May 2008
57 posts
Tag Galaxy →
fluffah: Visualize your tags. There are a lot of animals named Cleo, much to my daughter’s chagrin. Gorgeous site. You may not want to start if you don’t have a lot of time — it was a big time suck for me.
'Sex' sells, but will men see 'City?' - Variety →
I must confess that I grow a bit weary at the media’s droning chorus of “Men hate SATC and women love it!” Enough, please. I myself, a bona fide woman, detested the show — wouldn’t even stay in a room where it was on a TV — and would rather be dragged over carpet tacks and then dipped in iodine than see the movie. I also have a couple of male friends who adored...
“Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise...”
– Scott McClellan, speaking about Richard Clarke, in March 2004. Why am I not surprised?
The Smell of Roses at Night →
A poem and its digital interpretation. Pretty riveting.
Global Warming Skeptics Plot 'Carbon Belch Day' →
“Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 to break free from ‘carbon footprint guilt.’”
Oh for gods’ sake. Leave it to the right wing to come up with the stupidest idea this side of the Iraq war.
Cities and Ambition →
reckon:
mygoodeye: Paul Graham offers a nuanced comparison of what life is like in different American cities, mainly focusing on New York, the bay area and the Boston area. Reading the essay really made me think about how much I have been influenced by New York. I have always noticed that I enjoy every peaceful break I get from the city (I spend more than half my weekends away from it),...
St. Lucie teacher has students vote on whether... →
“Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class. After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn’t like about Barton’s 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher said they were going to take a vote, Barton said. By a 14 to 2 margin, the class voted him out of the...
Link by Link - This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix... →
Pretty good New York Times article on Randall Munroe and xkcd.
Japanese railway turns to feline 'stationmaster'... →
Note to the MTA: please hire cats to replace some of the surly assholes who work at the 28th Street R/W station. Thx.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California...”
– Hillary Clinton on why she hasn’t dropped out. Wow. Classy. (via fuddmain)
As John Scalzi pointed out, looks like Hilary Clinton has pretty much jumped the shark.
Hillary Clinton: What Went Wrong? →
“Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings—and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal. But they also have the potential to be educational, for participants and gawkers alike. So it is that we asked (begged, really) a range of Hillarylanders for their up-close and personal lists of ‘What Went Wrong?’ Not everyone...
“It is my belief that summer in the Hamptons is the epitome of everything that is...”
– Via The Cajun Boy, remarking last year on a certain kind of New Yorker’s summer habitat of choice. The time is near. (via fek) (via soupsoup)
John Carlin on why Iceland has the happiest people... →
jaschu:
(via Wilson)
“Just because a ruling doesn’t go your way, it doesn’t mean it was a case of...”
– John Scalzi on the California Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.
70 Simple Power Tao Secret Hacks to Writing the... →
First off, you must start with a quotation. Preferably by an Asian spiritual leader (quoting Lao Tzu, Confucius, or the Buddha works, but don’t quote Jesus). The quotation really doesn’t have to relate to the article or the picture at all. It just has to make you feel good. And quotes by people with obscure names are a good thing. -Sun Zhongmou Liu Yuanzhi Xu Shu
“Suck on it, Clintstones. And note to the rest of America — we may not be as sexy...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: How the Valley put Obama over the top
Awesome, awesome, awesome. (via claudia) (via britticisms)
'Bright Shiny Morning' by James Frey →
“Bright Shiny Morning” is a terrible book. One of the worst I’ve ever read. But you have to give James Frey credit for one thing: He’s got chutzpah. Two and a half years after he was eviscerated by Oprah Winfrey for exaggerating many of the incidents in his now-discredited memoir “A Million Little Pieces,” he’s back with this book, which aims to be the big...
WatchMuto: An Ambiguous Animation Painted on Public Walls. Whoa. And other cool stuff from BluBlu here.
