February 2012
7 posts
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“I’ve been following the recent articles and reports on Apple and manufacturing...”
– An Observer From Shenzhen—Thoughts on Apple’s Recent Bad Press
Whew, glad we finally cleared that up!
“One of this year’s most jaw-dropping efforts to date is developer Román Cortés...”
– A Rose by Any Other Name Might Smell as Sweet, But it Would Probably Be Larger | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Meet Bob Holmes (beatbob.com, meetbob.info): youth minister, motivational speaker, anti-suicide activist (er, or something), and “one-man volleyball team.” He’s defeated thousands of challengers - including the Baltimore Orioles (with Jim Palmer and Cal Ripken, thanks), “all the athletic teams of Texas A&M University,” and the Buffalo Bills (three times), and...
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Op-Docs: ‘El Wingador’ →
Wing Bowl 20 was this morning! Takeru Kobayashi won, setting an all-time record by eating 337 wings. (“In order to prepare for the event Kobayashi reportedly ate 200 wings per day in the days leading up to the event. He also ‘Tebow’d’ (sic) prior to the event.”)
Much more coverage via Philadelphia sports radio station 94WIP here; for some context on this whole thing,...
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“INDIANAPOLIS — They’re going to ruin the Super Bowl. That’s...”
– Unless you want to alienate target audience, Occupy someplace else - NFL - CBSSports.com News, Rumors, Scores, Stats, Fantasy Advice
January 2012
24 posts
sick new font choice brahs
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“This is Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains reminding you that smoking is allowed...”
– one of the new overhead PSAs at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (via grungebook)
Reified and Refined: Code Year Fail →
jddunn:
Code Year, do your example problems really need to be about writing code to enforce gender binaries? I know it makes for an easy way to model conditional statements, but please think before you do this shit. This whole thing is supposed to be about lowering the barriers to entry, and here you…
“We have, according to Mr. Gingrich, “an absolute obligation to minimize damage...”
– The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich by Joan Didion | The New York Review of Books
Making the rounds lately: Joan Didion’s great essay on Newt Gingrich in The New York Review of Books from 1995. One pull quote can’t do it justice, though the part where she offhandedly describes the To...
“Reminding the crowd that Romney had made fun of his plans for lunar colonies,...”
– Newt To the Moon - ABC News
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““I know people are making a big deal of that play,” she says. “Look, JaVale does...”
– JaVale McGee ‘is not a knucklehead;’ just ask his mom - The Washington Post
god i love the wizards
“The Tous PSG bet is that a sports team can be profitable catering only to casual...”
– Paris is Earning | The Classical
An exhaustive and beautifully-written (though occasionally problematic) look at the current state of soccer through the lens of PSG.
Every year, I participate in the MIT Mystery Hunt, a weekend-long competition that pits teams of solvers against each other in a series of increasingly difficult puzzles, eventually culminating in a physical scavenger hunt around the MIT campus to find the championship coin, which is usually literally a coin or some other small trinket. If it’s hard to understand the allure of a sleepless...
“Martin herself remained neutral when we met, though she said she was giving Newt...”
– The Tea Party’s Not-So-Civil War - NYTimes.com
““Ron Paul: We have you surrounded. We are the media,” sounded the voice from a...”
– Media mob chases Ron Paul from campaign stop in New Hampshire - The Hill’s Ballot Box
"Lastly, I have over 1,000 friends on facebook,... →
the giveaway for these guys is if they have a page... →
“For just $5 each month, you’ll get a weekly, long-form article from one of...”
– Read & Trust
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“Before Rick and Russell, there was Russell and The Guy Who Made “Zoot!...”
– Dave Tompkins on T La Rock and the lost memories of Def Jam’s first rapper - Grantland
Fugazi Live Series: Boston, MA USA 4/20/02 →
Finally added to the Fugazi Live Series: one of the first two shows they played in Boston since 1991, ie. one of the only two times I ever got to see Fugazi.
If memory serves this was the better of the two shows; if memory serves this was also ten years ago.
Boots Riley: No matter what party is voted in... →
superdiscochino:
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
No matter what party is voted in — Democrat, Republican, Green, or whatever — politicians are controlled by whoever controls industry. Under Capitalism, that is the ruling class. It’s not about personality or even intention. If I, as a communist, were elected as president- I would be powerless to enact any of my ideas as long as the economic system is...
“For several years, the city held a “Napoleon Dynamite Festival” in...”
– Preston, Idaho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
December 2011
15 posts
““The months of June and July were the hardest in my career,” he told me. “You...”
– Newt Gingrich’s Glory Days - NYTimes.com
pterodactyls asked: What were the top 5 beers you tried for the first time this year? What was the worst? If you were to sum up this year in a single beer, what would that be?
““They should not get any benefit from breaking the law, especially something as...”
– Illegal Immigrant’s Transplant, Cheaper Over Life, Isn’t Covered - NYTimes.com
“Mitt Romney, while touring the Chez Vachon restaurant in Manchester, sat down at...”
– Romney Accidentally Crashes Married Gay Vet’s Date While Trolling for Anti-Gay Votes | Gay Blog | Gay News
“In a recent interview with Billboard, Korn singer Jonathan Davis discussed the...”
– Korn’s Jonathan Davis: Obama an “Illuminati puppet” | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club
MMM MMM MMM WHY YES THAT'S SOME DELICIOUS BARF
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“But just what does Jesus’ order to occupy mean? Does it mean take over and...”
– My Take: Jesus was a free marketer, not an Occupier – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
brb, gonna go gargle my own barf for a little bit
“NEW HAVEN — Several upside-down American flags are flying over the Occupy New...”
– Occupy New Haven members turn American flags upside down on city Green, say it’s symbol of U.S. ‘distress’ (video)- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut
Okay, two things:
1. You really couldn’t find anyone to talk to besides “Moose” Lee and...
November 2011
32 posts
