The Modern Age

‘Project Runway’ Aspirants Queue Up For a New Season — New York Magazine
Project Runway aspirants queue up in the cold. It was target practice for Tim Gunn.
(tags: projectrunway realitytv nymag)

Aussie reader Kylie wrote in with a special report from The Vines (yeah remember them?) show in Brisbane, Australia on Saturday April 14, 2007:
I thought you might like to know about a crazy 2002 moment I had on Saturday night. I went to see the Vines and the Red Riders play here in Brisbane (Australia) [...]

From the Spoon email list about 30 minutes ago. (You diehards should already be taken care of):
Spoon will be playing a special low-key show in NYC next Monday (the 23rd) at the Bowery Ballroom, one of the band’s favorite venues in the country. Tickets are on sale now. As a Spoon email list subscriber, you [...]

Pretty adorable. This little yellow robot called a Keepon, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Marek Michalowski and Hideki Kozima of Japan’s National Institute of Communications Technology, moves through a large range of motions pretty fluidly. It can pick out a beat in a piece of music and move to it in time. I want to bring [...]

ohnotheydidnt: JAKE & JENNIFER AT THE GLAAD MEDIA AWARD
2gether 4eva? Loves it!
(tags: celebrities awards gossip)

ohnotheydidnt: ASHLEE & PETE DO NYC.I’m no body lan
Wtf is up with those shoes?
(tags: petewentz ashleesimpson gossip)

The Designer Who Liked Models
Anand Jon was surrounded by women. Now he faces rape charges from a dozen of them.
(tags: modeling fashion crime nytimes)

If It’s [...]

I’m not exactly sure how long this site, Funny or Die has been around, but it sure is usefully for killing time.
Check out this amazingly funny video, “The Landlord” featuring Will Ferrell, long-time co-writing (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) and directing buddy Adam McKay, and Adam’s daughter Pearl, as the “nasty” landlord of the building. You might [...]

iMedia Connection: Death Watch: Yahoo!
At the close of 2006, Yahoo was actually criticized by analysts because it failed to achieve massive growth. Just how much growth constitutes a massive increase? Unfortunately, Google is the standard by which growth is measured; that’s just a bit excessiv
(tags: google marketing yahoo)

iMedia Connection: Should Consumers Choose Sponsors?
Our editor in [...]

Eric at Grow Interactive sent over the most enjoyable thing I’ve seen in a while: PaloozaHead. It was launched to coincide with today’s announcement of the 2007 Lollapalooza lineup. You can logon and upload your OWN head and dance to a selection of music by some of the confirm acts playing the fest. Believe you [...]

What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams’ New Startup -
Abrams became one of the most visible faces of the Web 2.0 renaissance. But Friendster’s infrastructure couldn’t cope with the rapid growth, and as users increasingly encountered delays and outages throughout 2004, Friendster was eclipsed by upstarts like
(tags: friendster web2.0 wired socialnetworks)

Netvibes
(tags: ajax web2.0 free tools)

Jasper pointed me out to an excellent post that he did today about the release of a remastered edition of The Henchmen’s album Hentch-Forth along with the four tracks off their “Some Other Guy” 7″ and an alternate take of “Psycho Daisies”…all on (get this!) some newfangled technology they call “compact disc” on Italy [...]