February 2012
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Squirrels Ate the Internet, Oh Well →
benwise:
Woke up to no Internet today. Unplugged, replugged, rebooted and whatnot before actually CALLING Time Warner, who informed me that it was a neighborhood outage. Sure enough, when I walked the dog 10 minutes later I spotted three TWC service trucks on the next block. So into the world I ventured - gym, bookstore, brunch - and upon returning to the ‘hood I passed the service trucks and...
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(There's no reason to) Fork me on Github →
I’m making good on my threats. Go see what’s on my new website now, and if you like, follow my work in progress. It’s at the stage now where it might just be legible and/or interesting to those of you who don’t actually know what Github does, so I’m sharing it.
Don’t worry; I’ll remind you when it’s done. And really, as far as “things your...
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We accept the Internet we think we deserve.
This week’s most spectacular social media fight has already begun to fade, and as it stands it’s delightfully simple, for once. I mean the Susan G Komen Foundation / Planned Parenthood de-funding and re-funding and the hundreds of thousands of people who appeared, briefly, to take women’s health seriously as, like, a political issue, because, abortion.
I hope some of you got...
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“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always...”
– Albert Einstein (1931)
(no seriously Andy do you have a source for this?)
January 2012
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meredithturits:
Guys. OK. I’m no oracle here, but I’m fairly certain I’ve unlocked the secret to ultimate writerly productivity: yoga pants, a Goliath-sized wool sweater, the ugliest socks ever manufactured, day-old makeup and M83.
No additions nor substitutions.
I am confused because none of those things will slowly kill you, and all of them can be legally obtained. Is *everything* I...
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Coming soon
I’ve been working on a new website for the past month. I’ve finished more than once. I haven’t gotten it right. I’ve spent more time reading about and testing approaches I eventually throw out than anything else. And it’s been unexpectedly enjoyable.
Yesterday found A List Apart and I had something of a breakthrough. It went like this: Engineers build websites;...
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December 2011
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Jim Newell: The Top Ten Albums By The Guy Who Made... →
jimnewell:
Top Ten Destroyer Albums:
1) Streethawk: A Seduction (2001)
Okay, yes.
2t) Thief (2000)
2t) City of Daughters (1998)
I’m glad I’m not alone in loving these, and I would agree that they belong together on this list because in a lot of ways I think they are the same record. I would probably move them down a notch.
4) This Night (2002)
Not #1, but definitely in...
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NYT Habitable Zones infographic →
Shit like this is so carbonist.
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Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters →
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire they forage like scavengers their faces frozen in a rictus of worldweary their...
November 2011
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This is the #2 free app in the iPhone app store →
Go report it as offensive.
Open App Store on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
Go to “Top 25” > “Free Apps”
Select the app, then scroll to the bottom and tap “Report a Problem”
Outrage
I don’t do this very often. But damn.
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WatchI am one of those people for whom The Phantom Tollbooth was my Single Most Important Formative Text. And I never knew a thing about Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer.
I started watching this trailer and, ten seconds in, learned that they’re from Brooklyn. And now I make so much more sense to myself.
Feiffer: This was the Cold War fifties. I was interested in overthrowing the government.
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More of this →
insane-in-the-meninges:
maesaslaw:
[Trigger Warning: Discussion of offensive portrayals / stereotypes of the mentally ill]
mindovermatterzine:
The role of the media in encouraging stigmatizing attitudes towards the mentally ill should not be underestimated - especially comics, which have a high readership…
I have two posits:
1) People will always always always make movies and stories...
and by "flame war" I mean "rational discussion" →
maesaslaw:
[Trigger Warning: Discussion of offensive portrayals / stereotypes of the mentally ill]
mindovermatterzine:
The role of the media in encouraging stigmatizing attitudes towards the mentally ill should not be underestimated - especially comics, which have a high readership…
Hello Internet. So I reblogged this from some random browsing and didn’t expect to hear from...
October 2011
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How to start a flame war →
mindovermatterzine:
The role of the media in encouraging stigmatizing attitudes towards the mentally ill should not be underestimated - especially comics, which have a high readership of adolescents (an age range at which psychotic symptoms most often first present). Media presentations may shape not only the behaviours of the public but also inadvertently the reactions of the disordered...
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Justin Bieber, of all people, advocates... →
For all hope is not yet lost. There are a handful of utopian alternate realities based on pop culture. In one of them, Josiah Bartlett is President. In another, Justin Bieber radicalizes the tween set, and they teach us all a thing or two about occupation.
I once saw ten thousand adolescent girls descend upon SoHo. There are more where they came from, and they don’t care whose streets get...
Dear large audience →
bmichael:
agrammar:
… is a quick vague question about the fungibility of Radiohead’s skill, which totally seems to have baffled and angered the first few commenters.
Things have always sold out, but it seems like things sell out really intensely in New York. Like those Louis CK…
Hey speaking of sold out shows, I HAVE JEFF MANGUM TICKETS AND I’M SELLING EM. Specifically, two...
September 2011
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“If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.”
– Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies (via itnumberpi)
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August 2011
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“My humanity would have been misemployed no matter what direction I might have...”
– Gary Lutz, Heartscald
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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One More Lawn I Will Gladly Get Off Of →
In which the executive editor of the NYT reminds us that people once thought the printing press would be the end of memory, then turns around and says Twitter is ruining the art of conversation. ajsdkfjaslkfjksladjfksjfklsa;
My father, who was trained in engineering at M.I.T. in the slide-rule era, often lamented the way the pocket calculator, for all its convenience, diminished my generation’s...
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The Hangover for Women
Let’s stop talking about what a victory this movie is for the modern woman, okay? We’re at a place now where we can’t forgive our culture for the way it markets itself, since marketing is inextricable from art. So, great, we’ve finally decided that women have to do better at supporting each other, and we’ve talked about it enough to realize that it feels good to...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
My favorite part about making fun of Maryland on...
youngmanhattanite:
tylercoates:
is watching strangers reblog my jokes and complain, listing reasons why Virginia isn’t as great as Maryland, not realizing that I’m only trying to piss off three people that I am actually friends with.
But, you know, Fuck Maryland.
I (Matt Ealer) think Maryland sucks dick.
I own a t-shirt that says “Maryland Is On Top”. I bought it at a...
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That thing from Sunday night
I wasn’t going to write this at all, because it’s the kind of thing I’m usually sick of hearing about before I even hear a single word. I saw this shit coming the second I found out. This time it’s a little different, because there are two ways my friends are reacting, and no one’s said what I’ve been thinking. So here’s the story, it’s longish, and...
April 2011
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Young Manhattanite: The hateful Jonathan Franzen →
felixsalmon:
I’m a fan of the New Yorker on Facebook. So I should be able to read the Jonathan Franzen essay about David Foster Wallace and Robinson Crusoe, no? No. Turns out that TNY’s clever gimmick about opening the essay up only to FB fans only lasted a week. And now it’s gone. So that…
Random Tumblr: Reading Franzen’s NYT articles so I don’t have to. Seriously though,...
