September 2011
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clutter: 2 cents on 99 percent →
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Every generation thinks they have it worse than their parents.
In one important sense, they are right. There is always some new permutation of socioeconomic realities being challenged and the resulting “ways in which the old rules do not apply.” Kids grow up and realize that the way their parents…
In truth, hope and optimism don’t win elections and/or sell products*, so...
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2 cents on 99 percent
Every generation thinks they have it worse than their parents.
In one important sense, they are right. There is always some new permutation of socioeconomic realities being challenged and the resulting “ways in which the old rules do not apply.” Kids grow up and realize that the way their parents taught them to expect to live was not the way they were actually going to live. You...
SF Signal: FLOWCHART: Navigating NPR's Top 100... →
You know how there are those lists of “100 Books Everyone Should Read” and everyone spends lots of time proudly highlighting the ones they have read and showing off how well-read and intelligent they are?
This is the nerd equivalent. And I’m very proud of how many of these I’ve read.
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“Rick acknowledges that many acts of civil disobedience are “carefully...”
– Not Violent Enough | Two Friars and a Fool
This is the latest bit in an ongoing conversation the Friars and Fool have been hosting on the topic of civil disobedience, and it’s a good one. It’s written specifically from the perspective (and the vocabulary) of religious people of the...
A New Period in Grammar | The Cornell Daily Sun →
The best part of this piece is how the commenters take the writer to task and tell him to get over himself because he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Down with prescriptivism!
“Encouraging employees to buy their own laptops, or bring their mobile phones and...”
– Workers’ Own Cellphones and iPads Find a Role at the Office - NYTimes.com
nicky36 replied to your post: Cooking with Fire tonight!
We would love to come, but we are going to Medieval Times tonight!
Well, that is indeed a compelling dinner adventure. :) Have fun, y’all!
Cooking with Fire tonight!
There is still time to decide you’re coming! Believe me when I say there will be enough food…
“And I don’t mean the Doctor is a metaphor for gods we know, the way the...”
– How Doctor Who Became My Religion | Cracked.com
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“Here’s the question, though: Why? I know why Catwoman and Batman would...”
– The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their ‘Liberated Sexuality’ - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Heritage meme
Really, I’m sort of a Euro-mutt, with a little Sioux thrown in a few generations back. My maternal grandfather was born a British subject. In Korea, because his parents were missionaries. He was eventually naturalized. But the rest of my grandparents, and most of my great-grandparents, were Americans.
To the extent that I identify with a culture other than “American,” I suppose...
lighting the proverbial candle
Guys, world news is kind of depressing me today, between Georgia preparing to execute someone who could well be innocent, another bullied gay teenager committing suicide despite the love and support of his family, and, you know, the economy just generally sucking and leaving people broke, homeless, and hungry. It’s all feeling like a lot today.
So, rather than feeling overwhelmed by it all...
“Adam Guerrero and three kids from his neighborhood, Jovantae, Jarvis, and...”
– Seeds of Discontent | The Fly-By | Memphis Flyer
Oh yes, the nuisance of a successful vegetable garden. *eyeroll*
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“Peter: I feel like I’ve traveled to a far future society, where they look at you...”
– Sandwich Monday: The Mac N’ Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt : Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! : NPR
This sandwich is an abomination.
(via tbridge)
Yes, it is, and yet I want one. Well, half of one. A quarter of it, really.
Quick Thought on the Netflix Split →
The only smart, coherent thing I’ve read about the Netflix split/rebranding. Unsurprisingly, Julian Sanchez wrote most of it.
Salman Rushdie: A Globe of Heaven: the whole story →
salmanrushdie1:
A GLOBE OF HEAVEN by Salman Rushdie
A celestial globe is a portrait not of the earth but of the skies. Globe-makers in many cultures - Persian, Mayan, Indian, European - over the centuries made many such representations of the heavens and of the pictures they saw there, working in papier-mâché,…
Salman Rushdie is on Tumblr. Really.
Mental Chocolate - The Playlist
Yesterday on Twitter I declared that my day needed chocolate.
Jenny replied that she was sending me mental chocolate, and that hers was David Tennant.
I decided that Mental Chocolate needs to be a playlist.
So I have assembled a playlist of 16 songs that are floating my boat right now. It’s available in three formats:
Spotify Playlist - I can’t tell if all these songs are...
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Fun Size Bytes: Two stories →
rossrants:
STORY NUMBER ONE Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He…
Via snopes, the broad outline of these stories are true, if embellished, but Easy Eddie didn’t have an...
End of the Summer Barbeque →
tbridge:
Psst. End of Summer Barbecue. Come enjoy with us?
Plz to be attending.
“see Zeus hits up Hera and he’s like yo honeynipples I heard a rumor that...”
– Myths RETOLD: Here’s Why Hera is Such a Bitch
This guy is still cracking me up. Read the whole thing.
6 Twists on the BLT | Serious Eats →
Includes BLT-on-a-waffle. *swoon*
Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King... →
He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in the south.
I’m guessing that most of you, especially those having come fresh from seeing “The Help,” may not understand what this was all about. But living in the south (and in parts of the mid west and in many ghettos of the north) was living under terrorism.
It wasn’t that black people had to use a separate drinking fountain or...
a blog by pud: Fucking Sue Me →
pudjam666:
So,
It was 1998 and the dot-com boom was in full effect. I was making websites as a 22 year old freelance programmer in NYC. I charged my first client $1,400. My second client paid $5,400. The next paid $24,000. I remember the exact amounts — they were the largest checks I’d seen up til that…
Smitten Kitchen's red wine chocolate cake →
Blogging this for the recipe, of course, but also for the lovely story she tells that ends with this quote:
I never once, not for a single moment before I was kinda secretly hoping that the bars would close already so I could get back to sleep on Saturday night connected in my head that I do have a 9/11 story, but it came later, and it is a happy one. I’d never considered that pretty much...
“Many of the news sites that are now having success on the Web — Business...”
– News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites - NYTimes.com
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Fashion It So: Special Report: Star Trek: The Next... →
sttngfashion:
Oh shit, y’all
When we first heard that this was A Thing, we were ever-so-excited. Would it be hilarious? Definitely. Would it be sexy? …probably not. Would everyone be fully functional? YOU BET. So I downloaded it and set to watching.
Before we dive in, I do want to mention that this post…
I should mention that this post is completely SFW. Except for all the...
WatchYou guys, there is a show ALL ABOUT KITTENS on my TV right now.
“Fundamental Truth Number two is that the internet is the dominant platform for...”
– My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent
“For all of the other languages, the researchers discovered, the more data-dense...”
– Why Some Languages Sound So Fast - TIME
This is really fascinating stuff.
“Why do women bloggers get more abuse than male bloggers? Oh, I think for all the...”
– The Sort of Crap I Don’t Get « Whatever
“In an alternate universe back in 1974, a girl named Jane C. Hines was born. Her...”
– Jim C. Hines - Jane C. Hines
In which a male author neatly summarizes what male privilege looks like in his particular sphere.
Bollywood for Beginners →
Because I needed a reason to play around with Spotify: A beginner-friendly Bollywood playlist that Westerners will find accessible.
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