Sure, I’ll bite.

“Lucky,” a well mannered, but inquisitive kitty living in Lower Manhattan, fell from a high rise apartment building over the weekend, 26 stories, and managed to escape with only minor injuries.  Lucky’s fall was caught on camera by window washers, as they watched him make his way to the ledge of his owners home office, fall, and finally land on a lower patio, alive and safe.

While its said that a cat will always land on his feet, this isn’t always true, and you should always keep your windows blocked with a screen, not matter what the distance from the ground. However, Lucky’s survival can be attributed partially to the great distance: as a cat falls, he has enough time to right himself and relax, and the stress of impact is better absorbed by the body.

Check out the ABC local 7 news video. (via Joe.My.God.)

Effective June 1st (yesterday) 2009, in order to travel back and forth across united states borders to and from Canada and Mexico, you need to have a passport, or one of these gimmicky Enhanced Drivers Licenses. EDL’s are only issued in New York, or Washington, and in some parts of Canada (border states and such). Part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, the EDL has a (easily hackable, hence the foil sleeve they encourage you to store it in… a crappy effort to save face in a billion dollar near blunder) RFID chip that stores your traveling info, like citizenship and how many rugs you bring back from IKEA (maybe). It isn’t cheap either. A passport costs like $75 bucks (and its the only approved id for air travel abroad), but I shelled out $80 for a renewal + EDL upgrade on my NY license. However, An EDL is great if you want the convienence of just an ID, and the turnaround is much faster (10 days). If you live in Buffalo, head downtown to the DMV in the Rath building, it’s brand new and pretty nice… but don’t get too hopeful, you are still in Erie County. #snap

Jay and I are gonna be the fittest homos in Buffalo by the end of Summer. If
we can pull it off, we plan to ride the bikes at least 3 times a week, or
every night if we’re up to it. Its so nice to have a boy you can get active
with… he’s a keeper. #snap (P.S – we’re at the Erie Basin Marina)

Mishka is steadily becoming my number 1 hipster thread label of choice… mostly for reasons like this….

Mishka, along with Cure, harnessing the incredible talents of Lamour Supreme (he did the Mongolion), have released this supremely limited top-notch quality vinyl piece from hell. Cast in Acid Green translucent vinyl, with MISHKA colors sprayed thoughout, Cyco Simon suspenders, Goat Mask, hatchet, guts, and a MadBall homage head… god this piece is amazing. And I fear I’ll never touch it.

The Boogie Man dropped at the 350 Broadway Mishka shop in NYC yesterday, May 21st. There was a big party, Lamour showed up to sign some stuff, doodle, and I’m sure there aren’t any left. If anyone sees one for sale let me know.

Going back to Mishka being so fucking awesome, did you know that they sell vinyl/kaiju online and at 350 Broadway? I’m really excited for the upcoming releases that Mishka + Lamour Supreme are working on. Its all speculation, but I’m certain we’ll see a Mishka Mongolion release in the future, too.

More pictures here (via the Bloglin).

UPDATE: MISHKA hooked me up and $150 bones later… I’ll have it in my hands soon.

Gawd, there is a lot of chicken on stage… where’s Oprah at? #snap

I don’t think anyone likes doing laundry… I sure don’t but I hate smelling
like funk more. I’ve been relying on a laundrymat to clean my clothes for
years. Whenever people offer to let me run a load at their place, I
gratefully decline; something about doing it all en masse, among the
derilects and cruisey old guys… #snap

The Super Viral Brothers are a Producer + Vocalist Duo from Sweden, and their first single “Hot Chocolate + Polar Bear Rug” is an absolute banger…. even if it makes no sense at all. The video is even more absurd, as the “brothers” are birthed, along with a bunch of groupies, all from this poor trashy blonde girl. Not really work safe due to ridiculous amounts of gorey birth goo, and some language in the lyrics. The single belongs to their first release “Wires In Love”, coming soon. Remixes of “Hot Chocolate” from Dada Life, Maskinen, and Stay Gold, are available and the Dada Life mix will tear up any club. (via Discobelle)

Follow the Super Viral Brothers on Twitter!

I’ve been playing around with Android 1.5 in the last months, using hacked roms and lately the Android Developer candidate release.. Now that the Cupcake update has pushed to all users, I’ve reverted back to the T-Mobile release of Android 1.5. The big thing with 1.5, besides stereo bluetooth, is widgets on the home screen. I’m not a huge fan of widgets, they take up icon space and can slow down the home screen, but I do use a couple to increase my productivity. My most recent and exciting find in the Market has been Twidgit lite. It impressed me so much, it kickstarted me into blogging about Android again.

I use Twidroid for my main twitter browsing and functionality, but Twidgit offers an at-a-glance view of the latest update from your friends’ feed. Tap on the widget to see the tweet in full, with options to reply, or create a new tweet. Twidgit gives you the option to set the update frequency to as little as once every five minutes, to once every hour, or even manually (there is a little refresh button on the widget for that).

Twidgit isn’t perfect; every so often it crashes, but it is very hard to make anything work with Twitter and keep running 100%. However, you can track the development and talk to its creator (Matt Woodfield) via twitter.

PS – Twidgit Lite is free.

The folks over at Blink are always pushing the bar with their video productions. They’ve done work for Peter, Björn & John, and this time they (well, Tomas Mankovsky) have created this awesome little stop motion short created with a camera pointed at a floor. The effect isn’t new (called pixilation) but the video is pretty awesome. Check it out below and visit the official page to see how they made it.

Day two of the Google I/O developer conference unveiled a potential game changer for how we use the web to communicate and socialize. It’s called Google Wave, and it’s an open-source collaboration tool meant to replace our normal methods of sending emails, replying to threads and forums, and sharing information like photos, documents, videos and other media. Day 2 of Google I/O was all about Wave, and right now its a very much unfinished developer preview, but should be ready to launch to the public by the end of the year.

Wave was created by the same team who brought you Google Maps, and they hope that the same amount of developer involvement and community that built up around Maps will follow into Wave. I dare say that the API for Wave is nearly double that of Maps, and the extensibility is tenfold. Wave is your homepage, your main portal. Email has become too multipurpose and its use has become cluttered. Communicating with all your friends via Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc, is hard. Sharing photos and videos, collaborating on documents, all of that is fragmented across the web and across dozens of unique userbases. Wave collides all of that into one place, while instantly (and I do mean instantly) routing and pushing all of your socialness to where you want it to go and to whoever you want to see it. Its really an intense new way of thinking, and I urge you to watch the Keynote for Wave that I’ve embedded below. The video is 90 minutes long but absolutely worth every minute.

Right now Google Wave is in a developers sandbox (launch to the public by the end of 2009), and I/O attendees were given early access to test and develop gadgets and extensions for the system. If the launch is timed and publicized correctly, I can see this becoming a major part of life on the web. I’m already sold, and I can see it integrating and replacing at least 40% of my daily social life on the web. And it works with Twitter. Enough said.

wave.google.com

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