xoxo, adrienne: Archive

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“So perhaps Radiohead was too quick to judge?”

– Treehugger commenter in response to Artificial Trees: Could They be Better Than the Real Thing?

Jun 30th

Are Subways Making You Deaf? (Gothamist) →

Lately I just want to wear earplugs all the time around this place.

Jun 30th

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Jackson’s Death Puts Lucrative Beatles Copyrights... →

As things stand now, Paul McCartney must grudgingly pay Jackson and Sony/ATV each time he performs “Hey Jude” or many of his other Beatles compositions. Jackson and Sony/ATV each own 50 percent of the publishing rights to these songs: Jackson won them over McCartney in a 1985 closed auction for $47.5 million, sold half to Sony/ATV in 2005, posted the other half as collateral on a loan and...

Jun 29th

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Freesound.org →

free sounds.

Jun 29th

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Coupon codes = free money!

Lately, I have taken to looking for coupon codes for surprise bargains when shopping online. There are dozens of websites devoted to providing these codes (retailmenot.com, couponcode.com, etc), but the easiest way to find something specific is to just google the name of the store along with “coupon code”. Entering the code before completing a purchase can lead to saving a good chunk...

Jun 29th

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“I could never have imagined, when I was 12 years old, that the day would come...”

– PC

Jun 29th

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“The only plastics accepted for recycling in New York City are bottles & jugs...”

– NYC.gov After thinking that I had recently become a pretty fabulous recycler, I was surprised to learn the information above from an even more serious recycler this weekend. I had previously believed that #1 and #2 plastics were always recyclable, but now know that the “bottles and...

Jun 29th

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13-year-old Swaps iPod For Sony Walkman, Gets A... →

(via yvynyl)

Jun 29th

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Jun 29th

Plattsburgh Hard core (geocities) →

Andrew’s post of an old flier inspired me to look for this classic slice of internet glory. Among the scanned photos is this one with 9th grade me looking very excited:

Jun 28th

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Jun 27th

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Watch

Serious rain tonight, even underground. boo.

Jun 27th

Jun 26th

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Could Michael Jackson's death collapse AEG Live? →

amandalynferri: More than $85 million worth of tickets have already been sold for the series of performances, which have the now sadly ironic title “This Is It.” As much as $30 million has already been spent on production, according to sources close to the situation. So what’s at stake for AEG, the world’s second-largest concert promoter, can’t be overstated. Concert business executives have...

Jun 26th

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CR: Is this Metric?
Me: Yes...
CR: Put Metric on.  I liked Regina Spektor, but I can't handle her 17 times in a row.

Jun 26th

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Jun 25th

The Uniform Project →

(via Jezebel) What a fun idea. If I attemped this, I think I would end up buying billions of accessories to keep up with being original day in and day out, and would end up spending more on clothing than I do in real life.

Jun 25th

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“You know what they said on TV about yesterday’s march? They could hardly pretend...”

– A Tehran resident on Iran’s skewed state television coverage (New Yorker)

Jun 25th

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Jun 24th

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$26 haircut in NYC‽

As a short-hair person, I’m constantly fighting the mullet that my hair wants to become. Upon moving to New York, I was shocked by the price of haircuts, and unable to find the great cut for $50 that I got in ritzy salons in Columbus, Ohio. My initial bargain was the Bumble and Bumble school, where haircuts are free if you are comfortable doing whatever craziness the stylist wants to test...

Jun 24th

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“This song sucks.”

– PC, on this flute from 35,000 years ago

Jun 24th

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Jun 24th

interrobang‽

is a nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers’ jargon as the bang). (wikipedia) Getting interrobanged in a professional e-mail/text through multiple question marks or question marks plus exclamation marks is becoming an...

Jun 24th

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