December 2011
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October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
6 posts
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The Movie →
Neven Mrgan:
A thirty-something dude who’s just been dumped by his longtime girlfriend reflects on the relationship as he rearranges his storage unit. Oh and the boxes in the unit are anthropomorphic. That’s my elevator right there, but this baby’s going up to the stratosphere, so don’t stop me now.
This guy is half of The Incident’s team (far as I can tell), and his blog is also...
Views Differ on Shape of Earth, Climate Edition →
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones:
…the correct answer is something in the neighborhood of 98%. But even among Democrats, only 42% think that most climate scientists believe that global warming is happening.
Found, as usual, through Daring Fireball (I’ll get some new sources someday), but I have to admit that I would have probably responded “61 to 80%.” I suppose I shouldn’t...
August 2011
20 posts
The Ad Contrarian: Advertising And The Future Of... →
The Ad Contrarian:
Interestingly, one of the first indications of whether Apple is capable of continuing its explosion of creative energy without Jobs at the helm may be found in its advertising. The product pipeline will take years to screw up. But the ad pipeline can be screwed up in no time.
I found this, as I find many things, through Daring Fireball, but I’m linking to it because I...
Unedited Thoughts About Technology Better Left... →
Gizmodo:
Nerds: You know more about technology than anybody else, and anybody who knows less than you is a total dipshit. I love you for that. But normal people deserve wonderful technology too. And half the shit you call computing—running custom ROMs, reinstalling OSes, fucking with network settings—is like a chef sharpening his knives over and over and calling that cooking.
Look, I can do...
Post-Conflict Potter →
Tom Malinowski, Sarah Holewinski, and Tammy Schultz at Foreign Policy put together a very clever piece regarding the next steps that should be taken after the death of Voldemort. Great stuff.
Tag Theory: How Much Is Too Much To Say After The... →
Linda Holmes:
I don’t have problems with people who leave immediately missing a bonus sequence. I do have problems with them missing the apocalypse.
Haven’t seen the movie in question yet, but I think I might, tonight, or soon. Linda Holmes is always amusing, (and the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast is just great, week after week) and this article is just an interesting little note...
Daring Fireball: "Mike Arrington's Taxes Are Too... →
Mike Arrington:
Many in Silicon Valley want to tax the rich into the middle class and let government spend and spend and spend. The super rich tech elite flock to Obama, joining in the call to screw the rich as loudly as all the rest.
John Gruber:
What a crock of shit.
I love John Gruber. He clearly has a bias, but so does everybody else. And the difference, almost 100% of the time –...
Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction →
Elliot Jay Stocks:
Dreamweaver, anyone?
This article has a lot in it, but I feel like this sums it up. To be clear, I use Dreamweaver myself, but never for WYSIWYG.
I don’t know. I guess I’ve never seen a full-featured WYSIWYG editor that doesn’t produce gross code. And I suppose this is less gross than Dreamweaver. But it still looks pretty filthy to me. I suppose the...
Somebody's Got to Save This Country From Certain... →
The Onion:
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bachmann. Some things just make sense. Washington led this country to its independence. FDR guided the United States through the Great Depression and World War II. And I’ve suggested teachers could use The Lion King in their classrooms as an example of gay propaganda.
If anyone can bring dignity to the White House, I think we can...
Michele Bachmann's Holy War →
I recall skimming through this article around the time that it came out – skimming partially due to a short attention span, and partially due to the fact that it’s hard to even read about this stuff without pulling a Professor Farnsworth. But my friend Zach Alig just brought my attention to this paragraph, which is incredibly insightful and really gets to the heart of my frustration about...
Penny Arcade - Dad Stuff →
Mike Krahulik:
Gabe plays Minecraft every single day and that’s no joke. For a while I thought maybe I should be limiting his time because that’s what parents do right? They limit “time”. Then I started looking at the shit my son was doing in this game and I could not ask him to stop.
I wouldn’t think that I’d ever link to something Mike wrote - he’s a great artist, but he...
Restaurant websites: Why are they so awful? →
Farhad Manjoo:
The first thing that pops up when you visit the website of the San Francisco restaurant Fleur de Lys is a nearly full-screen animation of celebrity chef Hubert Keller’s autograph. That makes sense—when I’m choosing a restaurant, the first thing I want to know is, Can the chef sign his name?
Pretty funny article, and while it’s probably one of a million...
New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making... →
The Onion:
“If we are going to make the president a haggard shell of a human being by the time he leaves the White House, we need four more years of never compromising, four more years of miring every piece of legislation in unnecessary procedural muck, four more years of pretending we want to work with the president and then walking away from the table at the last second,” McConnell...
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Things I'm Thinking Of Doing At My 10 Year High... →
• Bring a couple vacuums and try to sell them to people while they mingle. … • Bring ingredients to make my own tacos and then laboriously make myself dinner all night.
Chris Kelly doesn’t post too often, probably because he has a job, and a life, and doesn’t earn a living from his blog, but he’s seriously hilarious in almost every post he writes. And also, frequently, pretty...
Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough... →
The Onion:
Obama added that while it may look ugly at times, politics is about Democrats giving up what they want, as well as Democrats giving up what they want, until an agreement can ultimately be reached.
Almost too true to be funny. But … still funny.
Why doctors don't like to talk about antioxidants... →
Any appeal to “evidence” in support of that view would have little traction with the consumer; double-blinded medical studies are counterbalanced, in America, by a parallel system of peer review in the form of a nonstop confab of health-themed talk shows, print magazines, and blogs.
I don’t think Sepkowitz really believes as much as his byline (“Antioxiants don’t...
Fake Facebook Birthdays →
Almost 30 people wished me a happy birthday on July 28 having already wished me a happy birthday on one of my previous non-birthdays. Sixteen people sent me Facebook birthday wishes on all three Facebook birthdays, not noting or perhaps not caring about the repetition. One friend even wished me four happy birthdays, congratulating me twice on one of my fake days.
Pretty amusing, and entirely...
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Ochocinco quiets some of the expectations a bit →
I’ve always been a chameleon, so I am going to blend in and do it the Patriot way, which is win.
I, for one, love it. Getting really excited for the Pats’ season to start.
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that...”
– LOUIS C.K., to his kids, on Louie (via inothernews)
July 2011
3 posts
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The Millions : What Harry Potter Knows →
Isn’t it funny that this is what happens to us? That even if you love books, if you start to dedicate your life to them, a light goes out, somehow. You come to know them with your brain rather than your soul. Maybe it’s just one more sad example of how you’ve grown up.
While I disagree a bit with the criticism of Rowling’s writing (though maybe I’ve just had my standards lowered by Dan...
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
8 posts
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“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is...”
– Barack Obama (via adiemtocarpe)
April 2011
4 posts
I just had this massive impulse to implode, as though there were a muscle for that.
March 2011
10 posts
