October 2011
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Please donate to help buy bicycle generators for... →
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“In some sense, the city runs on envy, on thwarted desire, on the fear that...”
– Man, it’s really too bad this line couldn’t have appeared anywhere besides That Article I Obviously Won’t Be Linking To, because it could have been just pure fucking gold.
But Morrissey said it better anyway, so whatever I guess.
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Here's a thought!
It’s novel, I know, but seriously: If you, in your professional capacity as a reporter, run a story based on what “policemen say,” when what “policemen say” has been clearly and thoroughly contradicted beyond any and all reasonable doubt by who knows how many thousands of firsthand tweets/twitpics/videos/etc that have all been dispatched with such overwhelming...
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“This Chamber is for the most part ominously, dreadfully silent. You can hear a...”
– Sen. Robert Byrd, Feb. 12, 2003.
I still can’t fucking believe we did this.
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One Fan's Humble Plea to Every Network in the...
As we’re all aware by now the NFL instituted a policy this year subjecting all scoring plays to a mandatory review, a move that—from this fan’s perspective at least—is literally the dumbest thing to happen to football since the XFL, because now there’s no such thing as a TOUCHDOWN!! anymore because it got replaced by this...
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WatchHey Northsiders, have you SEEN this monstrosity that just went up on N. 11th? The Hotel Williamsburg? The neon lights! They CHANGE COLOR!
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So yes, a few months ago I made the best decision of my professional life, maybe even better than the best, at least considering that at the time I’d been sort of floundering around and generally just being a waste of space, not really employed but not really unemployed either, “taking my time” after leaving my last thing and just working consulting gigs while trying to...
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Thoughts On The Internet-Crush-Of-The-Moment
anniewerner:
I wonder if his LinkedIn is active. That would be a minus.
At what exact moment did he decide to move from Vaguely Asexual Sexy Librarian to Woody Allen glasses? Good move regardless.
First rule of internet crushes: do NOT talk about internet crushes (publicly).
Don’t Wiki him. C’mon.
OF COURSE we have 11 Facebook friends in common.
Hey! He’s never written for Thought...
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Notes From Underground
Or: A brief list of things that you, dear subway commuter, can do to make me, your fellow subway commuter, hate you maybe just a little bit less.
Don’t do that thing where you stop dead in your tracks the moment you enter a train car, because chances are there’s someone right behind you looking to enter the very same car you just did. (And it should be noted that this particular move...
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Elizabeth Warren!
This is apparently several weeks old, but still, GOOD STUFF:
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest...
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History's Mysteries
Back in the history department at Rutgers an old urban legend circulated among the faculty: once upon a time there was an aged professor, a man regarded among his colleagues as the wisest any of them had ever met, and a man of such profound rhetoric and sweeping oratory that it was as if every lecture he delivered was its own little Periclean funeral oration. As the story goes, every time he took...
“My first choice is a strong consumer agency. My second choice is no agency at...”
– Elizabeth Warren!
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GroupMunchies! →
Hey, I built this thing!
Yeah so we have a guy in the GroupMe office who gets super :( every time we forget to tell him we’re ordering from Elevation Burger and then a delivery bro brings all these delicious burgers to the office and none of them are for him and he’s all :( :( :(
So I wrote a browser extension/Seamless/Delivery/Campfire mash-up to notify our office Campfire whenever...
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A Proposed Demand
I want to take a minute to write about an idea I thought up a little over a year ago. And I think it’s a good idea? But I just don’t know because I’ve been sitting on it all this time instead of putting it out there and talking about it, not only because it’s way outside my comfort zone but also because it’s just such a big idea—which is not to say “big”...