Medieval Knight Hoodie

The main problem with this: Eighty bucks gets kind of spendy when I (clearly) need to buy at least three, in different sizes.

Medieval Knight Hoodie
Check out this cool Medieval Knight Hoodie. With the convenience of a full-zip hoodie, it makes its wearer look like he or she is decked out in plate armor. The spaulders and visor are removable with snaps. The “plates” are reinforced with interfacing.

One question: How are you not dead?

I am deep – deep – in the lower 60% of of this chart, so the stats on the 24 million (!) Americans downing 10+ drinks per day really blows my mind.

10% of Americans have 10 or more alcoholic drinks every day

The eye-popping stat comes from Philip J Cook’s 2007 booze-economics book Paying the Tab.

American booze consumption follows a familiar pattern, with the top ten percent of drinkers accounting for 50 percent of the b…

A Dark History of Children's Literature

Sex, drinking, drugs, violence, death and even magic are often cited as dangerous themes from which young readers should be protected. However, if one looks at the history of writing for children, it becomes clear that those elements have been present from the very beginning. This exhibition will explore the vast wonderland of children's literature, shedding new light on the shadows lurking in the rabbit holes.

The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned – CornellCast
M.T. Anderson, an American author of picture books, pre-teen books, and young-adult novels, delivered the opening lecture for Wardrobes and Rabbit Holes: A Dark History of Children’s Literature on November 7, 2012.

My Mobile Phone Rules

  1. No cases on a durable phone that will be valueless old tech in two years when I get a new one. (a)

  2. No shitty three dollar plastic film to ‘protect’ nigh-fucking-indestructible gorilla glass screens.

a – Protective cases become viable when the devices they encompass get heavy enough to qualify as tablets; in other words, when their own weight makes it more likely they can’t withstand being dropped. (b)

b – Corollary: don’t buy a phone that, according to the above rule, is effectively a tablet.

DOGHOUSE | Getting A New Phone
Hey people! Forekast just launched! It’s a project we’ve been working on. If you wanna know more, here’s our blog post. << · < ? > >> << · < ? > >> Getting A New Phone. It’s a very strange thing. Comments on Facebook. Alt-Text: Let’s further defile it with its own figurine pet which we will …

GAH!

I just realized that Import Tags and Ignore Tags do not want the actual hash symbol in front of the words. Finally got them working as intended. Man I'm slow sometimes.

Well, Huh

I think, between Tumblr Crosspostr, SM2WP, Social, MailChimp, and a well-timed animal sacrifice, I might have gotten all my social network/blog sites tied together, and successfully set up my tumblr as an aggregate blog, pulling together posts from all my sites into one semi-coherent whole.

I give it three months until someone changes something in their API or widgets or zip code, and the whole house of cards comes down.

Maybe three weeks.