Recent Consumption

On the Web

• 2008 Spooky Sock Monkeys: Kim Cornell’s annual crop of petrifying primates is already almost sold out!
• Dear Lulu: A downloadable book of print samples you can use to test the capabilities of print-on-demand services. Such a great idea.
• Beard Revue: My beard has been rated 9.5/10.
• Camp Naked Terror 7: Photos from this year’s Summer Camp Slasher Birthday Bash.
• Touring to Alaska on Vegetable Oil!: My friend Matt and his tour mate Kyle demonstrate how they the prep the environmentally-friendly fuel that’s taking them across North America.
• We Bleed Design: The style is a bit trendy for my taste, but the site employs some very novel and intriguing transitions using a clever combination of JavaScript, CSS, and transparent PNGs.
• Binary Marble Adding Machine: An amazingly simple wooden machine that performs calculations using marbles. Don’t miss the video demo!
• Muxtape: Remarkably simple site that lets you make a mixtape online. Check out mine.
• Penguin Classics Tumblr Theme: Beautifully rendered by Max Wheeler.
• Hitchcock Classics: Vanity Fair puts contemporary stars in classic frames.

In the Stereo

• Ratatat: LP3
• Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggystyle
• The Swell Season: The Swell Season
• Cynic: Traced in Air
• Van Morrison: Moondance

On the Silver Screen

• Let the Right One In
• Synechdoche, New York
• My Name Is Bruce
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• Quarantine

In Print

• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nunzio DeFillippis, and Kevin Cornell
• How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
• The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett