April 2010
The best TV commercial ever →
A short history of debt →
The Coke Bottle Cheat Sheet →
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint...
Buying Apple stock instead of products →
The Top 29 Cities for Men →
For this year’s celebration, Bahama Umbrella is advertising a specially designed umbrella, with a drain so that water “can be stored, reused and recycled.” Gray Line, a New York City sightseeing company, will keep running its buses on fossil fuels, but it is promoting an “Earth Week” package of day trips to green spots like the botanical gardens and flower shopping at Chelsea Market.
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“That Politico has been so vilified inside the White House is itself a sign of...”
– Politico’s Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To
“Banking is founded on a moral basis and not a financial basis. The trouble today...”
– Woodrow Wilson, 1910
'The journalist enjoys good standing in his... →
“Someday I’m gonna get an apartment right near Carnegie Hall. Then it’ll be real...”
– Demitri Martin (via generaltau)
“Of course, because this is television, portrayals of female nerds are undercut...”
– oh this is good. (via sparkleneelysparkle, doree)
The New Yorker Baseball Preview →
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How can you go wrong with a baseball preview that features passages with phrases like ‘finicky knee’ and ‘parochial lens’ ?:
Some of the bigger questions surrounding this year’s Mets, including Jose Reyes’s mysterious thyroid problem and Carlos Beltran’s finicky knee, did not appear to interest Dolan much, but his parochial lens reminded me that the real suspense in these spring...
