February 2011
“Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human Jeopardy! player: It’s...”
– Ken Jennings
This, I think, is part of the beauty of Who Is Arcade Fire. The blog doesn’t actually make its motives clear. I’m sure some of the band’s fans look at it as an opportunity to laugh at the alleged cluelessness of the featured tweets. Others might just be fascinated by the heated reactions people can have to the revelation that there are successful young musicians they’ve never heard of. (I say...
The perfect Michael Lewis paragraph
And I mean that in a wholly non-sarcastic, sincere way. I mean it’s actually pretty much perfect:
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. Two weeks earlier the collapse of Lehman Brothers had cast doubt on banks everywhere. Ireland’s banks had not been managed to withstand doubt; they had been managed to exploit blind faith. Now the...
The 13- to 18-year-old juveniles—who were enrolled in the program by concerned family members or teachers hoping to show them the possible consequences of delinquent behavior—endured a long and painful day at the Cavaliers’ training facility. While there, they were subjected to the same environment of hopelessness and despair the Cavaliers face every day and were forced to watch the...
Krugman: Eat The Future →
A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it will have been five years since Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken during a court argument.
If he is true to form, Justice Thomas will spend the arguments as he always does: leaning back in his chair, staring at the ceiling, rubbing his eyes, whispering to Justice Stephen...
“I gotta be honest. I think the dusty quote-unquote rule about first person is...”
– Wright Thompson. (via cajunboy)
This whole interview is fantastic.
“Mubarak said he was handing “the functions of the president” to...”
– Egypt braces for massive protest
