September 2010
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“In the brief period between the bombing and the emergence of McVeigh,...”
– Stanley Fish (via squashed)
Not only is it a great column, but comment No. 5, from “lou versace,” made me laugh.
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"Top Chef" has a spinoff called "Top Chef: Just...
(via inothernews)
I’m pretty sure Tom Colicchio would say that about *somebody’s* food every week, if he could get away with it on basic cable.
I just Googled Colicchio to make sure I was spelling his name correctly, and look! He used to have hair! Let this be a lesson to you, kids - always check your spelling.
August 2010
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The Washington Nationals' Stephen Strasburg is... →
(via inothernews)
Sure, :-( for now, because Strasburg electrified the Nationals fans and the baseball world, but he’ll probably be fine. Maybe even better than fine. ESPN reported this morning that nine pitchers in this year’s All-Star game had had Tommy John surgery. Even so, this is discouraging news, because you have to wonder about somebody who needs surgery so early in his...
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“School is starting again, and I’ll leave you today with the most valuable piece...”
– From “A room, a table, and a dozen chairs”, a post at You Don’t Say, the language and journalism blog by John E. McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun.
Mr. McIntyre is the good kind of curmudgeon — old-fashioned, genteel, funny and open-minded.
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“(T)he phrase “Ground Zero mosque” violates the most basic tenets of...”
– What the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ flap says about the state of journalism
Via the indispensable Journerdism
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This made me laugh.
trifunkalicious:
theletterkay:
Look at your Tumblr, now back at mine, now back at yours, now back at mine. Sadly, yours isn’t mine, but if you stopped posting about other things and reblogged everything I post, yours could be mine. Look down, look up. Where are you? You’re on Tumblr reading the post that your post could be like. I’m on a computer.
I can actually hear the Old Spice guy...
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Dashboard serendipity
Screenshot from this morning.
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“Are you too busy getting inspired by the work of others to create your own? Do...”
– Chase Jarvis is always worth listening to. He may be most famous for his statement “The best camera in the world is the one you have with you.”
This is from his post “Is inspiration killing creativity?” As with most questions like this (“Is the Web dead?”...
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If you haven't noticed by now
fuckyeahsd:
It’s really hot.
Not that anyone would complain about that, of course, because the whole country either laughs at or hates anybody whining about the weather in San Diego.
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Sunrise at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce →
Ah, Peggy, rapidly overtaking Lane to become my favorite “Mad Men” character.
(via pile)
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Between grammar and a coffee place →
She couldn’t have just said, “Neither, please”?
When I go to Starbucks, I always order “a large black ice tea, please.” No barista has ever had a problem understanding me, and no one has ever corrected me by saying someting like, “OK, so a venti black ice tea, then?”
When they ask if I want sweetener, I simply say, “No, I don’t want any damn...
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'Star Wars' serendipity
Shortly after I posted the quote from “Star Wars” producer Gary Kurtz, i came across a link on kottke.org to A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope, a great reinterpretation of “A New Hope” that I first read a couple of years ago. If you like “Star Wars,” you need to read this. It makes way more sense than the plot of “The Phantom Menace.”
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“I could see where things were headed. The toy business began to drive the...”
– Gary Kurtz, who produced the first two “Star Wars” movies, recalls why he and George Lucas parted ways
Via Khoi Vinh, who thinks “this explains everything, including the sense of tedium that hung over large swaths of ‘Return of the Jedi’ and the miserable pall that ...
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“There’s a new kind of clutter littering Web pages. It’s not just the obnoxious...”
– Richard Ziade on the increasingly prevalent disposable content. (via marco)
Nice little post, but the real meat is in the comments, where there’s a great discussion that makes up for some of the post’s flaws, primarily glass houses and a lack of examples. I almost wonder if Mr. Ziade...
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"Gold, myrrh, and frank sent this" →
bobulate:
A short list of nursery school thoughts from a recent favorite, Preschool Gems:
“Plants are more important than games.” “I love all cakes, except some cakes I don’t like.” “But I’m going somewhere even excitinger.” “I don’t think anything.” “Wizards are true.” “The good force is like the main force, the evil force is like the second force. Don’t use the evil force, just the good...
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After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now... →
“One of our engineers even figured out how to make a hat.” Nice.
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thebronzemedal:
From McSweeney’s:
What concerned us most about The Newspaper was its lack of Wi-Fi. Eventually, however, we found this advantage to be overstated, even misleading. Engineers using The Newspaper typically did so 30 to 60 minutes a day. Afterward, they went outside, formed...
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“Cobwebbed by senseless rituals, speeches which no one listens to and rules that...”
– The Mirthless Senate - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Timothy Egan takes a merciless look at the U.S. Senate.
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Words at Radio Lab.
Amazing.
bobulate:
Words
The unstoppable Radio Lab introduces Words, where one thing leads to another:
Words have the power to shape the way we think and feel. In this stunning video, filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante bandy visual wordplay into a moving exploration of how language connects our inner thoughts to the outside world.
It’s impossible to imagine a world...
