Eleaish

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The Gossip is finally coming out with a new album next week, titled Music for Men, and I’m quite in love with this track right now (“For Keeps”), which starts off a bit slow and then soon picks up thanks to Beth Ditto’s powerful vocals.

It’s…Hammertime! Just has to be watched…

Terrible WordPress Pickup Lines (WordCamp 2009) »

Because Matt joked earlier that the (now annual) WordCamp Genius Bar would be available for dating advice throughout the day, I decided to run with the idea and compile a list of terrible…

HAH! Merlin Mann, how I adore your wit.

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I just stumbled onto this Nina Persson (The Cardigans) cover of the White Stripes recently and despite the arrangement not being significantly different, there’s something about her singing “Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground” that I quite enjoy.

Story of my life

Me: do you ever find that going back to [chat] logs
Me: you sound much less witty than you recall?
J: yeah
J: totally
Me: because that's how i often feel upon reading what i said

Showed this to my mother and she couldn’t stop laughing at the uncanniness.

New artist discovery of the day: Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots, featured here doing a neat cover of Hot Chip’s “Ready for the Floor.”

No cellphone?” Houston cannot fathom a relationship like this. He would never, for example, date someone who refused to text. And someone who was still on MySpace instead of Facebook? “Oh, that would be an automatic reject,” Houston says. “It’s kind of like a unibrow.” He pauses. “Maybe that’s why I’m single.

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—	Getting Their (Wireless) Lines Crossed, Washington Post

My first love »

The first thing I ever wanted to be was an author. I wanted to write and to be published. In middle school and high school, I won the departmental English award upon graduating. In college, my…