meerkat media » ianw http://www.meerkatmedia.org Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Now with more rainbows and unicorns! http://www.meerkatmedia.org/blog/now-with-more-unicorns/ http://www.meerkatmedia.org/blog/now-with-more-unicorns/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:48:32 +0000 ianw http://www.meerkatmedia.org/?p=1202 Tal encouraged me to add the following button to the website’s sidebar, courtesy of Cornify.com:

Cornify

If you’re on the blog, click it and see what happens. If you’ve ever fancied yourself a Lisa Frank fan, you surely won’t be disappointed.

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  • Rahm Emanuel can dance ballet better than you
  • Rahm Emanuel once told Tony Blair: “Don’t fuck this up”
  • Rahm Emanuel tells people to fuck off by showing them the space where his right middle finger used to be

Not listed: Rahm got his undergrad degree at Sarah Lawrence College, as did many Meerkats. I did not, but Rahm Emanuel makes me wish I did.

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In the meantime, here’s a little teaser, in the form of a ride on the infamous Cyclone roller coaster:

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Being a nerd as I am, I have Last.fm set up to log my music automatically as it plays, so if you were there and liked what you heard, I’ve set up a playlist of the evening’s music there so you can see what was playing when.

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I love old things, and I love new technology, and it’s not very often that those two things come together in an amazing way. So I was really excited when Square America—a site which posts lots of old things that the owner collects from flea markets and yard sales and such—posted a slide show about the future. From the 1970s.

Check it out: It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future

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http://www.explosionsandboobs.com/

Right?

]]> http://www.meerkatmedia.org/blog/explosions-and-boobs/feed/ 2 Single Serving Websites I have Made In The Past 48 Hours http://www.meerkatmedia.org/blog/single-serving-websites-i-have-made-in-the-past-48-hours/ http://www.meerkatmedia.org/blog/single-serving-websites-i-have-made-in-the-past-48-hours/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 00:29:48 +0000 ianw http://www.meerkatmedia.org/?p=1041 TenCents.info (will it be heads or tails?)
EndODay.com (there’s a story behind this one. It’s hidden in the stylesheet)
And my personal favorite of the moment: OffAir.org

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A friend sent me this enlightening (and scary) TED talk about the powers of the human mind. It’s a bit lengthy (18 minutes), but worth your time if you have some:

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

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