Links to Love (Week 29, 2012)

I got my cast off. Yay! So far, walking is a bit painful, but not because of the healed bone. The muscles are so sore and tight that I'm limping--not what I expected, but I hope it will pass soon. My piled-up, scaly skin was absolutely disgusting for a few days, but scrubbing has taken care of that.




Isn't this colorful collage of Beijing neighborhoods made more lovely in its dilapidated setting?


Wireless audio devices, finally.

"No soup for you!" tour.

Relationbook.me: check the relationship statuses of all your Facebook friends at once.


Having something in your teeth is more noticeable than other flaws. Good call, Colgate.

Rich kids of Instagram.

Maybe this is totally weird, but this dress made of fermented red wine fascinates me with its deep colors:

Links to Love (Week 28, 2012)

Week 28: dashed apartment hopes, crepes a little early (but for Bastille Day), and spicy Mayan hot chocolate. And olallieberries.


Eurolapse:


EuroLapse from David Kosmos Smith on Vimeo.



Is it weird that I want to try to explode a watermelon?





This guy made a wig from his own hair as a prank:





Would you like an umbrella that looks like Romaine lettuce?

Nerd skirts.

Chameleon band-aids.

Slide of death.

The Universe hilariously responds to tweets about it.

Smart. If only I could do this with my credit card and keys and stuff without anyone knowing.

11 facts about phantom phone vibrations.

Links to Love (Week 27, 2012)

We had a week with more Fremont-to-San Francisco trips than one might care to pay gas for, but we saw a lot of friends and can say we saw some interesting things (like a guy who fell over my wheelchair and loudly said the F-word while I was watching fireworks from Ghirardelli Square). Michael also catered to my wishes and spiral cut a hot dog for grilling for me.

RocketSpace makes an appearance at 1:59. I can't believe this guy's driving skills!





LOL Tumblrs.

17 Tips.

Facemath.

A dress made of gummy bears.


A lovely song:





Concrete desk accessories.

Would you survive a month off of Craigslist?

Portraits of dogs before being put down. :(


Batman in real life:





Bandages for your favorite Abe Lincoln fan.

Blow up websites using Fontbomb.

Ever heard of the artist Kumi Yamashita?


Using a typewriter as a musical instrument:

Links to Love (Week 26, 2012)

Can you believe we're halfway through the year?

Some insanely relieving things happened this week, but I'm still feeling completely worn out today from all the pressure. It's great to have the most patient and loving supporter in the world, people willing to give me rides sometimes, new books from the library, government willing to support its citizens, new acquaintances interested in similar subjects, online forums where I can complain and sympathize my heart out, the amazingness of Freecycle, aloe vera plants to cool off my angry skin (I didn't know how itchy aloe vera can be, though), a different color of neon nail polish on each hand, and the pride of inventing and enjoyment of the most refreshing drink ever at The Ice Cream Bar (Sica said it was like sipping a cucumber--if you grace SF with your presence, I'll show you the place and maybe even let you try a sip).


This will get you laughing (and isn't Nina Conti lovely?):



I think this Wallaby card is a great finance tool! (You know I'm all about uniting everything. Now if Google had a card like this . . .)

Rather marvelous work of robotry (is that a word?), but do they have a robot that can beat me at bear, man, girl?:




Is this feminist?

Pixar story rules.

Find unique products here. 

Links to Love (Week 25, 2012)

We made eclairs last night. They are huge monsters heavy with pudding filling. Yum! This week was full of acupuncture appointments, a beating of a massage I got for free (and which actually seems to make sense--making the sore places mad fires up the cyto-somethings to clear out scar tissue), and planning (which mostly means moping because nothing seems to be coming together). I hope to get a lot done today.


Countries made out of their currency.

Solar power to charge your electronic accessories.

Check to make sure you're not spreading a super-old link.

3D printing human body parts.

Vote and financially support books that you think should become free ebooks here.

For some reason, Vimeo never works for me, but this video sounds really amazing.

Links to Love (Week 24, 2012)

This week? Acupuncture, finishing up some work stuff, celebrating my nephew's first birthday, made one big decision and have many more to go, tried to figure out how to get foot surgery and still be able to live in and make it around steep-hilled, many-staired San Francisco in a wheelchair.


Anyway, aren't Munro's light installations beautiful? I like this one:


 


Penny floor.

A post-it table: good for kids and artists.

Check out this land art. 

I didn't know that criminals could look so classy. (These are Australian criminals in the 1920s.)

Awkward engagement photos.
Amazing secluded places (don't look at the links on the side and bottom).

National Park free days 2012.

Links to Love (Week 23, 2012)

Flying with a cast and a wheelchair is okay--people are quite helpful. The after-effects however . . . not so good. My feet were über-swollen for days. However, I was so glad I got to honor Uncle Al and spend time with family. He will be missed.

