August 2010
36 posts
"You're not going to get anything unless you say... →
soupsoup:
charitini:
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.
Gail Collins reminds us that we've come a long... →
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...
“When everything is finished in a world, the people go to look for what the...”
– 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...”
– Josh Barro, a conservative defending the Cordoba house. (via soupsoup)
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium...”
– 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)
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“Ad industry market research firm eMarketer released estimates Thursday that...”
– Caroline McCarthy (via soupsoup)
iPhone Users Have More Sex Partners, OKCupid... →
Seriously?
So, what makes the iPhone so monumentally libidinous? Perhaps it’s that extra ‘G’ Apple added to the iPhone 4. Or maybe the lower antenna placement actually arouses more than just our innermost frustrations. Then again, you could just chalk it up to a widespread case of app-phrodisia. A more feasible explanation, though, is that iPhone users simply don’t...
“Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said his country should legalize the...”
– Mexico Ex-President Fox Calls for Drug Legalization - Bloomberg (via mikehudack)
I dont have health Insurance
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justinday:
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malty:
On my way to work, I stepped on a broken bottle of mad dog. It went right through my chucks and into my heal. I went back home, took out bits of glass, cleaned it out and super glue my heal back up. I’m now walking with a limp. In some really weird hightops because there is blood all over my chucks. Mad Dog is my achilles heal.
Don’t be stupid. ...
After 27 years on death row, a plea deal: Leave... →
savingpaper:
From Dan Barry, one of the best writers working at The New York Times:
You can never come back, ever. If you plead guilty to that long-ago murder in Oklahoma City, you will be released from prison, where you have spent most of the last 27 years on death row. But once free, you will be banished from Oklahoma. O.K.?
O.K., said James Fisher, trading his black-and-white-striped...
Gil Scott-Heron profiled in this week's New... →
“All the dreams you show up in are not your own.” Visionary man. Tortured soul.
“Just a point of order: We like to measure America by its relative New Yorkness....”
– Ain’t gonna let the terrorists win.
James Fallows (via soupsoup)
So much good for cancer awareness, yet so much bad... →
Because chemo, historically, makes people stronger. Not.
Armstrong is considered one of the more remarkable athletes in American history, someone who dominated his sport and also had a compelling personal story, having beaten testicular cancer.
“On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene...”
– Amen. That’s my mayor.
Michael Bloomberg
Read the entire address at the link above.
(via soupsoup)
“The Islamic community center near Ground Zero will most likely be built, but...”
– Adam Serwer (via savingpaper)
A Longing for Unhealthier Times →
THE nation is once again transfixed by “Mad Men,” by the pouring of cocktails in the office, by the lighting of cigarettes, by the extramarital carousing of elegantly dressed advertising executives in hats, and ah, the mixed feelings!
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But is there also the tiniest bit of wistfulness, the slight but unmistakable hint of longing toward all that stylish chaos, all that selfish, retrograde...
“Remarkable. An organization whose stated role is to ‘counteract hatred,...”
– Amen.
Adam Serwer (via tennroof) (via savingpaper, sexartandpolitics)
July 2010
61 posts
“I’ve always said that if you fall during your life it doesn’t matter, because...”
– Amen.
Evel Knievel (via soupsoup)
“I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. It’s a nice...”
– EXACTLY. Full discloser: at age 39 I still have neither husband, nor tattoo. But I do have a mortgage, a dog, and that nose ring I got at 35.
I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloane Crosley (via lizlemon) (via apsies) (via mikehudack)
“[Texas Rep. Joe Barton] said the rest of the country should not bear the brunt...”
– But New York’s federal tax dollars — you want some of those, don’t you? Barton, you are a freaking idiot.
NY Daily News, “Congress rejects Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act as GOP members balk at bill” (via savingpaper)
New York City Subway Platforms to Go Wireless in... →
I love/hate this. Can’t decide. I want to be able to text you when I’m running late. I don’t want to listen to anyone’s phone conversation.
soupsoup:
After an almost three-year delay, work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring mobile- phone and Wi-Fi service to New York’s subway stations.
68 Fantastic British Names Gathered While Watching... →
So worth a read.
savingpaper:
(via urlesque, caro, hellonewworld)
Last year I wrote a quiz (“NPR Personality or Charles Dickens Character?”) for McSweeney’s that was rejected. Going with BBC personnel would have definitely upped my odds.
“We got ourselves into Afghanistan because we were afraid and angry. And whether...”
– squashed (via savingpaper)
“If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed...”
– Brian Eno. Love his music. Might love this just as much.
Wired 3.05: Gossip is Philosophy
(via msg)
(via soupsoup)
The End of Privacy: It's near, it's here
Once again, I’m happy my personal account is with yahoo. Not that it really matters, since I’m all over FB. But still. Dodged this bullet. For now.
mikehudack:
rainblog:
Remember the Google Buzz fiasco? In their eagerness to roll out their latest whizz-bang new killer feature (by the way, does anyone still use Buzz?), Google didn’t bother to think about - or deliberately chose to...
“Today, the House passed legislation reducing the two-decades-old sentencing...”
– Long overdue.
Congress Passes Historic Legislation to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity (via tedr
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It’s about time.
(via mikehudack)
“Every creative field, maybe even every field, has been shaken by technology in...”
– Ricardo Gutierrez (via savingpaper)
Soup: lindsaykap: ... — So young, educated,... →
lindsaykap:
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So young, educated, influential males with (presumably) way more disposable income than most consumers are owning a new technology and Forrester isn’t sure that it’s a good field to play on? So wrong.
Translation: We’re fifty-two year old marketing men and we don’t…
“Just because some documents are classified doesn’t mean that they’re news or...”
– Fred Kaplan (via savingpaper)