to add to your vocabulary
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Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
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Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
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Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
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Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
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Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease (this one got extra credit).
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Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

a guy shoot a bicycle ride on nyc with a camera attached on his helmet, so you can enjoy the thrill of riding a bike on the streets, without giving up your obese-passive-consumer lifestyle.
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(ok, i’m being cranky: the video is cool, only the soundtrack - “welcome to the jungle” doesn’t help).
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in the future, there will be no narrative on videos… only freestyle stuff like this.

engadget (a cool blog about electronic gadgets) gives some neat ideas to improve netflix service. now that they’re bombarded with heavy competition (nasty walmart and nastier yet blockbuster), they’ll need all help they can get.
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plus, netflix freak, a cool mac app that let’s you manage your netflix queue from your desktop. too bad they want me to pay for that…

lovely icons
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the author of this site reunited 300 icons from different websites to judge it. it was: arrows, posts, comments, mail, bullets, print and carts.
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nevermind his conclusions, i loved all those tiny icons packed together, it has a “mundane-stuff-in-a-canvas” quality.
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and thinking about it, is there any other quintessencial icon on websites? i thought of edit/preferences, login, logout, new and wishlist. it would be cool to assign letters fr it and build different sets of dingbats fonts for it…

pop will eat itself
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watch douglas rushkoff’s merchants of cool.

you know what i’d like? to see a media conglomerates map like this or this) in a treemap, updated.
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this way, i could read an article about a big company, and just find the media position on this treemap, and then figure it out where it is biased.
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more about media concentration. you better inform yourself about it, it’s vital for our democracy and if it depends on the big media, it’ll never reach the public eye.

mp3.com
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to say the truth, i never liked the site anyway. i always thought the rating system was stupid: instead of a “who downloaded this song also downloaded…” cluster gnod-like indexing, they insisted in a top 100 solution that polluted my electronica tastes with tasteless trancey experiments.
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(maybe they secretly wanted to breed an alpha male song that would bypass the mass-media marketing machine, and be a champion of the mp3 cause. who knows?)
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but hey, in a jiff, three years of music projects go to the trash bin, victms of a oh-so-cool name in the new digital music wars. (do the company e-mailed the producers to backup their creations? they should.)
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in comparison, it was like a cute blue-chromed butterfly, or an albino tiger, or any nature’s strange fruit: killed because it was just too pretty to survive.
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well, the more our media centralizes in fewer hands, the more the decisions of our culture will be made by a clueless suit instead of our communities. does it make you feel afraid? well, it should.