Just freaking amazing: Smoking Car to an Arrest in 53 Hours
But we can’t lose sight of the effect that our country’s acts inevitably have on others:
Justin Watt and Richard Stallman, aka rms At the San Francisco WordCamp today I got to see Richard Stallman give his free software talk and then perform his crowd-pleasing St. IGNUcius bit. I don’t usually do this, but afterwards I…
This was my humble submission for A Moment in Time, the New York Times’ Lens Blog’s collaborative project to collect photos from people all over the world taken on May 2nd at 15:00 UTC. Unfortunately for me that meant 8am…
This fast food has high dynamic range I really love the new HDR image adorning the recently renamed Gott’s Roadside “Tray Gourmet” (nee Taylor’s Automatic Refresher). It almost looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.
Our poor scooters have gotten bumped into, knocked over, blown over, and they’ve even had cigarettes put out on them. But besides some pride-deflating scratches, they’ve always taken a lickin’ and kept on tickin’. Until about two weeks ago. Stephanie…
Recently my 4 year-old cellphone broke in half. Thus I was faced with two choices: start a new two-year contract, costing more per month than my current plan, to get a basic, albeit heavily-rebated cellphone buy the cellphone for its…
On two previous occasions I’ve taken pictures of colorful cars in nearly colorless contexts, which I’ve emphasized by further desaturating their backgrounds. So it seemed only natural to take a monochromatic (and assymmetric) car and push it a little further.…
I just happened to stumble upon this franken-bike/scooter the other day, and I had to post a photo of it because I just can’t get over how insanely cool it is. Hmm, think I can convince Stephanie to get one…
This would make a great clue for a San Francisco scavenger hunt. Anyone know where this was taken? The answer in ROT13: Ryrcunag & Pnfgyr ng Pynl naq Onggrel
Last night, Kyle brought us an unexpected gift: his homemade, almond-wood smoked bacon. We’ve previously enjoyed the fruits of his smoker in the form of hot-smoked salmon (not to mention ribs on multiple occasions). Now the word on the street…
“Houston, we have a Pantone problem…”
Browse, Utah that is I recently updated Justinsomnia’s category archives to look more like the homepage, complete with links at the bottom so you can page backward and forward in time. This means that if you’re behind on your Justinsomnia…
Dodge Dart convertible at Pacific and Battery
Patagonia Men’s Platform T-Shirt
Point Richmond is one of those corners of the Bay Area that I’ve never had a chance to explore. So on Sunday Stephanie and I hopped in a Zipcar and headed in that direction. First we stopped at the Rosie…
I love the design of the San Francisco “Park at 90 Degrees” car. On one hand it looks like no car still on the road, and yet it’s completely recognizable as a car—even with tires that show through the body.…
Perfectly positioned on Polk between Pine and Bush Update: I finally discovered that the jackhammer stencils all over San Francisco were an obscure promo for Public Works, a gallery/club venue opening at the time.
I’ve used an electric shaver for my entire shaving life. My dad used an electric shaver, so it was only natural that I would too. I believe he had a Braun foil shaver when I started growing facial hair, so,…
I bought this shirt for the blog post (thanks Salt Lick!)
Just freaking amazing: Smoking Car to an Arrest in 53 Hours
But we can’t lose sight of the effect that our country’s acts inevitably have on others:
This is perfect: BP T-Shirt #
Worth reading: Interview with Shawn Brauch of Pen & Pixel Graphics (or in video format: British TV personality Louis Theroux visits Pen N’ Pixel Design Studios) (via Ivan) #
Cool! view to corrupt
each time you view this page it writes a portion of your IP address to a random location in the image shown above
Thank you for this internet: Jim’s Pancakes (file this under: makes me want to have kids) #
This may make you cry: Q&A by StoryCorps #
This looks so awesome: Yosemite High Country Backpack Expedition and Photography Workshop #
To check out later: Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River #
I’m not usually all gaga over baby animals, but this is really too much: Meet the sloths #
Neat video: Cool Hunting: Mast Brothers Chocolate
There’s the easy way, and then there’s the Mast Brothers way. We decided to have our beans, from point of origin, from the Dominican Republic, from Brazil, we’re going to have them brought here by sail.
(via Tralalère !) #
To get or not to get: A Field Guide to Typestaches #
To read later: Bill Bryson: The secret life of your home #
Fun map: Paramount Studio map of California’s geographical facsimiles (via Matt Haughey) #
Finally watched Sal Khan at Gel 2010 (sounds like Khan Academy is going to rank right up there with Wikipedia as truly worldchanging—thanks to the internet) #
Paged back through the whole thing: Shit My Kids Ruined #
To read later: Quantum of Deployment (via Andre) #
yum yum in French is miam miam #
“Omnivore’s Dilemma” in short-form: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler (from 2008) #
This concept (especially the name for it) just recently entered my awareness: Pigovian tax #
Two fun articles from the NY Times: The Slow Route to Homemade Pizza and Growing Vegetables Upside Down #
You have to watch the video: Bacon & Eggs PANCAKES!!! #
Oh the irony! 75th Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival #
First watch this: Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht
Then read this: Public Bikes Aims to Get San Franciscans Out of Their Cars
Ten years ago, Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, visited Amsterdam. After days spent wandering the cobblestone streets, he was left with one prevailing observation: The city was dominated by bicycles.
A reported 120,000 SF residents (16 percent) regularly commute on bicycle—paltry compared to Dutch numbers. Forbes aims to change that with his newest venture, PUBLIC Bikes.
One thing to keep in mind: The Netherlands is FLAT. #
Note to self: Magnolia has scotch eggs #
Very neat video of frazil ice in Yosemite #
Whoa: Newspaper Club
We’re building a service to help people make their own newspapers.
It’s hard to believe that of the five years Federated Media has existed, I’ve worked there for four (well, officially next month): Five Years In One Place, An Appreciation #
Long exposure hacks: Night-time HDR stacking #
Who would have ever thought we’d be reading this headline: Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company #
Enjoyed this comment by Jeffrey Stevens on part II of Mike’s The Two-Lens Kit:
Personally I think 2 lens kit’s are so “early” 21st century. I personally would use 4 Pentax KX’s. One in Blue, Black, White, and Red. 4 Primes, 15mm Limited(on the blue body), 21mm Limited (On the white body), 40mm Limited(on the black body), 77mm Limited(on the red body). The four bodies cost less then 1 D700 and weigh only slightly more then 1 D700 with grip. The 4 lenses weigh less then the 24-70 AFS. Need a wide shot, grab the blue one, want to walk around, grab the white or black. Portraits, grab the red body. Going for a job, well all 4 fit perfectly in a Think Tank Urban Disguise 40.
I’ve used the 35mm macro on my K-7 exclusively (for almost a year now), and though I originally thought I wanted to complement it with the 15mm, lately I’ve been thinking the 21mm is probably more my optimal focal length for APS-C (and is lighter to boot). Or another way of thinking about it: 35mm for indoors, 21mm for outdoors. #
Looking forward to visiting 3 Fish Studios at my earliest convenience, and probably buying a print, and probably taking a class… #
Thing I did not know: Seattleites eat their hot dogs with warm cream cheese!
Update: More wacky hotdogs from Seattle: