January 2012
7 posts
SOPA: A Bad Solution to a Very Real Problem
But even as we celebrate the declining congressional support for these bills, we shouldn’t forget that this isn’t simply a fight about the future of free speech; it’s also a battle about whether the financial interests of the new media will triumph over those of the old media. And, if they do, it’s not clear that the public interest will always be served. As the protest song that sprang up this...
“Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not...”
– Joshua Cohen, My Berlin Airlift - NYTimes.com (via housingworksbookstore)
Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
laphamsquarterly:
Why didn’t we think of this? WHY?
michellelegro:
“At 4 a.m. on an Upper East Side subway platform, a stare-down between two men was being held. One blinked, and Joseph Owens, 32, attacked.”
Félix Fenéon, meet @neofeneon: Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
December 2011
9 posts
The Language of Food →
“I’d always assumed that Americans used to have accents similar to today’s...”
– Nick Patrick: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
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Here Is Everything I Learned in New York City -... →
thechard:
New Yorkers are unshockable, it’s true, but they also know that no one gets private space, and the best they can do is to leave you alone and at least pretend you have privacy, even if the crowded sidewalk affords you none. When I see someone in tears on the sidewalk, my instinct is not to rush over and help them—what would I do, anyway?—it is to offer them the dignity of not...
Frank Luntz, you evil fucking genius
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street
4. Don’t talk about ‘jobs.’ Talk about ‘careers.’
“Everyone in this room talks about ‘jobs,’” Luntz said. “Watch this.”
He then asked everyone to raise their hand if they want a “job.” Few hands went up. Then he asked who wants a “career.”...
November 2011
17 posts
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's... →
Um, how did I miss this????
laphamsquarterly:
Looks like Dr. Who is alive and well in Geneva.
michellelegro:
Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. “Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is...
Turning the Dialogue From Wealth to Values →
The counterintuitive tragedy is this: modern conservative thought is relying increasingly on social engineering through economic policy, by hoping that a weaker social welfare state will somehow…
Why Texting Turns Us Back Into Teenagers - WSJ.com →
“We may be compulsively checking our phones and waiting for the text message to come in, but we don’t want the other person to know that,” he says. Mr. Farner admits this manipulative behavior is…
October 2011
12 posts
Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work - NYTimes.com →
In the industrialized world, few of us live in a subsistence mode, so shadow work is ubiquitous: shopping, paying bills, housework. Digital technology — with its spam, e-mail, texting, smartphones…
Articles: The Decade in Indie | Features |... →
The sensibility used to seem rarer, and then, I suppose, half the people attracted to it grew up and got creative jobs and now it floats everywhere.
Lego's iPhone App: A Brilliant Mix Of Physical And... →
MAKING THE MONOCULTURE | More Intelligent Life →
That suggests that we like pop culture partly because it’s a shared experience, regardless of quality. This seems to be a feature that is burnished by nostalgia and reinforced by additional rounds…
App uses gaming to promote and sell museum-quality... →
e-Salvation →
Kelly is not the first technology guru to make a living by selling advice to corporations. But it is hard to imagine the previous generation of serious thinkers about technology—the likes of Jacques…
No More Servants - Megan McArdle - Business - The... →
Where did your canned fish come from? | Official... →
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The creative class is a lie - Art in Crisis -... →
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The Deleted City →
Daniel Soar reviews ‘The Googlisation of... →
September 2011
11 posts
TheDieline.com - Package Design Blog →
Facebook Boldly Annexes the Web - Ben Elowitz -... →
The net is that, until now, we’ve lived in the Web’s world; but a fully integrated Open Graph will allow the Web to finally live in our world. This is the power of digital intimacy. And it’s coming…
Bacteriophage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
There are many developments with this amongst research groups in the US. Other uses include spray application in horticulture for protecting plants and vegetable produce from decay and the spread of…
Oblique Strategies - Wikipedia, the free... →
Temporary Is the New Permanent - Neighborhoods -... →