February 2012
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WatchI want this brass knuckle necklace! I can’t wait to order it one day from CW&T ! Che-Wei Wand and Taylor Levy are so brilliant. I want to put them in a box and carry them with me and feed them carrots and taro buns all day.
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“What Englander is saying is that we know ourselves, or don’t, on different...”
– Book review: ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank’ by Nathan Englander - latimes.com
Wonderful review about Nathan Englander’s newest book!
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For Nathan Englander, Sunday Is a Day to Roam and... →
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Nathan Englander is featured in NY Times Sunday Routine. He mentions Urban Vintage, one of my favorite writing coffee shops. I can’t wait to read his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
“During the week, Nathan Englander, the novelist, short-story writer and soon-to-be playwright, is hypersocial, meeting friends for...
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January 2012
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Anonymous: We are legion.: Digital Sit-ins: DDOS... →
anonyops:
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) is a favorite tactic of Anonymous. While the media likes to call DDOS a form of ‘hacking’, this is at best a technical misunderstanding. DDOS does no permanent damage and doesn’t involve breaking into servers or stealing data. Rather, it simply overwhelms a…
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Plus-Size Model Editorial Says Runway Models ‘Meet... →
From Fashionista:
Models–their size, their age, even their gender–are provoking a lot of polarizing discussion lately. And plus-size model advocates (and their “real-woman” counterparts) are adding food for thought–or fuel to the fire, depending on your perspective. In its January issue, Plus Model Magazine just published an editorial lensed by Victoria Janashvili and featuring plus-size...
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Video: Ben Hammersley's talk at Wired 2011 - Watch... →
The only excuse that Wired UK has for not making videos embeddable is that they are waiting for Ben’s speech next year where he will tap dance - then EVERYONE will be embedding the shit out of it.
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WatchA ten piece wardrobe for 365 days from Anita Hawkins of We Are Ultra
I’m so excited that An Xiao Mina introduced me to Anita Hawkins, the designer extraordinaire of We Are Ultra. This video shows off Anita’s Ultra 10 line. I can’t wait to own my own Ultra 10!
I am also going to take up Anita’s Six Items of Less (SIOL) challenge - wear 6 items in 1 months. Check out...
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“Live like Spongebob: Laugh all day for no reason and annoy people with your...”
– because the heart never lies
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Food adventures in Beijing with friends & 羊肉泡馍 →
Ayman just blogged about a memory that I almost thought was a dream! I met up with Ayman, Roger, James, Lydia, and Lisa in Beijing for amazing 羊肉泡馍. Ayman chronicles our food adventure below.
shamurai:
For we on 羊肉泡馍 hath fed…
Recently, I was asked if I had any New Year’s resolutions. Without giving it too much thought, I responded, “Not really, I prefer to make rash and whimsical life...
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“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
kenyatta:
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very interesting question:...
December 2011
Gossip from the trenches of China’s... →
(I originally wrote this post on 88 Bar.)
China telecommunications expert, Marc Laperrouza, tips us off to an unconfirmed bit a of juicy news about the Chinese…
