I want this shirt...One of my friends bet me ten dollars I wouldn't wear it in public :)

You've Got Some 'Splaining To Do!

Some of these are breathtaking and heartbreaking. I also really like the way they have the gallery set up.

Best of the Post 2006

This music downloading service has an interesting business model. It's long overdue that someone try this.

All songs start off as free downloads, and the prices rise based on their popularity, maxing at 98 cents a track. If users recommend songs that become popular, users get a chunk of the revenue.

I love the concept of this site

Amie Street

Young women participated in writing from its earliest days, but have always been in the minority. The assumption that the qualities required of a successful writer are gender specific have been dis-proven time and again by many young women. Throughout the years many young women have earned their places in New York City's aerosol art history.

In aerosol art culture women face many obstacles not encountered by men. The late hours and desolate locations in which most writing is done can be particularly dangerous for women. As with many male-dominated fields the social atmosphere can be extremely harsh. Female writers are often subjected to all kinds of harassment. They are frequently the subjects of rumors such as "She sleeps around to get style." or "Her boyfriend writes for her". In general women have to struggle for respect for their accomplishments. Another barrier frequently encountered was possessive boyfriends who discouraged participation in a male-dominated field.

Last night I was looking at This book and found it very interesting that it supposedly started in NYC....so I did a little research on it this morning and found this on a site called 149th New York Cyber Bench which has alot of the history about NYC.

Female Graffiti Artists

In the summer of 1975, I was asked by Robert Goldman, President Ford’s in-house intellectual, to participate in a discussion on ethnicity at the White House, one of a series put on for the edification of the president.

a lovely euology to Ford

A Meeting With Gerald Ford - New York Times

Edge Designs is an all-women run company that designs interior office space. They had a recent opportunity to do an office project in NYC. The client allowed the women of this company a free hand in all design aspects. The client was a company that was also run by all women execs. The result, well, we all know that men never talk, never look at each other, and never laugh much in the restroom. The men's room is a serious and quiet place, but now, with the addition of one mural on the wall......lets just say the men's restroom is a place of laughter and smiles.

I was sent this image and figured I would share. Unfortunately there are not embedded images here so clink on the linky

Men's Room Mural

Corteo, which means "cortege" in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth.

The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels.

I saw this show tonight. It is currently in Atlanta and well worth it....if you get a chance I suggest u see it. I was very impressed and thoroughly enjoyed the show!!

Corteo - Cirque du Soleil

If the holidays have made you forget how screwed up everything is right now, this photo essay should remind you.

TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2006

Happy New Year everyone.

At the start of each year I've traditionally posted the previous year's awstat web server statistics. This year I'm doing something different. There are three reasons.

The first is that posting awstat information contributes to a lot of referral spam. In fact, I'll bet this post will end up getting picked up by spammers in web searches and sent a lot of bogus traffic simply because the text awstats appears within it. I have no idea what these people think they are accomplishing, but they seem quite persistent. Sanitizing the stats information so that it doesn't attract them has become a fair amount of work.

The second reason is that the statistics that are individually important to you probably haven't changed much from last year. Kimbo Slice is still the top search term that brings people in from Google...

What has changed is our Google rank. We've gone from about 40,000 monthly unique visitors in the earlier part of the year down to about 20,000, with a slight bump at the very end of December from people looking for information on the execution of Saddam Hussein. This is about where we were in 2005 prior to a national press incident involving one of our users. Nearly all of this traffic change can be attributed to Google. I'm not terribly bothered about it, as there are still an awful lot of people randomly falling in here from Google, and a reduction in our rank shelters us from link spam to a certain extent.

The third reason is that awstats information hasn't traditionally told us what we really want to know: How many people REALLY read MemeStreams. 20,000 or 40,000 is a heck of a lot of people. Mixed up in those statistics are the Google tourists, web crawlers, spammers, etc... How much of it can be discounted?

Rattle made two changes that help tremendously in understanding this question. The first was improvements to the sessions layer, which provides the information boxes you now see around the site that tell you who is currently online in 15 minute intervals. The second is the addition of Google Analytics, which includes a visitor loyalty statistic that I think provides the most accurate view of the size of the real MemeStreams reader community that we've yet seen. Unfortunately, these statistics exclude RSS readers. Its difficult to make accurate estimates about RSS readership, but we do know that the main page and the blogs of most of the regular posters on MemeStreams are pulled by RSS readers thousands of times a month. Given the frequency of RSS, however, that may represent less than 100 readers. Here are our visitor loyalty statistics for the month of December:

Visit Number Visits
1 14353
2 623
3 169
4 124
5 95
6 76
7 72
8 61
9-14 304
15-25 404
26-50 452
51-100 473
101-200 231
201+ 17

This chart shows how many people have visited the site a particular number of times... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

2006 MemeStreams Usage Statistics

26 Things is a photography exercise to help us develop our photographic eye in our daily life.

Rules & How to Play 26 Things

1. 26 Things is a fun photographic game - no winners list, no prizes.

2. On a given date, 26 items are posted on the website and participants set out to photograph each item in their own interpretation.

3. Present your photos in any way you please, online. Please note that we don't host your photos - you have to organise that yourself.

4. Photographs from your digital camera, film camera or both is fine.

5. New or old photographs are accepted.

6. Basic photographic editing techniques (cropping etc.) are allowed. Your items are supposed to be photographs, not digital manipulations so don't go nuts in Photoshop

7. After that month is up, post your completed entry to our flickr group

8. Your photographs remain your own

This is a fun photographic activity of thinking outside the box and using your creativity

26 Things - The Photographic Scavenger Hunt