Photo of the week – we went to a 9/11 memorial last weekend because I hadn’t known of its existence before (and if you read about it on Wikipedia, you find out why – apparently some people really dislike it), and we drove around the surrounding area and stopped to take some photos. The sun was setting and the light was spectacular.

Bayonne, NJ - August 2010.

Speaking of photography, this guy makes his photos using BULLETS. (Petapixel)

Have you seen The Wilderness Downtown yet? It’s an interactive experience, best viewed in Google Chrome. Blew my mind.

Since I’ve been having fun with fonts this week, here are 20 Super Clean Fonts Perfect for Minimal Style Design. (WebDesignLedger.com)

The bell tower at Iowa State University played Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and it is ridiculous. Watch this.

Another Gaga video, a new song called “Living on the Radio,” performed live in St Paul this week.

Photo of the week – from a trip to the science center with my husband and nephew.

I love how this shot turned out.

I’m glad to hear that most New Jersey residents like myself hate Jersey Shore and wish it would go away. (People.com)

Entertainment Weekly did a “Sexy Beast” competition and here is the final results bracket. (EW.com)

1001 Free Fonts!

My Little Pony as Lady Gaga? Love.

Click here for more pictures of the Lady Gaga My Little Pony from Spippo on DeviantArt.

11 ways to promote your Facebook page outside of Facebook. (JohnHaydon.com)

I know it’s been everywhere, but this is such a great song, and the fact that it is so upbeat and happy makes it so much better. Not safe for work!

Week 15!

Photo of the week, from a few weeks ago. We spent the day with our nephew and met up with our grandfather/great-grandfather for dinner at the slightly-famous Tick Tock Diner.  The sky was beautiful and so I took some shots.

I need a makeup lesson from the beautiful Keiko Lynn, and she lets us in on some of her secrets here.

Your Followings Will Affect Your Social Media Experience, from Corvida Raven of SheGeeks. This was posted a long time ago but is still totally relevant.

Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters gave the commencement speech at Villanova University in May. Here is the transcription of that speech.

I’ve been a big pop music fan for my whole life it seems. However, Lady Gaga is a genius and I love her more and more every time I see something new from her, and her little video announcing herself as “Queen of Twitter” is no exception.

I was really pleased today that a photo I took a while back is appearing on Time Out New York’s website in the Apartment section!

My friend Kelly Kreth is featured, her apartment is designed around the colors black, white and red.  It’s pretty spectacular and you should definitely check out the photos.

Had to take screenshots of my images though – my husband‘s photo of Kelly’s awesome dog Mini appears as well.

My image of Kelly on the TONY Apartment section homepage.

Wider shot of the photo of Kelly against the wall, on the same wall.

Will's photo of Kelly's Dachschund, Mini.

Photo of the week:

I actually have new photos! My husband and I went to a fair yesterday and saw this chicken with lots of ribbons and a trophy.

It's a prize-winning chicken.

The rest of the photos of my visit to the fair are here.

While I’m promoting my own stuff, I’d like to call out a post I wrote late last week for The Daily Wishlist. 5 tips for starting your holiday shopping now!

25 Common Media and Web Marketing Mistakes. (Online Social Networking)

Nutella Caramel Hazelnut Brownies? Are you kidding me? (The Pioneer Woman)

I’m going to Florida next month, and we’ve obtained reservations at Bern’s Steakhouse. If you’re in the Tampa area and looking for a great meal with some fabulous ambience, I highly recommend it.

This company recovered my hard drive.

How to tie a scarf, for girls (mostly). (Wikifashion)

If you read this blog, you know that I’m a massive fan of Mythbusters. Here’s a video of Adam Savage giving a presentation on obsessions at the Entertainment Gathering in December 2008.

Photo of the week. An old one from a trip to Seattle a few years ago. I took this from the top of the Space Needle.

Seattle is one of my favorite cities.

Twitalyzer has cool Twitter stats. I love stats.

Are all URL shorteners created equal? From Edelman Digital.

This should maybe be posted on The Daily Wishlist, but oh well. Here’s a gallery of fabulous jewelry for geeks, from Mashable.

I have a few videos to add this week too.

