February 2011
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“In November 2000, the United States held a presidential election, and nobody...”
– Chuck Klosterman, all the way back on April 10, 2006, in an article for ESPN: Page 2 on Barry Bonds approaching Babe Ruth’s home run record.
This was all I could think about while watching Charlie Sheen’s absolutely calamitous interview today. Couldn’t stop wondering if those...
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“A wake-up call’s mother is unfolding. At the other end is a bell, which is...”
– Yesterday’s Tom Friedman column edited down to nothing but mixed metaphors and cliches. (via nicksummers)
This is magical.
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Writers I Love
The Atlantic Wire runs a regular series called “What I Read” profiling the online reading habits of selected writers, and it’s always neat to get a glimpse of how these people I so often read are using the internet. Like, Frank Rich still uses Memeorandum! Michael Lewis doesn’t know how to Twitter! And apparently Andrew Breitbart knows how to read? Who knew!
And in that...
After hearing that The Awl was raising money to buy supplies and foodstuffs for Wisconsin protestors I spent the morning trying (and failing!) to convince Choire to dispatch Abe with a giant block of cheese to roll into the Madison rotunda (langer: look! “White House historians assert that U.S. President Andrew Jackson held an open house party where a 1,400 lb (635 kg) block of...
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Al Jazeera Live Blog - Libya Feb 23:
4.27pm: A Libyan airforce plane has crashed near Benghazi after the crew bailed out, the country’s Quryna Newspaper reports. The newspaper said the crew had orders to bomb Benghazi, but refused to carry them out.
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“What if major publishers, such as the New York Times or The Wall Street Journal...”
– Marco.org: Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement
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KEEP SCROLLING.
Occasionally, occasionally!, I’ll post techy/codey things here, though it’s an activity I usually refrain from because a) I never ever wanted to be a tech nerd blogger, because b) tech nerds are the fucking worst, and c) my greatest fear in life is being Patient Zero on a reblog chain that ultimately devolves into a treatment of the merits and demerits of semaphores vs. message passing...
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In Which We Read Between the Lines
Arianna Huffington to her staff, via theatlantic:
“Together, our companies will have a combined base of 117 million unique U.S. visitors a month — and 250 million around the world — so your posts will have an even bigger impact on the national and global conversation. That’s the only real change you’ll notice — more people reading what you wrote.”
Translated: you still won’t be getting...
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“As a profession we have failed miserably at our primary function—the...”
– PIMCO managing director William Gross
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Not holding my breath.
I guess maybe this is too much to ask (since I’m one of those dirty hippies whose first thought after Sept. 11 was “hey wait instead of bombing them maybe we should try to, you know, make them hate us less?”) but here we are finally having something resembling a “national dialogue” about how it’s Probably Not a Good Idea to be vilifying our political opponents...