Mark Allen

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Hamburger Air Max 1 (via Sneaker Freaker)

“when asking a group of 50-something women why they drink Diet Coke. They go through an elaborate decision-tree of factors that lead to choosing Diet Coke. When we asked a Millennial why he or she drinks Sprite, the answer is a short, curt, “Cuz.” Period. Enough said. In other words, choice — for the Millennial Generation — is way, way overrated.” Tinderbox | Spark: Choice is so twentieth century: What the film Juno can teach us about those pesky millennials (via jpenrod)

The Intervention Of William Lamson

via www.woostercollective.com

Rob Riggle’s “Chasing the Dragon” series on The Daily Show is much better than anything I’ve seen on the real Olympics (which by the way, are totally boring - how can people get excited about thing like gymnastics when the primary required attribute is being a 14 year old girl?).

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Air Jordan Fusion 3 Premier: I wasn’t expecting these for another week - these are the classiest Jordan Fusions I have seen yet.

The new Sea and Cake record is really good, but for some reason it keeps making me really sleepy

You never appreciate how much your headphones help get you through the day until you accidentally leave them at home.

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Ask Apple CEO Steve Jobs about it, and he’ll tell you an instructive little story. Call it the Parable of the Concept Car. “Here’s what you find at a lot of companies,” he says, kicking back in a conference room at Apple’s gleaming white Silicon Valley headquarters, which looks something like a cross between an Ivy League university and an iPod. “You know how you see a show car, and it’s really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory!

“What happened was, the designers came up with this really great idea. Then they take it to the engineers, and the engineers go, ‘Nah, we can’t do that. That’s impossible.’ And so it gets a lot worse. Then they take it to the manufacturing people, and they go, ‘We can’t build that!’ And it gets a lot worse.”

” Steve Jobs on ‘Concept Cars’

I wish people made knock-off Eames Quadraflex speakers like they make knock-off Eames lounge chairs. These are so good looking. (via Apartment Therapy)