Artifacting

Tweets For The Week Of 2010-03-15

hubs — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:00 +0000

So let me get this straight – the endings to both the Oscars and the Olympics were weird (I didn't see either)? #
Why the hell is my electric company on Facebook? #
For those getting ready for SXSW: The Austin breakfast taco tour http://bit.ly/9q5sXC #
RT @eblakejackson: Remember when this time of year was called Spring Break? *sigh* #growingupsucks #
Remember foodies, the outstanding in field schedule gets released (and reservations open) March 20th http://bit.ly/98C8Cx #
Nicole J. LeBoeuf's http://bit.ly/d63XJt article hit it on the head! http://bit.ly/ahypNi #
Pictures of Betty White plying with Giraffes. That is all. http://bit.ly/cIaHoc #
If you are using Foursquare and are located in Denver, Boulder, Ft Collins, Colorado – You gotta read this http://bit.ly/af1asD #
Parks and Recreation used to have a great opening theme song, and now it's ruined forever (in a good way). http://bit.ly/cyRd0k #
Late brunch in the backyard makes for Satuday morning bliss #
Just got into bed party with @girlfriend. Best party ever! #sexsw #

Foursquare Specials In Colorado

hubs — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:59:25 +0000

If you don’t know what Foursquare is, go read this post, sign-up at Foursquare and start checking into places.

Recently, certain venues on Foursquare started offering free stuff (drinks, appetizers, etc.) to their mayors. For example, just last week Parallel 17 started offering a free drink to it’s mayor. So, if you are Kat O. (whose twitter stream seems to consist almost entirely of foursquare entries), the current mayor of Parrallel 17, go help yourself to a free glass of wine.

There are a bunch other places in Colorado that currently offer “incentives” to foursquare participants. For instance CeFiore offers one free organic tea to the mayor, Tee & Cakes offers a free cupcake for the mayor and Modmarket gives away a free flatbread pizza for every 10th checkin on Foursquare. And Foursquare is signing up partnerships with other venues all the time.

To help take advantage of the freebies, I wrote a script that keeps track of all the new partnerships that Foursquare signs up in the Colorado area. Below you will find a list of the most recent places you can get specials from Foursquare. This list is automatically updated as soon as foursquare announces them, so check back often. Or you can subscribe to my feed (using the button below) to recieve immediate notification of all the specials in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins as they are announced.

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Definitive List Of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Part Two

hubs — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:38 +0000

Greg Rutter has once again created a definitive list of the 99 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless you’re a loser or old or something. I think it’s a little youtube heavy this time around but I was glad to see he took some of my suggestions from last time.