If you need to relax, try calm.com.

Write with images.

What happens when you swallow film.


Layar is the next step after QR codes:





Typography with a broom:





Cord salad lamp (designed in Leipzig).

The ScreamBody, a weirdy invention.

Links to Love (Week 22, 2012)

We lost our beloved Uncle Al. I found mint skinny jeans and got a cast. I ate a paneer kati roll at Off the Grid and had a breakfast soda with tangerine and cardamom at The Ice Cream Bar. And I saw a lot of cool videos (I'll just embed two).


Cambodian kids learn to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:





Amazing light show at Sydney Opera House (see 3:43):





Tasteless ads.

Buried treasure at Venice Beach.

Monkeys and synthesizers.

Invisible bikes.

A matching couple.

High School Musical of DOOM!

7 Pianists on one piano in Paris.

Try on clothes online.

San Francisco neighborhoods explained (I have never noticed any lesbians in Bernal Heights, so I don't know about that one--and they should have mentioned Cortland, I think).

Links to Love (Week 21, 2012)

Welcome to the weekend. You made it.

Isn't Annie Vought's letter scherenschnitte beautiful?








Lock up your ice cream. My sister Sica could use something similar.


Life backwards in San Francisco:




A slinky on a treadmill:




I bet you didn't know that PowerPoints could be so funny:

Links to Love (Week 20, 2012)

Yay for learning Photoshop and doing some web design this week. Boo to being in a lot of pain and pretty much helpless. Let's distract ourselves, shall we?

I want to live here:




(Here's another fabulous piece of architecture.)

Don't read this if you're a cat lover. (Thanks, Jeff.)

What would you look like if you were blown by extremely high winds?

Literary maps.

This appeals to my old-people-loving self:




Webcams of endangered species.

Permanent marker floors (wonderful, but maybe too busy for my taste?).

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air these days:





House at Pooh Corner for sale.

A little Super Mario nostalgia:




And finally, returned Mormon missionaries in pro sports.

Links to Love (Week 19, 2012)

Pretty much all I can remember about this week is this, and I think it's going to dominate my life for a while. At least I'll have a really strong right leg, maybe?

Enjoy these links. 

An orchestra on public transit:




The hexadecimal colour clock.

The 1990s version of Pinterest.

Want to look a hummingbird in the eye? Feed it with this.

The executive hoodie.

Useful for following the crowd. Facebook likes on clothing hangers.

The perfectly hilarious Tumblr for social media-ites.

A picture you won't see often: six generations of daughters.

Google Translate beatboxes: translate this from English to German.


Crazy benches.

Anatomy of a piñata.

See what's on the exact opposite of the world.

Links to Love (Week 18, 2012)

This week: Photoshop lessons from a friend, trying out "San Francisco's best empanadas," and a spontaneous trip to see my little brother and little sister graduate from my alma mater--yay!

I was just mentioning to a co-worker last week that I think ebay is in desperate need of a makeover. Well, here's Rummage, a site that re-organizes ebay information into a Pinterest-type style.

Kids review Radiohead:


What your pronouns say about you (if I'm always correcting my boyfriend's language, what does that say about me?).

Doesn't Design Mom's new series, "Olive Us" look cute?

Play with this musical website.

How many people are in space right now?

Links to Love (Week 17, 2012)

I got in a good nine-hour sleep last night. If only I somehow managed that every night! I also found a German shop that had a zillion fabulous things, but surprisingly no real German Nutella, just the American schtuff!

Anyway, I found so many good videos this week, but let's start with the cream of the whole crop of links. Without further ado, awesome Viktor Rolf high-waisted pants (would you dare wear?):

Banging on an old pot in Leipzig (my old stomping ground--I excitedly recognized it before I read the film description!):

Photos of Portland:

"Reactivity 5" - Daniel Stefanik (Official Music Video) from filmaton on Vimeo.

I want to see this. Samsara:

How to use Google to win her back:

Rocking chair for humans and animals.

Play Super Mario, online and summarized.

Annoyed by the currently-playing song on Spotify? Throw something.

Time lapse from birth to 12 years old.

Remember last year's peregrine falcon video stream? The birds are back. And here's a stream of a great blue heron nest.

Cool cardboard prom dress.

One of my favorite songs, "Hallelujah" redone by some amazingly talented girls in Alaska.

Schönes Wochenende!

Links to Love (Week 16, 2012)

Even though I burned the orange popovers I was making (30 minutes is too long), I'm feeling pretty great about this Friday night. I don't know if I'd mind if every day were a Friday with weather like today. This week, I got to eat delicious, spinach-containing smoothies (not as oxymoronic as you'd think!), meet some Mormon neighborhood friends, walk 4.7 unplanned miles on a hot day, finish a video project, and try Indian pizza (wowzers). On to the links to love!

