January 2009
15 posts
“I don’t pay $300 a month to be treated like this!” The man had on a black wool expensive-looking overcoat and a plaid Burberry scarf. He was screaming down the aisle of the train car after the conductor. “Sir, I’m sorry, but you need to move out of the way. The doors are broken and I need to test them to be sure they actually open at the next station.” The conductor looked...
Jan 30th
Yay for President Obama! Today he signed his first bill into law, the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law named for an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.” “It is fitting that with the very first bill I sign — the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act — we are upholding one of this nation’s first...
Jan 29th
…and another one…
Jan 29th
I’m not sure if this is disgusting or awesome.
Jan 29th
A unicorn puking a rainbow, you say? Mmmyeah this should be the next project I do. (via feeling stitchy)
Jan 26th
Via Obamicon.me
Jan 24th
Jan 22nd
This is both disgusting and awesome. Thanks so much to Lila for sending this amazingness along.
Jan 21st
If I could have any job in the world and not have to worry about money, it would 100% be a headline writer for the NY Post.
Jan 18th
This is pretty interesting… a subway vandal in Berlin has defaced posters of Britney Spears, Leona Lewis, and Christina Aguilera by making them look like open Photoshop windows. Check out post on Jezebel here .
Jan 16th
WatchWatch
So I’ve been getting into embroidery lately (it’s actually pretty fun/relaxing), and it’s only making me appreciate this video even more. So clever and inventive!
Jan 16th
Jan 12th
Engaged? Still having a hard time deciding on a venue? Try this one on for size.
Jan 11th
Ok - these photos totally blew my mind when I first saw them. Smashing Magazine has put together a phenomenal gallery of examples of tilt shift photography (a photography technique where real objects look like miniatures). A few of my favorites are below (especially the Grand Central one - my favorite building in NYC!).
Jan 8th
An interesting article from the NYT on an underground abortion network in present-day Dominican neighborhoods in NYC.
Jan 5th