Remember The 80′s With Knockaround Sunglasses
Who wants a pair of $500 sunglasses that you will sit on some day or never wear, when you can pay $7 and get a pair that are made to be strong and easily cleaned? Plus at the $7 price point, who cares if you only wear them a few times a year?! I’m talking about Knockaround Sunglasses, and they are apparently more popular than I thought. After reading about them on The Cool Hunter, I was poised to order a pair, but now their site says the popular glasses are backordered 2-4 weeks. Yikes.
Why are they so popular? Well some guy from Laguna Beach was caught wearing them. So that explains the Teeny-Bopper popularity…But I like them because they have that great 80′s classic sunglasses style look to them, and you can clean them with your finger! And I quote: “And they’re a breeze to clean- just use your fingertips to scrub with soap and warm water.” Nice.
Pick up a pair today and if your nice you can order me some too. (I like the white ones.)
Link: Knockaroundsunglasses.com
Via The Cool Hunter
Make Yourself a Monopoly Mafia
Hasbro allows you to print more Monopoly money on your own, as much as you want, for free. Very cool. You can click on each denomination and its opens a PDF of the bill that you can print out on your own. Yeah for the internet!
Thats all. You’ve probably already heard about it, being on Digg and BoingBoing and all, but I just thought it was cool.
The Moment You’ve Been Waiting For
It seems like I’ve been waiting my whole life for this moment. But if that were true, then I would have been wishing for two babies to make out in the early 90′s and they would be not exactly what I’m into. So I guess I’ve only been waiting for this moment for 3-4 years or so. Still fun though.
Via CityRag
So, How Much Do You Like Our Header?
I was just wondering because I’m not so sure about it. I might just be because its been a few weeks since I made a change to the site (if you don’t count to slight comment display change) and I tend to get a little antsy at times with this site, if you haven’t noticed. My real reasons for souring a bit on the header are:
1. Its cool that it can update and its random, but its not like anyone really ever changes it. Hell I rarely do it.
2. Its kinda big isn’t it? And with the top story all the way across the top, I feel we could use that real-estate up there a bit more so it doesn’t just look like a site with a big header and text underneath, until you scroll down and see the rest.
I would like to implement some sort of rotating / random picture element up there still, or maybe a picture on the side that is changed like a front page on AOL or a news paper. But then again, maybe I’m just being crazy and you all silently love it.
So I just thought I would lay it out there, see what you all think.
Adam Curry Likes Himself, What a Shocker
No way! You mean to tell me that Adam Curry, former MTV VJ and one of the pioneers of Podcasting, was busting editing the Wikipedia entry on Podcasting to make himself look more important?! I know, I can’t believe it either! I think the real question here is: Why does anyone give a crap?! In fact, if there is a “side” to choose, I’m with Curry. Let me explain.
So you make a encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Very hippie, very peace and love, very cool…and also very dumb if you can honestly tell me that you never thought this would happen. Of course this is going to happen! This isn’t the first time, this won’t be the last time, and in fact, its probably happening right now. People are going to want to get themselves in the world-renowned Wikipedia, what a shocker, and if they are already in it, people will want to get a bigger piece of the pie. I thought this was known, I thought this was assumed, but for some reason, someone busted Curry editing the Podcast article a few times and now people are whining and making lame titled blog posts about it.
Isn’t the great Wikipedia able to handle this? What do you do if someone changes the Chicago Cubs page to read nothing but: “The Cubs suck!” (Well thats a bad example, being thats actually true and all.) ? You catch it and change it. That system goes on all the time everyday, and no one hears about it. This is no different. If the system is as great as everyone keeps telling everyone else, this should be a non-issue, a mere blip, nothing. Fix it, add Curry’s name to the list of millions of people that like themselves and go have a Coke.
So the guy tried to change a post. So what? I say good for Adam! He rolled the dice a few times and edited an article that pertained to him. If he did it and most people agreed with the changes, then they stay and until someone deletes that post and replaces with a picture of a girl with her top off get seems bigger and everything is fine. If no one likes his edits, then the big Wikipedia gods change it back and everyone goes on with our lives. Thats the way Wikipedia works: People change things, everyone discusses, actions are taken or not. You can almost here the Lion King soundtrack start to amp up…”Its the circle of life!!!” Curry rolled the dice and this time it came up craps. Oh well. Who cares. Let move on and let the Wikipedia guys worry about the kid in Tulsa that keeps editing things so that he co-stars in all of Hillary Duff’s movies.