Felix
“This is one of the most exquisitely refined examples of globollocks that I’ve ever seen. It’s as beautifully resistant to the intellect as an Andropov era Pravda editorial. A few more years of this and the Economist won’t have to have any human editing at all.”
—The Economist fails the Turing Test again — Crooked Timber
April 2012
41 posts
“Do you remember Blood Copy? That was a spoof for a True Blood campaign. We pretended we had acquired a vampire gossip site. I hated that so much it caused an eventually irreparable break between me and Chris Batty, our former head of ad sales.”
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Nick Denton reveals a bit more about his break up with Batty, and the fight which started it all.
“Lee once took a vacation during which he had no access to the Internet. This made him uncomfortable. “I was worried that brands couldn’t get in touch with me. It’s easy for them to forget about you. And I knew my Klout score would go down if I stopped tweeting for too long.”
—What Your Klout Score Really Means | Epicenter | Wired.com
“Venus Over Manhattan, a new gallery launched by collector and writer Adam Lindemann, will open May 10 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Located at 980 Madison Avenue, between East 76th and 77th Streets, the gallery takes over the former home of the Vera Wang bridal boutique.”
—Collector Adam Lindemann to Open Gallery - News - News & Opinion - Art in America
“Today, an American electronics company can only be exempt from China’s rare earth export quotas by manufacturing within China. So that’s what most companies, including Apple, are doing.”
—Why the iPad Has to be Made in China | iFixit
“I see no ethical issues with this. At all. And that’s not because Salmon just sent me $5 via PayPal to give this some attention and juice his traffic figures.”
—Felix Salmon’s suggestion that NYT sell its scoops sparks meta-media cage match | Poynter.
“Obama fielded a facetious question from then-CEO Eric Schmidt: “What is the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers?” Schmidt was having a bit of fun, but before he could move on to a real question, Obama stopped him. “Well, I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go,” he said—correctly. Schmidt put his hand to his forehead in disbelief, and the room erupted in raucous applause.”
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Obama is a True Nerd!
The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business | Epicenter | Wired.com
“If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private loss, to be grieved privately by the family,” Norton says. “Before, this stuff was treated as a public loss – much like the death of soldiers.” Mayors dedicated monuments to the victims of traffic crimes, accompanied by marching bands and children dressed in white, carrying flowers.”
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A fascinating history of pedestrian deaths, and how they were effectively decriminalized by the auto industry
“His statement does, however, reveal a much wider and more significant truth: the Murdoch way of doing business. If you come to our parties, if you join us on our yachts, if you are at our cosily-arranged dinner table, we might expect something in return, but we certainly don’t expect you act in a way contrary to our interests. And if our largest-selling newspaper supports your political party … well, it’s not difficult to guess the rest.”
—The day James and Rebekah revealed the arrogant Murdoch way of business | Simon Kelner | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“The backgrounder, in turn, spawned a New York Times story, which allowed Plouffe to trial-balloon a new line of attack, comparing Romney to the archetypal GOP extremist loser”
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Politico: Never afraid to use “trial-balloon” as a verb.
President Obama’s campaign whisperer: Bill Clinton - Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com
