Trae Blain

Holy Cow!!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:38:48 -0600

Holy Cow!!

There are very few things coming from Hollywood (etc.) these...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:38:46 -0600

There are very few things coming from Hollywood (etc.) these days that get me excited. But this is one of them. Band of Brothers is my all time favorite miniseries. HBO is about to air it’s follow-up, The Pacific, and March can’t come soon enough. It will be like a special birthday gift…

ckck:

Trailer for The Pacific, HBO’s long-awaited follow-up to the finest mini-series ever made, Band of Brothers. March 2010, mark your calendars.

Lego Minifig Macbook Cover (I’m on a Lego kick lately!)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:31 -0600

Lego Minifig Macbook Cover

(I’m on a Lego kick lately!)

The best part of this photo, Buster’s hook...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:13:46 -0600

The best part of this photo, Buster’s hook hand…

legos:

shineon84:

bluthcompany:

LEGO Staircar and Bluths via baby_elephant @flick

Watch out for hop-ons. You’re gonna get a lot of hop-ons.

A truck with airplane wings and tail and a SegWay. Did I ever mention how much I love legos?

So, apparently someone has patented a combover technique and our...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:13:20 -0600

So, apparently someone has patented a combover technique and our government has felt that it should be granted. What’s great is the technical artist that tried to draw a face, stick to isometrics and hard lines buddy.

Male Pattern Baldness eat your heart out.

ilovecharts:

powlsy:

cultrvultr:

1977 Combover Patent File:Combover patent.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Best photo from the 90’s ever made. Nintendo, Maria Carey,...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:34:16 -0600

Best photo from the 90’s ever made. Nintendo, Maria Carey, Nike Air, Leopard print, Will Smith…it has it all!

I can’t Lumbergh, I have a meeting with the Lego...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:33:46 -0600

I can’t Lumbergh, I have a meeting with the Lego Bobs.

legos:

un:

“Not now, Lumbergh. I’m kinda busy. “

(Lego Office Space FTW)

Have you noticed the multiple movie references in the descriptions and tags?

If you love Diet Coke and you love Bacon, you could be in heaven...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:40:48 -0600

If you love Diet Coke and you love Bacon, you could be in heaven with this combo.

Diet Coke with Bacon | I Am Hilarious

Cry Me a River - Glen Hansard Justin Timberlake has nothing on...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:17:46 -0500

Cry Me a River - Glen Hansard

Justin Timberlake has nothing on this Glen Hansard gem. Just Glen and his guitar beat out this hit unlike many people can.

Vertical Horizon - Fast Car A great live cover of Tracy...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:16:49 -0500

Vertical Horizon - Fast Car

A great live cover of Tracy Chapman’s hit. I like this one, it’s a bit heavier and a little faster. The whole song transitions into Wash Away. It’s a quality cover, I wish they would record the whole song for real.

Book of Love - Peter Gabriel Amazing song, I think Peter Gabriel...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:16:47 -0500

Book of Love - Peter Gabriel

Amazing song, I think Peter Gabriel does the best job from all the people that have covered this The Magnetic Fields song. Mike Doughty has covered it as well as some other indie artists. It’s one of those songs I can play over and over and not get tired of it.

Love Radin, and this song just takes me back to...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:26:46 -0500

Love Radin, and this song just takes me back to childhood…a mellow childhood.

copycats:

Sesame Street by Joshua Radin
originally by Joe Raposo
(posted by bunkercomplex)

You’re going to love my nuts! legos: lotusmodern: Lego...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:40:49 -0500

You’re going to love my nuts!

legos:

lotusmodern:

Lego Slap Chop!

Lego infomercial.

I Finally Understand the Genius of Pownce

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:02:50 -0500

For you that don’t know, Pownce was a microblogging service that let you send short status updates, send links, send files (photos, audio files, etc.), and events. I’m a fairly avid Twitter user and enjoy Twitter quite a bit. But the biggest problem I have with Twitter’s current setup is that sharing information (picture, audio, events, etc.) not only have to be done with an external service, but also eat up that precious 140 character content.

Pownce now rings of genius to me. Pownce came out roughly a year after Twitter and added some great features like links and more that don’t take up the space provided by the text area. Pownce should have caught more steam, they just had a hard time in development and others to gain any influence which now makes me sad. But this model solves the one issue I have with Twitter’s current service. Here’s how they could solve it.

Links

Links on Twitter are a big problem. The biggest issue is that you have to use a service like bit.ly (or j.mp) to shorten the urls or else you can’t make a comment on the link at all. The full link needs to be seen. So what should Twitter do? When a link is added to an update, the link doesn’t register against your character count. Then Twitter automatically recognizes it (like it already does) and attaches the link to the post. This way the full link…not the short-url…is posted and shared links are more secure.

Photos/Audio/Files

In Twitter you have to use services like TwitPic, Posterous, or yFrog to post pictures. These photos are also plagued by the fact that a link has to be supplied eating up that 140 character limit. Also there tends to be a bit of loss of context in that each use a comment/reply system that are either disconnected from Twitter (so not may people use it) or is wonky at best. Twitter should supply it’s own photo hosting service (but this might not be a good idea with their 3000 tweet storage limit). But most of the argument would be nullified simply by dealing with the previous link issue. When the link doesn’t take up the 140 character space you can still use these 3rd party services but with greater flexibility. Then Twitter just has to operate like Brizzly does and decode those links so the pictures/audio/files/etc are posted directly into people’s streams.

Honestly, Twitter could keep much more people around and have a much better user experience if they would simply pull links out of the character count. People can still use their favorite photo service, music service, or other 3rd party service without worrying about dealing with an overly complicated interface. But I wish the guys at Twitter would realize that the Project ReTweet, while nice, is only going to complicate things and it’s not what users really want. What they want is 140 characters to make their case. Links should not be a part of that limitation.

Just my opinion. Hope you like.

At least the HoJo makes it known. Remember people look at the...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:31:06 -0500

At least the HoJo makes it known. Remember people look at the Terms of Service before you bring your instant spouse to a hotel. FYI.

Instant Spouses Not Allowed | I Am Hilarious

The Chinaman is not the issue here dude! ckck: The Beats...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:20:51 -0500

The Chinaman is not the issue here dude!

ckck:

The Beats Lebowski.

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:27:33 -0500

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

- David M. Ogilvy

I’m pretty sure he’s a robot...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:32:49 -0500

I’m pretty sure he’s a robot now…

jamiew:

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?"

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:30:12 -0500

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

- Jean Cocteau

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:22:31 -0500

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

- Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)