John Holdun

Wednesday, May 8 2013

I’m fine up here, but thanks, Absolut!

This afternoon, Adam sent me the greatest gift of all—the complete archive of @everyword so far. I built a search engine for @everyword a few months ago but it was sorely incomplete. Now it searches all 90,000 words that @everyword has taught us.

After filling up the dictionary, inspiration helped me build something new: presenting searcheveryword for sentences! Now you can type a sentence and take home a page of embedded tweets for every word you’re after. Great! Great use of my day!

Saks Fifth Avenue currently features a lovely series of windows for Chanel revolving around windmills. The center three displays boast a handful of elegant outfits in front of large prints, but the first and last windows in the set have no products in them at all—just a pair of real rotating windmills.

These are not unlike the ones just outside of Palm Springs. I’m longing to travel West again and this wonderful installation is feeding the urge.

I’ve never heard anyone but me and this owl say “twitterpated.” It’s a word mired in confusion in our modern world but it’s still useful and perhaps you will consider using it? I’m using it right now.

richtong:

proud to have @stellaArtois as our first official partner for #tenFohr talk night.

Unreal. Or too real.

Loving this take on “Swimming Pools” by Mutya Keisha Siobhan (nés Sugababes). (via Alex Macpherson)

The 20/20 Experience is streamable as of today. I paid about half my attention to it today and my first vague listen was pretty nice. I didn’t notice any major hits but it seems that Justin tried to slide past the impossible expectations towering over him by just jamming for an hour and change. The shortest track is just under five minutes long. I love that.

I’m sure I’ll have the 20/20 experience many more times, but first I need to strut halfway across the world to this remix.