February 2012
“… but a long time before the iPhone and the iTunes App Store and now the...”
– unbelievable, but true! » mo.app
“Is the artist’s purpose to somehow touch the heart and mind, or merely to...”
– mystic bourgeoisie
“I haven’t thought of anything worth saying,” he tells one character, who...”
– from “raylan”
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
– elmore leonard
“Bradley Manning has been incarcerated for well over a year by the U.S....”
– we suck. thank you george w. bush.
“Private Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize”
– members of the icelandic parliament for the movement
“These are two people who know how to eye-fuck across a place setting …”
– says nymag in its recap. so true.
“If Matthew’s giblets do not spontaneously regrow then he and whoever he...”
– guardian.uk comment. oh those brits.
“Evidence is growing that the primary purpose of these fabricated classes [of...”
– thus medicine, too, falls to the god of profit margin
“… it will take a great deal for psychiatrists to be persuaded that the...”
– hello? this is not the case?
“Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged...”
– i’m sorry, is the presidency for sale?
“I hope that Sojourner Truth would be proud to see me, a descendant of slaves,...”
– hell yes
“Skrillex has become a star by making dubstep palatable to American college...”
– essential
“Reading Didion today, more than ever, means submitting almost fully to the...”
– what a fabulous stroke of genius
“In “Only Disconnect,” published in 1980, Barbara Grizzutti Harrison called...”
– you gotta admit …
“I’m grumpy when I’m forced to read a physical book because it’s not as...”
– now who would this be but bezos
“The most damning information we have about Newt Gingrich is not that he is a...”
– sady doyle again
“Siri, the endlessly helpful computerized secretary who can figure out anything,...”
– jesus, is there no escape.
“… but the actual internet as used by normal people is a highly constructed...”
– b michael
January 2012
“Cultivating inner awareness, introspection and reasoning can be more effective...”
– i am so relieved to hear you say that.
“His philosophy (and his philanthropy, if you will) was in his work, and he was...”
– that mike godwin can write!
“Steve Jobs was perhaps in touch with his fundamental humanity more than most...”
– mike godwin on steve 2
“While an artist can create or abstract a narrative theme that ties all his facts...”
– mike godwin
“Quan Says She’ll Call National Occupy Leaders”
– is that an 800 number?
“If you want nice, buy a Hallmark card.”
– betsy lerner, a woman after my own heart.
“Of course, many of us had the rainbow Apple logo stickers all over our...”
– the day? whatdya mean “the day”?
“… the attempt to track from one to five through Mr. Gingrich’s “Five...”
– the teachings of speaker gingrich, joan didion, nyrb, 1995
“Obama stirred controversy throughout the speech with his relentless references...”
– oh borowitz
“Google Is Facebook Is AOL”
– horrifying thought
“PAGE: That’s the problem. Most portals show their own content above...”
– but that was larry v.2004.
“Google’s CEO Larry Page knew all about ads his company ran for an illegal...”
– that larry. evil? prolly.
“Netflix Inc., the online and mail- order video-rental service, said it contained...”
– reed hastings is one lucky s.o.b.
“… the furor almost by definition proves that Google handled this clumsily,...”
– i *warned* you about larry.
“Here is an open letter to Lady Mary and her handsome cousin Matthew: Dear Lady...”
– yeah, yeah. we got a long way to go.
“Ethel returns to reveal to Mrs. Hughes later that she’s pregnant which made me...”
– best episode four recap
“Obama’s foreign policy, like Dwight Eisenhower’s or George H.W. Bush’s, eschews...”
– well, there’s the problem right there.
“But given the enormity of what he inherited, and given what he explicitly...”
– andrew sullivan, just getting started
“Let me get this straight. Apple entered the phone business five years ago with a...”
– love me lots a gruber
“Someone should make a list of every jackass tech site that took these Color...”
– i heart gruber
“Their luggage, laptops, phones, passports, jewellery and a jar of Vegemite...”
– aussie passengers. need one add.
