October 2009
“Father Lahey has been charged with possessing and importing child pornography....”
– understatement of the year | via doug alder
“Is anyone keeping score? Is there any way to know for sure if we are, on the...”
– mark morford asks
“t appears that Apple is moving towards a pole position in distribution of this...”
– brian lam via fake steve | love that dead stuff
September 2009
“In the end, while consumers may like Apple’s hardware, what they’re...”
– secret diary of steve jobs: we have your credit card info, and we are unstoppable.
“How can American forces protect the population, let alone help build a...”
– indeed.
“The news” itself, as a unitary entity, is no longer something we can take for...”
– columbia journalism review
“… God places the impossible demand of a perfect moral life on fleshly...”
– not very nice of him
“… the media does have a slight liberal slant and always will, because,...”
– doug’s darkworld
“People who are writing lies press harder on the paper and produce taller letters...”
– handy tip from mark morford
“Women are getting unhappier, I told my friend Carl.
“How can you tell?” he...”
– maureen dowd
“The character of life is like a work of literature. We are told that you are...”
– yes.
“Hecht lists circumstances in which she suggests one consider using drugs. Some...”
– ya think?
“Some writers, either suffering from the delusion that adding a crap–load of...”
– the angry (very funny) drunk
“Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament”
– emerson, via hermenautic circle
“The clichés line up outside the dust jacket and are whisked in pairs to a table...”
– adam gopnik on dan brown, and don’t you wish you could write like that
“In what universe do people create a file and immediately, whistling with...”
– snow leopard, she is a very bad cat.
“Turning Pig Lipstick Application Into A Fine Art”
– gary turner, nice headline
“One of those days where summer and fall seem to be negotiating something. Summer...”
– the famous james lileks
“Republicans ask US Senate to slow down on healthcare, mostly to give them more...”
– follow mark morford, his tweets are a treat
“We were desperate for a leader; we got a motivational speaker.”
– maybe so, maybe not. point is: you don’t know yet.
“The products we make are simply totemic objects – signifiers, as Saussure would...”
– the secret diary of steve jobs
“… apocalypse coming “any minute now I am so not fucking...”
– so mark morford
“By resisting the urge to avert our eyes, we can glimpse the blinding beauty that...”
– heather havrilesky on “brick city”
“The company said the operating system will be ready to download from 22 October...”
– the daily mash
“Windows 7 has been introduced after Microsoft admitted its Vista operating...”
– the daily mash
“I recently had dinner with some old friends, a couple with two small children,...”
– happy days blog
“So it was easier being a half-person in the Discrimination Ages than it is now...”
– berkeley blog
“Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it’s...”
– tomgram
“What had been a terrible crime perpetrated by a tiny handful of religious...”
– doug remembers 9/11/a>
“If I read that correctly, they’re saying that they arrested a bunch of...”
– chuckling
“What metaphors do, or indeed what any references do … may end up being...”
– space for reflection? here?
“For two decades, Apple — and sadly Apple alone — carried the flag of...”
– damn right
“Corporations work on multiple levels in the service of unending profit. One of...”
– IMproPRieTies
“The thing is, when someone decides not to go to work one day and instead puts a...”
– infinite summer. read the whole piece.
“… when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better.”
– bill maher, none better.
“Can’t you frigtards just write down whatever I say, and accept it as the...”
– poor steve. we are such a trial to him.
“Have you not figured out yet that there is no — I mean no fucking point at all —...”
– secret diary of steve jobs | we never learn. where’s my tablet.
“If you listen to the WordPress people, the answer to this is ‘be extremely...”
– how to to get your blog hacked
“… a hot, smelly enclosure, filled with people sitting under patio...”
– the new times square
“The point is that because Debs and so many others were there, much got...”
– i thought that’s who we fucking elected
“Does anyone in the upper reaches of the Obama administration actually grasp what...”
– men with guns
“It’s like the Jesus narrative: first you amaze everyone, you do some...”
– secret diary of steve jobs
“What George Lucas was saying last night was that this could all be good for us,...”
– the secret diary of steve jobs
