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Archive for June 2008
Downloading the Howard the Duck soundtrack: http://tinyurl.com/5pk6nd
Hmm… if I start using Twitter regularly, is it going to enhance my life in anyway?
Testing out Twitterific
All hail the wonders of the Internet!
Today I came across a great site called This Peanut Looks Like a Duck.
It’s a blog where people post photos of peanuts (and other things) that look like ducks. Some of the hits include This rust spot looks like a duck, This zucchini looks like a duck, This baby drool looks like a duck and recently This General Tso’s chicken looks like a duck.
Enjoy.
My buddy Steve Hormell took a trip to India for work last week, spent the week in Hyderabad and went down to Goa over the weekend. He wrote about his trip and posted a bunch of pictures and videos to a blog called kindlydotheneedful.
As a community planner, I’m fascinated with places. I love bustling historic neighborhoods and sparkling modern buildings alike. I also like looking at maps as abstract representations of these places. Our current mode of operation in culture is certainly postmodernism - a collision of different systems, different perspectives, and different points in time coming together to make something new. Mark shared some blog posts that highlighted two incredible postmodern places.
The first is a burrito restaurant in Berlin that emulates the style of a taqueria in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. Having experienced the authentic, no frills, but really tasty and filling burritos widely available in the Mission, and having eaten curry wurst at Octoberfest in Stuttgart, I could really appreciate this. When I go to Berlin, I want to try this place.
Link to the post on Laughing Squid.
The other postmodern place is a google map made real as an art installation. I don’t think this place would be quite as fun to visit, but it makes me laugh to imagine it. I love the idea of a real place making you think of a database map place, and being funny to boot.
Link to the original post in we make money not art.
