May 2011
“Most body fluids, tissues, and organs—semen, blood, livers, kidneys—are highly...”
– Liquid Gold: The Booming Market for Human Breast Milk
“Flickr has become a shoebox under the bed instead of the door of the...”
– kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
That describes the evolution of my Flickr use in exact terms.
Longshot!: Save the Date →
longshotmag:
Hi there.
It’s been a long time. We’ve scattered to the winds, changed jobs, had babies, broken our hearts, found ourselves, and generally had a hell of an action-packed year.
But we’re back, and we’re hoping you’re still into us. We are definitely still into you. So, let’s get right to the big…
“We don’t simply use new technologies, we become immersed in them. We live...”
– New York Times Editor Is A Horrible Troll Who Doesn’t Understand The Modern World
Take that, Bill Keller.
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The Lost Origin Story of Twitter →
Before Twitter was public, it was just an AIM hack on Jack Dorsey’s pager. Here’s the backstory.
“Drinking alcohol on the racecourse while running is the foundation of this...”
– Word.
San Francisco Cracks Down on Bay to Breakers Race: Run Naked, Not Drunk
“Step One: Six weeks before the race, start running a little bit every other day....”
– A Handy Bay to Breakers Training Plan. Just in case you need to get ready for the race. My handy 15 step training plain.
“Jim Lehrer’s MacNeil / Lehrer Editorial Guidelines.
They are as follows:
Do...”
– Jim Lehrer (link to the news today) [Covering Kennedy] (via nprfreshair)
“To recap: Goldman, to get $1.2 billion in crap off its books, dumps a huge lot...”
– Another month, another terrifying expose of Goldman Sachs from Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, who chronicles how Goldman Sachs spent the better part of a decade selling off bad investments, betting that they would fail, and then taking your tax money to pay off the loans. And now I now exactly where...
“The promise of Google Music is that it lets you listen to music anywhere. Aces!...”
– Google Music: An Island in the Cloud - Gizmodo
“About 6 weeks ago a Pacamara lot from El Salvador that we had contracted was...”
– Theft: Side Effect of High Coffee Prices
The Telling Compulsion: An open letter to the... →
bstriddy:
For sure, it was unlikely that your recklessness would directly result in, say, you bouncing off a Ford’s windscreen and onto me. However, the cumulative effect of your actions is disregard and anitpathy for cyclists amongst drivers. That driver was shown this morning that cyclists are unpredictable anarchists of the road and are not to be trusted. Your behavior smears the rest of us,...
WSJ SafeHouse – Securely Share Confidential... →
Documents and databases: They’re key to modern journalism. But they’re almost always hidden behind locked doors, especially when they detail wrongdoing such as fraud, abuse, pollution, insider trading, and other harms. That’s why we need your help.
If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, government agencies or...
“But I say the celebration didn’t feel wrong because the one I observed did...”
– The death of Osama bin Laden: A word on the celebrations | The Economist
On Rejoicing Death
I was glad to see Jon Stewart revel in the death of Osama Bin Laden. I’d begun to feel like the only liberal in America happy to see that dogfucking monster go to his grave.
After it was news—not just rumors on Twitter but heard-it-from-the-President’s-own-two-lips-news—Americans thronged in the streets, waving flags and chanting. That made a lot of people uncomfortable. And it made a lot of...
C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden... →
briancolligan:
Just a quick reminder on where the hunt for Osama Bin Laden stood prior to Democrats taking control of Congress in January 2007 and Barack Obama’s election in 2008.
Interestingly enough. the decision to shut down the CIA task force assigned to Bin Laden came more than four years after President Bush admitted not knowing where the terror mastermind was hiding and said, “I truly am...
“Let’s deal with reality. You’re talking about a hypothetical that will...”
– AG Holder Was Right About Bin Laden | Mother Jones