From the Archives & Archivists (A&A) List digest:
Subject: Storage of a grass skirt
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:43:43Hello!
Wanted to ask if anybody has any recommendations about how to properly
store a grass skirt?Thank you!
dear clusterflock
What portion of bodices in literature exist only to be torn, ripped, shredded, or otherwise rent asunder?
Dear Clusterflock
I am bored, and a little blue. Will you guys make me a mixtape? I’ll take Rdio or Spotify links.
dear clusterflock
Here’s the thing. Pronouncing “Gyro” like it’s spelled makes you sound like a rube, & pronouncing it the right way makes you sound pedantic.
— @joeks (@joeks) January 25, 2012
What are other words like this?
dear clusterflock
How do I feel about this SOTU?
dear clusterflock
I don’t mean to go around hawking my wares, but this seemed so relevant and useful to you personally that I thought it would be wrong not to share it. Please keep in mind that I am financially involved with this offer, but even so I think you’ll find I was right to share this marvelous opportunity with you today.
Well now here I’ve wasted a lot of your time with technicalities and jibber jabber, I’ll come to my point quickly. Let me ask you just one question:
Have you ever wanted to have a spleen named after you?
dear clusterflock
Google alternatives.
Update: Why Google is ditching search
Dear Clusterflock
How do you deal with the unbearable rudeness of strangers? I’m serious, here, guys. It’s starting to really affect my life.
It could be anything — the guy who cuts you off when you’re clearly waiting for the men’s room, the guy who switches to the fucking right lane after he sees the “right lane ends 1000 feet” sign, the elderly couple who really ought to know better than narrate through the entire showing of The Artist (even after you finally yell “hey” after he says “he didn’t do it” – BANG!), the woman who starts doing her makeup next to you on the train, the omnipresent imbeciles yelling into thin air (oh, they’re on the phone).
I’m thinking of never going to another movie again (damn kids nearly ruined Red Riding Hood for me), or moving to a cabin in the woods. I’ve been checking Craigslist for jobs, but so far, nothing.
dear clusterflock
White chocolate?
My current desktop
What say you, Flockers? Too skeuomorphic or cute-sy?
(via core77)
dear clusterflock
Friend of clusterflock, and designer of the first clusterflock web site, Espen Tuft asks:
I’m working on a blog post: Do you have any favorite social causes? Design for change initiatives?
In a follow up, he says:
I’ve got Design for Good, OpenIDEO, VolunteerMatch, StudentMentor, but I’d love a collaborative list.
Help a brother in comments.
Dear Clusterflock: 2011
Thumbs up or thumbs down?
dear clusterflock
Today is better than yesterday.
Tomorrow will be better than today.
dear clusterflock
In what contexts, if any, are sanctity or the idea or possibility of sanctity valuable?
dear clusterflock
Torrent.
dear clusterflock
Favorite children’s book?
dear clusterflock, serious edition
How do you move through your grudges? Is it a process of letting go? Giving in? If you focus on forgiveness, do you feel that you’ve metabolized your anger?
dear clusterflock
Funniest .xxx domain name.
dear clusterflock
What are the rules?
dear clusterflock
Favorite dog.
dear clusterflock
Voyeur or Exhibitionist?
dear clusterflock
Where are you?
dear clusterflock
To quote my friend, Rich, “let’s talk about all the things that are wrong with these two lists.”
dear clusterflock
What have you stolen?
dear clusterflock
2031.
