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Don’t miss the David Choe preview on Fecal Face

A new show for one of today’s most prolific artists. David Choe’s solo exhiition, ”Character Assasination,” opens Friday and runs through the 25th @ Fifty24SF. From Fecal Face’s sneak peak, it looks mind-blowingly fantastic.

Thank you BuzzFeed.

This rates an LOL for me. It is in fact an epic addition to the never-ending series of Fox News Fails.

Amazon thinks I am a homosexual man

A couple of years I ordered a movie on Amazon. The only problem was, it’s wasn’t the movie I thought I was ordering. Apparently “Head On,” the title of the foreign film I wanted, is also the title of a hit gay porn. I was unaware.

The consequences were most unfortunate. For a full year my Amazon homepage was inundated with recommendations like “Hungry for you,” “Guilty Collections Vol. 1,” ” Cowboys & Angels,” and “Mysterious Skin.”

The porn titles eventually came at a lower frequency, but to this day Amazon still classifies me as a homosexual male. I think my order & search history, filled with interior deisgn, cooking, fitness, advertising, personal care and fashion books, has only made it worse. This just goes to show you, actions speak louder than words. Especially online behaviors.

Bing unveils Augmented-Reality maps @ TED conference

Still trying to wrap my head around the implications. Maps are augmented with crowdsourced user-generated content (Flickr photos, video, apps, etc), linked to telescopic data and much more I can hardly even cover. Watch and see.

Here we go again

Another TwitteRFP. How innovative.

4 things to do in Chicago this weekend

1. Pastry Market @ Logan Square Kitchen. Sample treats from local bakers like Floriole Bakery, Flour Cake & Pastry, Macaron Chicago, Rare Bird Preserves, Ruth & Phils, Tinycakes and Sugarkist. Sat. 10-3. RSVP here
   
2. Strong Beer Festival @ Delilah’s. A Chicago first with more than 100 beers from over 50 breweries. Event features both regional and vintage brews. Sat 12-6. $20 at the door
   
3. Free Movie + $2 Soup & Cheap Drinks or $25 4-Course Meal @ Rodan. Take your soup with a side of Asian cult cinema and $3 Three Floyds pints. Sun 6-10. RSVP here
   
4. Free admission at the Art Institute.
   

A healthy digital diet

Buzz Feed – for buzzworthy content

Hipster Runoff – for jokes

NY Times – for news

Slate – for more news

Digital Buzz Blog – for digital media news

901am – for new media news

Fecal Face – for art

Indie Soup Runner – for music

Broke Hipster – for Chicago deals

Made by girl – for interior design

Apartment Therapy – for more interior design

Geekologie – for gadgets and gear

Perez Hilton – for your guilty pleasure

Hautelook invite

Hautelook is one of my favorite of the online sample sale websites. They have amazing designers at a fraction of the retail price. But it’s invite only. If you want in click on the link below. Consider yourself officially invited.

Hautelook invitation

One minute further from Doomsday

We are, thankfully, one minute further away from nuclear annihilation. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists were optimistic in New York when they announced that they were moving the clock one minute away from midnight, a symbol of our global efforts to, “bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”

But in the wake of all the headlines, photographs and news stories capturing the hell on Earth that is happening in Haiti, the Doomsday clock and it’s measure of human caused cataclysm seems very abstract.

Chicago woman bakes 100 cupcakes for New Years

Each one is topped with icing styled and colored to represent a popular game. Go  try to guess what the game is at her web site.