April 2009
79 posts
Somewhere In NY It's Always 2008 and DUMBO →
Honest to god, non-snarky question: Who’s Keith Gessen? I always used to see his name on Gawker, but never got the context.
Thanks in advance.
johncarney:
Probably the only appropriate response to the latest piece of Emily Gould porn in Vanity Fair is for me to note that it quotes my Tumblr, Rise If You Must.
“Research on a large captive group of Japanese macaque monkeys is also...”
– Overcoming Bias: Female Orgasm as Screening
Again, same as below.
“First suggested by David P. Barash nearly three decades ago, the idea is that...”
– Overcoming Bias: Female Orgasm as Screening
Normally I’m too prudish to post something like this. But the interestingness of this wins out.
“When a politician switches parties, it’s customary for the party he’s abandoned...”
– Unprincipled Hack (D-PA) - The Plank
“The year 1990 was particularly tough when it came to trying to score something...”
– Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
Magic Doesn't Make Things Happen
jayparkinsonmd:
Miamimed:
The following are some general rules that seem to be forgotten in the modern political debate. #1: You cannot make things happen with a philosophy of government. If I have a philosophy that says that the government should take care of the poor, and I vote for people who espouse that philosophy, it doesn’t make the government take care of the poor. What it does is...
“Our experience with OpenID is limited (thankfully) and has been more trouble...”
– Facebook’s OpenID Challenge: Making It Not Suck
So glad that Frome hates OpenID like I do.
First Pic Of Hudson Scare Plane Posted On Twitter →
johncarney:
Holy shit! It’s scary.
Andrew Bird — The Fiery Crash
I’ve...
ER visits and health care costs rise in... →
jayparkinsonmd:
If Obama mandates health insurance across America, healthcare costs will increase more than they already are.
It’s as simple as that. It’s a handout to the insurance industry and, of course, they’re salivating at the opportunity for it to be against the law that we don’t buy their piss poor products.
See, it is simple economics…mandating insurance increases the demand for...
“The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the...”
– Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency Amid Swine Flu Outbreak - Bloomberg.com
Um…
Hole — Olympia
I really think you could...
“First, financial journalists failed to grasp the significance of the failure to...”
– FT’s executive editor, Lionel Barner, explains how financial journalists blew it. (via jayyarow)
I’m trying to think of something more annoying than people writing about financial journalists failing to do their job…. thinking…
Nope. I guess that really is the most annoying...
WatchThat awesome scene in Goodfellas when they walk into The Copa. All in one shot, set to the song He Kissed Me. So awesome.
Pulitzer Board Shuts Out Financial Journalism →
johncarney:
(via clusterstock)
“It’s handcrafted entertainment for the people who comment about Gawker on...”
– Gawker Alums Launch New Gawkeresque Blog, ‘The Awl’
“MIAMI (Reuters) - Left-wing extremists in the United States are gaining new...”
– Easy Living Fueling Left-Wing Extremism, U.S. Says
Spot Runner's "Pump & Dump" Scheme →
Spot Runner is really the perfect web2.0 success story, isn’t it?
1) Come up with a product that sounds buzzy and disruptive, even though it isn’t.
2) Get A LOT of blog hype about how disruptive they are
3) Raise VC, who want to show how forward thinking they are
4) Raise money/and or sell to an established, dying media brand that is horribly insecure and worried about missing out...
Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up →
johncarney:
The most annoying thing about the “climate change” orthodoxy is how it insists the science only goes one way. I’m not interested in creating an orthodoxy, so here’s some evidence that runs contrary to my earlier item about increasing ice volumes.
Whatever. I’m interested in creating counter-orthodoxy. So I reblogged this but took out the link in the URL. I haven’t read it...
“A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal...”
– Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away
Again, phew.
“ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief...”
– Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away | The Australian
While ice is melting in some parts of antarctica, it’s growing in other parts, says The Australian.
I know a lot of you who are particularly worried about global warming will find this to be a big relief.
Granted, it’s just...
“But Bobby wasn’t Ms. Ferrell’s only prospect. A month earlier, at the end of...”
– The Hipster Grifter | The New York Observer
I finally got around to reading this article. Amusing. For what it’s worth, my birthday’s in September, though I am 28 and do live in Greenpoint.
“Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a “nation of laws” at the same...”
– The American Conservative: Obama-Style “Nation of Laws”
“Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness,...”
– Liberal actress says tea parties were racist
Lovely.
“When Abbott was still in grade school, one opposing coach ordered his batter to...”
– Jim Abbott at Michigan and beyond | Michigan Today
Famed one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott is having his number retired by the UMich Wolverines.
The News Channels are Biased. We Get It. Stop...
billda:
I have seen so many posts on Tumblr from people whipped up in righteous anger because they perceive that one news network or another is giving unfair positive or negative converage to their particular political party or pet cause. The most recent example being the “over coverage” of the Tea Party protests by Fox News yesterday.
News flash everyone:
Fox News is a conservative news...
Tom T. Hall — “Me and Jesus”
...
Ernest Tubb — What a Friend We Have In...
Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US... →
Obviously, it has something to do with smishmortion.
But then, why do we need an ambassador to The Holy See? Seriously, to defuse a possible war? Why?
I really want to know.
“Oh, and Mike, you only have 62 comments and 72 likes, which demonstrates you...”
– Scobleizer: Mike Arrington and I disagree on the future
This is the funniest thing currently on the internet. Robert Scoble boasting about how much more he uses Friendfeed than Mike Arrington.
Destroyer — The Crossover
This song is just...
