I really think that everyone is out tonight because the market went up.
CR’s theory on why restaurants in Midtown are all packed right now. My theory is that it’s a Friday night in Midtown.
Right now, Mardi Gras heated roof deck edition.

Right now, Mardi Gras heated roof deck edition.

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has started to make it more challenging to appear in the News Feed. If Facebook wants to derive more revenue from big brand advertisers, they want to be in that News Feed where everybody’s eyeballs are.

Advertiser’s Free Ride On Facebook May End (WSJ)

There are a few interesting Facebook articles in the WSJ this morning because of their IPO:

VERY excited for this show tonight.

I listened to a recent Radiolab short this morning, 99% Invisible, which included a segment about Nicholas Feltron, a guy who has been producing beautiful annual reports about stats in his life for the past few years. The reports are all at feltron.com, and he even created a site, datyum.com, where one can collect and graph their own data. “All the easy, dismissive criticisms about Foursquare check-ins and Twitter should be popping into your mind right now. They all boil down to this: Why do I care what you had for breakfast this morning? …But a funny thing happens when you take what you had for breakfast this morning and multiply it by a hundred of its quotidian equivalents and multiply that times 365.” I love Tumblr for this reason—after almost 4 years, I have a huge catalog of small bits of my life that’s interesting to go back through.

I listened to a recent Radiolab short this morning, 99% Invisible, which included a segment about Nicholas Feltron, a guy who has been producing beautiful annual reports about stats in his life for the past few years. The reports are all at feltron.com, and he even created a site, datyum.com, where one can collect and graph their own data.

“All the easy, dismissive criticisms about Foursquare check-ins and Twitter should be popping into your mind right now. They all boil down to this: Why do I care what you had for breakfast this morning? …But a funny thing happens when you take what you had for breakfast this morning and multiply it by a hundred of its quotidian equivalents and multiply that times 365.”

I love Tumblr for this reason—after almost 4 years, I have a huge catalog of small bits of my life that’s interesting to go back through.

Proud of myself for coming home and making lentil soup despite wanting to just eat cereal for dinner and watch Hulu. My intention was to make H.Swan’s coconut red lentil soup, but we didn’t have scallions, tomato paste, coconut milk, or cilantro, so it’s basically just the lentil/split pea soup with curry that I always make. Disregard those Christmas stockings in the background. I just got a head start on decorating for next year.

Proud of myself for coming home and making lentil soup despite wanting to just eat cereal for dinner and watch Hulu. My intention was to make H.Swan’s coconut red lentil soup, but we didn’t have scallions, tomato paste, coconut milk, or cilantro, so it’s basically just the lentil/split pea soup with curry that I always make.

Disregard those Christmas stockings in the background. I just got a head start on decorating for next year.

I like the cheetahs.

Megan West(erby): Social media slang

digitalslurp:

The growing popularity of Pinterest got me thinking today. So I made up a bit of social media slang for you to insert into your everyday lives. Enjoy.

  • Pinterested (adj): I’m kinda pinteresed in that.
  • Pinteresting (adj): Your house is very pinteresting.
  • Unpinterested (adj):…

Or, about a hottie, “I’d pin that.”

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I decided this morning that I can quit buying more expensive travel tissues if I just have something to stock tissues into myself (I’ve been sick a lot this winter, can you tell?). Lo and behold, I found this super easy sewing project!

I decided this morning that I can quit buying more expensive travel tissues if I just have something to stock tissues into myself (I’ve been sick a lot this winter, can you tell?).

Lo and behold, I found this super easy sewing project!

yay! you’re a rock star wizard princess!

A sweet coworker after I just did a small website update for her

At the end of a long day, a cute IM goes a long way!

Since silicone-smoked carrots and kale taste susprisingly bad and I ended up throwing this lunch away and buying Cosi, I wanted to at least give its short life some value with a photo. This meal is my jam this week: quinoa or millet cooked in the rice cooker with a scoop of homemade vegetable bouillon steamed carrots and kale herb feta cheese crumbled on top

Since silicone-smoked carrots and kale taste susprisingly bad and I ended up throwing this lunch away and buying Cosi, I wanted to at least give its short life some value with a photo.

This meal is my jam this week:

  • quinoa or millet cooked in the rice cooker with a scoop of homemade vegetable bouillon
  • steamed carrots and kale
  • herb feta cheese crumbled on top

trendd:

This is a pretty amazing Budweiser spot for the big game on Sunday.

Flash Fans: 2012 Budweiser Official Big Game Commercial (via Kumiko Ide by BudweiserCanada)

Tears me up and is a complete copy of Improv Everywhere’s Best Gig Ever from 2005:

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