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- That I am yet to have dined at Torrisi or Parm is a crime. This review of 5 dishes at Parm is punishment for my not having supporting the restaurant with my mouth sooner.

- Make an infographic of your weekly spending.

- Favorite quote from Obama’s State of the Union Speech last night: “No bailouts, no handouts, no cop-outs”

- Two churches across the street from each other debate on dogs going to heaven.

- Lincoln Art Exchange gives uninsured artists opportunity to barter talent for health care.

- Gay soldiers booed, republicans don’t comment, Obama criticizes.

- The Oscar nominations. Where the hell is Ryan Gosling on this list??!!

- Thank you Mr. Levitt for this.

- Send in nude pictures, raise funds.

- Celebrating Lunar New Year around the world. Look at all those firecrackers!!

- Ugly Renaissance babies.

- A closer look at Ai Wei Wei. “The artist had become the message and the medium”.

- Awesome writing desks. Too bad I don’t have a place to put them.

- Etsy launches a new monthly event in Brooklyn called Hands-On Etsy.

- Jeffrey Tastes gives a tour of some international dishes in Jackson Heights.

- Yes, we’re living in the Age of Anxiety.

- I need to talk to this Dustin Yellin kid. He bought a giant warehouse in Red Hook and is turning it into a art center.

- Photographs of photographers.

- Great photo series of Ikea objects displayed into colorful and organized works of art.

- Check out works by one of my favorite artists DongWook Lee at Doosan Gallery.

- I have never been schooled in the art of debate, I have always praised my superb multi-tasking skills, but I am beginning to question my need to slow down in the latter and pick up on productive confrontational skills. “I need time to process things. Sometimes a lot of time. And I need to ask for that time or take it for myself.“

- The science of willpower.

- 5 myths about being a home-based business.

- 12 career resolutions for you to consider.

- Pretty glasses case!

- Sheena Iyengar’s TED talk on how to make choosing easier. Choice overload reduces: engagement, decision quality, satisfaction.

- SLOTHS!

- Twitter campaign gone wrong.

- I want to take this collage class at MoMA!

- Shit Korean Girls Say. This is why Sam and I must create a video series on the tumultuously humorous life of Korean-Americans, the food we eat, the stereotypes we embrace and reject, and making fun of dumb people who think they know a thing or two about us and our food.

- Fuck Chinese new year. Happy LUNAR New Year. Let’s not forget it’s not just the China folk who celebrate this mystical alternative to the western sun-based calendar. Still, here are some awesome Chinese recipes to celebrate. I’m searching for some Korean recipes as well.

- Marcus Samuelsson on a food truck tour.

- Awesome video on 3D printing.

- Design bloggers recapping alt summit everywhere. Here’s Design*Sponge’s recap on going from blogger to author and a little more about what alt summit.

- 60 apps are added to Facebook timeline.

- Why it’s impossible for Apple to manufacture their iphones in the US. I don’t blame them.

- The cassette project on Kickstarter denies and undeniably ultimate KO.

- 16 cool coworking spaces around the country.

- Free lectures by Foucault on truth, discourse, and the self.

- John Yau’s about Hedda Hopper on Damien Hirst. Yawn.

- Think of your Kickstarter funders as patrons, not cash cows and other tips on crowdfunding.

- Watch the entire crowdsourced Start Wars movie. Amazing.

- 6 community managers to appreciate.

- Photos from Tacita Dean’s trip to Prague.

- Skateboard with Jesus.

- A conversation with Annie Leibovitz.

- LA is moving up the art world social ladder.

- Damien Hirst spot challenge accomplished. Oof.

- Who’s your favorite?

- Looking forward to visiting Philly and seeing the Zoe Strauss show.

- Mailing out disposable cameras for folks around the world to take pictures and mail them back. Dreamy and happy.

- Visible 2011 is an art prize granting 25k Euros to artists/collectives that don’t make art for art’s sake. Rather the prize supports those who create work that emphasize social change and is not self-referential. Love this.

- Inside a Williamsburg warehouse in 1991. Plus more awesome photos of NYC in the 80′s and 90′s.

- Catching an ear infection from Holler’s show at New Museum. GROSS!

- Awesome ad campaign to get students and parents to consider BFA / MFA programs.

- Tents, sleeping bags, and Occupying artists.

- Recipe for Halal cart style chicken and rice.

- How Supreme became a global cult.

- The lack of touch in marriages.

- I’d be happy to live in an obliterated room courtesy Yayoi Kusama.

- There’s nothing quite like a real book.

- Basic mandarin for foodies.

- Painting without paint, an essay on the exhibition Textility.

- The cultural revolution cookbook.

- Miss Lily’s opens up a juice shop.

- Gross and amusing: travel around the world to spot all Hirst’s spots and win a signed print by said Hirst.

- The top 10 bloggers under 18. Aaaaand, puberty.

- North Korean newspaper, translated.

- The beauty of pollination.

- Typography + architecture = this.

- The state of immigration in US.

- Still reading through 100 most powerless New Yorkers.

- At home with Ai Wei Wei and living in a state of pre-tech stone age. Also, this: “I’d rather say that Andy Warhol is the American Ai Weiwei”.

- I MUST watch Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom.

- Slideshow of a preggy Beyonce.

- Translating Murakami and why not to read anything in translation.

- Sorry to do this to you but….Shit Nobody Says.

- Gingrich is such a pig!

- Cape Town hipsters sweat ironically in post-cool heat wave: ““We’re just not sure whether to embrace sweat as a creative expression of ‘post-cool’, or to shun it as too mainstream” he added. “I mean, we were sweating long before it was popular.”

- A look into the house of Hold Steady’s bandleader Craig Finn.

- iBooks Author lets you write your own book.

