May 2008
40 posts
Thank you Tina Fey and the cast of "30 Rock"
One-minute office dance parties are easily The Best Idea Ever.
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– via John Waters (via verbadjectivenoun) (via britticisms) (via sarahisrad) (via craig) Ah, but just having books isn’t good enough. I once went home with a lovely girl but turned tail as soon as I saw a William Bennet book prominently displayed on the coffee table. Be discriminating!
That NYT article about Obama and the Jews...
alexbalk: used the word “Jew” or “Jewish” 45 times. I counted. The main reason the “Jewish lobby” exerts so much influence comes from its integral positioning at that critical 50% +1 apex situated at the juncture between the two opposing coalitions cobbled together by the left and right. If Obama can succeed in the goal of redrawing those tired coalitions, there’s a good chance...
Incidentally, I’m humbly devoting myself to the noble cause of bringing back “fresh.” It will provide untold illustrative power and time saving benefits, as in: “That [noun] is so FRESH!” instead of, “That [noun] is so [modifier] — [modifier] like Adidas Rod Laver’s in Day-Glo yellow.”
It’s fun for me that the date of all the posts in Tumblr’s theme editor is November 8 — it’s always my birthday in there.
It occurs to me that nobody would ever pine to be on the receiving end of a good reblogging if that action were referred to as a reprinted with permissioning.
“If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken...”
– T.S. Eliot, from Canto V of “Ash Wednesday.” and the reason for the title of this tumblelog. (via thewordunheard)So nerdfoxy. If only I was one to tumblrcrush…
After all these years spent with the Photoshop splash screen I feel as if I have a very intimate and special bond with Seetharaman Narayanan.
fatmanatee: yourmonkeycalled: Thanks to $4 gas, my son can count to 65! It’s been said before, but this tumblr is very enjoyable. If it was a twitter, I might actually bother looking at it, because it has a mighty sharp wit in such a short space. Or… I’m easily amused. Both can be true! It is enjoyable. It’s also a twitter.
Dear mediatemple, See attached, feel shame. ~$ screen -r -bash: screen: command not found ~$
Who? What? When!? Where? How drunk?!?!
The panicked questions we ask when Facebooked by some unfamiliar name with a high school graduating class of 2010.
Chipotle Jingle — You Can’t Beat our...
Deep thought
In an age of all-pervasive global capital, climate change, “just wars,” humanitarian crises, and natural disasters, the limiting extreme of politico-ideological escapism cannot take the form of national flight or expatriation. It now must must be performed on a planetary scale. It must be explanetation. In other words: disengagement is not an option. Only activism remains.
When an Anchor Curses on the Air, She Becomes the... →
Citywide outrage over a little “what the fuck?” This is not the New York I remember.
“Thus, reader, I myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou...”
– Michel de Montaigne, original blogger.
When Obama wins...Kozmo will be back in business. →
IF ONLY!
“The line of attack is clear: not that Obama is himself radical or unpatriotic,...”
– Charles Krauthammer - Too Late to the Duck Hunt - washingtonpost.com (via curate) Hard to believe it’s been only seven years since Krauthammer and other Neoconservatives were considered to be academics so out of touch with everyday America that they could move so easily and untroubled in such...
Computer Whiz Kid →
jakoblodwick: williamcotton: “Welp, I hope to someday work in the IT department at a large company.” Way to shoot for the moon, kid! The saddest thing I’ve seen all day… This kid is ELEVEN YEARS OLD and hasn’t yet realized the moral outrage behind failing to leverage all of his technological acumen towards developing websites for hipsters and amassing a large following on Twitter....
The time is now 6:30.
bittentongue:
And I just realized I’m wearing mismatched socks.
Thanks. A lot. For whatever reason this otherwise innocuous post brought me all the way back to one traumatically life-altering moment in the fifth grade.
One day my teacher was out sick and her understudy/student teacher lady was put in charge for the day. After lunch (and recess, obv) we came back to the room for a surprise change...
16 abandoned and decaying hotels from around the... →
“Based on the quality of the connection, the variety of wildlife in the background, and the elapsed time between Mr. Ubell’s capture and this message there’s a good chance he’s on one of the Ping Islands. There used to be a four-star hotel on Little Ping. But the entire island was destroyed by a monsoon five years ago. It’s been uninhabited ever since.”
BLDGBLOG: Inflationary Spaces of the Aero-Gothic... →
Interesting, though Iraq is still waiting for its pneumatic parliament.
Imagine a group of ideologues who for roughly 219 years have promised humanity that an Eden-like paradise awaits on the surface of the sun. Various governments throughout history have tried and failed to relocate their peoples to this promised land, retreating to more accommodating climes once the blistering sunburn grew unbearable. Despite all evidence to the contrary, our ideologues continue...
Trading on America's puritanical streak →
Martha Nussbaum penned this about six weeks back when Spitzer went down, but it’s worth a revisit in light of recent events like MILF Island, Miley Cyrus, Debauchette’s incident with Diane Sawyer and Gawker, etc. Tangentially, a hilarious back-and-forth unfolded between two of my friends last night: Friend A: Why isn’t her name Miley Ray Cyrus? Friend B: Dude, clearly you...
pedestrian traffic rules
zoya: look, it’s really simple. walking on a NYC sidewalk is like driving on the highway: you don’t stop. Heh?
Martin Heidegger, Original Gangster
Opening paragraphs of Introduction to Metaphysics: “WHY ARE THERE beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is no arbitrary question. ‘Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?’ — this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course, it is not the first question in the chronological sense. Individuals as well as peoples ask many...
Pavement - Same Way of Saying It’s relevant....
Bluelounge - SpaceStation →
The price is a steep $79.95, but seemingly well worth it: An extended desk organizer for laptop users with internal coiling pins conceals all the cords that usually sprawl over the desk. Hovering just 5mm above the desk, cords are free to enter or exit the hub at any point – on the side to connect a scanner, the front for an iPod, the back for a laptop or camera. An internal 4-port USB 2.0 hub...
swissmiss: Who will care for your data when you... →
Our personal data caretaker probably won’t be Jacques Rancière, but the issues at work in this question will certainly produce a variation on Les Nuits des Prolétaires.
Vote for the world's top public intellectuals
nickdouglas: alexbalk: Please don’t let me lose to that little bitch Gladwell. David Petraeus made the list? Really?
Posting here has been sparse lately due to a large number of side projects and other distractions. One of these happens to be forming a freelance web services business with a good friend of mine. In keeping with this I’ve relocated the stuttr tumblr to a subdomain on the server space for my portfolio, There’s No Moon Without a Rocket. We’re excited about some of the projects...