“For example, Herbert Hoover liked to write on the margins of memos. According to Schott, when one memo had too narrow margins he wrote, “watch the borders!” No one had the nerve to ask him why, but they sent inquiries to the Border Patrol about any strange activities on the Canadian and Mexican frontiers.”
—reblog: toomuchnick
October 2007
“Nick Douglas writes at Valleywag and Too Much Nick. Those things you like? He is over them.”
—should have been “he’s over them” … but pretty snappy anyway
“
There must be some kind of pundit startup hire failure correlation…
A Scoble Failure Index maybe?
” —sounds about right.
Play
“And whoever this Fake Steve person is, you certainly can’t fault this person for a lack of creativity or mongoose-like shrewdness.”
—andy ihnatko. mongoose are shrewd? it’s a great phrase
“For the second straight day, Fox News stood virtually alone in advancing thinly supported speculation to raise fears that the wildfires ravaging California are not the result of a confluence of arid heat and high winds but were set deliberately by al Qaeda terrorists. “In a post-9/11 world, we have to consider all possibilities,” a guest warned.”
—including the possibility that you are fucking idiots?
“If you happen to see a ‘59 MK IV whirring into your rearview mirror, get your wits about you because a rock legend is about to pass you in a chromed bio-diesel PHEV. As he notes about this epic journey, “We all charge the grid in our own way.”
—neil young, natch.
“The approach is similar to OmniFocus—but even more obsessively concerned with keeping the system focused solely on completing tasks (rather than grooming and feeding them for months while they grow long hair and learn how to drive a stick.)”
—merlin da mann, on taskpaper - and tasks. and driving stick.
“Hard to believe PodTech is going under, because they seemed to have such a solid business model. Find people who don’t have much of anything significant or entertaining to say; film them doing this; then sell advertising against the content. What’s not to love?”
—r.i.p.
“the sheer chutzpah of using national security as an excuse to censor a quotation about using national security as an excuse to stifle dissent”
—sheer stupidity is more like it
“Reporter: “Pretty good for 58.”
Bruce: “Oh. That’s nothing. I’m still a chiseled hunk of muscle …” —marry me? oh, wait. he’s taken.
Bruce: “Oh. That’s nothing. I’m still a chiseled hunk of muscle …” —marry me? oh, wait. he’s taken.
“I guess I would say that what I do is I try to chart the distance between American ideals and American reality. That’s how my music is laid out. It’s like we’ve reached a point where it seems that we’re so intent on protecting ourselves that we’re willing to destroy the best parts of ourselves to do so.”
—Bruce via psychsound
“Now, you may have seen some sites that attempt to give you the 411 on Leopard. But don’t let those bitches use your toothbrush, my friend!”
—oh boy, got a new phrase! (moltz)
“Pepe Escobar has some cogent recommendations as to where Thomas Friedman can stick his Lexus and his olive tree.”
—mystic bourgeoisie
“In this case Stallman was at Yale to rail against DRM. He gave a speech barefoot. Picked his toenails and ate the clippings. I can’t even imagine what it must have been like in the first few rows.”
—fsj
“
Well, here’s the thing. Cuture, schmulture. I am getting so tired of these smarmy, self-satisfied right-wing bastards. They can all kiss my ass, these fragile, tepid losers in the Special Olympics of the Mind.
SO LISTEN UP, YOU WHINY LITTLE SHITS.
” —oh christopher. say it like it is.