Aaron Weber

Disreputable but Legal Markets

I don’t know why, but I find both of these articles hilarious.

NYT on Marijuana in SF: “What both sides can agree on — in classic San Francisco fashion — is that the problem is really Oakland’s fault…. The rising neighborhood opposition to the clubs also stands in striking juxtaposition to the personal political beliefs of many in San Francisco, a city that prides itself on a progressive attitude.”

And on prostitutes in Germany: “To the list of pernicious things that have not happened at this World Cup, add one more: a spike in the sex trade. While clubs like Artemis have been busier than usual after games, the tournament has generated nowhere near the surge in demand for prostitution — or the influx of temporary prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Asia — that many experts predicted.”

Brilliant

I just hope this tattoo is Photoshopped.

StyleFeeder Badge Update

New Feature: Put your StyleFeed on your site. Note my updated StyleFeed, now Flash-based, on the left. I’m particularly interested in seeing what Terence thinks of this site and this feature.

Calexico

I went to see Calexico last night at the Roxy. It was excellent. They do a sort of borderlands rock that I think is both beautiful and intelligent. But maybe it’s just cause I’m a sucker for a steel guitar.

Anyway, they closed with a cover of Manu Chao‘s song El Desaparecido, which I had almost forgotten about: Cuando me buscan nunca estoy, cuando me encuentran yo no soy…

Facial Hair Day 10

The cheeks are looking uneven, but overall it’s soft and fuzzy now.

I still don’t know whether to file this under “deeds” or “people,” or for that matter whether it’s an incredibly stupid exercise in self-indulgence.

But then again, what are blogs for?

Digg it

The official announcement of Top Ten Sources buying Stylefeeder is now up at Tech Crunch and Reddit, among others. Vote now!

Guba!?

Since when did Guba become “a pioneer in the user-generated video content space?” Last I heard of them, GUBA stood for “Great Usenet Binaries Archive” and meant “porn.” Now we call it “user-generated video content”? I guess ’99 is back again, after all.

Ow ow ow ow ow

I’m laughing so hard it hurts: from the “Best of MySpace” blog, several minutes of painful injury and accident outtakes from home videos.

A Softer World

Quotation from the LJ commentary on the comics: More poetry should be about making mistakes. About pulling hair and slapping faces in bed. About writing love letters. About climbing trees. About riding bikes for the first time in years and loving it. About riding for hours and hours. About shitting blood.

Why Stylefeed?

Sometimes I like shopping– I like nice things and it can be fun to look at them, browse through them, occasionally buy one. There are other kinds of shopping I don’t like, though: I hate it when I need, say, a pair of pants to wear to a particular event, and they have to be in a particular style, and nothing is quite right, and I have to walk all the hell over town to find them, and if I do find them at all, they’re fifty bucks more than I want to spend.

Stylefeeder makes both kinds of shopping easier. If I’m browsing, it lets me keep track of what I’ve browsed through, and where, so if I go back and decide I do want it, it’s right there for me. If I’m looking for a particular item, it gives me a shortcut to all the similar items that other people thought were interesting. For example, if I wanted to buy some jeans, I could visit the stylefeeder jeans page, or even subscribe to its RSS feed, to see all the interesting jeans. And of course you can get more whimsical. If I wanted to buy some kind of cute thing for my girlfriend, there’s a whole page of cute.

The third thing it lets you do is find new stuff by recommendation from people you agree with. If I see interesting things that the user Phil has added, I can check Phil’s Stylefeed and follow his taste.

(Note: Yes, my company runs Stylefeeder).