January 2010
“Barack Obama, elegant and professorially articulate, was an invitation to...”
– i suppose it’s true.
“Sad happens.”
– nance
“Apple has been talking to publishers, and content could be a selling point, with...”
– silly boy.
December 2009
“For some years after 9/11, passengers were forbidden to get up and use the...”
– christopher hitchins
“This propensity to avoid moral considerations, to restrict ourselves to issues...”
– n.y.r.b.
“Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.”
– tony judt writes on having als
“Robert’s injury, she writes, has “allowed him to come so close to being normal,...”
– her war-injured brother
“If we start from where we are now, it is obvious that the current Universe must...”
– uh, yes? duh?
“On Dec. 31, 1969 – 40 years ago this week – BBC-TV featured John Lennon as a...”
– i can’t wait.
“… the largest machine ever built.
… generates a magnetic field...”
– the large hadron collider factlets
“And Abdulmutallab didn’t even have an iPod.”
– yeah! so take that!
““The system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past...”
– well yes. if the system is citizen tackle.
“… the tablet remains a technological unicorn — a mythical beast whose...”
– i thought that was the macalope.
“Wither PC Gaming?”
– headline, technewsworld.com
“We might, for example, reflect on the fact that Matthew’s Magi probably...”
– oh that gosh darn bible
“Tiger Woods has an emotional void in his life. This void must be huge. For him...”
– mike wise: tiger woods does not stand alone
“… I use humor as camouflage, because if I were to deal with the truth, if...”
– mike wise goes on
“… that this is really about a man who has everything and nothing at the...”
– mike wise starts some remarkable truth-telling
“Joe DiMaggio, pushing 60, tucked a phone number of a 20ish flight attendant in...”
– mike wise
“To automatically hate and fear anything or anyone different from ourselves and...”
– and a merry christmas to you too
“The Taliban’s demonic and demonizing attitude toward women represents merely the...”
– francine prose
“The Fed chairman was just as big a schnook as every other magical thinker in...”
– frank rich
“(Then there’s the fact that Kidman has entered some strange phase in her...”
– slate
“Perhaps identity, like beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder, and if people...”
– human identity; the economist
“I’m afraid to entirely lose my faith in humanity’s core worth....”
– nance
“Like I find, the minute I see young kids doing something I really, really hate,...”
– paula scher on failure
“White folks should be ashamed that it’s taking an Indian to save part of their...”
– sherman alexie, on the book
“The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia...”
– yeah, sure. right.
“AT&T survives Operation Chokehold”
– bummer
“Sex had made it possible to reconcile ecstasy and dissent. Today, it is the...”
– open magazine, via 3quarksdaily
“I think the anger stems from the fact that we’re living in the United States,...”
– operation chokehold: friday.
“… the psychological fact remains that we tend to experience traumatic...”
– book, amazon
“I have some half-assed opinions about something that happened on the internet.”
– textism uber-tweet
“As string-theory fans know all too well, there are inconsistencies between...”
– so that’s what those pesty little things are
“Hendrick Hertzberg’s new account brings us up to Obama’s biggest problem: being...”
– a fascinating thought
“You may think when a bird has eaten from your hand that you have at last...”
– via tawny grammar
“Sarah Palin: I have common sense and I have I believe the values that I think...”
– via one stop thought shop
“I think you have to feel secure before you can feel anything else.”
– dave pollard, via brian hayes
“How will we think about death when someone we know or admire dies every day for...”
– kottke.org grows a little older
“It’s no secret that iPhone users are data whores.”
– i *beg* your humble
“The fabled Apple Tablet is affecting everyone, to the extent that Apple has...”
– ah, the power.
“It’s hard to pretend you have a new product each day when, in fact, you...”
– improprieties on newspapers
““Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow...”
– whiskey river
“We will end up with one and a half cities in America—Washington, D.C., and...”
– more richard rodriguez, harper’s, read the whole stunning thing