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1. Madonna (2)
2. Ben Folds Five (1)
3. Little Boots (1)
4. Britney Spears (1)
5. Lady GaGa (1)

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And so here we are one year later.  It’s amazing how far we’ve come…

Over 500,000 users 
Over 1,000,000 badges have been awarded
Over 1.4 million venues with 1200 offering specials
Over 15.5 million checkins

… and last Friday we had our biggest day ever, weighing in at 275,000 checkins over the course of the day.

CONGRATS DUDES!!! <3 y’all :)

Wine in a Box threadless tee (AMAZING!)

(via @miishi)

New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously

(picture by Ashley Gilbertson)

not-a-stacist:

brain-food:

Banksy has done an interview with the Sunday Times, which is an interesting read:

“I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats and Picassos in the sitting room were real I’d be too scared to ever leave the house.

“I don’t make as much money as people think. The commercial galleries that have held exhibitions of my paintings are nothing to do with me. And I certainly don’t see money from the T-shirts, mugs and greeting cards. My lawyer calls me ‘the most infringed artist alive’ and wants me to do something about it. But if you’ve built a reputation on having a casual attitude towards property ownership, it seems a bit bad-mannered to kick off about copyright law.”

oh hai, i have pink hair :D

(if you want pink hair too, write to thetomlee@gmail.com or give whistle a call and ask for an appt with tom)

Tropicana bring the Sun to Arctic Canada - and drive people to their Facebook Page

love this - love the idea, the set-up, the execution and the ad that came from it (esp the background music).

just makes me feel happy all over!

thanks @njhenderson for sharing!

Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses

one of the coolest things about social media is that the platforms are created to be inherently social (duh, i know) - but what that actually means is that creative people, like ed hamilton above, can use these platforms as technology and not forms.

most of us use platforms as a formulated publishing platform in the sense that we fill it out and go. here’s an example of someone going beyond the intended use, and instead figuring out a creative way to use the technology behind the platform.

nice work, ed. :)

it’s about time someone wrote this story!

“

Mr. Sheidlower said the evolution of meaning and interpretation is natural for language. He considers it entirely possible that a younger generation growing up online might understand “like” to mean something different than older folks do.

“People are posting very heartfelt feelings on these social sites, and the option is to either like it or comment,” he said. “I don’t think it changes the meaning of the word, but there is a disjunct that is happening here, and it forces you to think of the word that is pointing to a story and not necessarily the content within it.”

“Like” clearly isn’t the only word that is seeing a change to its context or understanding. We are starting to perceive the word “friend” differently, too, thanks to social networking services.”

(my mouth is watering!)

ilovecharts:

Cheap is so relative…

is this the column outside of starbucks downtown? that is my favorite column.

allisonweiss:

Oh you know, just promoting stuff.

NY-Z shot by Danny Clinch.

Wow - What an amazing concept and execution. Can’t wait to see the full video on 3/22!

ABSOLUT VODKA And Jay-Z Give The People What They Want

So excited to have Morgan in town :)

this wife records her husband sleep talking. it’s HILARIOUS.

and kind-of creepy.

apparently yes, this is a real “legit” trend.

[also the images are maybe NSFW.]

- Max Kalehoff reflecting on John Hagel’s post “Pursuing Passion”

(both are worth the full read)

at cake we have absolutely lovely wonderful clients, but had to share this bingo posted on clients from hell because there have been times when i definitely could have won big ;)

(via clientsfromhell)

One day my grandmother casually mentioned that Johnny Cash named his daughter, Rosanne Cash, after her.

And of course my response was WHAT?!!!! So, in honor of what would be Johnny Cash’s 78th birthday, I’m sharing the story.

My grandfather, Si Siman, helped start the first syndicated country music TV show, the Ozark Mountain Jubilee.

Back in the day, TV wasn’t so reliable and it was sometimes quite difficult to get everything going. In those cases, my grandmother served sweet tea and entertained the guests, who ranged from Porter Wagoner to Johnny Cash.

[My grandmother said that this time of her life was immensely exciting and also scary because ‘you would never know who was coming through the doors to stay for a week!’]

When Johnny Cash came to the show, there were loads of technical difficulties and he and my grandmother ended up chatting for quite a while. He mentioned his wife and his baby-to-be, but June Carter Cash still had 3 months to go with her pregnancy.

My grandmother says that they had a special connection and that she’ll never forget chatting with him before the show.

Three months later, when the baby was born, Johnny Cash called my grandmother to let her know that he had named his daughter Rosanne Cash after her, Rosanne Siman, who I am also named after :)

To this day he remains my standard answer for that weird “if you could talk to anyone who is no longer living, who would it be?”

casey neistat on chatroulette

LOVE this video.

i also love the blue tape he uses to tape up his data collection chart thingie. my boyfriend is especially fond of that blue tape.

love the new tumblr community features and also the cute little note that pops up if you let people ask you anynomous questions! amazingness.

thanks tumblr! <3 u guys :)

a day off for your birthday. a $300 personal development fund?! a nutritionist and gym membership?? umm… can i work here?!

