Jack Spade Prison Key Ring – Luxist
So, $75. Not “outrageous” for a “designer” (e.g. Jack Spade) key ring. BUT, it’s a keyring made by prisoners! So a $5 key tassle from the prison gift shop, ends up being $75 because it’s on a key ring with Jack Spade’s name on it.
Jay-Z Partners with Audemars Piguet to Make New Watches – Luxist – www.luxist.com
personally i’d rather the jayz ipod over the watch, nothing against AP watches, they are nice, but not really my style.
lot of nytimes links this morning…
that seat blows. better stores have nice lounge chairs or leather club chairs. that are positioned next to a plasma (which is never on news or sports, but rather a looped advertisment or branded entertainment of the retailer). still the seat is much appreciated.
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okay, so there are a lot of reports this morning about a certain memo about making things shorter, etc for the nytimes. and there are varying angles of analyses about it. one is that even the times is getting caught up with the fast news, straight to the point, etc reporting style. one theory floated on some blog somewhere is that it might be a reflection of web users hating to click to page 2 for the story lead (after a page of some anecdote to contextualize the story).
now i don’t have a problem at all with the current times’ layout, but this bit of information got me to thinking about my biggest problem with the internet which centers solely on one of my favorite sites: espn. why oh why did they move to a multipage format for stories. i mean fine some are long, but does it save that much load time? does it generate that much more ad revenue to have an extra page to place ads on? some stories are literally 2 lines post break. check out the article by len pasquerlli about TO – 3 pages, the 3rd page is nothing. and it’s annoying nonetheless. on any story, my first move is always find and click “single page view” if it’s an option.
Undisclosed Location: Pen and Paper
this is great. i love writing things out longhand (yes even with my terrible handwriting). and much like whoever writes “undisclosed location” i also prefer gridlined paper. and moleskines are awesome. of course adding the pages, as is the greatness of these posts is tough as i dont have a scanner (well i have one, but i’m not trying to hook it up and it’s older than dirt). plus there are not many times i’m not with my computer. but there are plenty of times i would rather write longhand versus typing it out.
suffice it to say, as of this posting, 3 “analog” posts have been made and each one is great and i agree with each one very much. in fact, if i ever do blatantly copy this idea (haha, maybe i’ll go super lowtech and just take a digital pic of my notes and post those, of course no one will be able to read it haha), don’t be surprised if my first few posts are eerily similar to the ones here thus far.
we make money not art: Sensitive vehicles to help drivers – via engadget
this would be great! i would love this. of course, let me be completely honest, my car would always glow angry, or annoyed, or impatient. but if everyone else knew that maybe they’d get out of my way, stop driving like idiots around me and then i’d glow happy, peaceful contented. haha, of course my glowing red (or whatever color angry, annoyed, impatient is) would def tip off the cops to keep an eye on me though…
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