May 2012
12 posts
Arizona seeks to be on wrong side of history as...
Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.
April 2012
4 posts
jacket and jeans...
…the male wardrobe equivalent of a mullet: business up top, party down below. just like social media.
Who gives a flying F about my F'ing Klout score?!
started to read a wired mag article on Klout. Felt sudden concern for my Klout score. Now consider wired part of the vast social media conspiracy designed to get us all caring about bullshit who-gives-a-flying-fuck quasi-social measures such as likes, pins and yes, Klout scores.
I’ve gone to find Thoreau in the woods.
Don’t wait up.
“You wonder if, instead, a few choice electrodes might be acquainted with his...”
– Amol Rajan: Why a spot of torture and a long rope would be too good for Anders Breivik
March 2012
2 posts
“You already spend a fortune on a show that has to do with incest, child abuse,...”
– Lou LaTorre, president of advertising sales at the Fox Cable Networks Group, responding to would-be critics of the young male-centric programming on FX. http://nyti.ms/H9OlT8
February 2012
4 posts
Gerry Graf on How to Make a Great Commercial →
“A lot of ideas come at the beginning. Most you should throw out.”
Russian scientists reach Lake Vostok after 20... →
Why does this sound like the opener to a horror movie?
Russia says it has pierced through Antarctica’s frozen crust to a vast, subglacial lake that has lain untouched for at least 14 million years, hiding what scientists believe may be unknown organisms and clues to life on other planets.
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January 2012
7 posts
Microwaves Ruin Everything, Video of Items... →
Microwaves Ruin Everything, Video of Items Exploding in a Microwave
The Uppers & Downers of Parenting (Or, Coffee &... →
via @evapeep
Yahoo’s Renovator in Chief →
Scott Thompson, PayPal’s president, will try to revamp Yahoo, the struggling online media company. He succeeds Carol Bartz, who was dismissed in September.
“There’s a real opportunity for him at Yahoo, if they can take all this [user] data and use it for advertisers.”
Meh.
December 2011
2 posts
Physicists Anxiously Await New Data on ‘God... →
Scientists are set to issue a progress report on Tuesday morning on the search for the Higgs boson, which would vindicate the modern theory of how elementary particles get mass.
November 2011
12 posts
1 tag
Things I Am Carrying Inside Me
petervidani:
1 whole wheat bagel with cream cheese
4 slices of tomato
2 slices of raw onion
2 half-sour pickled cucumbers
¼ pickled tomato
2 oz. of coleslaw
1 bowl of matzoh ball soup
3 slices of carrot
½ chopped cow liver and raw onion sandwich on white bread
⅔ potato pancake
1 Nexium™
4 raw oysters
½ roll with haddock
1 buttered, salted roll
½ sea urchin
not for long, dude.
WatchFor inspiration, return to a proven source.
It’s been a long while since I first watched this inspiring mini-perspective on Andy Mueller, in @Coudal Partners’ Western State series. Directed by Slowtron.
October 2011
5 posts
THE GUN by C.J. Chivers: For the Barbarians, A... →
cjchivers:
Since returning from Afghanistan last week, I’ve been worried about a debt past due. What do I mean? Well, there’s a small story here, and it’s about this website and the other social media tools that we have been using to push news alongside the daily bread at the NYT. And the background is…
you guys made a great deal. @bnjmn, let me know if you’d like a stand-in....
The Man Behind the Window - The Morning News →
terrific (slightly old) story about an old story, its author, Allan Seager.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
6 posts
