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What Don Draper’s Wall Street Journal Hedcut Would Look Like

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:56:13 -0500

What Don Draper’s Wall Street Journal Hedcut Would Look Like

"Third, the site asserts that the Pentagon employs a secret task force of highly trained commandos..."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:06:47 -0500

“Third, the site asserts that the Pentagon employs a secret task force of highly trained commandos charged with capturing or killing insurgent leaders. I suspect that in the eyes of most Americans, using special operations teams to kill terrorists is one of the least controversial ways in which the government spends their tax dollars.”

- Getting Lost in Afghanistan’s Fog of War

"The job has its perks—an accumulation of random knowledge, for instance—but it also has its side..."

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:24:40 -0500

“The job has its perks—an accumulation of random knowledge, for instance—but it also has its side effects when you unintentionally drink the copy Kool-Aid. Once you train yourself to spot errors, you can’t not spot them. You can’t simply shut off the careful reading when you leave the office. You notice typos in novels, missing words in other magazines, incorrect punctuation on billboards. You have nightmares that your oversight turned Mayor Bloomberg into a “pubic” figure.”

- What It’s Really Like To Be A Copy Editor - The Awl

Amazing String Of Tea-Baggers Flipping Out About Onion Video

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:31 -0500

Amazing String Of Tea-Baggers Flipping Out About Onion Video:

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This is what gets Joe fired up. “The most valiant thing you can do as an artist,” he...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:18:05 -0500

This is what gets Joe fired up. “The most valiant thing you can do as an artist,” he says, “is inspire someone else to be creative.” He has instigated a spate of short films—some starring friends like Gugino and Channing Tatum—and he does a lot of the shooting and recording and mixing right here in his black-curtained cavern. Through hitRECord he wants to attract ideas from people all over the world and make original movies without a whit of Hollywood interference. A psychoanalyst might observe that the kid who kept hearing no from Hollywood has sublimated his annoyance by conjuring up an alternative salon where everyone always hears yes. “If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job,” he says. “And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks. What’s coming is going to be a lot better, whether it’s music or movies or journalism. The media’s about to become a lot more effective.” Whether Joe is an altruist or a wired Louis B. Mayer in embryonic form, he’s so convinced that idea-swapping indie media is the wave of the future that he nearly floats when he talks about it. “There’s a lot of stuff that gets created for the love of it, and there’s a lot that really does get created with almost no love involved,” he says. “Just to make money. I think of Chris Nolan as a shining example of somebody who can do something for the love and still succeed at the money game. A lot of people make excuses and say, ‘Ah, well, there’s no room for love here. We have to make money.’ And I love to point to Chris Nolan and say, ‘Fuck you guys. This guy’s making more money than you are, and he’s making beautiful, genuine movies.’”

Details : Joseph Gordon-Levitt Comes of Age

Best Wiki ever

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:41:03 -0500

“On a cool, clear night, typical in Southern California, Warren G is traveling around his neighborhood, searching for women to have sex with. He’s chosen to engage in this pursuit alone.

Nate Dogg, however, has just arrived in Long Beach, seeking Warren. Ironically, Nate passes a car full of women who are excited to see him. He insists to the women that there’s no cause for the excitement.

Warren makes a left at 21st Street and Lewis, where he sees a group of young men enjoying a game of dice together. He parks his car and accosts them, excited to find people to play with, but is chagrined when he discovers they intend to pilfer him of his material possessions. Once the hopeful thieves reveal their firearms, Warren realizes he is in a considerable predicament.”

Regulate (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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abbyjean: minimalist inception poster. (@greatdismal)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:01:37 -0500

abbyjean:

minimalist inception poster. (@greatdismal)

“What is clear is that AT&T’s role will always be that of parsimonious gatekeeper,...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:03:04 -0500

“What is clear is that AT&T’s role will always be that of parsimonious gatekeeper, dictating to its customers how much data they can have and how much they’ll pay for it. It is precisely the role the company hoped to avoid, the reason that carriers long refused to give phone manufacturers and software developers the kind of influence that Apple now wields. In a fate that will soon befall the rest of the wireless carriers, AT&T has become a mere toll-taker on the digital highway, an operator of dumb pipes that cost a fortune to maintain but garner no credit for innovation or customer service. Meanwhile, the likes of Apple and Google will continue to pump out products that push the limits of what the carriers can provide, training customers to use more and more data. The carriers will be locked into a grim series of adjustments — continually raising prices or invoking ever more stringent data usage caps.”

Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown

Rock Fans Outraged As Bob Dylan Goes Electronica

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:44:30 -0500

Rock Fans Outraged As Bob Dylan Goes Electronica

hellonewworld: Oh man. (via melrosinko)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:40:37 -0500

hellonewworld:

Oh man. (via melrosinko)

“So I want to tell you about this sweet moment I had here in South Africa, this tiny little...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:38:41 -0500

“So I want to tell you about this sweet moment I had here in South Africa, this tiny little moment that I will probably remember longer than I remember anything that happens at the World Cup. But I’m just not sure I can convey it. Isn’t it just like that for the sweet little moments in our lives? Why is it that I so clearly remember sitting next to my father at Cleveland Municipal Stadium and watching him drink a beer out of a waxed paper cup (my father almost never drank beer — it seemed so exotic then) when I can’t remember the name of my sixth grade teacher? Why is it I can remember stumbling out into the white-hot sunlight after the movie ended, holding my mother’s hand as we stumbled through the parking lot looking for the car when I can’t remember what movie we saw? Why is it I can remember shakily walking back and forth in a dark nursery, whispering into my baby daughter’s ear to go to sleep already when I can’t remember my hotel room number? Why do these little memories that would seem so ordinary to anyone else — so ordinary to me even — animate the mind?”

Joe Posnanski, Don’t Need No Starbucks

Did Buying Your Gaming Console Help Fund War Atrocities in the Congo?

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:24:58 -0500

Did Buying Your Gaming Console Help Fund War Atrocities in the Congo?

Redi-Box is a fantastic idea

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:49:06 -0500

As someone currently mired in the “Do I want to pay increased rent or do I want to move for the sixth time in eight years?” stage of urban life, I’d like to think I speak with a certain amount of expertise in saying the following: Moving sucks.

The actual process will probably never not suck, but it can suck less. Which is where my friend Bobby’s startup comes in. Aptly named Redi-Box, Bobby’s is a company that ships eco-friendly plastic moving containers to your house in advance of your move. After you’re done moving, Redi-Box-programmed robots — or probably just humans, but it’d be awesome if robots were somehow involved — pick those containers up. It’s that simple.

At the risk of sounding too much like that Jupiter Jack dude (not Billy Mays, but the other guy, the British one, whatever his name is), you should probably try this out. Even if Bob wasn’t a friend, a former dormmate, and a fellow Indiana intramural soccer champion (2007; I still have the t-shirt), I would still think his idea is brilliant. Because it is. So, you know, check it out.

"Where once the world was a riot of swimsuit models, all is now isolation and dread. Where once life..."

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:26:18 -0500

“Where once the world was a riot of swimsuit models, all is now isolation and dread. Where once life could be greeted in a pink polo shirt with the collar popped, it can now be faced only through a pair of mirrored sunglasses in whose lenses the philosopher sees nothing but himself.”

- The existential despair of Cristiano Ronaldo

Nigeria Is Suspended From International Play, Has An Offer For You

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:11:45 -0500

Nigeria Is Suspended From International Play, Has An Offer For You

"To try and be cool in a way that’s not being yourself, to work the cool machine, is to be a liar...."

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:23:33 -0500

“To try and be cool in a way that’s not being yourself, to work the cool machine, is to be a liar. And to lie is to be afraid.”

- James Murphy (via goldenfiddle)

thedailywhat: Kickass Cover of the Day: Aloe Blacc (of “I Need...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:06:41 -0500

thedailywhat:

Kickass Cover of the Day: Aloe Blacc (of “I Need A Dollar” fame) teamed up with The Grand Scheme to honor the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death with a righteous rendition of the timeless “Billie Jean.”

[ratsoff.]

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bunch: Roman Pellejero, Sede de Brasil [via]

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:30:24 -0500

bunch: Roman Pellejero, Sede de Brasil [via]

"None. I have served with presidents, not under them."

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:29:15 -0500

“None. I have served with presidents, not under them.”

- via savingpaper: Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest serving member of Congress in American history, in response to a constituent’s question of how many presidents he had served under. Byrd, who was haunted his whole career by his involvement with the KKK early in life and who transformed himself into a champion of the legislative branch and West Virginia, died Monday at 92.

jeskeets: Thank God this is over.

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:27:32 -0500

jeskeets:

Thank God this is over.