May 2009
“Sure, every once in a while you have to push the envelope and it’s fun to...”
– so much excitement
“Just a scant 11 years after the death of the Newton, technology punditry has...”
– macalope this week
“Do you know someone who has swine flu? Do you know someone who knows someone who...”
– farhad manjoo has a genius idea
April 2009
“Finally, a global calamity where the best thing to do is stay home, drink beer,...”
– headline, doug’s darkworld
“But finally, and most excitingly, Jason Snell reads the tea leaves that...”
– who can write like the macalope can write. (plus: drool.)
plus, got so excited, had to blog it: yes i’m a fanboi
“In Texas and elsewhere, conservatives soothe the pain of electoral rout with...”
– favorite headline of the day
“Patri’s Seastead Institute has received funding from Paypal founder Peter...”
– and that’s the least of it. believe it or no.
“He’s made it less embarrassing to be an American.”
– katha pollitt on the 100th day
“… the day I returned I had iguana eggs for breakfast, airline pretzels for...”
– joe bageant: escape from the zombie food court | which everyone must read
“Heidegger suggested that we knew there was such a thing as art because we could...”
– sightwork.org
“We have all been fucked for so long we do not know we are being fucked. Now that...”
– tom matrullo: visa my arsa
“We’re confiscating shampoo from carry-on luggage at airports while at the same...”
– bob herbert
“The river itself is a kind of living anthology, as Grahame puts it —”a...”
– review: newly annotated w. in w.
“There are few things I would like more than to see both ebooks and print thrive,...”
– baldur
“… even the most informed and educated Americans have cultural conditioning...”
– yessir. joe bageant | escape from the zombie food court
“I hate to break it to the folks so worried, but it will probably be a cold day...”
– shelley again
“Being “open source” will protect MySQL. Yeah, right. And I believe...”
– mizz shelley
“Surely Mr. Obama knows that hope fades where the light of truth doesn’t...”
– while kunstler clusterfucks, i wait. and reserve judgement. it’s only, clue, the smart thing to do.
“Students will examine why former generations carried around heavy clumps of...”
– mcsweeneys, course: writing for readers in the post-print era
“But good music is also good music, even if it’s sung by a dork. Neil...”
– salon | point at which i stopped reading
“Marketing without a system for managing meaning is analogous to ancient...”
– i may puke.
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“For a moment I just had a visualization of Ronny dancing with J. Edgar in a...”
– you must remember this
“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though...”
– from tom. marvelous
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“There’s no One Big Thing you can point to that’s wrong with the “improved”...”
– yule heibel on retouching
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“Yes, Jesus is coming … everyone look busy.”
– witticism courtesy doug
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“…when you consider that the CEO is only 24 and a geek, he probably does...”
– alan on poor, sad zuckerman and the aureoles
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“We’ll soon find out whether an organism the size of the United States can...”
– jim kunstler makes a funny
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“The Globe and Mail looked to be asking the exact same question about Twitter...”
– good luck on that one
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“The advertising and marketing industry spends over $17 billion a year on shaping...”
– t r u t h o u t | commodifying kids
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“How To Turn Your Head Into An Antenna”
– and other actually useful tips
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“As @dweinberger put it: In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people.”
– true greatness, another to memorize in your book of tweets
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“You know what? Hiring some kids to revolutionize media is how Obama won an...”
– is obama the financial dubya? harvardbusiness.org (via kvasir) i am so sorry to maybe, possibly agree
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“At some point, each and every one of these people had to say to themselves...”
– remiel - this week’s tweet champ
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“The tweets are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and hours to...”
– i don’t see why there can’t be poetic tweets
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“What a unique monetization strategy! You can gift your friends with credits, and...”
– alan herrell appreciates facebook
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“Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their...”
– more ivan illich (via kvasir)
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“Former French prime minister Alain Juppe … said that “this pope is...”
– at play in the fields of the lord
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“Is it not some form of strange self-torture, a kind of brutal spiritual...”
– yes, yes, let’s! i nominate morford, i really do!
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“Here is the great, blasphemous secret: Quitting smoking is relatively easy. It...”
– marky mark morford, he of the cool best
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“Google was a massive aircraft carrier, and I was just a small dinghy trying to...”
– stopdesign stops working at google
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“I think it was Neil Postman who wrote that he didn’t know exactly what content...”
– experience redux (via kvasir)
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“They begin to realize that each word stays on the blackboard even after its...”
– deschooling society – ivan illich (via kvasir | so deeply cool, that image. (emphases mine)
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“There are always some people who, given the chance, will respond to anything,...”
– also about twitter, also true
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“Twitter is beginning to look more like yet another gateway drug to full-blown...”
– ya think?
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“Bose is the Olive Garden of home audio.”
– not for nothin’ is remiel kind of the tweets
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“Despite the claims of graybeard stock brokers and aging realtors at cocktail...”
– we avoided them then, harder to avoid now 