I follow Kickstarter here on Tumblr and am really impressed by what their artists and community have been able to achieve already. Great service!
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Lay-Z-Boy DWI, sex workers gone green, tweet beat, and more.
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Running time: 1:07:26
Sony Bravia KDL- 52W5100
A 52-inch screen delivers streaming Internet content- including Netflix (goodbye OnDemand), YouTube and a slew of other sites. Web video looks SO much better on this device than your computer screen, but the Yahoo widgets load slowly (bugger!). Again, I like this device, but it’s still out of my price range at $2,400.
Just got the 40” version of this last week. Web-enabled interface is rad. Doesn’t include Netflix’s streaming service yet (they say “coming this fall”) but Amazon’s works great.
Why is this taking so long???? Web video on televisions should have happened years ago already!!!! Gah!!!!!
Epic Fu is on blip.tv’s podcast feed, FWIW. You win!
Sony Bravia KDL- 52W5100
A 52-inch screen delivers streaming Internet content- including Netflix (goodbye OnDemand), YouTube and a slew of other sites. Web video looks SO much better on this device than your computer screen, but the Yahoo widgets load slowly (bugger!). Again, I like this device, but it’s still out of my price range at $2,400.
Just got the 40” version of this last week. Web-enabled interface is rad. Doesn’t include Netflix’s streaming service yet (they say “coming this fall”) but Amazon’s works great.
You’re An American Apparel Model
Okay, so we’ve been dating for a while now and you have yet to put pants on. I’m sorry, but I can’t introduce you to my family while you’re wearing a see through mesh bodysuit. I just don’t think my grandmother would appreciate an up close view of your vagina. Just a hunch I had. Ugh. This is really hard for me to say, but- I’m sorry, can you cover your nipples for ONE second? This is kind of important. I don’t think this is working out, and- no, I don’t know where you can get some more coke, but that’s sort of the prob- it’s really hard for me to have this conversation with you when you’re writhing around on the floor like a sexy jellyfish. Use your bones like people do. Also, you’re always rubbing your eyes and looking bewildered like you just woke up from a nightmare. Have you been sleeping on the floor again? Oh, this is pretty troubling, but you seem to have a habit of yelling “Dov!” while we’re having sex and then bursting out laughing and THEN crying. You know that’s not my name, right? And how many “corporate retreats” does your company take you on? You’re always leaving for days on end, and you always wake up in dingy basements. Your “job” is starting to sound like you’re just being routinely kidnapped every few days. Well, I guess that’s it. I actually feel a lot better, thanks for finally listening. Babe? Sweetie? You okay? Oh shit. Oh no! Wake up! Does anyone have any cocaine? Perhaps a Polaroid camera? Some sugar free Red Bull, maybe? Get me a flash drive with Girl Talk on it, STAT! A life is hanging in the balance!
i actually dated an American Apparel model once. it was kind of like dating ‘An Idea’ or ‘The Concept Of Bunny Rabbits’. it seemed really cool at first and then you were left wondering why she was always texting people with present tense verbs for names and why she kept applying powdered sugar to her gums.
This is just wonderful.
caro:
It’s nice to live in a small town that happens to overlook downtown San Francisco.
Hmm, looks like Pot Hill to me….in fact, looks about 2 blocks away from my old abode! But I won’t tell.
Tubefilter thinks the Roku might just be “Web TV’s Backdoor to the Living Room. “NewTeeVee says it is “simple, small, and has an easy-to-justify price tag of $99.“ We say, “Go to the dashboard and apply for Roku distribution today!”
Learn more about the box at roku.com and
blip.tv FTW on a Wednesday
Can’t wait to see our TWiT content on Roku, too! We rule. (BTW blip.tv, you’re already coming straight through my web-enabled Sony Bravia interface, along with Amazon on-demand, etc… the future is now)
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Sex leads to social networking, tweet beat, Leo Laporte drops in, and more.
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So. I had booked what sounded like a pretty neat job… I didn’t know much more about it than that I’d be participating in an “expert panel” for MSN in the tech/gadget arena in Palos Verdes next…
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Sober depression, prophylactic attraction, a rare Xbox, raccoon attack, and more.
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"For a first world city, San Francisco is dirty. No, filthy. No, disgusting."
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Alex Payne — So You’re Moving to San Francisco
That’s the impression I always get. Even New York City, where instead of using garbage bins we pile bags of garbage on the sidewalk, feels cleaner than San Francisco. There are some gorgeous clean neighborhoods, but the Haight, the Mission, and especially the whole stretch of Market north of the Castro are filthy. So are most of the cafes and some of the restaurants. The Tenderloin is a disaster area.
I once stopped in a Tenderloin bar in the middle of the afternoon (I was excited to be a writer, I was walking straight from Market to North Beach, I was dumb) where an ancient man told me, “This place is dangerous. When you leave, you head straight north, you don’t look right, and don’t look left.” I felt like a hobbit on a quest being warned by the wise man in the forest’s lone safe inn.
Also, getting around San Francisco is impossible. [EDIT: Conversely, riding in a car, even a taxi, in Manhattan makes me carsick and always frustrates me. Thank god the trains run everywhere.]
But everyone knows these things. I agree with Alex on pretty much his whole post, and I’m very glad I moved to New York, but of course none of this reflects on the wonderful friends I have in that city.
(via nickdouglas)
Rafer sez:
Yes, it’s dirty, but you’re being unusually dense.
I’ve lived in SF since 1992 and in the Mission now. LA’s dirty too, though no one notices it from their air-conditioned Hummers. LA’s dirty for the same reason as SF, and the reason is uncommon in the richer parts of the world. It doesn’t rain here for months and months at a time. I just don’t know why San Diego is clean.
(via rafer
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I still don’t understand San Francisco’s appeal.
(via mikehudack)
Sarah Lane, proud SF resident, adds: “Excellent! We won’t miss you. Stay out, we’re full!”
The £700 teacup-sized pigs that are the latest celebrity must-have pet
New goal in life: achieve “crazy micropig lady” status
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Taxi vomit, rat-killing TV, karaoke gone bad, a frootless effort, and more.
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