June 2010
32 posts
Dear 12 year old Me:
I know, right now it’s totally hard to be the bookish kid who never has to study and who the boys all hate for being the girl who is smarter than them. But I promise, it’s worth it to make the choices that are isolating you right now. When you’re older, there’ll be this thing called Facebook that will prove it to you. It’s like the Total Perspective Vortex, but I...
“But how does one ascend to the level of Macho Man? According to popular urban...”
– How To Be “Macho Man” Randy Savage: A Practical Guide
“Opinions! They are a minefield. For instance, if your job were to be an...”
– Scocca, from Slate, on The Saga of Dave Weigel
“Unfortunately, at this time of the year, the Washington weather is not the most...”
– Manolo the Columnist: Julia by Think! » Manolo’s Shoe Blog
Steve Martin's "Leaked" Tour Demands (PICTURE) →
I want to be Steve Martin when I grow up.
“For example, in 2000, the “New York Times” wrote, “High heels are women’s power...”
– Sex, Power, and High Heels: An Interview with Shoe Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack | Collectors Weekly
This is the Sound of a Scared Newspaper :... →
In which a blogger smacks down the contempt of newspapers for bloggers
Methinks newspapers protest too much about... →
In which the director of community engagement at TBD.com smacks down newspapers’ contempt for bloggers.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to reunite for a... →
gatsbylives:
(via fuckyeahstephenfry)
Filed under “Things that make me ridiculously happy and then totally sad because it’ll never air in the US but then kind of hopeful that someone will put it on YouTube.”
“They Say: We Love DC is the largest locally-owned DC news and lifestyle blog,...”
– TBD.com - Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia News and Opinion
I really liked this intro from TBD.
(via tbridge)
I especially liked it because it’s exactly what my secret vision for the site has always been: the friends who seem to know all the neat stuff about your town and love to share....
Bit Bucket: The Hardest Part About VxO=A →
The hardest part for me about Voice times Obsession equals Audience for me with We Love DC is handling the sub-genres. Loving a city means loving its sports teams, its restaurants, its politics, its events, and balancing all of that is hard. Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about the Nationals,…
I submit that the companion equation to Voice x Obsession = Audience that Merlin & Gruber...
“Speaking Thursday morning before hundreds of high-powered women and a handful of...”
– Michelle Rhee’s lesson learned | Washington Examiner
“Using a conventional sourdough mixture containing rye and wheat flour, Hofmann...”
– Bread crusts rich in antioxidants — Science Blog
When I was a kid, I had this idea that bread crusts were kind of like potato skins- it’s where all the vitamins were stored, so you should eat them because they’re better for you. When I got older, I realized how ridiculous that was.
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“Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
Life as a Healthcare CIO: Cool Technology of the... →
Ran across this article about a doctor using an iPad to help him on rounds. Very interesting.
Bursts of Errors
tj:
twitterstatus:
We’re seeing large bursts of errors every twenty minutes. We’re currently investigating.
Update: 08:50 AM PDT: Our sidebar trends feature is exerting an elevated load on one of our databases causing the bursts of errors. As such, we’ve temporarily disabled sidebar trends and the site has fully recovered. We don’t yet have an estimated time when sidebar trends will be...
“Caffeine lets us index web pages on an enormous scale. In fact, every second...”
– Official Google Blog: Our new search index: Caffeine
Brow Beat : The Shaggy Defense: America’s Favorite... →
Now this song is going to be stuck in my head all day.
A mathematician figures out the best way to jam an... →
With an interactive bit that lets you generate flags for up to 100 stars. Math nerdery and civics nerdery combined.
“Since the human impulse to make social distinctions over trivial and superficial...”
– You Don’t Say: The self-righteous inherit the earth - John E. McIntyre
Today's writing pet peeves
??? !!! ?!?!?!?! This just makes you look overwrought and trolly, especially in blog comments. That’s where this crap usually appears. (Note that the interrobang, or the ?! when the unicode character is not available, is not covered by this peeve. English needs punctuation that combines the amplified reaction implied by ! to the interrogatory implied by ?)
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Nap Time « Flickr Blog →
Flickr is going to cause a cute deficit with this nonsense. But if you’re having a grumpy day, this will probably help.
This Just In From The Normals →
A sense of perspective.
“But in this absolute vacuum of plot, a shadow narrative fills the void — the...”
– Why Sex and the City 2 is a science fiction movie
Priceless.