January 2008
Shock and Awe →
Why is Tumblr taking me back to my "following"...
Why?
“Jimmy Carter said, “Obama’s campaign has been extraordinary and...”
– (via squashed) Haha! ”Titillating” would sound a distinctly odd word in this context from anyone else, but I can just hear Jimmy Carter saying it (“tidllaytin’”), and it kind of makes sense.
NY Times: Edwards Is Out →
marco: This is big news. He had a lot of followers. (More than Jakob.) But he’s not endorsing any other candidate on the way out. If the majority of his followers choose to vote in one direction, that could definitively hand the primary to Hillary or Obama.I can’t see many Edwards supporters going to Clinton, can you?
State of the Union Tag Cloud →
nostrich:
I’m not American, so I’ll refrain from comment.
Los Angeles gets 2007 rainfall in one week →
highindustrial:
Just to put this past week’s deluge in perspective: there’s been more rain in the last seven days than there was in all of 2007.
Face it, Angelenos getting sympathy over rainfall? Never going to happen matey.
“That one million people would rage against the machine and unlock iPhones is a...”
– One Million Unlocked iPhones: Beautiful.
Can't get enough of your cottage pie
One of the traditions on the PR and Advertising courses at my “university” is for students working on assignments in groups to present themselves as a hypothetical agency. One such group has decided to call their agency Cottage Pie, which I was disappointed to discover isn’t a euphemism for anything.
Edwards and Obama on "change"
squashed: jhn brssndn wrote: I wonder, for example, why it is that John Edwards’ campaign has failed to connect with voters when he is far more explicit about the kind of “change” he offers than Barack Obama has been? I think the “change” mantra got a bit diluted once everybody and their cousin decided to be the candidate for change. Edwards seems like a good guy—and...
Customer services
errorgorilla: You can now ignore blithely skip past the nuggets he lovingly selects for you without the slighest tendril of guilt ever curling around your selfish mind that he’s got feelings you know! enjoy Error Gorilla in a new way.
Quick look at the markets
jhn brssndn held up surprisingly well overnight, despite fears that the unfollow button might prompt a run on the currency. As London opened this morning, jhn was trading just two followers down on yesterday’s record high. And now the weather. Tracey?
We can all be Influentials
lonelysandwich: ”Influentials don’t govern person-to-person communication. We all do.” -Duncan Watts, Yahoo! researcher and network-theory scientist You might read this fascinating article from Fast Company on Watts’ theory of viral success that runs counter to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and Ed Keller and Jon Berry’s The Influentials, and you might...
“Yes, sugary, fizzy, ultimately doomed to go flat and leave an unpleasant taste.”
– Error Gorilla, who has inspired my new rule for the Internet: Internet Rule #2147: If have something negative, controversial, or cynical to say, back it up with an actual argument. In lieu of a full argument, a link may be provided. Rule #2147, Corollary : Unless explicitly stated otherwise, it...
“Economists have romanticized globalism, taking delight in the myriad of foreign...”
– Paul Craig Roberts I’ve seen a lot of this kind of hand-wringing lately about the blowback from globalisation on the US economy. Yet in the context of the misery that neoliberal (or US, or IMF, or World Bank, or G8, which amounts to the same thing) economic policy has inflicted upon countless...
In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur? →
This sounds vaguely familiar, like I’ve read about it somewhere else, but apparently Southern racists (my favorite kind!) are now using “Canadian” in lieu of the N-word to say god-awful things about black people in broad daylight. [via] — highindustrial OK, I’ll bite - wasn’t Canadian always a racial slur, against Canadians? Thangyouverymuch, I’m here all...
@johnbrissenden Wasn’t Fuck My Dad the overseas title of the late-Nineties Olsen Twins opus Two of a Kind? — highindustrial Indeed. Except in Germany, where they just sold the format and it became Eat My Dad’s Poop.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-1-27) →
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Clash
Paul Revere & the Raiders
Beck
The Kinks
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Shock Doctrine | Naomi Klein →
New eBay CEO: Search first step to fixing eBay →
Letter From Hollywood →
Reality shows in the hopper, as per a Big Hollywood Executive: F*CK MY DAD YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE YOUR DAUGHTER OR YOUR WIFE EYE SWAP WHO WANTS TO KICK RACHAEL RAY IN THE ASS? PMS OR JUST BITCHY? I’M THINKING OF A NUMBER CELEBRITY I’M THINKING OF A NUMBER — yourmonkeycalled
New Bond film title is confirmed →
The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed. — aatw Christ on a bike! They might as well call it The Rural Juror…
climate of fear
So I’m at an ATM with two of my (grown up) kids. It’s about 3pm in our small town. The 50-something woman in front of us turns round mid-transaction and asks us if we’d stand further away.
Should I
a) have said “don’t worry sweetheart, we’ve probably got more money than you anyway”
b) have grabbed her ATM card anyway, to fulfil her belief that we...
“You should have seen the machine I wanted to build. There were zero USB ports....”
– Fake Steve Jobs on MacBook Air
“I’m an Irish cripple, a Scottish jew
I’m the blackmail man
A...”
– Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Blackmail Man (1977)
Meg Whitman’s Exit Interview →
“It won’t be hypothetical if and when it occurs. We are not legislating now on...”
– From Jacqui Smith’s interview on Today about 42 days detention, mined from http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/ The only thing to add is WTF
Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone →
Thursdays in January don't get much better than...
Sorting out my students’ seminars A frothy latte on the go My son killing on GTHIII in the living room Sun shining Meeting my daughter for lunch in a bit Maybe walk the dogs later Time Machine backups working since I sorted out the hard drive at the weekend
Comment is free: Davos 08
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/category/davos_08/
