January 2011
Coava Disk + Aeropress
December 2010
No I will not do that →
poynter:
I try and keep my cynicism at bay, but it’s difficult when you’re familiar with the exuberant hyperbole bestowed upon the too often mundane: commercial auditions. Look, I’ve made peace with this career sidestreet, and in truth it has been quite good to me of late. So I’m used to the soaring…
And of course you know Rob from commercials such as these:
What should I know about childbirth?
You may have seen where I asked for advice about becoming a dad? Yeah? No? It was helpful. I got a lot of solid answers. Well, it’s getting closer to February and I’m starting to wonder about the actual delivery. What should I know in advance? If you’re a parent, what surprised you?
Folks who got their audio book version of... →
Or perhaps there is a simpler explanation. Perhaps the audiobook just had better fact-checking.
“Iraqi officials are doing their very best to pretend that the government does...”
– Iraq Tries to Ignore Koran Written in Saddam’s Blood | The Atlantic Wire
“Iraqi officials are doing their very best to pretend that the government does...”
– Iraq Tries to Ignore Koran Written in Saddam’s Blood | The Atlantic Wire
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Dean Martin (11)
Frank Sinatra (8)
Kid Cudi (7)
Low (4)
Jack Johnson (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Barack Obama, the first black president, proved to millions this year that he is...”
– Barack Obama - Either Doing His Best In One of The Most Difficult Times In American History, Or Hitler
“Let’s get this out of the way first: The Nexus S is an excellent phone. It’s not...”
– Pure Android + Delightful Hardware = Great Dance Partners | Product Reviews | Wired.com
I asked the UPS guy and he says that
nickdouglas:
It’s not rude to ask them to come to the 4th floor, unless they say they’ve got a giant heavy package or something.
What? Fuck that. I can’t even get the UPS guy to come up one flight of stairs. One flight, Douglas! What am I supposed to do about that? How can I process that? I blame San Francisco. And you, for leaving San Francisco. Come back here and carry my boxes up the...
“Yet standard journalistic procedure here is to excise such details, making an...”
– Invisible Leaks « zunguzungu
Spam Explosion on Tumblr. You too?
This morning, I was greeted by an explosion of spam on my Tumblr dashboard. Various online pharmacies went on a serial liking spree across my posts. Most seemed to be in French. Is anyone else having a similar issue?
More Gawker Fallout
I’m really impressed with this email I just got from LinkedIn:
We recently sent you a message stating that your LinkedIn password had been disabled for security reasons. (Note: If you have more than one email registered with us, you will receive more than one password reset message. You only need to act on one of them.) This was in response to a security breach on a different site,...
Will We See A Great Gawker Troll Hunt?
You know those semi-anonymous trolls who hide behind essentially meaningless usernames? Yeah. Well. When Gnosis put the Gawker database online, it became a simple matter of ⌘-F to associate a username with an email address. And once you have an email address—especially one someone wasn’t expecting to be publicly associated with—you have quite a bit. You are well on the way to...
Die, Little Drummer Boy, Die! Girl Talk, Weezer,... →
THIS IS MY Sh-BAM!!!! →
“In my opinion, if you don’t have a bartender at your party, you’re a loser”
– Mixing Drinks, Adding Class
“Hello World. We are Anonymous. What you do or do not know about us is...”
– Letter from Anonymous
Oh, man. This is going to be a fucking throw down. I guess at least we can all agree that Malcolm was wrong about that weak ties argument now though, huh?
“Some say attacking WikiLeaks would be fruitless. Really? In the past year, the...”
– Marc A. Thiessen - You’re either with us, or you’re with WikiLeaks
Wow. Sidestepping the entire Wikileaks debate, this is one of the dumbest things ever written about the Internet. Great job, Washington Post, you just became the Ted Stevens of American newspapers.
Hello, Tumblr
Welcome back. Here’s a panda picture. Double panda, all the way.
“There is, of course, a precedent for content removal at government request as...”
– Index on Censorship » Blog Archive » Wikileaks and the hazards of “intermediary censorship”
“Yet the debate over WikiLeaks has proceeded as if the matter might conclude with...”
– After secrets: Missing the point of WikiLeaks | The Economist
This is very close to what I was trying to get at yesterday, if inartfully, on Twitter when I called Wikileaks a mere conduit. The bigger story than Wikileaks to me is Bradley Manning, and that he was able to so readily purloin so many...
“I am the hand of the state, and I want to touch your genitals. Just a light...”
– Internal Memo: The Hand of the TSA | The New York Observer
This is extremely well-done. Go read it.