Caffeinated Musings

Rule of Thumb

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:21:11 PST

This morning my national edition of Thrillist brought me a rather entertaining site: rulesofthumb.org
Tagged by keywords and sortable by user ratings you can be better informed for just about any task at hand with a quick tip.

A travel agency will sell for 0.04 to 0.1 times its gross income.
[Rule of thumb about travel by Terri Thompson, New York, New York]

Always ask your spouse to explain their feelings. Never ask your spouse to justify their feelings. [Rule of thumb about marriage by James Erwin, Editor, Des Moines, IA, USA]

Unphotographable

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:00 PST

Today's Photojojo bulletin brought me a site with some very intense imagery... eloquently worded verbal imagery:
Unphotographable.com
On a half dreamed day like this viewed through a misty haze of rain in NYC I felt particularly drawn to the well worded inward lens from this site.

Eternal Sunset

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:47:57 PDT

No... it has nothing to do with vampires!

eternal sunset is a website that allows you to view the sunset live (via webcam) online any time of day or night.

Crusher

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:56:21 PDT

What: Corral your friends with a free, sleek e-mail invite customizable with pictures and videos.
Why: You’ve got a crush.
Where: Online at crush3r.com

[-- from DailyCandy]

Blackle

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:30:49 PDT

Search the Web, save energy at Blackle.com

As you've always known on some level, displaying black on-screen uses slightly less power than white. Blackle is essentially Google gone dark, returning all the same search results while complying with the classic adage: "once you go black, the internet can save 750 megawatt-hours per year".

[--from Thrillist.com]

Pure Modern

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:36:28 PDT

New address for design fanatics: http://www.puremodern.com/
As if Urban Outfitters, CB2 and Apratment Therapy put their heads together!!! - Needless to say I will be spending oodles of time at this url ;)

Does it Suck or Rock?

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:43:44 PDT

A new social ranking search engine sucks-rocks.com may be just what the doctor ordered for on the fly market research or popularity polls.

Example: cell phone services: http://sucks-rocks.com/rate/cingular/sprint/at%26t/verizon/nextel/cellular+one/alltel/t-mobile

Dinner Bachelor Style

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:03:11 PST

Silly Boi!

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:13:34 PDT

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an
ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,
manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P.G. Wodehouse

Watch out Barista!

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:35:33 PDT

frappachino? 250 rupees, please. Caught the gossip about Starbucks expansion into asia on the Divanee Magazine Editors Blog. I guess Barista is now going to have some serious urban competition.
While you're cruising Divanee's site check out the very cool T-shirts ... ;-)

Hot! Hot! Hot!

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:00:10 PDT

Some of the cooler things I want to do this summer in NYC!!!

Pool Parties: http://www.thepoolparties.com/

Movies with a View: http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/

Summerstage: http://www.summerstage.org/

Bryant Park Summer Films: http://www.bryantpark.org/

Genius!

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Mon, 15 May 2006 09:23:46 PDT

Quote of the day:

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

GLOW 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:16:35 PDT

GLOW 2006 is Nayikas multimedia, experimental dance theater project. It uses traditional dance with Indian cinematic, comic book, and calendar art images to aid in visually mapping elements of popular culture to abstract classical aesthetic forms. It exposes ruptures in traditional understandings of text and philosophy while exploring spirituality and sensuality through the dancer's body. The simple act of women adorning themselves 'glows' with the pulse of the feminine divine, as does the graceful movement of hips swaying, of feet reverberating. A new sense of woman, of body, and of the spiritual is realized when Gods defy gendered classification, the demonic divine coexists with the sensual feminine, and luminescence is not restricted to form.

"A glowing addition to the city's mix .so sultry and lush is the dance, so intense the focus, so tropical the ambience" -Village Voice

Nayikas is New York's first resident Indian Odissi dance theater company, and one of the only classical, contemporary and progressive dance ensembles in the South Asian Diaspora. Nayikas modernizes comprehension of the aesthetics of Odissi, India's oldest classical dance form, dating back to 2nd Century B.C. Creating potent and theatrical dance pieces, the Nayikas ('heroines') tell stories that both privilege and resurrect the often neglected voices of women. Nayikas draws from feminist iconography in Indian history & mythology. Thus preserving the essential spiritual core of the dance form while envisioning gender equality & promoting diversity of
imagination in the often-patriarchal religiosity of these traditions. The
Nayikas are Aditi Dhruv, Pavithra Vasudevan, Kirti Srivastava, Shrooti Singh
and Myna Mukherjee.
April 14th and 15th @ 7pm and April 16th @ 2pm
Reservations:
212-933-0162 or reservations@nayikas.org
Venue:
Light House International
The Sol and Lillian Goldman Building
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022-1202
www.nayikas.org

A Free Ride for Women in NYC?

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:40:13 PDT

Passing this along from a Daily Candy:

The Emerald Escort
Superpower: Despite living in New York for three years, you still know how to drive.
Your task: Join the fleet of cars and vans of RightRides and transport women safely to their doors at night — for free.

Nanotech helps blind hamsters see

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:21:11 PST

This article titled "Nanotech helps blind hamsters see" from BBC News seems like it's right out of an Asimov novel. How soon will we have injections that cure the blind?

Technorati tags: science

Reinventing the science t-shirt!

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:29:59 PST

YellowIbis T-shirts had some very cool and fun t-shirts. My favourites were:

Occupation: mad scientist
and
lotteries are a tax on people who don't understand statistics

Technorati tags: science

Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:08:09 PST

I just discovered this hillarious Blog - it won the 2006 "most humorous" Weblog award: Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City

Technorati tags: ny

Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:25:03 PST

Apartment Therapy is having it's 2nd annual Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest along with DWR. Last years contest was chock full of creativity and I'm so excited about this years contest!

Your daily dose of social links!

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:28:08 PST

popurls.com - popular urls to the latest web buzz

Be Kind, Rewind (Daily Candy)

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:55:52 PST

A rather cool cassette player for your computer from thinkgeek.com as reported by Daily Candy:

DailyCandy - Be Kind, Rewind

Code Newbie

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:15:16 PST

Code Newbie is a really cool site for beginning programmers. They have nice code snippets, a very detailed search and an active forum. Thumbs up from this code newbie!

The Science of Cheap Air Fare

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:07:49 PST

TechCrunch » Flyspy Brings The New Web To Airline Ticketing

Fractal bacteria (kottke.org)

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:05:26 PST

Some beautiful patterns of fractal bacteria growth as reported by kottke.org

South Asia Blogged

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:50:05 PST

Another Subcontinent: South Asian Society & Culture

Clocky Alarm Clock

noreply@blogger.com (Piali) — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:05:17 PST

Clocky would be the perfect alarm clock for me!!! Now if only they can make it dog-proof!

http://www.clocky.net/