January 2009
39 posts
“I like her,” said Rick of Andrea [Mitchell, the NBC News veteran]. “She’s the...”
– From John Koblin and Zachary Woolfe’s piece in the Observer: Gays Go Ga-Ga Over Andrea Mitchell. The paper is full of great stuff this week. Pick it up or click the links! I wrote about Shelley Bernstein and The Brooklyn Museum’s innovative Web programming if you want to check that out.
“When I was ten years old my father taught me to assess quite rapidly the shifting probabilities on a craps layout: I could trace a layout in my sleep, the field here and the pass line all around, even money on Big Six or Eight, five-for-one on Any Seven. Always when I play back my father’s voice it is with a professional rasp, it goes as it lays, don’t do it the hard way. My...
TRAGEDY IS ALL AROUND US →
In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group [Dating a Banker Anonymous] has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,” that invites women to join “if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life.”
A video about the Gaza tunnels →
Most of Hamas’ weapons are smuggled in through tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. These tunnels are usually dug by children, who know they could be killed at any moment.
Every night, 14 year old Said scrambles down a narrow shaft leading to a tunnel. He’ll spend the next eight hours digging without a break. It’s claustrophobic, difficult work. The heat in the tunnel is unbearable...
WatchPETA’s banned Super Bowl ad.
“Who you want to be is not nearly as important as who you are right now.”
– I Wrote This For You (via fatmanatee) (via miss-r)
Goat detained over armed robbery →
“This is William Kristol’s last column.”
– Hey-o!!!
Feelin' this morning, guys →
WatchThe Art of Arguing, Visualized [via Mashable].
Is Facebook Hurting Feminism? →
miss-r:
Sexologist Logan Levkoff says ‘yes’, for two reasons:
1. Teens are relying on technology rather than talking face to face, as a means to avoid rejection.
2. Girls are dating boys solely so they can change their Facebook status to ‘in a relationship’.
Some of Levkoff says, I liked (particularly, “Why do we feel compelled to announce or define our relationships for everyone else?...
Happy 36th Anniversary Roe v. Wade →
Hey Obama, how about getting on that “Mexico City policy” ASAP, k?
Meet the Aaron Cohens
For this week’s Observer, I wrote about Aaron Cohen, the former CEO of MenuPages, who is making a film about meeting all the other Aaron Cohens of the world. He’s contacting most of them through Facebook and wants the movie to be an “All Aaron Cohen production.” So far, he’s recruited a 24-year-old videographer named Aaron Thomas Fisher-Cohen to help him out.
They...
The 60's, the Internet and Whitehouse.gov...
(Cannes) “The dream of the ’60s, of me and John Lennon and the others, was: How do we speak to everybody on the planet at the same time?” said folk pop legend Donovan at the Midem music industry conference on Monday. “The first answer was via satellite, but that didn’t connect to everyone. Then John would say, ‘How about telepathy?’
“Then we forgot...
My Inauguration Story | by Roseanne Cash | The New... →
My dad and I loved politics and we loved talking about world affairs. A presidential election was thrilling to both of us. In the last few years of his life he was obsessed with CNN and turned it on at 4:00 in the morning, as soon as he woke. He said he woke up wanting to know what had happened in the world while he was asleep.
We had a discussion about world leaders not long before his death...
WatchI’m starting my Fifth of Whiskey For Dinner diet tonight!
“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
– (via lookunderfoot)
Tales From the Recession
If I don’t get my freelancing checks soon, I’m going to become a snowman made of brown rice with black beans for eyes and buttons.
feelingsaregross:
defeatism:
Q and not U - End...
“I hate electronic music,” says Katy Goodman, the trio’s bass player, over an...”
– Vivian Girls, Punks - The All New Issue — New York Magazine Oh dear God, I despise them so so so so so much. Do I even need to elaborate on that, with a set of quotes like this? (via perpetua)
OMGZ PPL HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES IN MUSICS?! THAT’S UNPOSSIBLE!
Fuck You, Penguin →
Cute Overload’s foil.
A Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter From a... →
This had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt last night. I had an entire mailbox (yes, a REAL mailbox bought at Wal-Mart in 1996) that had all of the hand-written notes I received during junior high and high school. I wish I still had them but I’m pretty sure my parents threw them out during one of our 2,378 moves.
How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web, But Failed... →
From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions. Despite being early arrivals, despite having spent millions on manpower and hardware, despite all the animations, links, videos, databases, and other software tricks found on their sites, every newspaper Web site is instantly...
Hole - Violet
Sometimes I have to be reminded...
“After an initial phase of the Web as a medium, in which lots of people attempted...”
– Marc Andreessen, June 5, 2007. I’ve been thinking about this all day…