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.