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A commenter on a recent post reminded me of this film, which I had heard about a while ago, but had forgotten to check up on. 180° South retraces a trip down the Pan American Highway taken in 1968 by Yvon Chouinard and best friend Doug Tompkins, two heros of mine…

The cooler temps and bare trees have prompted me to take a look back recently on warmer weather this last summer. I’m happy to say that it was one of the greatest I’ve ever had. I think I spent most of my time out of the city, sometimes far away and when I was here there was always something fun going on. Here are some of my summer highlights…

Iced coffee isn’t dead…yet. (photos)

…ever. Just don’t do it.

…do I think this wine is better than it actually is, simply because I love the aesthetics of the label or that it is from Oregon?

I appreciate this clip so much.

Feeling disconnected from the rest of the Internet because of Twitter being down, I resorted to updating my Facebook status manually with a quick message about now being able to Tweet about Twitter being down, only to receive this error message: Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/updatestatus.php’: A network error occurred. Check [...]

I’ve just been taking a look at The Highline (via the new AIANY website), the first section of which is supposed to open in June. Sweet! It’s always exciting to see more green mixing with the steel and concrete of the city.

From Milton Glaser.

Go ahead and check out crisisofcredit.com. Jonathan Jarvis put this together as part of his thesis at Art Center. In league with the This American Life shows about the credit crisis (Giant Pool of Money and Another Frightening Show About the Economy) this is a visual, and quite tastefully done, explanation of the ‘why’ of [...]