This video is from late 2009. Tori Amos, performing one of my favorite songs of hers live – “Doughnut Song.”

My friend Kelly made this hilarious video about wanting all of your friends to have Blackberry Messenger. I love to BBM so I found this hysterical. It is NSFW.

This next video is an excerpt from the Life series.  My husband bought it for us, but because he knows what is up, we have the BBC version, narrated by David Attenborough.

Anyway, this video shows 2 Clark’s Grebes in a mating ritual. It isn’t dirty or anything. I find it particularly touching and it makes me so happy to watch. I think that true love feels like what the dancing birds look like at 2:04 in the video.

From Miss Gala Darling, Curious Tuesday 011.

1. What is your style direction for the upcoming season?

Fall, please be here right now so I can start wearing jeans and cute sweaters and go photograph things.  Seriously, I own many pairs of jeans and many black sweaters. I get my pop of color from whatever camisole thing I put under the sweaters which are generally v-neck.

We load up on photography outings in the fall.

2. What is your favourite song right now?

My husband messaged me today with news that Scala & Kolacny Brothers had covered Nine Inch Nails’ “Underneath It All” and I’ve been listening to it on repeat all afternoon. Haunting and gorgeous.   Otherwise, I don’t have a big favorite of the moment, I’ve been listening to lots of stuff.  Here’s the NIN cover:

3. What’s your best love advice?

Don’t be with someone you don’t trust. Period.

4. Who is the most exciting person you’ve met recently?

I can’t really think of anyone particularly exciting, at least to me.

5. Are you doing anything wonderful this week? What is it?

Tomorrow I am getting to hang out with my younger nephew ( I have 2), so I’m looking forward to that. I’ve been having fun with the Coach Poppy Project on The Daily Wishlist, although I’m getting creamed by the competition there.  Lots of good things.

Photo of the week. From a day out at the park – check out my sparkly nail polish. My husband thinks that I look scary in this photo, but whatever.

Artistic interpretations of the Twitter fail whale. (URLesque)

4 Reasons Lady Gaga has Fans and You Don’t. (Mack Collier)

I think I’ve mentioned that I am exposed to a lot of wedding blogs and such now, with the new job? Anyway, here are beautiful photos of a vintage-inspired wedding with lots of DIY touches. Beautiful. (StyleMePretty)

Flickr stream of the week – Rosie Hardy is so young and brilliant. If I had her manipulation skills, I would probably be doing it for a living.

Video: High Fidelity is one of my favorite movies. I’ve watched it a few times in the last few weeks, it is crazy quotable and the music is great and you should watch it again if you’ve seen it, and if you haven’t seen it, get on it.

Anyway, here’s a scene from the movie.

Photo of the week. From last year’s NJ Hot Air Balloon Festival. I haven’t been taking a lot of photos lately so I’m reaching back a bit.

Angelina Jolie wore an amazing red dress to the Salt premiere in Moscow. I love her. (Red Carpet Fashion Awards)

An introduction to smoke art photography, from Digital Photography School.

Loyalty lessons from Lady Gaga, from the Church of Customer blog.

Some cute free backgrounds for Twitter.

An update to a previously wonderful slide set, Marta Kagan has created “What The F**k is Social Media NOW?

This week’s video is the first music video from Lady Gaga. This song came up on my iPod in shuffle the other day, and I remember seeing the video watching NewNowNext on Logo and thinking “I love this girl!”  Then she became a megastar.  Anyway, I love the video.

This is the 10th link party. I’m excited for having stuck to it.

Photo of the week – me and my mom at her birthday party in April – only uploaded this week.

You can tell that I'm her kid, at least a little bit.

From Apartment Therapy: Beautiful chandeliers inspired by nature.

From The Kitchn: What Makes You Crave a Dish?

Joy the Baker made cupcakes with peanut butter that look amazing. In my mind I would love to bake more often, but having the oven on in the summer is just ridiculous.  I’ll stockpile recipes for the fall.

Fashionista has a slideshow of things you can buy that will benefit the oil spill cleanup efforts.

My friend Christina and I have a friendship that owes itself to a shared love of Wayne’s World, as we spent many a long bus ride to school in 7th grade quoting the movie. This is a favorite.