April 2009
For Gay Couple, Fulfilling Lifelong Dream Of... →
100 days of Barack Obama's Facebook news feed →
Brilliant.
Nate Silver can't stop, won't stop
Silver is equally good at avoiding searches that produce only the elements that prove his point of view. Let us take, for example, gay marriage. It’s not that Silver doesn’t have an opinion on the issue; he probably does. It’s that he doesn’t start his analysis with his opinion; he starts with the data. He finds every vote on the issue of gay marriage that he can — every...
Style & Substance : Vol. 22, No. 4 →
New posts on Style and Substance always make for banner days. My favorite part is scoffing along with paragraphs like this:
Employers Watching Workers Online Spurs Privacy Debate, the headline said. But wait, employers spurs? Why not employers spur? Because it’s the watching that spurs, not the employers. What we have here is a fused gerund. It would be unfused by the proper use of the...
“I’ve seen some stuff and holy shit. It’s the craziest shit ever.”
– Steven Soderbergh, on his early peek at James Cameron’s AVATAR (via kylebunch)
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
– Emo Philips (via simko)
You Can Be A Patron Of The Arts For One Dollar →
“Wow, such hatred. No, Kevin Garnett isn’t the worst person in the world....”
– Worst Person In The World: Kevin Garnett, NBC Chicago
Second comment on my Garnett thing from this morning. My favorite type of Internet sports commenters — except for the really, really racist ones — are those who take the...
Worst Person In The World: Kevin Garnett →
“And yet there we were, every year, buying one of the most expensive perfumes in...”
– The Passion of Alec Baldwin, by Caitlin Flanagan
A Non-Poetic Goodbye →
“To our kids, misspelled web 2.0 names like Flickr will seem like 1950s...”
– Mills Baker, (via kylebunch)
How Not To Take A Sick Day →
Let us ironically reappraise hipsters →
Lost Cat, Dog On Journey Die Immediately →
“When American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of Al Qaeda into a trap,...”
– The first sentence from ‘In Cyberweapons Race, Questions Linger Over U.S. Offensive Capability’, in today’s New York Times
Should I Be Worried About Swine Flu? →
Guess what the answer is.
Asher Roth, Behold Your Legacy! →
Time Magazine Throws Up Its Hands As It Gets Pwned... →
Gay Iowans Say I Do →
I’ve got my hands full/ all summer long
Fall becomes winter
A review of the restaurant I am eating at tonight, by Stef W. on Yelp. Thanks, Stef W.
Let me take you back To the year 2-0-0-2 Mie N Yu opened I was here. Often. Smiling, flirting, shimmying Sure! Here’s my digits… Bar was always packed Older crowd with few Hoyas And no popped collars Magical decor Arabian Nights. Far East. Not Georgetown, Toto Laughter and mayhem Distinct flavor...
How Bad Is Mark Penn With Numbers? →
Yes, this still baffles me
From VQR:
How good of a living is this? Penn explains:
It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year.
Well, those are some very specific numbers, so they should be easy to check. Technorati explains the $75k figure:
The average annual blogger revenue is more than $6,000. However, this is skewed by the top 1% of bloggers who earn $200k+. Among active...
A Single Autumn, by W.S. Merwin
I’m casually going through some of W.S. Merwin’s recent poetry, thanks both to his recent Pulizer Prize and to his appearance on NPR this week. Anyway, here’s one. It’ll smack you in the chest.
The year my parents died one that summer one that fall three months and three days apart I moved into the house where they had lived their last years it had never been theirs and...
To Tweet or Not to Tweet - Maureen Dowd →
Thank you, Maureen, for your insightful and oh-so-hilarious questions on the subject of Twitter. Turns out the only thing more wasteful than spending time on the service you deride is expecting you to ask that service’s creators some questions that aren’t completely devoid of insight. Now give me my two minutes back.
Twitter / Newt Gingrich: @JohnNess slurp is much... →
Newt Gingrich is now responding to my boss’ (johnness’) sarcastic tweets. I love this new world.
“Over the past four years I’ve asked police officers throughout the U.S....”
– Norm Stamper (via John Gruber)
azizisbored:
Clipse featuring Kanye West - Kinda...
Fallout 3 Soundtrack Just Wants To Set Delta Air... →
“There is really no drinking half as enjoyable as daytime drinking, when the sun...”
– Time and the Bottle - NYT Proof Blog
(via squill37, hellonewworld, savingpaper)
“Because objectively speaking, the job of New York Yankees general manager should...”
– Matt Taibbi (via cajunboy)
