January 2012
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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...
Jan 26th
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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?
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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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.
Jan 24th
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“Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous...”
– YUP.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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If you paid any attention at all to domestic... →
Somebody stop the campaign bus I WANT TO GET OFF. 
Jan 20th
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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...
Jan 19th
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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...
Jan 19th
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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...
Jan 19th
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The Gifzette got a facelift! →
Our broadsheet days are over :(
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 14th
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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...
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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WatchWatch
Day two of acute writer’s block.
Jan 10th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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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.]
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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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...
Dec 31st
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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.”
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Eleven Things I Wrote in 2011 that Looking Back On...
the time I got my first Christmas tree and had some FEELINGS the money is the problem, duh FUCK YOU, AUGUST yo, that’s not “context shifting,” that’s just straight up stealing something something LeBron James is a huge dick! hey jackass, you don’t get to whine when free shit goes down SHUT UP ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN ALREADY oh right, I’m pretty proud...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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“Part of the cruel genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make all activity...”
– The Resentment Machine
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Today’s edition of Things I Read that Very Nearly Brought Me to Tears on the Subway, this time via Ron Suskind’s The Confidence Men: Dick Fuld, who had joined the company in 1969, two years ahead of Carmine, took him aside. “You know, Carmine,” he said, “I think this will be the last time a guy like you is named managing partner.” Carmine wasn’t sure if he meant it to be a...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“The online Global Language Monitor, which professes to track what’s hot in...”
– WNYC: ‘Tebowing’ Is So Hot It’s Now A Word
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker.
Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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