January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
“Are we here because Hillary Clinton texted us?”
– Russian protester in Moscow earlier today
November 2011
6 posts
October 2011
6 posts
“The year 2000 was essentially the point at which it became cheaper to collect...”
– Freeman Dyson, quoted by John D. Cook
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“Mankiewicz didn’t work on every kind of picture, though. He didn’t do Westerns,...”
– Pauline Kael in “Raising Kane”
September 2011
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Conan writer Todd Levin has an excellent piece in... →
If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without any interference from a host, producer, or network, that show would probably be called The Darkest and Most Impossibly Horrible Things You Can Imagine, Presented as Comedy.
According to the Lucasfilm accounting department,... →
Despite being the 15th highest grossing movie of all time, of course.
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Insurance billing codes for injuries resulting... →
Boing Boing has the roundup: “Forced landing of spacecraft injuring occupant, initial encounter”
August 2011
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This discussion about programmers that start feeling like phonies gets awfully Rumsfeldian:
I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don’t know. So paradoxically, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you might tend to fixate on the growing collection of unlearned peripheral concepts that you become conscious of along the way.
I can vouch for that...
“It’s not just that Citi Field looks backward; it looks backward through a...”
– Peter Richmond in Grantland
(Hey Grantland, this piece needs way more photos.)
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This is driving me nuts, latest example from Mashable:
Last month, Apple began enforcing its new in-app subscription rules, which require developers to remove external links to sites where users can purchase digital content or subscriptions without having to share any of the proceeds with Apple. Consequently, users have been forced to close out of the Kindle app and open their web browsers every...
“Which leaves us, well, here. But here isn’t a very good place to be. We live in...”
– Ezra Klien, Wonkbook (via joshgee)
July 2011
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Nathan Rabin’s AV Club reviews of the new season of Louie have been hilariously over-analytical and solemn. First graf of the latest post:
In the wonderful Martin Scorsese documentary Public Speaking, the writer and bon vivant Fran Lebowitz talks about how AIDS robbed us of multiple generations of great artists but it also robbed us of a great audience, an audience that was open-minded and...
June 2011
5 posts
“You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t...”
– New York State Senator Roy McDonald, on voting against his party for legalizing gay marriage (via Chris Aiola)
May 2011
10 posts
“I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the...”
– Louis C.K.
WatchI love these on-air citizenship tests.
(TeamCoco)
BU Today piece on the class "The City in the... →
How is this not on Greg White’s tumblr yet?
“Musicians can be strange. We were at the studio for Hello Nasty and the Biz...”
– Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in Vulture
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It’s been three years since I had the privilege of attending An Event Apart, the leading conference for web builders, and it’s going on again in Boston right now. When I was there, the highlight was Jared Spool, a usability expert who gives an entertaining yet incredibly smart presentation on driving users to their destinations.
Whether you’re a designer or someone that...
April 2011
19 posts
I rest easier knowing Matt Taibbi is keeping tabs on the financial industry. Case in point:
A hilarious report has come out courtesy of the National Institute of Money in State Politics, showing that Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller – who is coordinating the investigation into the banks’ improper mortgage dealings – increased his campaign contributions from the finance sector this year by a...
Virgin is hiring astronauts. →
I went to Space Camp. Just saying.
It will be interesting to see what ex-NASA folks they get, and how Virgin publicizes these pilots.
Mashable has some numbers on the New York Times... →
Of course, we need subscriber stats to get the full picture, but a 5-10% decrease in uniques and an 11-30% decrease in pageviews seems like a bit less of a drop than naysayers had predicted.
I’m not paying yet. But I think I might be soon. I still think charging that much more for the apps is missing the point.
A great interview with Ernie Smith, founder and... →
So proud to say I knew him when. Those guys are tearing it up on Tumblr these days.
Reuters' big piece on why News Corp mishandled... →
Of course, anyone actually using social networks at the time of the Myspace acquisition could have told you things wouldn’t work out. How is Murdoch’s entire organization so far out of sync with the tastemakers?