May 2012
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“There’s just really too much gentrification in the neighborhood now. I wish it...”
– Young white woman in my yoga studio today in Brooklyn (via adriennes) It is my opinion that the perfect amount of gentrification is that which occurs shortly after I have arrived and found the perfect cafe / bar / yoga studio / garden store etc. Everything else is racist and classist and offensive...
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 19th
“Grok: “to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the...”
– Robert A. Heinlein from his best-selling 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land
May 19th
Listennewspeedwayboogie: Daniel Johnston - Some Things...
May 13th
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Daddyblog photo geekery FTW!
lazydad: Lytro camera wow! Click on the pic above to reset the focus.
May 12th
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“From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting...”
– Maurice Sendak
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via nypl) I hope so
May 7th
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May 5th
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Beastie Boys inspired "battle loop" →
Make GIFs on gifyo!
May 5th
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“Forget about Kurt Cobain for a second: For kids like me, the Beastie Boys...”
– Mark Richardson remembers MCA. (via pitchfork)
May 5th
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April 2012
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Apr 25th
American Express « Ephemeral New York →
jeanphony: Founded in 1850 as just a shipping company, American Express had its headquarters as well as a warehouse with stables (for the horses that actually lugged the packages around, of course) on lower Hudson Street in the late 19th century. GRR
Apr 25th
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“King Goldenlocks”: A Newly Translated Fairy Tale →
A cache of five-hundred Bavarian fairy tales were unearthed recently in Germany. The fairy tales were compiled by the nineteenth-century ethnographer Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, a contemporary of the Grimm brothers.
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Payback's a bitch, Bama. (Remember, Toomer's... →
The Coaches’ Trophy from this season’s BCS national title was accidentally knocked off its podium and shattered by a player’s father whose foot got caught on a rug that sits beneath the trophy display. 
Apr 17th
“I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground...”
– Sometimes living in Brooklyn is like living in an Onion article. Some Park Slope Parents Looking to Ban Ice Cream Vendors in Prospect Park. Seriously.
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Sixpoint to release four-ounce "picokeg"
brewyork: Last summer, Sixpoint released their series of 16-ounce “nanokegs” to rave reviews. Then, they released their double IPA, Resin, in 12-ounce skinny tallboy cans. Now, they’re taking it to the next level with their new high-test barleywine in stubby four-ounce cans they’re calling “picokegs.” Read More Hope this isn’t an April fools… Sounds delicious.
Apr 1st
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Brooklyn Celebrity Luv →
Boerum Hill resident and Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain; My Week With Marilyn) was seen snuggling up to Jason Segel (I Love You, Man) at popular Italian restaurant Frankies this weekend, Us Weekly reported.
Apr 1st
March 2012
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“People who study design methods without also practicing design are almost always...”
– Christopher Alexander
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WatchWatch
Interactive Farming Installation Prototype at Hall of Science design-ionysci: Here is some video of our second prototype at NYSCI. The prototype is a farming installation where you use your body to water your crops and then harvest them with a chopping motion. There is an RFID enabled truck which empties the silo of the collected crops, which can then be delivered to another installation.
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