December 2011
87 posts
“the thing they don’t tell you about fractals is just how sharp and...”
– cut sheet metal to shape
(yes, this is part of baking a pecan pie.)
November 2011
61 posts
“In such a case, the loss associated with bringing the scandal into the open now...”
– Freakonomics » Daniel Kahneman Answers Your Questions
Kahneman on Penn State.
“Hs previous books “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere”...”
– Habermas, the Last European: A Philosopher’s Mission to Save the EU - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
It’s worth noting that Der Spiegel has a circulation in Germany of 1.1 million, which is equivalent to a magazine like Time or Newsweek selling more than 4 million copies a week....
@__chrislee’s sex-addiction article is up online:
“Sex addiction” remains a controversial designation—often dismissed as a myth or providing talk-show punchlines thanks to high-profile lotharios such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Tiger Woods. But compulsive sexual behavior, also called hypersexual disorder, can systematically destroy a person’s life much as addictions to alcohol or ...
@moorehn stat du jour
Heidi Moore joined Twitter on November 27, 2008, which means she has a couple of days to go before her third anniversary. But she’s already reached a different milestone: about an hour ago, she posted her 50,000th tweet. (A link to a slideshow of otters, if you must know.)
That’s 50,000 tweets in 1,093 days. Which works out to more than 45 tweets a day, 365 days per year, for three...
“Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, declined to comment on the...”
– Romney’s Image Expert, the One for His Hair, Anyway - NYTimes.com
Expect a lot more of this kind of thing, over the next 12 months.
Fat is the new fit
simon-brady:
Unfitness is a lot like fitness; you really have to work at it. With fitness, you struggle and pant and sweat for weeks without losing weight or getting any faster and then suddenly, the next run you do doubles your stamina. You lift a few more weights and those weird veins pop out of your biceps when you’re asleep. From then on, you just get fitter and fitter.
Well I find...
“The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority, which protects customers if tour operators...”
– Thomas Cook plunges on debt concerns - FT.com
Wha???
“Having spent much of Sunday surfing the web for Occupy Wall Street t-shirts and...”
– Meet the hedge fund with the unluckiest name: OWS - The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet
Watch
“At present, the Trustee believes that even if he recovers everything that is at...”
– Statement from the Office of the Trustee for the Liquidation of MF Global Inc. - MarketWatch
“it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated...”
– Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD’s Lost and Found | Motherboard
“That weekend as my contractions started, the TechCrunch drama unfolded too. Mike...”
– The Rumors Are True. I Am Leaving TechCrunch. | TechCrunch
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
“Then Diller chimed in. “Why even have a front of the book?” he said. “Why not...”
– This is a key thing to understand about magazine editors. They’re always judged on their magazines — on the quality of the product put out by their staffers. But managing down is only half the job. You also have to manage up, and across — you need to have a great relationship with...
“I feel so energized. It’s amazing what a little pepper spray will do for you”
– Dorli Rainer, the 84-year-old woman pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle
(via theatlantic)
Why we love Romenesko, Part 913
It’s quite hard difficult to find a SFW link to the story that Fleshbot is for sale. So thanks to Romenesko for finding a safe version of the AVN story. Linking out can be non-trivial, people!
“The world will snap back and it will be a surprise and it will be faster than...”
– Goldman’s Blankfein: Growth to ‘Snap Back’ - Bloomberg
What could possibly go wrong?
A couple of points about Romeneskogate, for those...
The original Julie Moos post was highly misleading in one respect — she made it seem as though Romenesko hadn’t blockquoted two full paragraphs in this post, when in fact he had used blockquote. I know Moos was misleading because Jack Shafer said that she “pointed to a recent example from Romenesko’s work in which he ran whole sentences from a Chicago Tribune story in his...
@Lagarde is a travelogue
Sun 06 Nov 23:00: “In Russia”
Tue 08 Nov 09:14: “Wrapping up visit to Russia”
Tue 08 Nov 19:45: “Excited to be visiting China”
Thu 10 Nov 06:34: “End of my visit to China”
Fri 11 Nov 07:10: “In Japan now”
Fri 11 Nov 23:01: “Leaving Japan”
Sat 12 Nov 00:04: “Next stop: Hawaii”
OK, Christine, we get the idea.
“My examples bolded the words in each Poynter post that matched the words of the...”
– CONFIRMED: it’s all about Moos. CJR is blameless.
The Romenesko Saga : CJR
Here’s why I’m so angry at Julie Moos’s unjustifiable attack on Jim Romenesko: the way that she’s so fucking certain that she’s right and he’s wrong, and the way that she hammers this home over and over again:
I now know that Jim Romenesko’s posts exhibit a pattern of incomplete attribution…
Too many of those posts also included the original author’s...
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“In an industry where relationships often fracture quickly, Mr. Rattner’s...”
– Yes, this appeared in the New York Times.
Eddie Murphy Drops Out of Oscars Telecast - NYTimes.com
“I answered an ad in 1995 that I thought was for a job related to “security” (as...”
– How a Financial Pro Lost His House - NYTimes.com
