January 2012
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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 