February 2009
236 posts
January 2009
252 posts
“The question before us is this: Does Al Gore exist?”
– A New Refutation of the Very Possibility Of Al Gore — Crispin Sartwell
This famous essay has absolutely no timeliness these days. I really don’t know what prompted me to think about it. Just popped into my head.
Last Night Before Brooke And Me Left The Party
B: Should we take one more spin around to see if there’s anyone we know here?
Me: No, cause what if we run into someone we know?
“The New York Times frontpages a long and peculiar story on the Kenyan election a...”
– Steve Sailer: Don’t mention the Luo!
How Will the Recession Affect Innovation? -... →
Althouse: The Pajamas Media blogging enterprise... →
Huh. So Pajamas Media, the neocon blog aggregator/ad network that hoped to in their own words “send the MSM up the river” is dead.
I met some guy who was involved with them at a Media Meshing thingy, so in that sense I hope that dude’s ok.
But I have to say, this seemed like a matter of time from day one. And frankly, not a moment too soon, given the prominent place that the...
Force Kings — “Roly Poly”
Since...
“The best way to arrive in Charleston, S.C., is by overnight train from New York,...”
– Demystifying Country Captain, the One-Dish Wonder of the Coastal South - NYTimes.com
Now that, my friends, from last week’s food column in the New York Times Magazine is a killer first line. That doesn’t make me uneasy at all. Totally socks you in the gut and the picture so vivid. The...
“If salami is the blog of cured meats, then prosciutto is the great novel.”
– With Salt and Patience, an Iowa Couple Makes World-Class Prosciutto - NYTimes.com
Huh. Not sure what I think of that line, either as an analogy or prose. It’s striking, no doubt, but maybe I’m just not there yet thinking you can just go around using the word “blog” like...
“Could Detroit release cars in beta? Could cars be ad-supported and free? Is...”
– Jeff Jarvis
Take my life, PLEASE!
WatchWatch me and Carney work, LIVE
“I’m not going to create a slideshow presentation but I’ll give you the winning...”
– 11 Business Plans For Twitter (via lunchfood)
Big Oil, Big Tobacco... Meet Big Toys →
(via clusterstock)
Toy safety regs designed to protect children were lobbied in favor of by large toy companies. Wonder why… hmm…
No Offense
This is not meant to single out any of the people I read on Tumblr, since they all do it, but if a post has more than 20 reblogs, I’ve noticed that I’m basically guaranteed to not like it. It’s not that I don’t like the reblogs themselves, it’s just that the stuff that gets reblogged is typically the kind of stuff that bugs me: pictures that are annoying (animals),...
“Dividends are in general poorly understood by economists, in part because they...”
– Tyler Cowen: Should bank dividends be banned?
“When Malcolm (Gladwell) makes a quantitative statement, it’s usually time...”
– Steve Sailer: Can you predict who will be a good NFL quarterback?
“Does any slam with ‘dude’ at the end sting?”
– Eric Falkenstein commenting on a workplace lawsuit, prompted by one trader saying to another: “You don’t even eat steak, dude! At what point in time did you realize you were gay?”
“Our nation’s current organ donation system relies on altruism alone. A regime of...”
– When Altruism Isn’t Moral — The American
I changed my mind about that version of “Under African Skies”. It’s actually really, really good.
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic... →
jerrybrito:
This is the site I’ve developed with some fellow volunteers to help keep stimulus spending accountable. All the “shovel-ready” projects that cities want funded are on this site, and you get to tell us about the projects in your city, as well as vote on the importance of any project.
Know something about the bridge that needs repair in your city? Share it in the wiki. Don’t think we...
1981 tv segment predicting that the internet will... →
mattlehrer:
(via johncarney:abangupjob)
All You Can Eat Mondays at Hill Country!?!?!? →
adamiss:
And All You Can Drink on Tuesday. Wow.
next Tumblr meetup, February 9th or 10th?
“Denny’s is making its Super Bowl debut in the third quarter of the game....”
– MediaPost
What have I been wasting time on all my life? I LOVE reading these deadpan descriptions of what must be hilarious ads. Writing these up seems like a legitimate art to me. More legitimate than painting, at least.
“Pepsi Max, the first diet soft drink tasty enough for a man, is launching two...”
– MediaPost
“Stupid guy” commercials are never funny, but man, they really don’t work well in print.
bercovicimixedmedia:
“Call me gullible or impressionable, but I’m actually feeling kind of hopeful this week.”
-Publishers Weekly editor in chief Sara Nelson, in the opening line of her weekly editor’s letter. Nelson was laid off on Monday.
Sucks.
iPhone App Solves Rubik's Cube in 20 Moves or... →
(via j10)
Finally.
Huh.
I just noticed that I’ve like 46 posts on Tumblr, and I’m following 69 people.
Both are multiples of 23. That’s a real mindfuck.
