I know that I do my fair share of Comic Sans bashing on this blog, and I can't help but feel a bit sorry for the ubiquitous typeface from time to time. But when I saw this in my Google Reader this morning, I almost spit out my drink and knew that I had to share it with my readers. Enjoy! Via Gizmodo....
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Amanda Peyton, the creator of geo-blogging site MessageParty, has designed a map of internet services based on Manhattan and its neighborhoods: The reasoning behind each placement is as follows: Twitter + Wall Street: Frenetic, Jumbled, Terse, but incredibly powerful Foursquare + East Village: The roots of the service were in the EV and the best foursquare tips are still found here; bar-hopping, hypersocial, where-you-at mentality Tumblr + West Village and Meatpacking: Coolness to a fault Blog + Gramercy: I currently live in this neighborhood, so it was most fitting to place it there Email + Chelsea and Times Square: Large, unmanageable, swelling, but ultimately the pulse of everything Bnter + West Chelsea + Hell’s Kitchen: West Chelsea is the biggest up-and-comer...
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And I can't blame them. Carrie Fisher looked fantastic in that outfit. Via Geeks are Sexy. P.S. — See the inspiration behind Princess Leia's iconic bikini here!...
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I wasn't planning on waking up at the crack ass of dawn to watch the royal wedding, but apparently my cranky daughter had other plans by waking up with a screamfest at 4am and refusing to go back to sleep. You guys, I think I may have a future princess-wannabe on my hands. Or at least one with 공주병 (gong-joo-byung, which literally translates to "princess disease"), because the little girl was simply ENTHRALLED by the wedding proceedings and would not take her eyes off the TV. When J woke up at 7am, I held her up to him and said in a little girly voice, "Daddy when I grow up can I be a princess too? Can I marry a prince? Can...
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I first saw this book on Boing Boing two days ago, and while I found it to be hilarious, I hesitated in sharing it here. Because as funny as I — among others — may find this book, I'm sure that there are parents out there who would find it horrifyingly inappropriate. My dark side won out once again. Go the F**k to Sleep is a supposed-bedtime story book that touts itself as "the most honest children's book ever written." According to its Amazon product page: Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Honest, profane, and...
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