by natecooper | Dec 30, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture, humor, nate
“nate cooper! last night i had a dream that you owned a… hmm, i guess a park? for kids? and you bought it with student loans. and uhm… there was a tree that had like… 100000 toy monkeys on it, and a hill where you could shoot your choice of...
by natecooper | Dec 20, 2008 | culture, humor, internet, nate, politics
Wow. Just found out about Book22 “It is our company’s policy that the products we sell be purchased for married couples only. As explained in the book of Genesis, God created woman from man’s flesh and bone to be his companion. In so doing, he...
by natecooper | Dec 19, 2008 | culture, internet, nate, technology
With the ease of posting provided by Tumblr it seems like everyone is tumbling now a-days. I’d venture a reason for their success- aside from ease of use- is how Tumblr is marketed. “I don’t blog. I have a Tumblr.” Though I have hundreds of...
by natecooper | Dec 16, 2008 | books, culture, digital media, internet, movies, nate, technology, television
Been doing a fair amount of offline reading so haven’t had as much to write about. Read Everything Bad Is Good for You and was pretty impressed. The book starts as almost a defense of video games as a complex medium, despite it’s being maligned at best as...
by natecooper | Dec 5, 2008 | cool, culture, digital media, googlereader, internet, nate
A couple days ago I installed Helvetireader a script for firefox that gives Google Reader a spiffed-up interface centered around a cleaner look. I hadn’t really even used it enough to weigh in my two cents on the subject when Google itself released an update to...
by natecooper | Nov 27, 2008 | nate
Shaq on Twitter Kottke has an extensive assesment of Shaq’s ventures into the Twitter-verse. Certainly interesting and certainly one of the most all encompasing examinations of anyone’s...