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2013-05-10 08:37:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Oh but then

2013-05-10 08:34:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

JAMC cowboy hat era will always have a special place in my heart. Right next to all the other JAMC. 
P.S. How weird that the still for this isn't actually a still in the video and ISN'T THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN.

2013-05-02 07:18:37 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

This is old, but...I really need to give credit to Fox for bringing contemporary dance to the masses. If Dancing With the Stars is the People Magazine of reality TV, then So You Think You Can Dance is sometimes the MOMA.  (start at 00:23)

2013-04-22 08:22:37 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 48 +1s)

Love this illustration by Beata Boucht that appeared in the New Yorker recently.

2013-04-22 06:07:52 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 29 +1s)

A trailhead near Mt Tam. With floating sky shapes.

2013-04-10 18:49:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

Impromptu vacation day. Warm weather in SF should be a holiday!

2013-04-04 19:54:12 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-04-02 01:33:09 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

Awesome video from +Amy Poehler's Smart Girls!

P.S. Find more awesome content from Smart Girls at the Party by visiting http://sgatp.net.

2013-03-29 05:55:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

#politicsasusual  in the US Senate. 

2013-03-29 05:38:38 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 31 +1s)

Is #cutewars  happening again? 

2013-03-27 18:40:57 (4 comments, 8 reshares, 45 +1s)

Google's Knowledge Graph expands into movies on Android tablets thanks to facial recognition http://bit.ly/16i23BL

2013-03-27 17:35:09 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 30 +1s)

Dream of Bagan

2013-03-27 17:25:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Who needs some cool new music? Everyone!

Check out "Cool New Music: Spring 2013":
http://bit.ly/CoolNewMusicSpring2013

#Gotye   #theStrokes   #Chvrches  

2013-03-27 06:35:46 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

I suspect there might be a target mental state for this video. WDYT? 

2013-03-27 01:22:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just bought the new album from The Strokes on Google Play. Definitely better than their last one IMO!

2013-03-27 01:22:06 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 21 +1s)

Just bought the new album from The Strokes on Google Play. Definitely better than their last one IMO!

2013-03-26 06:09:01 (3 comments, 18 reshares, 42 +1s)

Prince Rupert’s Drops are what you get when you spill molten glass into water. Here’s how they explode in epic slow-mo.

2013-03-24 21:33:04 (8 comments, 16 reshares, 66 +1s)

Getting in on #cutewars  

2013-03-24 05:50:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

Saw Onegin tonight at San Francisco Ballet. Amazing, beautiful, dramatic. Highly recommend! The pas de deux from a dream was especially gorgeous. I got goosebumps! 

2013-03-23 18:16:00 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 27 +1s)

What how do they even slide on the floor like that

2013-03-22 21:35:11 (16 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

The best thing I've read so far about this whole #Donglegate fiasco.

2013-03-21 02:03:16 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Right on the heels of the awfulness that is the Steubenville rape and subsequent trial and subsequent victim blaming on social media along with rapist sympathizing in mainstream media like CNN (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/03/steubenville-rape-malik-richmond-trent-mays.html), comes more victim blaming, this time against a 13 year old girl who was sexually assaulted by two 18 year old men. I can't even...I have no words. FAITH IN HUMANITY OFFICIALLY DESTROYED. THANKS AMERICA

2013-03-19 06:50:20 (7 comments, 6 reshares, 41 +1s)

NEW GAME OF THRONES TRAILER NEW GAME OF THRONES TRAILER 

2013-03-13 16:17:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

My my, APC's Fall 2013 line is classy as all get-out. (See the full collection here: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2013RTW-APC)

2013-03-13 16:06:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

MIA just released new music for Japanese fashion house Kenzo. I...actually love this. Danceable upbeat world music. Plus, FASHION. More about Kenzo here: https://www.kenzo.com

2013-03-11 16:50:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's where my nerd mixes with my, uh, indie cred? I was playing The Sims last night and turned on the "Indie" station on my Sim's new stereo, and heard...Lord Huron? Singing in Simlish, no less. Weird alternate version with no-lyrics lyrics.

2013-03-09 08:36:14 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 24 +1s)

Happy birthday, Cyd Charisse.

(Featuring Michael Kidd's excellent choreography!)

2013-03-07 20:09:32 (16 comments, 6 reshares, 53 +1s)

This looks strangely...familiar.

2013-03-05 08:00:06 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

Youtube search query:
do the harlem shake (!)

2013-02-28 02:12:14 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

I give you the daily magic of Hacker News. Today's episode of "I'm so privileged, I can't even see straight":

It would be silly to say we should make sure that people with green eyes are not under-represented in tech but why is it okay to say the same thing regarding skin color?

/headdesk. In fact, #headdesk

2013-02-27 20:20:57 (9 comments, 7 reshares, 25 +1s)

Pictures of animals with smaller versions of themselves. You're welcome!

