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i hate the internet, but these are the pieces i like
Posts tagged holiday
Dec 9 '11
Dec 16 '10
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“Erin Sparling and Nicholas Hall are web developers, inventors and half-brothers living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This year they are throwing a New Year’s Eve party, and the whole Internet’s invited. To get in, revelers just have to show up, check in on Foursquare via their mobile phones, and voila, the building’s door will open for them.”
Nov 16 '10
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Dec 23 '09
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Apr 13 '09
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“Slovenian artist Franc Grom drills a hole in an empty egg shell in Vrhnik, Slovenia on April 9, 2009. Grom drills thousands of holes into egg shells to create unique Easter eggs of fragile beauty.”
Apr 13 '09
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“A polar bear bites a mock Easter Bunny stuffed with food at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina on April 9, 2009.”
Apr 2 '09
Apr 1 '09
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“The problem is everyone, especially on the internet, is so clever now, and hip to the joke—that is the primary tone of 90% of all communication these days, “in on the joke”—so all the fun has just been leeched out of the pranks. You know no one at all will buy it, and everyone, at the same time, is expecting it, so it’s actually just this depressing obligation to make a joke that you know no one will actually enjoy. Google has to “outdo” themselves every year with a stupid new pretend feature or application, and the only time it’s ever been funny was when they actually for-real announced Gmail on April 1, 2004.”
Apr 1 '09
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“To download NIN’s new full-length album Strobe Light, PRODUCED BY TIMBALAND, enter a valid email address in the fields below. A download link will be sent to you immediately. Your credit card will be charged $18.98 plus a $10 digital delivery convenience fee. Your files will arrive as windows media files playable on quite a few players with your name embedded all over them just in case you lose them. You will also receive an exclusive photo and a free email account with our partner Google’s Gmail service. Your email will be kept confidential and will not be used for spam, unless we can make some money selling it.”
Jan 2 '09
