February 2012
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“[Contraception is] not okay because it’s a license to do things in the...”
– Rick Santorum
Bypass surgery is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the medical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Human flight is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the mechanical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
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rachelfershleiser:
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Tumblr makes the front page of today’s New York Post!!!
Inside, we’re described as an irresponsible liberal slut who had it coming…
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A particular preoccupation:
So the C++ programming language took its name from C, tossing the “++” on to indicate that it was an evolutionary improvement on its predecessor: “++” is C’s increment operator, which simply adds 1 to a numeric variable. C++ was C’s and-one, as it were.
Anyway, it worries me that maybe Kobe Bryant chose #24 because he thought he was like Michael Jordan++.
An open apology to the Pinterest team →
spiegelman:
Judging by some of the links to pop up on my Internet the past hour or so, this fake Mitt Romney thing is starting to be about Pinterest changing the name of my parody account, and not about the fact that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President asked them to dilute…
Man-goes-out-of-his-way-to-be-a-decent-person-on-the-internet insta-reblog.
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Top Ten Google Results for...
10) “Full disclosure: When I was a teenager, I saw Rilo Kiley perform three times.”
9) “Full disclosure: I like The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms a lot.”
8) “Full disclosure: My tummy is a temperamental diva.”
7) “Full disclosure: I have several Soulja Boy songs on [my iPod].”
6) “Full disclosure: All these 20something straight girls...
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zachklein:
100 million pairs of eyes will be on Indiana tomorrow. Stay cool, bros.
Yup—and there will be protests! So here are a few relevant pre-game primers:
Indiana’s new “right-to-work” law is the legislative equivalent of Michele Bachmann saying hey you know maybe if we just got rid of the minimum wage entirely and let employers pay whatever they wished then everybody...
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WONKETTE EXCLUSIVE: The Gifzette is Dead! →
Noted New York daily broadsheet to fold after acquisition talks collapsed early this morning with Sam Zell.
January 2012
28 posts
“On Jan. 4, The New York Times received a final response from the Defense...”
– Slow Responses Cloud a Window Into Washington
“Having mentioned that the Geneva Bible was used by Shakespeare, let me take this...”
– The Book From Which Our Literature Springs, Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books.
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cursivebuildings:
I wrote an essay (published here) for The Huffington Post concerning my long-simmering collaboration w/an experimental group at the New York Public Library that peaked today w/the launch of the Stereogranimator, a website application that lets anyone explore & share 3D mashups of the library’s stereograph collection à la my Reaching for the Out of Reach.
If that isn’t cool...
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So I am "liveblogging" something for the first... →
And it should be a disaster! Because my sushi delivery hasn’t arrived and I think I’m already drunk?
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singulus:
Excuse Me, But. Weren’t The Founding Fathers, Largely, White Men With College Degrees and Above Average Incomes, Standing Off An Invasive Government?
I’m Just Saying …
Nah yo, they didn’t have Linux back then, pretty sure Max’s argument still stands.
“Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous...”
– YUP.
If you paid any attention at all to domestic... →
Somebody stop the campaign bus I WANT TO GET OFF.
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barthel:
…if there is a technical issue like this which affects you and you would like your representative to do something about it, tell them. There’s this weird expectation that political leaders, who have to address issues concerning lots of people who aren’t you (the elderly, children, farmworkers, etc.), should have all the same information we do. That’s understandable - we assume a...
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johnlempka:
Jesus Christ, WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN WANT!? The entire point of “democracy” is that “political representatives” are accountable to their constituencies. The image above shows exactly the ideal expected behavior when a group of constituents takes direct action and voices disapproval to their representatives. Do you guys really, truly expect government TO READ YOUR MINDS?
i feel u...
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Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Facebook or Google... →
fek:
And Tumblr! Sorry, Tumblr. But it’s true.
Ok, first of all: yes to everything Foster says here. But secondly: LOL at the comment thread??
I mean, yo, Real Talk™ or whatever, the point he’s trying to make requires only the most baseline level of brain activity to comprehend—and, idk, seems to me at least kind of obvious and/or self-evident and/or what I’d hope people would be...
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The Gifzette got a facelift! →
Our broadsheet days are over :(
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OKAY, I'LL BITE.
This Clay Shirky comment that everyone’s so giddy over is crap.
Let’s start at the beginning here. Second graf: “Brisbane (who, as public editor, speaks only for himself, not the Times)”—ok, FULL STOP. That could’ve/should’ve been the end of the story right there, because the rest of Shirky’s gripe is predicated entirely on the belief that what this man...
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WatchDay two of acute writer’s block.
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“I have no idea what happened to me, or anybody else, in 2011. There’s a...”
– John Cook, The Best Things We Read All Year
idk, I’ve only been back in the semi-pro farm league blogging biz for a couple of months now, but THIS SPEAKS TO ME.
[And now I’m going to pat myself on the back for remembering something that was posted on the internet seven (7!!) days ago.]
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December 2011
32 posts
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“It is, as a rule, inexpedient to begin a book with the peroration. Children are...”
– John Runciman, Haydn, from the 1904 Bell’s Miniature Series of Musicians.
Doing some research for a thing and just ran across this series of short biographies published at the turn of the 20th century—something like 33⅓ for classical composers—and I mean, oof. Like, on the one hand I’m...
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“It seems that any fair judgment of a given year’s least important event must...”
– In which I speak ill of the dead for The Morning News’ “The Year That Wasn’t.”
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