Aug 21
Aug 21
When’s the last time you put all your eggs in one basket? Probably never. But! When’s the last time you put all your data in one hard drive? Probably right now (you gotta learn better backup habits). And though we know that practice makes perfect and that patience is a virtue, what actually applies to real life is that Photoshop makes perfect and waiting for a page to load is a virtue.
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Aug 21
Is Instagram over yet? Or our distant relatives just finding out about filters? Wherever the picture sharing app currently stands on the sliding scale of not owning a TV to being an Oprah audience member, it’s obvious to anyone who has used Instagram
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Aug 21
All water is created equal. So how come some bottles are way more expensive than others? It’s all in the packaging and marketing, my friends, and there are only too many people who are willing to part with tens of dollars for a substance that they can get for a couple of cents from their tap.
If, however, you’re extremely particular about the water that you drink (and can afford it!), then you might want to check out the 44-page water menu (PDF) that Los Angeles-based eatery Ray’s & Stark Bar has unveiled.
When we say “water menu”, we mean exactly just that. It will be a menu listing down a “variety” of water, including some that have been imported from countries all over the globe. Among the pricier ones is Berg, which is harvested from the glaciers in Western Greenland and costs $20 per bottle.
In all fairness, each bottle of H2O gets a spacious two-page spread, so the menu really lists only 20 individual bottles. Decisions, decisions.
[via Foodbeast]
Aug 21
Choice is a wonderful thing, but when it comes to digital communication, perhaps we’re starting to drown in a sea of instant message apps and chat clients.
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Aug 20
Our modern lives are overwhelmed with options. What to eat, wear, do, and consume—your choices are limited only by your means. But there is such a thing as too much choice, like when you have 400 cable channels and nothing to watch. This alegorical short from Bezalel school of visual communications grad Ofer Winter illustrates just a few such conundrums.
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Aug 19
Aug 16
So a hobo came up to me on the street last weekend to bum a smoke and regale me with a tale of how his forefathers invented the television. This, of course, brought about an almost immediate 1920s surveillance state with Big Brother watching us as we watched The Honeymooners. The CIA, clearly, then exploited this system to "crash the Wall Street," cause the Great Depression and use the ensuing effects to more easily silence political targets. Compared to what you’re about to live through, my hobo’s drug-addled diatribe actually sounds quite reasonable.
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Aug 16
Break ups are a horrible thing to go through! But what might be worse is that period of time right before a break up when you start to get annoyed with everything your girlfriend or boyfriend does. The way they slurp their food, the icky way they use napkins, their hygiene. Every once adorable tic becomes a grating flaw of their character. Just don’t handle breakups like Gillian Jacobs.
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Aug 15
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