Hi-Fi New York

Dens posted this on his Flickr today. Brilliant.

As an aside, did you know Wikipedia lists Bert and Ernie as “roommates”? I always thought they were kid brothers chuck-chillin’ at home while the ‘rents were away. Now the whole setup just feels sorta seedy. And maybe a tad inappropriate.

I’m sure I’m way behind the curve on this, but I recently came across this Dubya voice simulator. Too funny. Repeated phrases seem to work best. For instance, “apple apple apple banana” cracked me up pretty good, as did “where is your face going to be be be”. It also says “barack obama” with a slightly mocking lilt, which seems appropriate enough. Minutes of fun.

According to NetsDaily, the Nets held a reception for about 40 season-ticket holders Tuesday night in Manhattan and assured them that “Brooklyn is happening.” The team expects to play in the Barclays Center to start the 2010-11 season. Color me excited. Read the full report here.

How’s his hair still dry? I got soaked just walking to work today. Poser.

(Respek: Racked)

Thought Twitter was solely the domain of tech-nerds and chatty high-schoolers? No? Me neither. That’s just dumb. I mean, everyone’s blogging from their mobiles these days; even big-time NBA stars like Utah Jazz point guard Deron Williams. A choice excerpt:

“Just woke up from my nap. Can’t believe it’s snowing.”

That’s just so goth somehow.

Here’s a look at tonight’s game. Man, I get tired of pimping my own garbage. This will probably end soon …

I’m sure the graffiti/street-art sites are all over this, but if you’ve got a minute, peep this cool vid by Muto. He turns city walls in Buenos Aires and Baden into his own personal flipbook. (Respek: Jeffs to Brazil)

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

If Tim Meadows could ball (3:05), and came from Washington, D.C., he’d be Delonte West. This video is back from a little over a year ago when West was a guard with the Celtics. Highlights include:

0:06 … “This is the cup that I love. This is it. I love it. I love it because it’s a cup.”

3:49 … “Twenty years from now you gonna see me ridin’ in a drop-top Hummer, butt naked, with some ankle socks on, and a Boston Celtics headband, standing up, driving from Boston to California. Butt naked. Sixty years old.”

4:31 … “Who would I be for one day? You gotta be Bugs Bunny. Bugs Bunny is the smoothest dude I ever met. I mean, I didn’t meet him … Well, I did meet him once, but you wouldn’t even believe me if I told you.”

I got a chance to “interview” Yao Ming via a cool video-conferencing technology on Thursday. Here’s a feature and a blog post about it. And here are some photos. Woot, barf, grumble.

This is happening. Again. For reals.

I know I’ve relaunched and rebranded this site countless times since its inception in Sept. 2001, but this time I reckon it will stick. Why? Well, it’s springtime and I’m feeling light and breezy after a busy, if not hectic, back end of the calendar. I’m married now, we just moved to Brooklyn, and, most importantly, I purged my server. (Just kidding, Lisa.)

But the site’s spring cleaning was necessary, if only to get rid of the “138″ sub-directory; pages be published right off the .com url now. Plus, it’s good to be rid of all the stray MP3’s in the media folder (those music-bots have crazy long tentacles), and hopefully I won’t get too many more click-throughs from people googling “Friendster” (somehow, Krucoff’s to blame/credit for that one). If you’re here, you want to be here. That’s how things started out, and that’s how they should continue moving forward.

So, in closing, welcome back. And please pardon our appearance while we remodel; we’re still trying to figure out where this damn RSS feed should go. It clashes with the search box.