01) Badgers Badgers Badgers
02) Lightning Bolt
03) Play Him Off Keyboard Cat
04) Drinking Out Of Cups
05) Star Wars Trumpet
06) Autotune The News
07) Don Hertzfeldt’s “Rejected”
08) Bear attack local news
09) Snow Driving
10) Blood
11) Texts From Last Night
12) Canceled World Of Warcraft Freakout
13) Jesus Held Hostage
14) Chubby dances to Beyonce Single Ladies
15) Simon’s Cat
16) Maru And The Small Box
17) Maru And The Big Box
18) Crying Sorority Girl
19) Shoes
20) Christian Bale Freak Out
21) Ladder Promo Goes Wrong
22) Home Shopping Ladder Blooper
23) Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video
24) Tom Cruise Scientology Video
25) Reporter And Anchor Fight On Live TV
26) Apache
27) Seven Legged Spider
28) Brokeback To The Future
29) Drunk History Vol. 1
30) Otter’s Holding Hands
31) Recordable Cylinder accident
32) End of Ze World
33) What What In The Butt
34) Nintendo 64
35) Mark Gormley’s “Without You”
36) Hamster Mug Shot
37) 7-Year-Old Takes Car On Joyride
38) S*** My Dad Says
39) Alice
40) Ninja Cat Comes Closer While Not Moving!
41) Lip dub of Flag Pole Sitta
42) Show Me Your Genitals
43) Cat On A Roomba
44) Denny Blaze Average Homeboy
45) Aleksey Vayner’s Impossible Is Nothing
46) Kittens Inspired By Kittens
47) Inmates Dancing To Thriller
48) 2 Girls 1 Cup Grandma Reaction Video
49) Two Cats Talking To Each Other
50) LonelyGirl15
51) The Show with Ze Frank
52) Slap Chop Rap
53) F*** My Life
54) Dick In A Box (Uncensored)
55) Jonathan Coulton
56) Red House Furniture
57) Turtle Has Sex With Shoe
58) Bizkit The Sleep Walking Dog
59) Stains The Cupcake Dog
60) Interior Crocodile Alligator
61) Surfer On The News
62) Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
63) Photobombers
64) Baman Piderman
65) Boxxee<
66) Inspired Bicycles By Danny MacAskill
67) Monkey Waiters
68) Homemade Waterslide
69) Breakdancing Baby
70) Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along
71) Perfect-o-date
72) Dude Perfect (Amazing Basketball Shots)
73) JK Wedding Entrance Dance
74) Yes We Can
75) Her Morning Elegance
76) The Chairperson Falls
77) Noah Takes A Photo Of Himself Every Day For 6 Years
78) The Fall Of Edgar
79) Sweedish TV Host Pukes
80) I Can Break These Cuffs
81) WHOAHHHH!!!
82) Crazy Frog Brothers
83) Spiders On Drugs
84) Peter Pan Guy
85) I Kiss You
86) Big Dog
87) UALUEALUEALEUALE
88) Banana Phone
89) XKCD
90) Wii Fit Hula Girl
91) You Suck At Photoshop
92) Canon Rock
93) One Red Paperclip
94) Million Dollar Homepage
95) Look At This F***ing Hipster
96) A Vodka Movie by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric
97) How To Start A Dance Party
98) Seeing My Dog The Day I Got Back From Afghanistan
99) Hamster On A Piano And Pop Corn

This time around Greg has included some bonus links, not found on the website, for the code nerds:

Fatal Farms Alternate TV Themes
Sepultura – Refuse resist (cover) By Gauchos
Infinite Solutions
Child Molester Weatherman
Powder 2: Powder To The People
What Reporters Do During Commercial Breaks
Fall On Your Sword’s “Back To The Ship”
Kanye West Interrupts Obama’s Speech
Drunkest Guy Goes Back For More Beer
Goat Yelling Like A Man
A woman missed her flight at the boarding gate HKIA
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
Winkers
What Reporters Do During Commercial Breaks
Predator Rap
Jabooody’s Mighty Putty Dub
Good Cop, Baby Cop
Ken Lee
Driving on Salvia
Cockroach vs Weatherman
Flirting with Magic
Sorry I Missed Your Party
Jesus Is My Friend
Sliding Doberman
Jozin z Bazin Polskie Napisy
Cake Wrecks
Jean Luc Picard Song

Tweets For The Week Of 2010-03-08

hubs — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Real life Willy Wonka golden ticket contest http://bit.ly/9MMk2m #
. @negatendo thought you might enjoy this weird spamming on Delicious http://bit.ly/dekWLx #
A PubSubHubbub plugin for your wordpress.org site http://bit.ly/aT80EC #
Casa Bonita http://bit.ly/8wO3of #
Goodnight. Every Day The Same God Damned Dream http://bit.ly/dn2zmf #
I've got 99 problems but 90 of them are bitches http://bit.ly/b4kTtj #
RT @negatendo: Freeze. Zoom and enchance. More…. Stop! Ok, nevermind. I thought that cloud maybe looked like a penis. #
Killing it (flickr photo) http://bit.ly/9nHE3e #
Would it surprise you to learn I own http://bit.ly/9Pi665 ? I also http://www.prettypleaser.com which I may turn into a blog about doughnuts. #

Leadville Ski Joring Championships

hubs — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:52:52 +0000

This weekend was the 2010 Annual Leadville Ski Joring Competition. The Leadville ski joring event has been going on in since 1949 and is considered the premier event of its kind in the country.

The sport it is a timed race with skiers being pulled by horses on a track with large jumps and flat landings. In between the jumps the skier must try to spear small circular rings while swinging from one side of the track to the other – at speeds in excess of 40 mile per hour. Missed rings add 2 seconds each to your time. With average times of less than twenty seconds a single missed ring, with skiers of this caliber, will cost you the event. The winner will have the most rings and fastest time. Ski joring is no simple feat – particularly the Leadville race.