(not really though because im not willing to move to london hehe)

CSS-Music Is My Hot Hot Sex (via Jar0)

sharingtime:

• Roh
• Ree
• Rima
• Aww
• I would like to spend time with you holding hands at a Starbucks
• It sure is fun to be in love
• I can’t wait to have consensual sex with you once we are married
• Let’s take some quizzes on eHarmony together to determine if we are compatible
• I’m free to do whatever a man tells me to do
• Je suis americain
• I want the pleasure of your company

(YES!)

this confuses me.

how does listening to a chill song by the killers mean that i’d like to go to bud light’s largest pool party?

“The value of social media is it’s the richest data set that’s ever existed,” says Dan Neely

plus… looking at Pepsi, Dell and H&R Block - what they’re doing in social media and how they’re justifying their spends.

GPOYW - London, Double fisting champagne at Natalia’s bday party

oh man. so sad i missed this!

homecooksuperstar:

Sunday Night Supper Included:

• Fire Roasted Tomato Bisque with Truffle Crostini topped with Fresh Ricotta and Pesto
• Decontructed Spinach Salad
• Pumpkin Lasagna
• Celery Root Lasagna
• Red Velvet Ice Cream with Cream Cheese Topping

Recipes coming soon!

- Danah Boyd this AM a Pew’s Millennials Conference

i totally agree with what she said - “adults” often times ask me about this and ask me why i feel comfortable sharing so much on the internet and i think it mostly comes down to we have different ideas of what exactly is private. my email address is everywhere - i’m giving it to people so that they can reach out to me. i don’t consider it private. on the other hand, my dad would consider his email private and wouldn’t want to share it or provide it to the masses.

morris howls with the chicken! hilarious.

French Bulldog Puppy vs. Chicken (via TomosREvans)

Butch Bakery = Cupcakes for men

As NY Mag says, “Butch, based in Queens, infuses baked goods with beer and bacon, among other dude-friendly ingredients, like ganache. But despite having copious skills in “negotiation, corporate and LLC compliance, and accounting” and the fact that his idea is an obvious no-brainer, Arrick has been having some trouble: “It’s a surprisingly cutthroat environment for cupcakes,” he admits. We could have told him that. Everyone knows you don’t cross those chicks from Magnolia. They’re as tough as Goldman Sachs.”

dreamy! (and yes, a kitchen can absolutely be dreamy) (via sweetspace)

i’ve been so busy lately that i haven’t gotten to post highlights from my trip to miami!

above, a melt-in-your-mouth cuban sandwich with tostones. my mouth is watering just remembering how good that meal was!

All We Need is Love. And Food. And Water. And Shelter.

a couple of points that i particularly loved:

- “ChatRoulette evokes patterns of behavior that are as old as the Internet. Our fascination with spontaneous and random forays into anonymous online interactions echo those of early text-based chatrooms and bulletin board systems in the 1990s and even earlier. Shock, boredom, play, and voyeurism characterized these early online environments as much as they do now. In ChatRoulette, there is no registration or login; staring into the bedroom of a complete stranger is fascinating and completely disconcerting.”

- “ChatRoulette reminds me of when people said blogging was like making a private diary public. The idea of sitting in your bedroom showing your face to anyone in the world is simultaneously anonymous yet deeply revealing. This violates almost all social norms of the offline world. If someone walked up to you at a cocktail party, stared at you intensely, then simply walked away, you would feel confused and probably offended.”

Indexed » Blog Archive » Who’s in your office? (via tigs:paulisakson)

Fifteen Things You Should Know About Breasts (via ilovecharts: oberholtzer)

IHOP with allie on national pancake day is one of my favorite college memories. there’s this quote from blue like jazz that says, “sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.”

this perfectly describes my relationship with pancakes. they were good. sometimes they were great! but i generally stick to savory instead of sweet so i would never order them myself. but eating pancakes with allison weiss, you can’t help but really, truly love the pancakes. :)

National Pancake Day! (via allisonweiss)

just signed up for track in the box based on a suggestion from a uk coworker and am really excited!

How to use Google Docs to plan your wedding

kinda makes you wanna get married right? ;)

“There is something about knowing someone sees you, quirks and all, and likes what they see… something rare and kind of overwhelming (in a good way). ‘Beautiful’ is one of those words (a bit like ‘awesome’) that has lost meaning in being overused as a generic affirmative. We call all sorts of people beautiful in one sentence and tear them down in the next. I’m happy to be different enough that anyone who uses it to describe me sees more than just hair and makeup.” - brooke, the real life belle

via not-a-stacist:

Belle & Billie

So I’m a bit obsessed reading about Brooke, the real life Belle De Jour, and loved this recent post on her blog:

The 3 fl oz Boutique - via Josh Spear

i’m with him… why didn’t i think of that?!

my cousin David shows Fox NY how to make the famous 1,000-Year-Old Ice Cream Sandwich Recipe from Xie Xie

:)

With lots of traveling combined with NYC’s freezing cold temps, I’ve missed walking to work. Decided to brave the cold this AM and (re)realized how amazingly interesting the streets of NYC are :)

Love u, NYC