December 2011
66 posts
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“[Repeal the] 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which contains what...”
– Forbes, “The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value” by Steve Denning
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“My God, there have been more tears shed on reality TV than by all the war-widows...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan
“Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican)...”
– I’ve seen this passage from David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years quoted in several venues, and it really is a wonderful passage: who knew that a person could get so many facts wrong in one little sentence? I can’t quite get over it. Apple Computer (not “Computers”) was in fact founded by two...
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Customer Names Called Out at Union Square...
chrismohney:
Dallas!
Wilhelm!
Brock!
Liza!
Bill!
Gerald!
Karim!
Charlie!
annicka: My Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2k11:... →
annicka:
2011 was the year of spotify for me. i love spotify for a lot of reasons (most of which i’ve gone on about on this bloggy blog), but one of the biggest is that it has so much potential for greatness. so, without further ado:
top 5 features i’d like to see from spotify in 2k12:
1. in-song…
“What got lost in this abstraction of signs and signifiers that the world is...”
“Evidently some people are prepared to lie to a monk for the sake of beer.”
nehrujackets:
BAD BAD BAD - HIMANSHU -...
“Unlike Freddie, I think a good place to start would be not to seethe with open...”
– When Intellectual Property Is Theft | Will Wilkinson (via pegobry)
But where’s the fun in that?
“Shapers are organized in a network of local hubs based in each major city around...”
– Global Shapers | World Economic Forum-Global Shapers
felixsalmon: Ah, Davospeak. How I haven’t missed you.
pegobry: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
In the deepest and darkest corners of hell, the text of your favorite literature will be replaced with management literature. It will be void of meaning, priggish,...
rend it: It was my bad luck to have to take the... →
It was my bad luck to have to take the collection at early Communion on Sunday, although I was in no condition. I answered the pious looks of my friends with a very crooked smile and then knelt by a lancet-shaped stained-glass window that seemed to be made from the butts of vermouth and…
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“[John Jeremiah Sullivan] seems to have in abundance the storyteller’s gifts: he...”
– James Wood. Reading a passage like this, I am reminded that, for all the faults he has legitimately and illegitimately been accused of, Wood does as much as anyone ever has to make the humble book review a form of art. (via ayjay)
“Whoomp! (There It Is)” was commonly used at sporting events, particularly...”
Hey maybe Writers Of Their Generations should... →
maura:
Just a thought.
And yes. I read all 15,000 words of the story that this whole kerfuffle is based on. Twice, in fact. The chief takeaway, aside from the flat affect being even more depressing (both in terms of subject and abjectly poor prose that likely got a pass because of the lurid subject matter) the second time? “Intellectuals” are often baffling you with their bullshit and just as...
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amateur sociology is king
amateur sociology is king
“The video starts with some sort of metaphor abt America and how in the future,...”
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“And if they all, kneeling with poised palms,
millions, billions of them, ended together with their illusion?
I shall never agree. I will give them the crown.
The human mind is splendid; lips powerful, and the summons so great it must open Paradise.”
Czeslaw Milosz
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“who once served as the creative director of Moomah, the children’s cafe in...”
– who once served as the creative director of Moomah, the children’s cafe in Tribeca that caters to parents in denial about some of the distasteful aesthetics of child-rearing
How drunk was Chris Kattan last night?
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“I certainly wish I wasn’t a smoker and wish I could give it up. But I’m damned...”
– Hitchens at Reason (via pegobry)
Goddamn right.
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“Were you surprised to see that Derek Jeter treats his anonymous sex partners...”
– David Raposa, The Classical
Rain King: Dean Wareham said that Beat Happening's... →
rrainking:
in that “everybody’s [covered] it.” Maybe he’s right.
Maybe.
However, I submit that, in fact, New Order’s “Ceremony”* is the song that everyone, including Wareham, has covered. Maybe not as “indie” as Beat Happening, but definitely not a platinum blockbuster diamond diamond, either.
My…
Chris Mohney: The Bank Guard with the Serpent... →
chrismohney:
I don’t know if this SOP in our post-Occupy world here in NYC, but all this week I’ve observed a new personality at the Bank of America branch near my office (19 & Park). Normally there is a “greeter” there near the ATMs, placed to issue sunny hellos to anyone coming in to grab cash for the week,…
"White People Using Photobooth" →
annicka:
tylercoates:
My new favorite one-joke Tumblr!
*slow clap*
feel like this website is the proverbial piece of swiss cheese placed underneath a cardboard box propped up, waiting for the bunnie to crawl beneath it, bump the box, and become entrapped. forever. branded as an Evangelist wearing colorful headphones from Target.
