January 2008
“The error is very simple and basic: it is to suppose that ‘what anything...”
– brain wave
“What is amazing about this idea is that the people are the value—and they also...”
– jaron lanier, smarty
“What an amazing opportunity Robert [Scoble] has been given: the opportunity to...”
– a leading question if ever there was one
“Clinton also noted that, if elected, the timing would be perfect for his family,...”
– ditto
“My fellow Americans, I am sick and tired of not being president … For...”
– bill clinton: “screw it, i’m running”
“… and then there is a quiet settling down, once the cars have backed out...”
– caitlin flanagan, can she write!
“… or else we’d be nowhere (a location once known as “here”) doing nothing...”
– autumn of the multitaskers
“I think Americans from every community know what [Bill’s] life’s...”
– maybe not the very best choice of words, hil
“Augustine, in the fifth century, pointed out that the world was made with time,...”
– smarty pants
“Amid the flurry of Buddhist-inflected inquiry, however, there’s a risk...”
– hell-o?
“Buddhists believe that mental and physical realms have an equal claim on...”
– like His Holiness might have bitched and whined instead?
“But I think there is good reason to at least take that possibility seriously,...”
– anne harrington, medical historian
“At a time when the world is divided by an iron curtain—a fact unheard-of in...”
– via cary tennis
“But more important, is America really this sadistic, or has Fox crafted a solid...”
– heather, part two
“It’s amazing to me that Microsoft doesn’t make live.com search any easier.”
– doc searls | not really. ms = extend foot, shoot.
“As for the “lack of features” complaint, all I can say is you should...”
– oh i do. implicitly.
“Clearly, Apple has set its phasers to “niche”.”
– also the antlered one. yeah? so steve’s gonna fill my niche is he?
“… the Macalope hates to tell his good friends Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann...”
– like starting when? love dies if not fulfilled pretty damn soon
Course I been saying that for years.
“Well, pardon the Macalope for saying so, but dur-hey.”
– how does he do it. (i bring you only the best in writing.)
“Stop calling everything ‘content.’ It’s a bullshit word that the dot-commers...”
– the doctor is in
“Hillary’s insistence that we follow her example in pet ownership, when she...”
– caitlan flanagan
“He brought to the role of Ennis more than any of us could have imagined—a thirst...”
– ang lee
“WASHINGTON — U2 lead singer and activist Bono visited the Pentagon to discuss...”
– not fake steve. or the onion. i know, i know.
“But percentage of total market share is and largely always has been the wrong...”
– reblog from another quiet day
“Where capitalism delivers but cannot inspire, socialism inspires despite never...”
– policy.au
“So when it comes time to look at the wider world, it might seem a vast extension...”
– quite beautiful, this
“In other campaign news, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney used a speech...”
– andy borowitz, when he’s hot, he’s hot
“If you would like to be removed from our occasional promotional mailings, wish...”
– he ought to send this to zuckerkid
“There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men...”
– j. seinfeld
“One of my great strengths—maybe my greatest strength—is that I never listen to...”
– secret diary of steve jobs- my inspiration—or, wait, was i that way first
“vladimir_putin: ”Time Capsule seems to be derivative of Russian-designed...”
– interestingly, he left this comment
“just that it took him 49 years to reach a situation where he had to seriously...”
– no comment
“Why is it that articles like this always seem to simply “male-bash” while...”
– anyone want to answer this guy? … no? me neither.
“The criticism all basically goes like this: “It’s not like a MacBook...”
– wil shipley, a favorite writer
“In the sixties, the hardhats used to yell “America love it or leave...”
– dave winer. yes, that dave winer. read the whole post, it’s rather lovely
“USB Silly Putty … like copying a comic strip with regular Silly Putty,...”
– i’m tellin’ you, that moltz is a certified genius. well, certified anyway.
“The Mac|Life staff is still holding out hope for Jay-Z, but Macenstein has a...”
– crap!
“For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some...”
– from doug’s letter to his animals to be posted at “snout-height”
“To you, it’s an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn’t speak clearly.”
“A quotation often found in Communication textbooks is from Wittgenstein’s...”
– a-ha
“That is a truism of cultural studies. Whether there is any truth in the truism...”
– why i am not an academic, for one
“Wittgenstein said that he was once asked by one of his colleagues whether...”
– well, what was the answer?
“Is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis what underlies those rather silly claims that the...”
– they could?
“I don’t know, [Clinton] seemed to show care for the issues in her little...”
– emotionally stable? that’s a new way to describe them
“professional journalism has entered a period of declining sovereignty in news,...”
– the sovereign declines
“The Atlantic’s Ross Douthat defined Huckenfreude as “pleasure derived from the...”
– huckenfreude
“… just returned from CES in Vegas, so life is more than surreal right now...”
– from a friend
“Before Iowa, the Clinton campaign was ill-served by its belief in its own...”
– and you think you’re the least bit objective
“Apple announced today that Avon CEO Andrea Jung would be joining the company’s...”
– some terrible kind of genius