June 2008
37 posts
Quandary #22675 →
New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the... →
Currently, the domain name system consists of more than 20 suffixes, which follow the last dot in a Web address. Domains have so far been generally restricted to labels for countries —.de for Germany, for example — and descriptions for broad categories like .com for commerce and .org for institutional organizations.
If the 48 hours since launching I Can’t Decide has taught me anything...
Regarding That Thing That Everyone on Tumblr is...
Me: if i were a "millionaire" i'd be fucking swimming in coins a la Scrooge McDuck and not giving two shits about bitches on the internets
Matt: my Crocs would be made of the skin of virgins, dipped in platinum
Me: Hi, uh, yeah, so apparently my friend and I have created an enormously popular service on the internet, and our DV server has crashed like three times already today.
MediaTemple guy: Congratulations!
Me: Thanks. So... an upgrade?
MediaTemple guy: Sounds like a good idea to me.
Dear Javascript,
I fucking hate you.
For a while there it was looking like I Can’t Decide was going to need to be named “Blue Always Wins! Always!”
And it’s all your fault.
Toodles,
Matt
Schelling asked an ‘unscientific sample of respondents’ to name a time and location at which they would attempt to meet a friend in New York City without having specified the details in advance and without any way to communicate. An absolute majority of Schelling’s interviewees responded that they would go to the clock tower at the information booth in Grand Central Station, and...
allisonweiss:
Walked out of Borders and realized I just bought CMYK magazine and a bottle of Burts Bee’s lotion. Awkward.
Ah, the Borders impulse-buy counter display. They almost got me yesterday with What if… All the Boys Wanted You: A Choose Your Destiny novel.
“Ich Bin Carrie Bradshaw 2.0.”
– JA.
I just barfed croissant.
fresh++; →
We’ve incremented the freshness level over at JPTB.
Pavement - Silence Kit.
“Silent kid...
Three A.M. for Feminism by Michelle Goldberg →
gillianmae:
Hillary Clinton has lost the nomination, but some of her most ardent female backers seem unwilling to accept it. A strange narrative has developed, abetted by Clinton and some of the mainstream feminist organizations. In it, the will of the voters was thwarted by chauvinistic party leaders in concert with a servile media, and Obama’s victory represents a repeat of George W. Bush’s in...
Briefly...
… during this neverending collective journalistic orgasm over the Michelle and Barack knucks/bump/pound/fisting debacle, has it occurred to even just one of these idiots that this gesture is the now customary greeting in a lot of younger circles? I feel like the only substantive angle of deconstruction to leverage towards this issue has been completely overlooked: its symbolic...
Imagine if Stalin had read Adam Smith instead of Karl Marx. Imagine if the US had fought a Cold War against libertarian free market fundamentalism instead of communism. Imagine how the forces of American mythology would have produced a climate in which the tenets of that economic theory were as unspeakable in public as those of communism are today. That’s the world I dream of living in one day: a...
“There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm...”
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George Eliot
And this point of view is coming to us from a MAN…..hmmm….
(via jeralyndwile)
It remains unclear to me whether this deserves a “heh” in the sense of “Dave Eggers always thought that Evelyn Waugh was a woman and that George Eliot was a man” or rather a...
Hi Matt Langer. You just earned yourself a new...
kiamatthews:
You ever visit someone’s blog and within a few clicks (Flickr, Facebook, Last.fm etc.) you already know you’re gonna like this person? That just happened.
Great Tumblr design
Funny lead off post
funny/interesting flickr pics
Over-availability of online presence (I admire this in people because I suffer from the same affliction)
Wow: this is a major milestone in my tireless...
“I could not believe that the president of the United States, staged by Karl Rove...”
– Sen. Mary Landrieu in here (via unalone) (via marco) (via soupsoup) (via claudia)
… never forget:
Way to go, Hillary.
That was one of the most extraordinary moments I’ve ever witnessed in American politics.
Damn you Hillary, you've failed me again for the...
I’m supposed to be somewhere at 1:00.
You’re running late ∴ I’m running late.
Europe - The Final Countdown
“Illusion,...
Whitehouse.gov 1.0 →
The web’s aesthetic sure has come a long way in thirteen years.
“As powerful as our memories are, our dreams must be even stronger. For when our...”
– Bill Clinton, Dec. 31, 1999.
Hopelessly inane bullshit
“I still don’t quite get why (young) americans are so into politics,” says thomaz.
Which is funny hilarious actually the dumbest thing I read on the internet all day.
AsciiVideo: Built with Processing →
iSight video as ASCII art. FRESH++
Being still only in my twenties it’s hard for me to believe that there was a time during my own relatively short life that I was reading columns in the New York Times penned by the likes of Anthony Lewis and Russell Baker. Standards sure have fallen over there.
I mention this only because I made the mistake of reading Maureen Dowd this morning.
“I will be the Democratic nominee for the President of the United States of...”
– Barack Obama, 3 June 2008, 10:15 PM. (via squashed) (via britticisms)
Did Hillary really just say “stay the course”?
A sole whiff of tragedy attends to the otherwise unqualified triumph of first-time Mac ownership: despite the understandable proclamation of this as “the best day of my life,” it remains that even my superlative existential moment will be marred by an unfortunate and unavoidable Bright Eyes quote.
Rumor: Free Starbucks Wi-Fi Launches Tomorrow →
via: allisonweis / peterwknox / danhacker It only took fifteen years for Starbucks to realize their coffee had the taste of Kingsford briquets in liquid form, so a transition to free wifi in 2008 should be considered ahead of the curve.
These projects scored us babes →
Mars, bitches!
Thanks to Jace this blog has a gorgeous new theme. A thematic theme, even. Check it out.