The Bullet List

Modern Rock 500

What I'm listening to:

The 20th annual WOXY Modern Rock 500 is our annual countdown of the greatest modern rock, alternative and indie music ever recorded.

Amazon.com: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Available in Various Sizes: Apparel

Amazon.com: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Available in Various Sizes: Apparel.

Check out the comments, including:

Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather.

(Via The Conversational Marketer)

Messi Goal, In Honor of Champions League Final

Since I don't have much to comment on the Champions League Final, I'll let video from an old game explain. Messi is good. Congrats to Barcelona.

Beware the Dragons

Great promo ads scattered around the Indianapolis zoo promoting the arrival of two komodo dragons.

Yankees Redefine Making it in the Big Leagues

From Jayson Stark on ESPN:

Finally, from David Letterman: "The NYU graduation speaker is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. … She told the grads, 'Work hard. Save your money. And one day you might be able to afford to attend a Yankees game.'"

Cars Are Not Animals

Whither the impala. Great article in NY Times about automobile naming and the trend away from animal inspired names.

In the 1993 film “Coneheads,” Dan Ackroyd has to explain the name of his car to the ruler of the planet Remulac: “Ford Lincoln Mercury Sable,” he intones, “a personal conveyance named after its inventor, an assassinated ruler, a character from Greco-Roman myth and a small furry mammal.”

 (Via Fritinancy.)

Do you read a printed newspaper?

I still get the NY Times and I enjoy it at least twice a week. Do you read a printed paper? Do you read a paper online?

Art-ful Sentences: Roberta Smith on the Modern Wing at Art Institute

I love reading art and architecture reviews for paragraphs like this:

Its neighbor is in some ways even better because it is rarer: a truly great painting by Robert Motherwell, acquired only in 1997. “Wall Painting With Stripes,” from 1944, is a field of broad verticals of cream and yellowish brown interrupted by black and gray intimations of a tree, and ovals suggesting suns and moons. It is a glowering, unstoppable canvas, something left behind by Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, taking cues from Miró, on a broad, back-alley fence from a Walker Evans photograph.

(Via Roberta Smith in the NY Times.) 

Clever! Disney Star Wars Weekend Posters

Disney Star Wars Weekend Posters are Awesome! (13 Total) - My Modern Metropolis.

Some of these are better than others, but all are pretty good.

Meet Luke Skywalker.

(Via A Whole Lotta Nothing.)

Totally Rad: Beta of The All New TypePad

Everything TypePad: Now In Beta: Previewing The All New TypePad.

Thank you, Beta Team. Bring on the feedback! And enjoy.