Kevan Gilbert:

If you’re like me, you don’t care about RSS, and you’re sick of hearing everybody talk about it. It’s like some ridiculously elaborate secret club that only web geeks know about and won’t explain to anybody else. Well, just this week, I decide to break this aggravating code, and I discovered that hey, RSS is [...]

Intro: Skeletons are for lovers This most recent April 4, as with every April 4, it was my wife’s birthday. In honour of this well-anticipated annual occasion, I purchased for my wife the only gift that any truly loving husband should really even consider buying for his wife: I bought her a life-size skeleton. His [...]

When I’m not arguing with friends about racism, I’m taking pictures of billboards with my phonecam and criticizing their colour usage. Of course, this refers to the other blog I help maintain: Elbowruminations. It’s the official studio blog of Elbowroom Design, the graphic design studio for which I work. We’re putting lots of energy into [...]

1. There’s a new Modest Mouse music video and it’s very good The giant, loud-mouthed band called Modest Mouse have unleashed an album just a few days ago, and it’s called “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.” Their lead single is called, confessionally, “Dashboard.” It’s a very great song to listen to when [...]

Trailer re-edits are one of the most entertaining breeds of copyright infringement I’ve seen so far. It’s where ambitious editors remix, re-edit, parody, spoof or mash-up footage from existing movies to create clever new fake trailers. In celebration of this fine tradition, I have painstakingly combed over every single movie trailer redux I could find, [...]

Hypermiling Source: Posted by the ever-watchful Jason Kottke at kottke.org Imagine a running LCD display on your car’s dashboard the reads out your fuel consumption. No, not a gas gauge: it’s a real-time clock that watches your fuel efficiency. Thanks to an article on Kottke.org, I’m planning on becoming obsessed with how my various driving [...]

As many of you know, the interwebs used to be safe. In the early 1990s, it was like a very exclusive club for computer-inclined outsiders that had dial-up modems, good grammar and obscure hobbies. Nerdy and reclusive weirdoes could quietly publish GeoCities homepages about their cat-shaving businesses and needlework fetishes, without raising much of a [...]

Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only [...]

In 2001, during the early days of Napster and 4 GB hard drives, I downloaded a mysterious audilo file. It was a jazzy piece of hip-hop floetry called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” written and spoken by a guy named Gil Scott Herren. I found it again — this time on YouTube, and this [...]

Life of Pi is being made into a movie. The screen adaptation of everybody’s favourite novel (by Canadian Yann Martell) won’t won’t be out until 2009, but I think it’s worth getting excited about. It’s being directed & filmed by Jean-Pierre Jeuner, the same director that did Amélie, which, if you remember, was a brilliant [...]

Everybody knows that José González song “Heartbeats,” right? Maybe you didn’t know that Mr. González is not actually the original author of the song. Heartbeats was originally written and performed by a Swedish duo called “The Knife.” Here is a video of their very different, very European version of Heartbeats, which features lots of skateboarding [...]

I usually invent something about once a week. Oh, I don’t do anything about it, I just think about what my invention would be like and then I say something like, “I just invented a portable microwave,” and that’s that. I decided to make a list of as many of these things as I could [...]

Finnish artists take complaints from passers-by, and work them into a choral composition. The result is a gorgeously performed 8-minute vocal ensemble from a 100-person choir, filled with the petty and profound complaints of the Helsinki locals. Touching, hilarious, impressive and just damn good. “IT’S NOT FAIR!”

Gene Kelly isn’t dead. . . he’s just changed his style. I’ve watched this Volkswagen ad about sixty times in the past month, and I just can’t believe how well-done and fun to watch it is. Three different dancers reconstruct the famous dance scene from Singin’ in the Rain in a prosthetic Gene Kelly mask. [...]