Last year, for the 60th annual race, I had the good fortune of making the draw and was able to compete. I wiped out on the first jump. My apologies to the rider and the man who wagered $250 on me. Video evidence below.

My wipe out was nothing compared to Chris Anthony’s (former Alaskan Extreme Skiing Champion, veteran of 9 World Extreme Skiing Championships and 20 Warren Miller films) fall in the 2007 races. He didn’t walk away from his. Video evidence below.

To get a real idea of the sense of speed, tradition, and community this ski joring event brings to Leadville watch this documentary by Foresight Multimedia. To get a sense of what the skier is seeing watch this first person video on youtube. To get a sense of my attitude before the race, read my interview in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

The Menu At Casa Bonita

hubs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:26:07 +0000

A bunch of people come to Artifacting looking for the Casa Bonita menu. So in the interest of pleasing the masses, here you go (click on the pictures for larger versions):

Check out this post if your interested in what the food at Casa Bonita looks like.

Tweets For The Week Of 2010-03-01

hubs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:15:00 +0000

. @rosalicious The last 3 yrs have proven to me that the food is never as good during Denver Restaurant Week as it is any other time of year in reply to rosalicious #
Pediatricians want to redesign the Hot Dog http://bit.ly/bDUfiL #
When you say ‘A-Rod,’ do you mean Alex Rodriguez, Andy Roddick or Angus Rodwell from Human Resources? #
MMFWCL #
An infographic guide to the art of curling http://bit.ly/cCeHtz #
How to Get Radical In 8 Easy Steps (go check it out before it gets deleted. get money, get paid, son!) http://bit.ly/dx5Jw9 #
First sushi in space http://tinyurl.com/yhyxhav (via @GuyKawasaki) #

Denver Design Guide

Tweets For The Week Of 2010-02-22

hubs — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Happy John Frum Day! http://bit.ly/a4blAy #
Feelings Suck: http://bit.ly/agRrCv A cute, interactive, webcomic by @patrickmoberg #
RT @jwilker: #plan OpenStreetMap Denver Feburary meetup! (Wynkoop Brewery) Wed, Feb 17, 2010, 5-9:30pm http://plancast.com/a/ndf #
Sniff sniff sniff sniff http://bit.ly/ckQ6Ey #
http://twitpic.com/13nxm4 – @artletic In reference to your new client's questionnaire answer. #
These "seal pelt" blankets kick the crap out of snlankets (or snaggies or whatever). http://bit.ly/9tGe6M #
Sweet!, TweetGuru lets you send direct messages to multiple people at once http://bit.ly/95hzty #
LOAD"*",8,1 was a large part of my childhood. Introducing the JavaScript Commodore64 Emulator http://bit.ly/d2Rr3S #
#pleaserobme While my wife checked into starbucks on @foursquare, I'm at home waiting for you with a shotgun. http://bit.ly/cZvajA #
RT @bruvs: Yep, @Phish might be coming back to Colorado this summer: http://bit.ly/bSsGFo #
My Devo color is green: Find out your Devo color at http://www.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/ #

The Only Difference Between Me And A Madman Is That I Am Not Mad.

hubs — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:32:57 +0000

A great collection of engravings, etchings, paintings and other art depicting madness.

Denver Pecha Kucha Haiti Fundraiser

hubs — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:45:22 +0000

Tomorrow, February 20th Pecha Kucha events will be held simultaneously across the globe. The Denver version will be held at the MCA at 4:00 PM. All proceeds for this very special edition will go to Architecture for Humanity to assist in the rebuilding of Haiti. All the PechaKucha Night cities will be connected by a 24-hour PechaKucha presentation WAVE that will gradually move westward city by city, circumnavigating the globe. The wave will be dropping in on each city for around 10 minutes for a video link up and a live presentation. This presentation wave will be streamed over the internet on a 24-hour WAVEcast.

20 seconds, 20 images, 200 cities, 2000 presentations, 200,000 people – with the aim to raise $1,000,000 for rebuilding Haiti. Attend. Donate.