Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy is raising funds to create a new public cabinet of curiosity within a 3-floor, 4,200 square foot building in Brooklyn, New York.
via BoingBoing!.
I wandered into Morbid Anatomy while roaming around the Gowanus and it was a wonderfully weird moment. I love this place.
I’m always proud of my SC to BK buddy Tracey, but she’s doing extra special work and it’s getting noticed.
“It’s hard to believe young girls like Tiana Parker and Vanessa Van Dyke are being sent home from school because their natural hair is deemed unkempt,” said Tracey Coleman who is a co-founder and the director of events for CGC.
via [BEAUTIFULLY BROWN OBSESSED] Curly Girl Collective Helps Black Girls Get “All Dolled Up” – EBONY.
On cold days there’s no problem getting bike parking at work.
Sometimes I think it is a shame how ugly the NYC subway stations have gotten. Then I go to the Newport PATH station.
I found this huge paste-up hidden away in the overpass between platforms at the DeKalb stop.
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Why I wasn’t around this weekend.
I was at NYC Music Hack Day!
You can try out the idea here in our valentune.es beta. We send love and music over wires and wireless to your special sweetheart.
You put in your sweetheart’s Name & cellphone, a couple of key words about your them and then ask the app to get busy.
It goes out to the MusixMatch lyrics service – finds lyrics that describe your sweetheart and then gives you a list of songs we can find streaming full mp3s online for. You choose what you don’t want in the play list and hit send.
We call your sweetheart up using the Twilio API , give them your sweet message and then play them your custom made mixtape over the phone! Yes, my lovely wife Sam was the first non-developer to get a call from the valentun.es robot.
Don’t have a web browser handy? Surely you jest! If you’ve got an iPhone you can use the iPhone app.
So all of this was accomplished by 6 talented and dedicated people over the course of 24 hours in NYC. The whole team was positive and awesome. I’m really proud of what we did so quickly. It’s got bugs 1 , but it works. I didn’t sleep the whole 24 hour hack session and I worked on a lot of the bits.
It was a busy 24 hours!
Urban artist Ellis G has been arrested for drawing art on the sidewalks.
How shameful. His art is drawing the shadows cast by objects in chalk. It’s beautiful and interesting. And it washes away. I’ve happened on his little drawings a few times, always happy to see them.
Nobody pays him, he just does it. And now he’s been arrested. What a waste.
Hey, NYC friends,
Lets pick a night and go see a drive in movie at grand opening. This car seats six -maybe a triple date?
From their website:
Cruise downtown and park yourself at DRV-IN—Manhattan’s only drive-in cinema. Seven days a week, twice a night, passengers are transported
to another time and place. Under starry skies and the foliage of a potted oak tree, guests watch classic films in a one-of-a-kind 1965 Ford Falcon convertible. With seating for six and a full concession stand, this unique theater setting is one of the Lower East Side’s most intimate experiences. Starting with films from 1960 and progressing chronologically each night, DRV-IN speeds through four decades of cinematic achievement.
Any takers?
The Ideal Gas Law.
Pressure and volume are inversely related. Temperature is related to both. This means that the more stuff you have, you either are putting it in a bigger space or putting it under greater pressure. This is why rockets, guns, cars and jets work. If you increase the pressure on your stuff but don’t change the volume, you are going to see an increase in temperature. This is why pressure cookers work.
I really enjoy Manhattan Special. It is carbonated, sweetened coffee and it tastes heavenly. Though it is called Manhattan Special, it’s very hard to find in Manhattan and very easy to find in Brooklyn. I recommend it highly, except for one caveat. When you buy a warm bottle of Manhattan Special, do not, however much you want to, drink it. Stick it in the fridge. Let it cool. Because the Ideal Gas Law applies very heavily to Manhattan Special. If you try to open it warm, the bottle will fizz and spit and shoot everywhere quickly. This is not because you shook it up or because this one bottle was extra fizzy. This will happen every time you try to open a warm bottle of Manhattan Special.
A chilled bottle will behave nicely and will not overflow. Chilled, temperature T is much lower, and correspondingly, there is less pressure p in the bottle of constant volume V. Opening the bottle, the delicious beverage will not try to expand to occupy as much space and you will not be covered in brown liquid, cleaning up your kitchen. This fact is brought to you by me paying attention in physics class.