January 2011
“For example, if a white guy uses a word like canard or vicissitude, and...”
– on martha’s vineyard
“At some point, most white people consider starting or actually start a blog.”
– same guy-he can write!
“The twenty five hour journey from Boston provided more than enough time for me...”
– engrish, heartless and funny
“After this, you will be in the capable hands of your carefully-trained waiter....”
– disney world 1979. creepy.
““One of the key ways that we’ll measure success of Windows Phone is did we ship...”
– gruber
“One thing that may concern users is that there will be notifications that a...”
– may?
“Tea Party GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann thinks founding fathers ended slavery”
– could we just shoot me now.
“We Now Trust CEOs More Than “Folks Like Me,” but the U.S. Is Low on...”
– first part: insanity (stupidity?), second: only makes sense
“… she watched television— it was CNN in fact — and the fact that she was...”
– cnn? my god, gifford’s doing better than i am!
“Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous...”
– matt again. ooh he can write.
“What we had instead was a nation of reality shoppers, all shutting the blinds on...”
– matt tabbai, on the great derangement
“Without Mr. Taibbi, the world would never have known to compare Goldman Sachs to...”
– new york observer
“I can’t say I was surprised by a single Wikileak … they all seemed...”
– great line, sylvia paull
“Michael Dell has cautioned about the importance of the founder not creating a...”
– hello? this is a danger with michael *dell* ?
“If and when he returns to an active role, Apple would benefit from Jobs giving...”
– oh, right. like he gives a fuck what you think, newsweek.
“Page—so integral to what makes Google Google that its central PageRank algorithm...”
– i thought it was because it ranks your *page* … didn’t you?
“I’m probably not the best person in the world to shepherd it to a five- or...”
– steve again, 1985.
“I would have been there a period of time, and maybe I would have gone off and...”
– teh steve, 1985. never say never.
“You must pay for everything in this world one way or another,” says Mattie....”
– true grit
“Stop organizing life around the people who don’t get the joke,”...”
– bill maher
“So apparently gasoline is selling for like eight bucks a gallon these days,...”
– perfect.
“HP’s snazzy new slogan is “The computer is personal again.” I...”
– more
“I get a call from Bono, who’s sober for a change, and he goes, Hey man,...”
– bono calls.
“You think those twits actually do anything other than give interviews and play...”
– fake steve is signing off. from the archives.
“People like Chomsky I think are motivated by an ideological hated for anything...”
– alan dershowitz. hmmm.
“One of the things we used to do at the Innocence Project is we would try, just...”
– peter neufeld on being wrong
“If your medieval barber has, for some reason, advised you to purge yourself of...”
– m. lope
“Hu Presents Obama with Counterfeit DVD of Toy Story 3”
– oh andy, andy
“In GOP circles, she’s beginning to be seen as toxic in any presidential...”
– baby wha’d i say
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the...”
– mountain7
“Google has become a jungle: a tropical paradise for spammers and marketers....”
– Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google
“It’s the OS X upgrade price that has already surprised me, perhaps because...”
– t j luoma
“Of course, there is one class of user that will completely balk at this model:...”
– yeah. fuck them.
“If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe.”
– john mayer
“Though the risks are high, Facebook should not impede innovation for fear of...”
– oh please give me a fucking break.
“Ok. I need a life. Anyone have a link?”
– rands on n.a.d.d.
“The roots of modesty have been carved away.”
– tree of failure, david brooks
“Let there be a ban on every holiday.
No ringing in the new year.
No fireworks...”
– a new law, by greg delahanty
“There was a table in there with a typewriter on it. “Quiet”, he...”
– richard brautigan
“… Maybe he is going to be formidable.”
– peggy noonan
“He repeated the sentence … More and deeper applause. Something seemed to...”
– peggy noonan
“Sarah Palin’s ‘Blood Libel’ Comment Overshadows Calibrated...”
– i think stupid of the year has already been won
“To read a book people will turn to their phones. But the web is where they will...”
– explains so much.
“Then there’s YouTube. It was created so that anyone could upload and...”
– why wasn’t i consulted; ftrain.com
“You were engaged, as a writer should be, in transforming yourself. When I read...”
– saul bellow letter to john cheever