I have to share this one first because it amuses me to no end. People who can't spell "cologne" on Twitter.

Lickable wallpaper, like in Willy Wonka.


Great Roomba commercial:





More great moves here: Body mechanics.

 In case you care to watch things get destroyed in slow mo.


Musical Mother Nature:


Rubber chicken+space.

A doodling app that DrawSomething lovers will also love: Doodle.ly.


"We're not young":

Frogger on the real 5th Avenue. (Don't worry, no frogs were/are killed in this production.)

And finally, articles like this and this make me feel good about my thesis on mommy bloggers. 

Links to Love (Week 15, 2012)

Busy week re-figuring out how to use programs I haven't used in ages . . . I enjoyed it. The heavens also dumped a bucket of water, lightning, and thunder on San Francisco, resulting in this incredible photo of the Bay Bridge taken by Phil McGrew:




Also:

Under-stairs bed.

Rainbow roses.

Planets viewed as if they were as distant as the moon:




Have you seen the Pebble iPhone watch?

Jump-roping dog (and the Japanese group contestant dogs):




How to make an entire mall think you're famous.

Dyson engineer vacuum racing contest:




Lost phone infographic.

Hands-free reading on the computer.

Links to Love (Week 14, 2012)

I was so happy that it was Friday today that as I walked down the street, I felt like breaking some moves. I ended up humming songs and then singing my own words to them. That is ecstasy at its finest. Enjoy the links this week!


An app just for couples to stay in touch. Pair.

Euphemism generator. (I bet if I used these on my mom, she'd know a lot more than I do.)

A cute little video about a cloud named "Cummulus":
Cummulus & Nimbus from we think things on Vimeo.


Not only is this product awesome, their video is 41 seconds. Now that is awesome:




Speed peel a potato (if you use the vitamin stealer).

Michael doesn't think I'll ever win this.

Virtual choir:



Darling twins: one black, one white.

Büro Destruct:


Google account activity.

Flashback to the old Batman:




Curisma. Kind of like Pinterest for new tech stuff.

I think I need one of these Juolies for my hot chocolate and tea. (I always end up burning my tongue!)

Links to Love (Week 13, 2012)

(Rich) guys, let girls dress you.

Girls, don't like anything in your closet? Join the infinite closet available at 99dresses. 

An elephant, a cute girl, and a cell phone:




Have a gift card you don't want? Trade at Cardpool.

Mormon Explorer: travel using the worldwide Mormon Connection.

Did you know that metal cymbals really wobble?




Wind map.

Fresh fish bus stop ad in Germany.

Typographic dating game.

Links to Love (Week 12, 2012)

It's been a loooong week, and I feel like I've gotten nothing personal done. I think I need to get computer glasses because I've been having major headaches, my temples are sore from squinting, and my vision seems to be getting worse. (Where do I find cute computer glasses? Lookmatic doesn't have any. All I've seen is these, and some sites suggest going to an eye doctor for a computer glasses prescription, but I've no insurance.)

But, at least I have had beautiful things to look at; see below.

Glass light treatment:




















Where to find public fruit trees.

Instruments from the inside.  

Dr. Seuss did ads?

Pretty Adele cover:




I want to be a green graffiti-er.

Lovely Brewster wall coverings, and their Wallpops! line (chandeliers included!).

Columbia, waterproof jackets, and cats:




Toilet brush lamp.

Sand paintings.

An app for people who are modest in the bathroom:




Use temporary tattoos for Easter eggs.

Digitally-preserved dying languages.

A runaway alarm clock.

Links to Love (Week 11, 2012)

Just some fun dancing:



Two desktop wallpapers that work for me.

Please play with this website's red heading.


Street view for national parks:


Nature Valley Trail View "Behind the Scenes" from H.K. McCANN on Vimeo.

Food-related injuries.

Pet Colombian Hercules beetle larva. Yikes.

Faces in places. I notice faces in things all the time (as do iPhoto and Picasaweb, hilariously enough).

Links to Love (Week 10, 2012)

Thanks (and mission congrats) to my friend Elizabeth, who brought my attention to this song:




For the Mormons out there, Testimony Bingo.

And, a Mormon presidential candidate for Mali. 

Mormonism infographic.

The most recent on Germany and Facebook.

Why we speak freely on social networks.

Sherry Turkle (internet theorist) at TED.

Highlight text and pin it to Pinterest! http://www.pinaquote.com/

Over-reaction letter to Bernal Heights, San Francisco.

Blog re-design giveaway contest! Yay! Free chocolate!