June 2010
“For 30 years, the United States has been involved in a country that is virtually...”
– George Friedman (via Instapaper)
“The world’s very jittery financial capitalists are reflecting this dilemma. The...”
– Richard Seymour (via Instapaper)
Leaked Apple Doc: "We ARE NOT Appeasing Customers... →
via Twittelator Pad
that's what i get for fucking around with that...
clingtomymouth:
think i deleted some posts accidentally.
And your avatar.
Habilis →
onethingwell:
Send files to your Habilis email address and they show up in your Dropbox.com dropbox a few seconds later - simple! It’s dead handy for devices like the iPad where you can create documents but can’t easily get them into your Dropbox.
“The plural form of the word “M.I.L.F.” has been hotly debated by...”
– MILF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Look, over the years you’ve poured a lot of your energy into sport and racism...”
– Malcolm Tucker’s dim view of the importance of Australian politics (via malcolmtucker)
I like things that are great.
Good things are fantastic.
why poverty is not the opposite of wealth
therealestsocksinthegame:
novazembla:
myvivavoce:
kungfucarrie:
smartchickscommune:
“[Charles] Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of...
“Yes. We require all of our suppliers to certify in writing that they use...”
– Steve Jobs, responding to the issue of conflict minerals used in Apple products. (via soupsoup)
FAIL. Steve Jobs is justifiably famous for solving very difficult problems. So solve this one, Steve.
Made the mistake of reading the anonymous student...
hman:
“July 6: New Wave royalty the B-52s may have long since dropped the beehive hairdos and the apostrophe in their name, but they continue to bring their screwball dance hits to the masses.”
That apostrophe was just one of the reasons I could never get into the B-52s.
(New Yorker)
“Screwball” is an adjective that doesn’t get nearly enough use these days.
“my thighs are killing me, but i survived the weekend.”
– expulsis piratis, restituta commercia.:
Quote of the week
Must have been quite a weekend
I remember the days…
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I loved the mass-editor while it lasted
vruz:
it’s still there
http://www.tumblr.com/mega-editor/[your-username]
Mind?
Christopher Hitchens Is Unwell →
vruz:
—via danielholter:negevrockcity:
Author/public intellectual Christopher Hitchens is seriously ill, if two separate - but unverified - accounts posted to the internet are to be believed. 1. True/Slant’s Ethan Epstein is reporting Hitchens cancelled more than a week’s worth of book tour events. 2. A member of Reddit posted that Hitchens was taken off his airplane last week on a stretcher...
“I think it’s encouraging for writers and editors because they can say we can...”
– A rather reassuring quote from this NYT piece on Rolling Stone’s return to investigative journalism and their General McChrystal article from last week. (via nostrich)
The odd thing is that the NYT chose the McChrystal piece as the occasion to highlight investigative journalism at RS. While it is...
“To be an American soldier today is to serve a people who find nothing amiss in...”
– Andrew Bacevich (via azspot)
kapi asked: You seem like a cool dad.
Are you a cool dad?
Are you a cool dad?
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I can't believe I've lived this long without...
katefeetie:
IS ANYONE AMERICAN?
PALMFACE!
End Vietghanistan This Week →
Little known secret: if the U.S. House of Representatives stops funding a war, or any other crime, neither the Senate nor the President nor the military can continue the killing. The Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, can single-handedly block funding to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and currently he is doing so by refusing to advance it unless schools and jobs are...
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“Revolutionary transformations cannot be accomplished without at the very minimum...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (via anticap)
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“Perhaps the most pathetic attribute of the Left today is its vigorous defense of...”
– Jodi Dean (via Instapaper)
“Dear Ghana: Enjoy your World Cup win over the U.S.
America will just have to...”
– “Tropical Storm” Alex (via ryking)
That quote is wrong in so many levels (on how to be wrong telling nothing but the truth). (via sendmelies)
Your tag says I make it hard for you to love me. I don’t need your “love,” or whatever you think you’re giving to someone who is a total stranger. I also...
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“Third, the rule of Empire operates on all registers of the social order...”
– Empire (via xjustsmokemycigaretteandhush)
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“As the nation teeters on the brink of economic disaster at home, as well as...”
– McChrystal’s Challenge by Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com (via Instapaper)
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The Roots - Now Or Never
corcarpemei asked: Banal question: What are your The Office series preference (if any)? Original or American?
(I might add that this was prompted by with your on point Gruber insight.)
(I might add that this was prompted by with your on point Gruber insight.)
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How to read Daring Fireball
So the other evening I’m watching some old episodes of The Office with my daughters, and it’s that one where Jim finds Michael’s film script in his desk drawer. Cut to the scene where Jim’s assembled everyone for a table read in the conference room, and Dwight Schrute pops his head round the door, tutting to Jim about the fact that the script doesn’t belong to him....
French workers take to the streets in protest at... →
I love the French.
