January 2009
40 posts
“Iraq wraps up election with no major violence”
– AP Headline
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM OFFICIALLY A FAILURE:
Even Bono is giving it a miss. The rockstar is a Davos regular, using the World Economic Forum to push his campaign against poverty in developing countries.
This year, however, he decided to stay in his recording studio. (BBC)
NO HE CAN’T!
(Also, this cover is from March ‘03. They’re asking this like two weeks before the US invaded Iraq, which means they just barely got...
A single and same voice for the whole thousand...
A couple of years ago, I plucked from my brain, in as random a fashion as I could manage, ten topics from a range of knowledge domains: World War II, Israel, George Washington, Genome, Agriculture, Herman Melville, Internet, Magna Carta, Evolution, Epilepsy. I then googled each one to see where Wikipedia’s article on the topic would rank.
I first did the searches on August 10, 2006. The...
I mean, did I have a choice?
leoncrawl:
From the back of a book I just got in the mail
There is something about Lux. He’s a thief and a liar; he is selfish and self-absorbed and hopelessly vain. But while he looks like Lana Turner and romances like a true Casanova, Lux is actually more like a bumbling, oblivious Mary Tyler Moore. Amid shouting mobs, police shields, and the hurled bricks of the ’80s Brixton riots, Lux is...
So, Subway and Domino's are in some sort of...
katiebakes:
[The CEO of subway]:
3. “Subway’s whole positioning is that we make customized sandwiches, right before your eyes, with your choice of bread, meats, cheeses, vegetables and sauces. We believe that they made every Subway sandwich the same and based the build on our pictures which include all the veggies. The majority of consumers don’t add all the veggies.”
The whole story is...
Disturbing conclusions regarding food
absalomabsalom:
fiatluxemburg:
And so I ask you all, is there a rule against simply eating hummus with a spoon? If so, why? If not I may just eat entire vessels (the saller size ones) of hummus as I eat single-serving yogurt units.
Luckily, I’ve thought long and hard about this question, and I know the answer: jouissance. There are many things out there that are really, really, really good...
For all those fans of my professional work out...
Exciting new material on the SnapDragon blog, about the Internet!
Tumblr v. Twitter; Micro-blogging v. Micro-messaging
What’s the difference between “information” and “expression”?
When did the “old” social media ecosystem show up anyway?
Why We Like WordPress: A List
To the extent that “the rest of what’s here is basically what I’d tell you about if we spoke in...
Disturbing conclusions regarding food
I have always greatly enjoyed hummus. I regularly put it on sandwiches and eat it using pieces of pita or other varieties of bread. However, I recently have revived my interest in the ancestral or so-called “cave man” diet. I’m not going to explain it; it’s just basically Atkins. I’m not actually “on” it or whatever, it’s more of a game I think....
Pretending to pretend?
ATTN: Keyholez
absalomabsalom:
The 2008 winner of annual Turing test contest the Loebner Prize also won using a brilliantly simple strategy that Turing didn’t foresee. Elbot convinced three of 12 humans it was just like them by acting like a human pretending to be a robot. (#; also here vs. here)
20% of my currently displaying posts are just things from Wonkette. I think it might be time for me to go.
“Dude, you are trying to blame the collapse of the global economy on bankers...”
– I believe +J would concur that Sara K. will be famous eventually.
“This is pretty much like The Empire Strikes Back, in reverse, or maybe the...”
– Wonkette, on David Berman.
How much different stuff is there in the world? Like six or seven probably!
Sundays are the best
keyholez:
elsam:
keyholez:
I could not possibly disagree with this sentiment more. I actually howled out loud when I read it.
UNFOLLOW. World views so different have no business intersecting.
WHATEVER I HOPE YOU ENJOY CHURCH I’LL JUST BE HERE WEEPING AND RENDING MY CLOTHES
Now, now everyone. I think we all know that all days of the week are equaly bad, each in their own special way.
jlovett:
Where are your “twits” about Richmond, Raleigh, and the rambling roads of I-95?
Tweets.
Commentary: Towards responsible use of... →
Some serious people wrote this thing. It’s a little old but like I said, I’ve been lazy.
Anyway, they have a sort of manifesto. I’ll pull out the headers for you:
We call for an evidence-based approach to the evaluation of the risks and benefits of cognitive enhancement.
We call for enforceable policies concerning the use of cognitive-enhancing drugs to support fairness,...
I've been neglecting my RSS reader recently
There are 342 things. I’d delete them all and just start over but who knows what might be in there!?
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past. (WaPo, on how the White House has no tech)
Intern Juli steps it up
Hey did you all realize that DC is so zeitgetist-y now? It’s true! The New York Times, your new DC alt-weekly, totally went to this one club and it was so cool. And now Obama is the new sixth borough. (Wonkette)
Watching 'Sunset Boulevard'
seedz:
I don’t normally watch movies that were made in the good old days…
Neither do I. Is this a big mistake or am I right that the past was silly. (The actual past, not The Past (which is to say, the future).)
hartman:
Whatever the precise opposite of captioning is…
Illustrating?
Was it ever actually on fire?
hartman:
Nick Gamache, 32, a software salesman, had moments earlier sent his wife a text message that read, “Planes on fire love you and the kids,” so he was naturally in a hurry to update her. [-]
Also amazing:
Speaking of animal trends... →
What hell happened at the beginning of last week?
Tumblr trends will solve all of my fights
elsam:
Dogs beat cats and puppies beat kittens any which way you look at it.
If only they had known, maybe there would still be Sea Puppies around today.
[IMPORTANT UPDATE: Actually it looks like the sea kittens campaign has been wildly successful! At least around these parts]
Map on Terror →
Plane Crashes Into Hudson River →
elsam:
“The plane, according to the news report, may have hit a flock of birds.”
This is an update from “the plane, according to the news report, may have hit a bird or birds.”
Second bird?
And in related news... →
Yeah so that new Pepsi logo? Pretty deliberate. →
“People don’t like Pepsi, but they do like Obama…”
It’s unclear how they make decisions over there.
Like if fish were cute, or kittens laid eggs →
Who's with me? →
[NOTE: Forlornly]
