May 2011
2 posts
“Killing is just the kickoff. After that, the dead creatures go to a butcher in...”
– Mark Zuckerberg’s new challenge: Eating only what he kills (and yes, we do mean literally…)
I don’t have a problem with this. Not even a little bit. This is how people have lived pretty much forever. This was how we lived in the U.S. until probably a century ago. In some parts of the U.S....
April 2011
1 post
October 2010
1 post
“As we come to experience more of our world and one another through our digital...”
– Article: Douglas Rushkoff: Why Johnny Can’t Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy (via Instapaper)
September 2010
3 posts
April 2010
4 posts
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
1 post
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January 2010
10 posts
3 tags
“I CAN HEAR YOU SCREAMING ‘COLOR INSIDE THE LINES!!!’ WELL FUCK YOUR...”
– Kanye West.
The entire rant is odd, but this quote is choice.
“Contrary to public reports,” the letter states, “the NFL has not...”
– From Who Dat Nation 1, NFL 0 in merchandise fight.
“No one says defaulting on a contract is pretty or that, in a perfectly...”
– ROGER LOWENSTEIN, director of the Sequoia Fund, writing in the New York Times Magazine that perhaps homeowners might consider walking away from their mortgages - in much the same way businesses “default on bonds and chooses to let (companies) fail.”
I think this is fucking brilliant. Taste of their...
December 2009
1 post
“He hissed at me and kept asking me if I wanted to go with him to a quieter area,...”
– Amal Madbouli quoted in Harassment across Arab world drives women inside in the Jerusalem Post.
I must add that this is not universal in the Arab world. I experienced very little of it in Morocco, and what I did experience was no worse than what happens when I walk through some neighborhoods.
November 2009
5 posts
“This is what defeat in war and prolonged occupation does to a society: it...”
– Stephen M. Walt in “Why They Hate Us (I): Lessons from Civil War Reconstruction”
“Between 1800 and 1830, slave states began restricting manumission, seeing free...”
– From the November, 2008 column Benevolent Slavery in Creative Loafing.
“My mother told me to be quiet about what I did,” Ms. Colvin recalled. “She told...”
– From From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History
October 2009
9 posts
“With 80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged, the program’s...”
– From French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality, NYTimes.com (log-in / registration may be required)
“To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way...”
– Nicolette Hahn Niman in The Carnivore’s Dilemma from NYTimes.com (registration / log in may be required)
“I think the much bigger worry is that we are going to drive ourselves into a...”
– Economist Megan McArdle in Seriously, Stop Worrying About Hyperinflation
“Our forms of prohibition are more sins of omission than commission. Rather than...”
– Jacob Weisberg in Gay Marriage & Marijuana: You can’t stop either. Why that’s good. from Newsweek
“Our industry is still young. If we want an all-encompassing technology scene, we...”
– Simon Willison on the Yahoo! Hackday Taiwan debacle.
“It’s true that making art is selfish; I make art, I write, ultimately, for...”
– Sonya Chung in The Mommy Problem from The Millions
“It’s not offensive in Australia because we did not systematically travel the...”
– No, but Australians did take Aboriginal children from their homes and put them with white families in something that sounds an awful lot like attempts to “civilize the savage.” Just sayin’.
Still, it’s an interesting argument found in the comments of Hey Hey’s Jackson...
June 2009
8 posts
“I get that we don’t want to be trivializing or callous about...”
– Greta Christina in Speaking Ill of the Dead
“Truth be told, Off the Wall was the crown jewel—ish was still innocent, earnest,...”
– Mark Anthony Neal in Conjuring Michael (the “uncut-before-u-git-the-academic-ish” mix)
Hell yeah.
“We had come to count on the privilege of this view into Jackson’s clearly pained...”
– Carrie Brownstein, on Michael Jackson’s death
(via newsandbooze:tylercoates:suicideblonde:bohemea) (via misterjt)
“Making ourselves visible, coming out about who we are and what we do and...”
– Greta Christina in Why Do Atheists Have to Talk About Atheism? Because We’re Right.
“The Only Ones typically break into fields or companies that admit few blacks,...”
– Toure, writing in Black and White on Martha’s Vineyard
“Those two pages, that centerfold of photos! Four – or was it six? – photos of...”
– From A Flag That Crossed Oceans by Irene Kontje
May 2009
2 posts
“It is important for you to have a partner who is willing to explore different...”
– From the Cancer 2009 horoscope
“So I just keep thinking about those kids who are missing opportunities by a...”
– Michelle Obama to Time Magazine