LifeEIGO@fuitsu.tumblr.com

“ CHENGDU, China (CNN) — Rainy weather and poor logistics thwarted efforts by relief troops who walked for hours over rock, debris and mud on Tuesday in hopes of reaching the worst-hit area of an earthquake that killed nearly 10,000 in central China, state-run media reported.

— Nearly 10,000 reported killed by China quake - CNN.com

» Contemporary Classical Music Radio Station OTTAVA　by TBS

“ Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican. “I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.

— FT.com / World / US & Canada - W Virginia keeps distance from Obama

» CO-ED Magazine » COED Presents: Dancers of the 2008 NBA Playoffs

“ Speculation of new products percolates whenever Apple does anything. And Apple has recently made the iPhone “unavailable” on their Website. Reports of lack of iPhones are popping up across the country, as well as nearly selling out in England’s O2 cell phone stores, the largest cell phone retailer in the UK. Find out when you can get the new 3G iPhone after the jump!

— CO-ED Magazine » iAmTakingTooLong: 3G iPhone Expected Soon!

» If Nintendo Made Halo 3

tgumbel:

A concept video that dares asks the question, what if Nintendo developed Halo 3?

“ I know I’m an acquired taste - I’m anchovies. And not everyone wants those hairy little things.

— Tori Amos (via awais)

“ Let me be clear: though the Kindle has some advantages over traditional books, for the moment, I’d stick with the low-tech option. The problem is that the Kindle tries to compete too directly with paper. It attempts to electronically mimic the experience of reading a book. But the book is very, very good at providing the experience of reading a book. In this way, the Kindle occasionally comes off as if Ford, failing to make the conceptual leap to the car, had instead built a motorized horse. Sure, there would be some advantages: the robo-steed would never grow tired, and could be outfitted with more plush seating. But horses are pretty good at being horses. And books, like horses, have evolved to maximize their advantages.

— The Future of Reading (via azspot)

“ The best drug is life.

— Wise words from a hippy I met in a park yesturday (it’s the beginning of hippy season!) (via theministryoftruth)

“ The Wired nation knows all about tumblelogs, text-lite microblogs that include art, audio, video and not much more. But indie artists are seizing upon them as vehicles for publicizing their works-in-progress. Earnest singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur has joined the tumblelog ranks with Bag is Hot, his ongoing musical and photographic journal. It’s as interesting as a CD, without the material waste.

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Joseph Arthur’s Tumblelog Is Hot With Music, Photos | Listening Post from Wired.com

Tumblr is catching on in a special way with creative artists and their fans. Joseph Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel and I’m digging his tumblelog.

(via bijan)

Episode 3: The Wreck of the Old '97

tuneagepodcast:

A little earlier than usual, here’s episode 3. Our most reblogged this week was Mates of State with 19 reblogs (at the time of writing), so we chose bands that formed in 1997 as the theme, to allow for a little more variation in musical styles than last week’s. One of us was out of town this week, so it might not be as polished as in previous weeks. That said, here’s the tracklist:

Mates of State - Get Better (from Re-Arrage Us)

Planes Mistaken for Stars - The Past Two (from We Ride to Fight! The First Four Years)

Marcy Playground - Mr. Fisher (unreleased)

Fine China - The Unsuccessful (from You Make Me Hate Music)

The Shins - New Slang (from Oh, Inverted World)

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Umbrellas

samreich:

I’m terrible about umbrellas. Somehow I’m unable to see them as an extension of my body, and I bump into person after person when I’m walking with one.

But the other day, when it was raining, I weaved in and out of people like a race car driver, even gliding through narrow spaces between other umbrella-holders.

I’ve been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto.

“ Wow. Apparently, life really does become meaningless when you’re at the top of your game, you’ve got the house, car, wife, kids and whatever the f*ck else you want. None of that means sh*t compared to the free gift of pain–or so says these Silicone Valley desk-jockeys, who’ve set up their own “fight club,” in an attempt to return to the roots of Man.

— CO-ED Magazine » Real Fight Club–In Silicone Valley

“ Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem. Real doctors will log on and offer advice to their anonymous patients. What both will see is an image of a consulting room with a doctor and a typical patient.

— Teenagers to take embarrassing ailments to Second Life doctors | Technology | The Guardian

“ Saturday Night Live’s” Message From Hillary Clinton: “I Have No Ethical Standards” (VIDEO)

— “Saturday Night Live’s” Message From Hillary Clinton: “I Have No Ethical Standards” (VIDEO) - Media on The Huffington Post