Want this ABC Carpet & Home couch (via Elle)
The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost existential level, our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew; to overcome our checkered pasts.
These ladies are great.
Concern for Those Who Screen the Web for Barbarity (NY Times)
As a former content moderator, all I have to say is … YEP. Ah, the internet.
Coolest bookshelf ever.
Sculpture by Anouk Kruithof.
So, what happens when the book you need is buried all the way at the bottom?
This weekend, while packing my girls up to go to the Town Park Pool to escape the heat, I had an idea. The more I think about it, the more badly I want it. In the meanwhile, it’s picked up a some steam.
I commented about it to Fred Wilson in an AVC.com comment, who liked it, and then…
I like it!
Looking attractive, at any age, is just what Frenchwomen do, especially the urban ones. For Parisiennes, maintaining their image is as natural as tying a perfect scarf or wearing stilettos on cobblestone streets. Beauty is a tradition handed down from generation to generation. ‘My grandmother always told me, “Never neglect yourself, not even in the tiniest details,”’ my friend Françoise Augier said, with a sweeping head-to-toe gesture. The French actress Leslie Caron, still Gigi-like at 79, told me her mother’s favorite saying: ‘Women’s skin is too fair to go bare.’
So, apparently, I have an old lady iPod. I had never even considered my iPod outdated until my colleagues here at Hot Potato HQ made fun of me about it. When I got this thing (I don’t even remember how long ago), the 60GB video iPod was THE shit, and I was the coolest kid in school. Do people even buy them anymore, or do they just use their Jesus phones? Damnit, I’m old!
