April 2011
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
“What happened instead? On policy after policy, Obama began with grand,...”
– Policy in an age of post-truth politics | Grist
The New Normal
I have gotten some variation of this same email so many times over the past two years. Why can’t I just use my DNA as a password and payment system? It is twenty fucking eleven. I am totally ready for big brother if it means I never have to change all my passwords again.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained...
I love you Joe Brown
The Awl: Joe Brown, you have spent a lot of time in New York City and environs and you have been commended to me as wildly outdoorsy, despite your indoorsy day job as features editor of Gizmodo. I would like to know your secrets without you blowing up any secret spots. So tell me: if I want a good hike within reasonable distance of New York, and maybe I lived a little, so maybe not too hard a hike, wherever would I go?
Joe Brown: Spent a lot of time in New York? I am a ****ing native!
The Awl: Spoken like a native!
Joe: Don't undersell me, dude. I ooze cred.
“People are kinda into it ‘cause it’s happening,” explains...”
– Rip Curl Search Event Location Announced | SURFLINE.COM
Hella truer words were never spoken.
The Mountain Goats: The Boys are Back in Town...
“Donald Trump CLAIMS he is qualified to run for President. But to obtain a job in...”
– Is Donald Trump Secretly Canadian?
“The real problem is that Cisco clearly never understood what made the Flip...”
– Bye Flip. We’ll Miss You | Epicenter | Wired.com
Great essay by Rob Capps on why the Flip flopped.
The Hazards of a Short Twitter Username
“So far, three hotels — in Honolulu, Miami and Manhattan — are using the chip,...”
– Note to Towel Thieves: Chips Track Hotel Linens
Bullshit.
That’s about 133 towels every day, at one hotel. Even if you believe that there are professional towel thieves targeting this specific hotel, that’s a hell of a heist that has to occur with extreme regularity. (I mean, think of...
Journalism professor: former Palin flack trying to... →
The Obama fake-birth-certificate idea (and variants of that) have had no problem getting into the press — hundreds of stories about whether he is truly qualified to be president have appeared in the nation’s newspapers since the start of 2008, based on a search in the Newspaper Index database. By contrast, the idea that Palin may have staged a hoax concerning the birth of Trig has...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
Wye Oak (66)
The Avett Brothers (19)
Gold Panda (15)
The Mountain Goats (3)
Foster the People (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Designers need to stop being the bottoms in client relationships.”
– Getting Comfortable With Contracts
