But this is what I have concluded. The Kindle is like the sensible man your mother wanted you to marry. She can list a dozen reasons why this man is good for you. But she omits the crucial ingredient: chemistry. The man doesn’t excite you.

It’s easy to turn the Kindle on. But I have found the Kindle doesn’t turn me on. The thrill is gone: the thrill of anticipation as I toy with a printed book, turn the first page to read the author’s dedication or bits of poetry; the list of his/her other books, the reprints from reviews; and then the flip to the back page to ponder the author’s photo, and skim the acknowledgments.

All these preliminaries, a kind of foreplay to the act of reading itself, just aren’t the same with a Kindle.

Adele Horin (via lanipauli)

Holy crap that is so cute I don’t think I can eat bacon again!

Holy crap that is so cute I don’t think I can eat bacon again!

(Source: davewallace)

rumoko:

Wallet vampires, @zynga, shamelessly rip off @NimbleBits 3 person effort: TinyTower. [embiggen]

rumoko:

Regrety: H&M ‘steal’ artists work, claim ‘inspiration’. They are ‘investigating’ now, only after being publicly outed as douches.

As with Ocean Marketing’s recent PR nightmare - the first ‘private’ response (to the individual) is the telling one. H&M failed that test.

nashicat:

Miranda Jane: is this what you aspire to? :)

…but with longer hair ;)

(I think I want my fringe back!)

(Source: olibomb)

ballerinaproject:

Keenan - Williamsburg 

 

Become a fan of the Ballerina Project on Facebook.

Check out the new Ballerina Project blog.

Awesome.

thedailywhat:

Getting The Band Back Together of the Day: Influential post-hardcore legends At the Drive-In will reunite this year after an eleven year hiatus.

An official website has been launched, along with a Twitter account which confirms the band’s reunion.

The announcement comes two days after Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala — the man responsible for ATD-I’s 2001 breakup — announced that his band’s sixth studio album was nearly done and would be released this year.

TMV’s other At The Drive-In alumnus, guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, previously stated the band’s next album would be their last, but added that an ATD-I reunion was not forthcoming

Shows what he knows.

[altpress / nme.]

FUCK YES!

thedrunkenmoogle:

The Portal Two (Portal 2 Cocktails)

Ingredients:
Blue Curacao
Vodka
Lemonade 
Cointreau
Rum 
Orangina 
Small tumblers

Directions: “This drink is, of course, designed to resemble the two coloured portals from the excellent sci-fi puzzle game. For the blue version, get a small tumbler and pour in 10ml of Blue Curacao, 10ml of vodka and top up with lemonade. For orange you’ll need another tumbler, this time filled with 10ml of Cointreau, 10ml of rum and Orangina. If you fancy, you can jazz the glasses up with coloured sugar rims. Simply pour some sugar into a sandwich bag with the relevant food colouring, shake them up, pour the resulting mix into a dish and dip your tumbler in. “You can mix the portals together if you like,” says James. “It’s a very orangey flavour, which we thought tied in with The Orange Box, the compilation in which the original Portal appeared.”

The finest beverage breakthroughs from the Aperture alcohol research labs. Drink them in the name of science. You monster.

Drink created by James Dance of Loading for an article in The Guardian. Check out the article for the rest of the drinks and check out Loading for a great gaming bar and cafe.

thedailywhat:

Precious Precocious Child of the Day: In the girls section at a Toys “R” Us, Riley suddenly has an epiphany: Segregating toys by gender is wrong.

At least one British toy store agrees.

[davidfuternick / ratsoff.]

This girl is amazing, I hope all her generation are the same!

(Source: samreich)

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