Disco Lies

Moby has a new album coming out tomorrow. I must have, if this is any indication:

Improv Everywhere

This the name of a NYC based improved collective that stages public stunts. Their videos will describe it better than I ever would:

“Look Up More”

Is it food?

My family came to Boston over the Easter holiday. We had a nice dinner at Washington Square Tavern and then headed up Beacon Street to Finale in Coolidge Corner for dessert. Though we resisted the flight of port, all of us enjoyed exceptional desserts – except for my brother Andrew. Does this look like food to you?

Trippy 1970’s biochemistry

What’s this you ask? Well, if you’ve been drinking or partaking in other substances, this will make your night only get better! Take a look at this video made at Stanford in the 70’s as they use graduate students and/or hippies to help act out the way that proteins are made within the cell. If you can’t stand the lecture from the archetypal-white-scientist, skip ahead to 3:11. Sit back, grab a drink and let your hair down because this will immerse you in the age of free love…

Rainy Friday

Friday mashup:

- Alaska in Winter is my favorite discovery from the past week. It’s like Beirut, but with serious downtempo dub.

- Photoshop Express was released yesterday. You get 2gb of storage and some of the more popular Photoshop tools in a convenient, Flash-based format. I still am hoping for Picasa for Mac.

- Yelp Boston asks, “When was the last time you threw up?“

- Divine Caroline posts the “Worst Artery Cloggers in America.” Yikes, Chipotle is on here. My favorite is the “Just wrong, mate: Outback Aussie Cheese Fries.” With 2900 calories and 182g of fat, now I understand why America has redefined the average ass size.

- The New York Times assures us that, yes, running can get you high. [thanks, Lifehacker]

- William Kowalski, a writer living in Nova Scotia, offers a Canadian perspective on an American classic: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsy. via Globe and Mail.

- Stereogum, et al debate the value of the Web Sheriff, a paid gopher who frequents mp3 blogs and politely asks users to remove select content by a certain record label ::cough Matador cough::. I really like some of the arguments made in this post about the role blogs that post mp3s play in spreading new music and, in turn, generating revenue for artists who are overcontracted and underpaid.

- What happens when you remove Garfield from Garfield comics? You embark on a journey “deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman.”

Photo credit: Bjorn Hegardt via This is That