- Kickstarter raises 100mil worth for all their projects.

- I’ve still got Santa Baby stuck in my head.

- “How Yoga can wreck your body.” = EGO & WESTERNIZED TREND.

- Kind of regret not buying this awesome octopus print duvet cover on FAB last week.

- It’s high time I invested in touchscreen gloves.

- A day with Stephen Colbert: Slideshow.

- 5 guides to branding your startup.

- Golden age of Indian Cinema at MoMa. Exciting stuff.

- I’m developing a crush for Kiko Mizuhara already. Oh Boy.

- Scatter your timeline banner photo.

- Support musicians. Buy their t-shirts thru shirtify.

- 12 bands to be excited about this year.

- 12 awesome women in tech.

- A book about why artists are poor and why art is expected to be free.

- Liza enters the workspace of Jo Snow Syrups, a major want for the summer.

- Amanda Hesser  and Food 52 on secrets of successful startups.

- Want these tetris sticky notes!

- Narrowing down 1000 TED talks into 6 words.

- Trying to replace my red bull kick with superfoods.

- Cultivating a habit to write everyday is hard. This might help.

- NYC neon signs.

- David Lynch remixes Zola Jesus. Whaaaaaaa

- 2012 as the year of the art – entrepreneur. Articles like this get me VERY VERY excited.

- I want an ipad2 just to play with Mixel.

- How to be a Tiguere.

- Pictures of David Bowie being normal.

- 5 Pointz founder discusses changing demographics, gentrification, and 5 Pointz’s transformation into a condo.

- Hazards of texting while walking. Funny video.

- Iconoic logos in Comic Sans.

- Does video and online marketing make fashion (and alternatively, art) more accessible? I think this is a false question. Just because I can see an ad of Armani on YouTube it doesn’t make it any more financially accessible for someone as poor as me.

- How to write Thank You notes. I’m so terrible at writing any sort of greeting card, this helps tremendously.

- 17 countries, 343 days, and 6237 photos in 5 minutes.

- LED equipped dandelion seeds. Cool.

- I wish I could visit LA to catch the Performance and Public Art Festival this month.

- Top 10 buzzed about people in NYC nightlife. Wonder if I’d ever make this list someday.

- Inside Trump’s gilded penthouse.

- Book of breasts. In 3D.

- Productivity tips for 2012: “Don’t mistake busyness for effectiveness…jump in on video content…take breaks every 90 minutes…stay focused and be consistent…start making small decisions…you can’t be EVERYWHERE…have an opinion…take tiny actions on a daily basis…create an editorial calendar…”

- A cord inside your iphone case so you’ll never lose it again.

- I want this set of colorful masking tape.

- 10 workouts for people who hate working out.

- Design Sponge is opening an office inside Greenpoint’s own Pencil Factory!

- Casey Anthony’s public statement fully quipped with blond hair and a new pair of glasses.

- Some killer artists featured in the upcoming season 6 of Art 21′s “Art of the 21st Century”

- I just bought these awesome geocolorcentric magnets from FAB.

- The inevitable rise of coworking especially since the advent of women and freelancers increasing by the hoards in the workforce.

- Indepth guide to buying a camera.

- Top 10 food stories of 2011 in LA Times.

- GOOD’s 30 day challenge to be financially healthy.

- How mundane routines produce creative magic. Also, daily routines of writers, artists, and other interesting people organizing their days.

- Words of wisdom by way of posters by designers.

- Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault debating human nature and power.

- I’m actually going to learn to code this year.

- 34 Art Fag City friends site their fave links of 2011 including how to sell animated gifs,

- 10 resolute ideas to start your new year.

- Yahoo is 69ing Delicious. Find your replacement bookmark tool NOW.

- Decoding the Iowa Caucus coverage.

- Beautiful hand carved wooden bowls by father and daughter team Herriot Grace.

- Photos of Rooftop Farms and Ms. Annie Novak on Edible Selby are beautiful.

- In 2012, I’m subscribing to magazines online, including the art and visual culture mag Elephant.

- This is dangerous. Daytum helps you collect your everyday data. Again, this is dangerous.

- Tavi’s teenage fashion mag Rookie has a set schedule of posts, 3 times a day 5 days a week. I love the structure, not to mention all their contributors are in high school.

- Looking forward to the Weegee exhibition at ICP later this month.

- Where the one percent eats. Not what you would assume.

- King George VI’s real stammer.

- O.M.G. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are getting married.

- How well did you manage your email inbox in 2011?

- Shit white girls say to black girls. Let the endless memes begin. I think the asian girls is the best.

- IFTTT (If This, Then That) is the “connective tissue” between various social online services. FUN.

- Interview with founder of Brooklyn Brewery.

- An in-depth look into works of artist Anri Sala.

- Ready for Zero is a super useful tool to help you pay off debt.

- Beautiful photos from a Brooklyn wedding.

- Citibank lets you share your thank you points on facebook to pool with your friends.

- Cookbook for married couples.

- Newspapers and their paywall subscription system. Thoughtful read.

- Four lessons from Dieter Rams.

- An art exhibition culminated from 100 tweets on hand typeset letterpress.

- Way to go Pantone for choosing Tangerine Tango as 2012′s color of the year.

- Photojojo launches Phoneography with tips on taking awesome phoneos.

- 5 LinkedIn apps for power networking.

- Brooklyn Sewn, a 3rd Ward for Fashion.

- You know you made it when you’re on a blackberry commercial for being a DJ.

- Simon Doonan on eating like a gay man. Funny read.

- I’d like more yellow in my wardrobe. Or maybe tangerine tango!

- Lovely, fresh, cleanly designed furniture by Caroline Gomez.

- Dave Eggers monologue as a shower curtain. WANT.