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love me

i don’t know who is behind this tag but i think that they’re absolutely adorable. i’ve never seen one in person but i’ve noticed them popping up all over the internet recently.

8-bit nyc

This site (like many i post) comes via mariso. 8-bit nyc shows maps of new york city and brooklyn like you’d expect to see in your wildest childhood nintendo dreams.

You can search specific neighborhoods and addresses- this is where I live.

5 minute chocolate cake

My roommate showed me this on facebook last week and we’ve already made it a couple times. It sounds kinda gross but I can assure you that it’s amazing. We even tweaked the recipe and made an almond chocolate chip mug cake by substituting almond flour for the cocoa. As MugCake’s fan page says, [...]

google logos

Google has been in the news a lot recently about it’s brouhaha with China (i especially liked this article in the nyt http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/world/asia/14beijing.html?scp=1&sq=china%20google&st=cse – i think its awesome how internet access has become more or less a basic human right and cyber attacks are talked about as if they’re physical attacks) but here are [...]

Christmas mix for you!

I’m not usually a fan of holiday mixes or Christmas songs much but I’m totally digging this mix this morning while I get ready for work. It’s sustaining my holiday excitement so that I can get through work today, run home, finish packing and jump on a plane to the middle of the west. Hopefully [...]

Blog of the Day: Hipster Kitty

Ok, maybe i went a little overboard with the examples but i kept finding good ones. Check out more HERE.

From Mariso

Land of Talk

I’ve been going through a random indiegirlpop phase recently. Pandora turned me onto this band called Land of Talk. I thought this video was beautiful and should be shared. Enjoy!

GirlPorn

Half the fun of this website is that you have no idea what is happen when you enter the site. Is it safe for work? Should you open it in public? For that reason, I’m intentionally not adding and pics to this post. You just have to click here and see what happens.
From Mariso. [...]

Thief and Bandit @ Bust Craft Fair

I visited the Bust craft fair in NYC yesterday and came out with this rad necklace by Thief and Bandit (see below). Not only were the vendors the cutest (and from RVA!), but their printed tees and necklaces were original (a lot of the artsy craft fair stuff starts looking all the same after a [...]

History Lesson of the Day: Visualizing Empires Declines

If only high school history text books could be so fun to watch….

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
From Connie