Hunter's Canvas

Now watch this drive...

Huff Post resurrected this video to remind everyone what kind of idiot we have running our country.

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Pic of the Day May 16

 
1-1-08 Chili Swimming in Santa Cruz, originally uploaded by Artbandito.

 

Flight of the Conchords + Roller Skates = awesome

O'Reilly Freak-out Remix!

Awesome Guitar Hero shirt

Buy it here.

My most popular Digg submission yet! TheGayerGamer name banned by Xbox Live.

I read Consumerist everyday, and rarely do the comments piss me off as much as they did yesterday on this post.  The post is about an Xbox Live player who was asked to change his gamer tag.  His tag, TheGayerGamer, was apparently offensive to many people on Xbox Live.  The irony of people being offended on Xbox Live is not lost on me. These people are playing horribly violent games and are constantly taunting each other with derogatory language, so why the hell do they care that his name is TheGayerGamer?  I don't think it's because they want to protect the LGBT population from discrimination...

I don't think Microsoft is anti-gay.  I am just disappointed that people are offended by someone expressing the fact that he's gay.  It should be no different than if someone called themselves the TheBlackGamer or TheIrishGamer.

The fun part about all of this, is that I submitted it to Digg, and it has been Dugg 848 times, has 388 comments and is on page 3 of the Top in 24! 

Bill O'Reilly Freakout: some things never change.

   

Gawker has posted resurrected footage of Bill O'Douchebag yelling like a lunatic because he can't do his own job.  Oh Bill, you've always been a real sweetheart.

Pic of the Day May 14

Tory Smith and Bantry Bay V, originally uploaded by Rock and Racehorses.

 

Sue Simmons drops the f-bomb!

Sue Simmons was my newscaster growing up (odd how she has barely aged) and it's just really weird to hear her yelling a curse.

UPDATE: This video is no longer available, so instead watch the video below it of Sue doing the news in 1983!

Fuck you WNBA Public Relations!

The WNBA recently unveiled its plans to boost support for the league and its bottom line: femme-ing up its players.  Instead of focusing on the amazing athleticism these women possess, instead of putting more money behind marketing and media for the teams and the league, their answer is to make these athletes "women first."  There are all sorts of gender issues here: the sexualization of women, the homophobia that exists in sports, women forced to change instead society moving forward.  It's just disgusting that we are still forced to deal with things like this in 2008.

Below is a commentary from Feministing.com's "Friday Fuck You" series on YouTube.  (Definitely worth subscribing to.)  Also check out the discussion on Feministing.com here.

Baby piggehs! Re-donk-u-lus!

The absolute cutest baby piggehs ever!

Via B3ta Newsletter and J.

Awesome money sketches

Here's the link to the set on Flickr.

VIA BoingBoing

Levi's: how viral is done

Comcast has joined Twitter. Could this possibly be good?

 

So Comcast is now on Twitter.  While this makes me want to puke quite a bit (especially the name Comcast Cares) I do think it's a step in the right direction.  Comcast is an evil behemoth corporation and the thought of them trying to become more "personal" just doesn't seem right, but at least maybe they are listening to consumer complaints and trying to do something about it.  A perfect example of my love/hate relationship with Social Media.

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This is how Facebook feels.

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<And yes, I was reading the unofficial Facebook blog. For work, I swear.  Damn marketing agencies.>

Hillary vs. The Coffee Machine

What did you do!

Music for a rainy day

A couple of Santogold remixes and an original track by a friend:

Santogold – You'll Find A Way (Switch & Sinden Remix)

Santogold – Shove It feat. Spank Rock

Mona Lisa by Gregory Moss

The inevitable...

C, originally uploaded by DavidGardinerGarcia.


It feels inevitable.  It seems all of New York that was once old, sturdy, beautiful, full of history and a different better way of life will yield to looming towers, greed, and disconnection from the neighborhood.  What seems so obviously destructive to our culture and how we live amongst each other has become the norm.

It's especially interesting when this push for new buildings becomes very literally destructive - in this case the crane that ripped through the apartments and lives of a few East Side tenants.  The New York Times published a follow-up story today illustrating what's wrong with the New York real estate situation:

'Given the perverse logic of Manhattan real estate, the crane accident, a symbol of runaway development in New York, may end up paving the way for even more of it. “The landlord has no motivation to do repairs when he could tear a building down and build a highly profitable office tower instead,” says Adam Leitman Bailey, the lawyer for Crave Ceviche Bar.'

And so it goes.  Property owners are extremely influential and hold much power over the future and culture of a city.  And with money it seems as their sole motivator, our neighborhoods and our values do not stand a chance. 

 

More animals dancing. Can't get enough.

1) I can't believe people have enough time to train their dogs to do this.

2) I want to do this with my dog!

We're going dancing!

Roller Derby helmet cam footage

Awesome helmet cam footage courtesy of The Beirut Bombshell (Albany All Stars Roller Derby).

Meet the Inventor of the Lolcats

 

Can never get enough lolcats, and this one just cracks me up.

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Bento!

I'm always looking for better ways to get my food from the store to my apartment and my apartment to my office.   We have the all-important canvas grocery tote, the increasingly-important mesh produce bag and now (by now I mean 2001) there's the absolutely indispensable Laptop Lunch! It's a lunch box with four containers for main dishes and a little container for dressing and such. 

I found this lovely contraption on Flickr where there are many folks posting pics of their bento lunches.  This particularly tasty-looking lunch (I love quinoa!) was made by Bento Jane.

This is a fun little site

Awesome!

Via AdScam