2013-02-22 08:42:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

George Saunders is a genius! I loved CivilWarLand and just finished Tenth of December, and highly recommend both. I had the opportunity to see this amazing writer give a reading and Q&A session at Google just a couple weeks ago. I've never read anyone else as emotionally engaging and simultaneously...well, entertaining. 

BTW, the titular (hee) story from his latest book, Tenth of December, is available for free:  http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/10/31/111031fi_fiction_saunders?currentPage=all

2013-02-21 20:18:12 (44 comments, 5 reshares, 35 +1s)

I've been testing this device for the last month or so, and am really excited that I now get to use it in public and talk about how awesome it is!

2013-02-21 06:01:16 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Shared in the College Radio community but deserves cross-posting. I know it's only February, buuuut I'm calling this as the best music video of 2013.

Perhaps NSFW, depending? (PG13: animated nudity)

(If you're going to watch this, you should know that ~3:20 is when it gets amazing. I say this with my own attention span in mind.)

2013-02-20 06:18:28 (3 comments, 9 reshares, 32 +1s)

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2013-02-20 04:17:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The new STRFKR video features two close friends of mine, WHAT?!

2013-02-19 06:34:02 (9 comments, 8 reshares, 22 +1s)

This adorable terrifying Namaqua rain frog has been making the rounds on the internet lately. This is its defensive cry. Truly cute I mean scary.

2013-02-14 21:03:38 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I've posted this song before, but the new video for it is awesoooome

2013-02-12 20:56:55 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Today the Senate voted to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by a majority vote of 78-22. All the women in the Senate supported the bill (whew). Naturally, those dissenting 22 were all Republican men, including rising GOP star Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who apparently decided it would be more helpful to his career if he opposed a woman-friendly bill that was expected to pass.

Here's the full list of NAY votes, pulled from http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00019

Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts... more »

2013-02-12 20:04:15 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 28 +1s)

...and this is why we close our H3 tags. (Scroll down.)

(Shamefully stolen from coworker's G+.)

2013-02-03 01:38:09 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 75 +1s)

2013-01-28 03:31:52 (7 comments, 10 reshares, 53 +1s)

I'll just leave this here

2013-01-25 16:50:11 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Coachella lineup announced! I went last year, and this looks like another can't-miss lineup...

2013-01-24 03:30:52 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

ponies in hand-knit sweaters, ADORABLE

2013-01-17 23:12:40 (10 comments, 8 reshares, 37 +1s)

+The Wall Street Journal, ARE YOU FOR REAL!?

The Onion couldn't top this. Whether it's the sad faces of all these put-upon dejected rich people, or the elderly minority couple who is depressed despite not paying extra taxes (or was that the point?), or the distressed single Asian lady making $230,000 who might not be able to buy that extra designer pantsuit this year, or the "single mother" making $260,000 whose kids presumably have a deadbeat, indigent dad just like any other poor family, or that struggling family of six making $650,000 including $180,000 of pure passive income and wondering how to make ends meet, mockery is almost superfluous. 

2013-01-16 19:10:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just discovered +Songza and I'm obsessed! Bookmarked playlists: Dream Pop Deep Sleep, Indie Make Out, Haunted House (electronica/synthpop e.g. Grimes and Zola Jesus). Plus playlists from blogs like Gorilla vs Bear and Pitchfork, and more that I'm sure I've yet to discover.

I must say though, the playlists for the "Coding" mood don't work for me at all... I'll stick with "Provocative & Evocative Instrumentals" for coding which has bands like Air and M83, and was suggested as work music. Not all software engineers like dubstep!

2013-01-16 19:09:59 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Just discovered +Songza and I'm obsessed! Bookmarked playlists: Dream Pop Deep Sleep, Indie Make Out, Haunted House (electronica/synthpop e.g. Grimes and Zola Jesus). Plus playlists from blogs like Gorilla vs Bear and Pitchfork, and more that I'm sure I've yet to discover.

I must say though, the playlists for the "Coding" mood don't work for me at all... I'll stick with "Provocative & Evocative Instrumentals" for coding which has bands like Air and M83, and was suggested as work music. Not all software engineers like dubstep!

2013-01-16 18:09:37 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

This type of shaming happened when I was in high school, but back then it was all gossip by word of mouth. Social networking just takes it to a whole new level. Is there anything that can be done about this?

I hope I never have a daughter...

2013-01-15 19:13:25 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 90 +1s)

Me as Princess Bubblegum, on a Lady Rainicorn moped! Thanks, +Irene Chung!!

2013-01-11 22:40:15 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

So, I admit, I got a little caught up in internet drama today/yesterday. Sometimes certain comments about certain topics just MAKE ME SO MAD. That said, it's time to step away...and look at cute shit.