The National - Music - More Music Videos

jamesurbaniak:

I’m in the new music video for The National with those lightweights Kristen Schaal and John Slattery. Directed by a one Mr. Scott Jacobson meow.

Now that is a lovely spooney melody.

It’s now possible to change EC2 instance types

This is fantastic. The way it used to work, you’d create an EC2 slice that was a bundle of emulated hardware – dedicated RAM, processor, etc – and if you needed more, you had to physically move everything over to a new instance. Easy enough, and scriptable, but still kind of a pain, especially in high traffic scenario. It also created some confusion, in that scaling your system meant you could add new slices but not change the slices themselves.

Now, you can stop an instance, click a dropdown and choose a new instance type, allowing you to “scale” almost instantly.

• Five popular remodeling projects in Northern California
• shaving porch
• koi barn
• crying trellis
• grudging fellatio pantry
• remodeling room

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YES

5ives is back and suddenly “grudging fellatio pantry” is one of my new favorite combinations of words.

Quaxelrod - the official @MayorEmanuel archive (with replies!)

I would pay $100 for a typeset and bound version of this

Objection Salad for food and cooking from the other side of the pond

I don’t follow a lot of food tumblrs, as most of them tend towards lots of pretty pictures, but this one is all about technique and a being better home cook. Rich, one of the site’s co-writers, is a pal from Twitter, you may know him from TUAW, he’s a great writer and cook, to boot. Can’t wait for more!

Designed with SCIENCE!

My pals at Mule have been straight up crushing it out of the park on their blog of late. Today’s post from Erika about design research, especially the bits about focus group and usability testing, is pure gold.

Chartwell is a typeface that does data visualization

I didn’t get it at first, I just thought it was a nice looking modern face. But it turns out the actual font itself can be used to construct pie, bar and line charts. Super clever! [via Paula Chang]

Simply insert this Javascript at the end of your page, and you too can see a constant display of #inanehashtags, this week’s terrible movie release, and random jabberings of popular culture that don’t interest you or your users in the least

—The #dickbar moves beyond an app and on to the web!

chitwoodandhobbs:

C&H daily tournament photo - The famous 1982 UNC vs. Georgetown game. Some might remember it as the game where Fred Brown inexplicably passed to the wrong team in the closing seconds. I submit that it’s the day the nation first discovered a 19-year-old freshmen named Michael Jordan. He hit the game-winning jumper and credits that shot as a major turning point in his career.

GO HEELS

However, if avoiding profanities is important to you, you would be well advised to seek out a better, less naive approach to the problem.

—Django 1.3 is dropping their naughty words list. You can still find the old list, interesting how it compares to Carlin’s big seven…