August 2011
2 posts
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July 2011
1 post
Watch Michele Bachmann’s Openly Gay Stepsister Praise Obama - http://tinyurl.com/3zucppo
June 2011
2 posts
WatchSir Harold Evans of The Week talks about cars. So good.
“I don’t think that sharp, immediate cuts in the deficit would create more...”
– Ben Bernanke
May 2011
23 posts
A Supposedly Fun Guy Who Will Never Live Again
Who hasn’t read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest yet? It seems like required these days if you want to seem conversant in high-brow pop culture, right along with “Arrested Development”. DFW’s suicide at the age of 46 (in 2008) served to further cement its cult status. The slew of obituaries that followed his death were certainly respectful – some even reverent –...
“You guys have this all wrong. Everything you’re doing is anticipating that...”
– David Rhodes, ex-VP for news at Fox News, on Fox News
Messed Up S**t Hunter S. Thompson Did →
“When Mildred Baena, matriarch of Schwarzenegger’s secret basement family,...”
– Kelsey Hopkins
“It is engraved on the back. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY ALYSSIA. FRED RACHEL AND KENNY”
– my mom, re. her iPad
“Organisers say the field has traditionally been dominated by Europeans but that...”
“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried...”
– Stephen Hawking (For more great Hawking click here. Really, do it.)
Election 2012: It's not Facebook. It's the data,... →
Social network platforms like Facebook are of course important, both as gateways for campaigns to find potential supporters and for supporters to in turn influence their friends, but they’re hardly the ideal environment for political organizing or, more critically, for gathering the data that will really enable campaigns to micro-target effectively. While owners of Facebook pages may brag...
“…I am certain people want to shift content from discovery oriented devices...”
– Fred Wilson
“Think about the power of four Biebers.”
List of fictional currencies →
Someday this will be useful.
“Although reality television is often mocked for its frivolity, Andrejevic argues...”
– Kelefah Sanneh
Where Is Ai Weiwei? →
Chinese superstar artist Ai Weiwei was taken into government custody 40 days ago and has not been heard from since. His battery of messages is now more potent than ever.
There have been moments of silence and noisy demonstrations, letters to the press from Salman Rushdie and a long interview in Germany with the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, who said that on his most recent visit to Beijing he had...
Julian Assange is such a dick. →
Such a dick.
“There is nobody who is less of a racist than Donald Trump”
– Donald Trump
“America’s belief in capital punishment is reflected in its rejoicing at the...”
– Geoffrey Robertson
February 2011
2 posts
Heavenly Heroes: Exploring the relationship... →
January 2011
1 post
Watch
December 2010
4 posts
Slovenia!
We’re in SLOVENIA!!!
November 2010
28 posts
“I don’t like body scanners or pat-downs either, but I’m a little...”
– Justin Duckham
The whistled language of the island of La Gomera. →
AMAZING Mix by DJ Troubl on 10 Mixes. →
WatchMan, Tina Fey is probably the best female role model in the world right now. I remember growing up the one thing that pissed me off more than anything was hearing guys say that girls aren’t funny. Not only is Tina Fey HILARIOUS, she’s smart, funny, and unabashedly female.