December 2008
24 posts
Fuse, baby, fuse →
"I thought Obama would abolish sadness." →
Maybe people were already aware of this
Webster’s 2008 word of the year is “overshare.”
Margaret Colin
ELENOR WALDORF IS JEFF GOLDBLUM’S WIFE FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY (#).
This is… as important as something can be.
I mean, they don't call them that because they are...
“Ambassador George Ward, head of ORHA’s humanitarian pillar, asked, “How am I going to protect humanitarian convoys, humanitarian staging areas, humanitarian distribution points?” A flag officer who had flown in from CENTCOM said, “Hire war lords.” “Wait a minute,” Ward thought, “folks don’t understand this. There are warlords in...
Words/Phrases I Do Not Want To Hear For The Rest...
katiebakes:
miltnr:
1.) Reach Out: “Can you reach out to XYZ?”
2.) Circle Back: “Let’s circle back later via conference call”.
3.) Regroup: “Okay, we’ll regroup to align on that feedback”
4.) Connect/Reconnect with: “Try to connect with the client before they go home”
5.) Download: “Can you can give me a quick download on the issues?”
Gaaaahhhh corporate speak gaaaaahhhh hate hate hate
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"The Shallows: Mind, Memory and Media in an Age of...
According to his blog, that’s the title of the new book Nick Carr’s working on. I guess sort of a big version of his Atlantic article. I’ll be interested to see where he takes that riff and what it will look like with a bit more meat on it.
God, i might as well share...
endasher:
interesting. but obvi?
Yeah, I know. That’s why I emailed it to you rather than tumbled it. What’s important is the involvement of scientists.
“Now I’ve got a way. Under that, I can put all kinds of science.”
– Thomas Friedman in Ian Parker, “The Bright Side”, The New Yorker 11/10/08 p 53-4 (via keyholez)
Initially, I briefly thought this said “Under that, I can pull all kinds of science” (as though it were a trick), which was much better.
Watch
Lockheed Martin announced today that its team successfully conducted a free-flight hover test of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle-L. Conducted Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., the test met all objectives. During an engagement with the enemy, the MKV-L with its cargo of kill vehicles will maneuver into the threat complex to...
Google 2008 Year End Zeitgeist Released →
Highlights and discussion forthcoming.
“Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Illinois has voted for change.”
– Rod Blagojevich, upon election as governor of Illinois in 2002.
Signs of the times
keyholez:
hartman:
“How would you organize a successful revolution?”
is apparently one of the questions on the application to Oxford University these days.
(End of this video). Also:
Narrator: “What’s the logic behind the questions?”
[several ordinary people hazard guesses]
Briton on street: “Cause obviously if they just asked them academic questions, then everyone could just be a...
Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines... →
And print takes yet another round in the head.
Just so we're clear
I had a bit of tubler’s remorse over my rather belligerent post about the Kirsch review in TNR of good ol’ Slavoj Zizek’s latest work. In retrospect the tone might have confused readers on a particular point: I too think Zizek is a) usually a total tool and b) “dangerous” insofar as writers of this type can be. My issue with Kirsch’s piece is that the way he...
New Republic on Zizek
oaklandhoman:
Somebody read this thing and tell me what it says. I don’t have the time today…
I don’t have the time to properly express how… irritating this thing is, so I’m doing the short, hyperbolic version.
Basically, some dude calls me and lots of people I talk to big raging anti-semites because we, like Zizek, um, use the “J word” basically [Note: not going...
Daily News steals the Empire State Building →
(via oaklandhoman)
Is this how Bart made his money?