August 18
MSNBC
August 17
"You're not going to get anything unless you say butter or cheese!"
Ex-boyfriends will not be surprised to learn that I side with the stubborn lady who refused to just quietly let go of something stupid that didn’t make sense.
I side with the lady, but her first mistake was going to Starbucks to begin with.
You’re in New York City, and you’re buying a bagel at Starbucks. You should have your head examined.
August 16
Gail Collins reminds us that we've come a long way, baby (but why does it feel like we still have so much farther to go?)
The story in American history I most like to tell is the one about how women got the right to vote 90 years ago this month. It has everything. Adventure! Suspense! Treachery! Drunken legislators!
But, first, there was a 70-year slog.
Which is really the important part. We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
“Hallowed Ground”
A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the “Ground Zero Mosque”:
When everything is finished in a world, the people go to look for what the artists leave. It’s the only thing that we have really in this world — is an ability to express ourselves and say, ‘I was here.’
- Abbey Lincoln, a towering figure in American jazz and the civil rights movement, who died Saturday at age 80. (via savingpaper)
Part of supporting limited government is understanding that sometimes, things you don’t like will happen, and the government (especially the federal government) won’t do anything about it. Getting to do what you want comes at the price of other people getting to do what they want—including build mosques where you’d prefer they didn’t.
- Josh Barro, a conservative defending the Cordoba house. (via soupsoup)
We live in a world where you’re not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.
- Michael Arrington
August 13
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.
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Eno speaks.
Brian Eno, predicting the future, in 1995 (via glenda)
Brilliant point. I’ve been seeing a lot of 80s and 90s video art in galleries and museums lately. The washy, imprecise color display from the magnetic tape technology adds to the emotional feeling I have towards them.
(via tedr)
(via ericmortensen) (via mikehudack)
Ad industry market research firm eMarketer released estimates Thursday that predict ad spending on Facebook will reach nearly $1.3 billion worldwide in 2010—and is poised to hit over $1.7 billion in 2011.
- Caroline McCarthy (via soupsoup)
