Truly L’enfant Terrible
Posted: 2014/11/23 Filed under: can't even, crazy crazy crazy, hobby, horrifying, WTF | Tags: L'enfant Leave a commentAfter awhile, they began referring to him as “L’enfant.” The young one. The little boy. “L’enfant called 20 times today,” they’d say. “That was L’enfant on the phone.”
It was a way to maintain sanity, a weird sense of levity, in the midst of an insane situation. Even today, almost a decade after the thousands of phone calls began, no one at the Marrakesh Restaurant knows who L’enfant is. All they know is nearly every day since 1983, someone–and perhaps more than one person–has called this popular Moroccan spot and harassed its employees.
L’enfant demands money. He threatens people with death, screams obscenities and babbles in pornographic terms. In the mid- to late-’80s, when the calls were at their height, they took an especially bizarre turn. L’enfant would call, imitating a range of voices: a young girl, a small black child, adults with Middle Eastern accents. Sometimes the callers would carry on crude conversations or begin abusing whomever answered.
This story is completely nuts. Seriously, go to the link & finish it.
MailKimp
Posted: 2014/11/19 Filed under: chicken dance, good idea, hobby, mailkimp, media | Tags: mailkimp Leave a commentFans have embraced the ad almost like it’s one of the podcast’s many compelling characters. Jokes about the pronunciation of Mail … Kimp? have developed into their own meme. (For the record, MailChimp says there is no official spelling of the now-famous mispronunciation, but the company did register MailKimp.com.)
via Here’s the Story Behind Serial’s Adorable MailChimp Ad – The Atlantic.
I ❤ Serial & MailKimp
you do?? YES.
tiny PMS matches
Posted: 2014/10/02 Filed under: art, awesome person, design, hobby Leave a comment
via http://tinypmsmatch.tumblr.com/
Tiny PMS Match
A personal project of tiny proportion—matching small everyday objects to their Pantone® colors, by designer Inka Mathew. All pictures were taken with her iPhone 5 and edited with Snapseed.
Super cute pictures of Pantone color twins… NOT little matches to start fires when you’re feeling super bloated and irritated and wanna watch something burn. Way sweeter than that.
check out SlideRule & learn learn learn
Posted: 2014/06/08 Filed under: academics, advice, hobby, I want, technology | Tags: and MIT Open Courseware, Codecademy, Khan Academy, learning, reviews, SlideRule, Udemy Leave a commentSlideRule’s reach is extensive and covers many popular education providers, like Codecademy, Khan Academy, Udemy, and MIT Open Courseware. You can browse by provider or through subjects like Computers & Technology, Business & Economics, and Law. SlideRule also has a review system so users can rate courses and help you avoid the ones that aren’t worth your time. The service is fairly new so there isn’t an overabundance of reviews yet, but as more people use it, the review system will get better. Start searching for online classes by checking the link below.
via SlideRule Searches for the Best Online Courses in Any Category.
travel back in time with street view
Posted: 2014/04/24 Filed under: design, events, good idea, hobby, media, technology Leave a commentGo back in time with Street View
If you’ve ever dreamt of being a time traveler like Doc Brown, now’s your chance. Starting today, you can travel to the past to see how a place has changed over the years by exploring Street View imagery in Google Maps for desktop. We’ve gathered historical imagery from past Street View collections dating back to 2007 to create this digital time capsule of the world.
If you see a clock icon in the upper left-hand portion of a Street View image, click on it and move the slider through time and select a thumbnail to see that same place in previous years or seasons.
Now with Street View, you can see a landmark’s growth from the ground up, like the Freedom Tower in New York City or the 2014 World Cup Stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil. This new feature can also serve as a digital timeline of recent history, like the reconstruction after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Japan. You can even experience different seasons and see what it would be like to cruise Italian roadways in both summer and winter…
via Official Google Blog: Go back in time with Street View.
“seemed like a good idea at the time”
Posted: 2014/03/05 Filed under: art, awesome person, good idea, hobby, humor Leave a comment
via Photographer Kaija Straumanis snapped being hit in face with ball, shoes and pumpkin | Mail Online.
I’m a fan.
twitter / @crushingbort on boatmurder
Posted: 2014/02/17 Filed under: advice, awesome person, hobby, humor, media, politics Leave a comment
Horton Atonto @crushingbort :
thank you cnn I’m glad these people have a voice pic.twitter.com/We7Zty9YI
via Twitter / crushingbort: thank you cnn I’m glad these ….
rejection affection
Posted: 2014/01/15 Filed under: advice, awesome person, books, good idea, hobby, media | Tags: rejection letters Leave a comment
If you need some encouragement, rejection letters of the immensely talented are always helpful.
Self-help books often advise that the fastest way to achieve success is through failure: failing often and failing up. Even great writers like George Orwell suffered setbacks, like when his novel Animal Farm was rejected as a “stupid and pointless fable” by Knopf Publishers in 1945. So when the Sundance Film Festival asked artist and photographer Taryn Simon to create something to kick off its Free Fail campaign, a series of panels “designed to embrace failure as essential to risk-taking, innovation, and the creative process,” she decided to make a video flip book of rejection letters.
But in the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it section between those two bookends is: A rejection letter from the music label Sub Pop that begins “Dear Loser,” a denial from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and a rejection of a Star Trek spec script. There is also a letter – recently noted by Meryl Streep in her National Board of Review gala speech honoring Emma Thompson and slamming Walt Disney – that explains to one aspiring female artist in the 1930s that women were not welcome to do “the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that task is performed entirely by young men.”
9 Things Introverts Do All The Time
Posted: 2013/12/16 Filed under: awesome person, hobby, humor, missed connections, the Onion | Tags: mark ruffalo Leave a comment
Other introverts enjoy writing, which is why they send Mark Ruffalo three letters a day, except Wednesdays when they send him seven because that’s the day of the week he was born on.
via 9 Things Introverts Do All The Time | The Onion – America\’s Finest News Source.
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