun or new.

So you do what any responsible parent would do. You sit them in front of the stereo, turn down the lights and make them listen to Trent Reznor emoting about something he can never have. You sing along, making sure to pantomime your heart breaking. You make it resonate. When the final, heartbreaking notes of the song fade out, you tell them, If you think it hurts to not be able to get your damn sugar coated chocolate filled breakfast treat, just wait until that hot chick who has been teasing you in math class for three months tells you she’s a lesbian.

When you put the kids to bed that night, you eschew the lullabies and put Stabbing Westward’s Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel on repeat in their Winnie the Pooh CD players.

The next day, when you realize you’ve used the last of your 40 pack of paper towels and you make a panic run to Costco, you take them with you. You purposely take them down the toy aisle to see if they learned anything. There’s rows of brightly colored packages; board games, mechanical toys, whirring lights and beeping robots and stacks of pink boxes stuffed with busty blonde dolls. You look at your kids and you can see their hands twitch involuntarily. But they keep walking. They don’t reach for a box or try to play with the electronic drum set on display.

You can’t help but test them a little bit.

“Hey look, Johnny. It’s that new gizmo you wanted!”
“Eh. Why bother asking for it? It would only end up disappointing me later, anyhow.”

You try to hide your proud smile. And when your daughter sullenly walks past the rows of Barbies, kicks one of the boxes and mutters bitch under her breath, you quietly pump your fist and say yessssss.

[Look for my Reality-Based Parenting© infomercial in the near future]

iPad UI Conventions - a set on Flickr

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:34:45 -0600

iPad UI Conventions - a set on Flickr

Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:18:58 -0600

Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy:

THIS!

Nixie Clock - VERSION 2

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:16:32 -0600

Nixie Clock - VERSION 2:

Will be building!

Walmart Clown Commercial Here goes about 20 minutes of your...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:49:09 -0600

Walmart Clown Commercial

Here goes about 20 minutes of your day.

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:47:23 -0600

Want!

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:44:51 -0600

Want!

The Breeders - Shocker in Gloomtown (via lawpriest) How perfect...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:03:36 -0600

The Breeders - Shocker in Gloomtown (via lawpriest)

How perfect is this? The Breeders doing a GBV cover while GBV watches through the window.

Meme Me

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:23:00 -0600

Inspired by Mandi over at lifeinbeta my iTunes top 25. Apparently I got waaayyyy too into Christmas music last month.

Teenage FBI by Guided By Voices

Violent Mood Swings by Stabbing Westward (played on repeat while I coded the most awful program ever conceived)

Paper Planes by M.I.A.

The Pretender by Foo Fighters

Sex On Fire by Kings of Leon

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk

Rainbows In the Dark by Tilly and the Wall

The Show by Lenka

House of Cards by Radiohead

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Death Cab for Cutie

She Is Beautiful by Andrew W.K.

Oi to the World by No Doubt

Bitter Heart by Zee Avi

Don’t Shoot Me Santa by The Killers

I Won’t Be Home for Christmas (Previously Unreleased) by blink-182

Use Somebody by Kings of Leon

Ceremony by Radiohead

Pork and Beans by Weezer

time by The Brokenmusicbox

Closer Kings of Leon

Time to Pretend by MGMT

Glad Girls by Guided By Voices

Hyper Enough by Superchunk

Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe by Whale

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:31:26 -0600