November 2010
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Nicki Minaj scares me — in a good way.
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Michael Clayton: I am not the enemy.
Arthur Edens: Then who are you?
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“His role as a musician feels like that of a buyer of rare rugs: he has very...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones on Kanye West’s new album, in The New Yorker.
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3am Eternal — The KLF.
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“I love it — there are so many ways you could die here!”
– Friend of a friend who’s visiting New York for the first time. Naturally, they had come from the Patriot Saloon.
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If everyone could just take a few moments to read... →
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Blow Ya Mind, Nicki Minaj samples Darling Nikki,...
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“A little ramble inspired by this pic of Vesu in Walnut Creek, California on...”
– Just Mary. Co-signed, etc.
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Avril 14th by Aphex Twin is the gorgeous song that...
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“We are testing your capacity to willingly create that which you spend your entire life trying not to create: the worst logo ever. Participants have the chance to conjure up design demons from the darkest nether regions of their inner world and be purged of them forever. The process looms with graphic doom and will undoubtedly leave the best among us contorted in pain. But may the lowest of...
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There is a considerable amount of discussion in otherwise-legitimate news outlets about how Willow Palin’s use of a homophobic slur means Sarah Palin, her mother, is unfit to be president. She enables an unacceptable environment at home, so how in the world would she run a country?, I believe, is how the argument goes.
I guess it makes sense to anyone who’d be fine to have their...
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Dark Fantasy: Kanye West featuring Nicki Minaj.
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“I’d argue that you can’t “enjoy” this disaster of a...”
– A commenter is not convinced that 20 ounces of straight espresso makes for an appetizing beverage at one Brooklyn coffee shop.
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“Look, I wasn’t around when all that bad stuff happened. All I know is I...”
– New single-serving Tumblr: Privilege-Denying Dude. (via)
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“There are remarkably few horror movies about the terror and violence of making...”
– The New York Times.
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sherry:
sure has been a long time since the last major Tumblr meetup.
::cough cough::
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Inept application developers think you want... →
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“The fear of robots is the fear of the twentieth century. They’re...”
– Sady Doyle and I agree about this.
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Crazy Day, Friends
newsweek:
What with making sure we still have jobs and all. But we’re pretty excited about Tina Brown as our new EIC (the first woman editor of a newsweekly—ever!). More next week, we promise.
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Condo Board Spends $100,000 to Evict Four-Pound... →
And, of course, they failed.
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“Kids, do your homework and stay off drugs. Once you get into Princeton, you can...”
– Squashed.
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thecurvature:
I get these emails from the people who made my blog theme. About, like, optimizing your blog and shit. They’re rarely helpful, but whatever, I still get them. The POINT is that the one I just got right now struck me as both illuminating and hilarious.
What makes hordes of people stampede to a blog, and then come back again and again?
Lots of different subjects appear to interest...
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“A small battalion of noted broadband engineers, developers, and academics have sent the Federal Communications Commission a thank you letter (.pdf) for simply noticing this dichotomy—an “open” version of cyberspace that treats all packets equally, versus an emergent space where ISPs will spawn a range of priority accessed products that the agency calls ‘specialized...
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“It makes me uncomfortable. It’s an entirely different impulse, I guess....”
– Joan Didion on blogging.
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“If you’re gung-ho on the prospect of Madame President Palin, that’s great. Just...”
– The Wall Street Journal’s Matt Phillips had some fun with understatements this morning.
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Paris vs. New York - the blog series →
andreahirsch:
Awesome graphical representation of two cities. Two of my favourites in the whole wide world. Maybe it’s cliche to love NYC and Paris, but I don’t care. Amazing cities.
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heartbeatcity:
Do you ever think about what you’d think about if you were someone else and you passed yourself on the street?
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The Awl: Football is Socialism:
While the Vikings had some faintly reasonable football-related reasons to cut ties with Moss after four not-so-effective weeks with the team, the emerging official narrative is that Moss was cut in large part because he was impolite to the Minneapolis-area restauranteur serving a post-practice meal to the team. Actually, “impolite” doesn’t quite...
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Epic challenge of the day: Do you have what it takes to be the next Comments Editor at The Huffington Post?
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I Would Buy the Living Hell Out of this $62,000... →
abbyjean:
do you need a lift? some spring in your step, some sparkle in your eye? then you should click through and read this post. it is a joy, a delight, a vision of a future i wish could come to pass.
And exactly how did I miss this last week? I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to have an extra 62-large as much as I do right now.
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“These things are innocuous when they are spread out throughout the web and...”
– Peter Feld, regarding Facebook’s Friendship Pages, the “ultimate tool for stalkers, nosey friends and jealous significant others.” 