In Which John Mayer Makes Beautiful Music

May 9, 2008

Honestly, there are some fantastic moments in this video:


‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett

May 9, 2008

This is the greatest interview Charlie Rose has ever done:


Facebook in Real Life

May 1, 2008

This kinda steals Dave Chapelle’s skit about what a real-world Internet would be like, but it’s still good: A British comedy troupe does a real-world Facebook:


Is It Just Me, Or Is This Robot Kinda Creepy?

April 16, 2008

New video from Boston Dynamics.

I, for one, would like to welcome our Cyclon overlords.


The Good Lord Willing, and the Elevator Don’t Fail…

April 14, 2008

Remember the guy who was trapped alone in an elevator in NYC for an entire weekend? This week, the New Yorker has some amazing footage from the surveillance camera inside the elevator.

It’s part of a nice Nick Paumgarten piece on elevators, which are perhaps the single most important element in the lives of New Yorkers, even the poors like me who live in walkups. The lesson, of course: Never get on an elevator without food and water. And maybe a copy of War and Peace.


Today in Awesome: White Gold

April 11, 2008

The new ad campaign for milk is pretty amazing:


Today in Cheap but Funny

April 2, 2008

This is kinda the opposite of the Chipmonks thing, which I normally wouldn’t be all that wild about. Still, there’s something about imagining a drunken Jeff Goldblum pitching iMacs…


Today in Just Because: Neko Case

March 18, 2008

Today in Awesome: Video of Manhattan in 1903

March 7, 2008

The Mobile Desktop Hits Starbucks

February 25, 2008