June 2012
53 posts
second brain: I Like The Constitution So Much I... →
touchoftea:
liberalsarecool:
“I’d like to have a provision in the Constitution that in addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birth place of the president being set by the Constitution, I’d like it also to say that the president has to…
May 2012
58 posts
“If readers are too lazy to copy and paste the URL, and write a few words about...”
– I’m going to disagree here. I use these buttons a lot - nearly always when I’m browsing the web on my iPad. Copy-and-pasting a URL into Twitter is still decidedly non-trivial on the iPad, and these buttons make sharing sites on Twitter a lot easier. I like ‘em!
Sweep the Sleaze |...
Big, Fat Cognitive Illusion (and all of us are...
markdow:
Here’s the table that was screaming of self-deception:
Look at the first column. Once the giggles have subsided, and you’ve shown it to your colleagues so that they can share in the derision, don’t you wonder how it is that Greeks—and only the Greeks—believe they, and not the Germans, are the hardest working people in the Eurozone? Okay, you may be tempted to think it’s somehow a...
“Why does Peter Wolfgang get to toot his own stupid bugle for two paragraphs? The...”
– The AP Is Gay For Stupid
“Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of “roof hits”: when...”
– Now that’s what I call fiscal responsibility.
A User’s Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama
“Research is a Wall Street product. Back in the days of the dot-com bust, the...”
– Noah Millman (via pegobry)
“One of the big questions from readers, Hardiman said: “What can you do to get me...”
– First clue that you’re not dealing with a representative NYT reader: that they use a term like “content types” to refer to journalism.
NY Times updates iPhone/iPad apps for customized reading » Nieman Journalism Lab
“Men only, no females. The other requirement is that you must have some sort of...”
– Chinese business looking for a few good Jews | FP Passport
“How did Malley, who was clearly in awe of Armstrong during the interview, manage...”
– Neil Armstrong breaks silence to give accountants moon exclusive | Science | The Guardian
“Under those fiscal conditions, which will occur under current law, growth in...”
– Can someone explain this math to me? If you contract at a 1.3% pace in the first half and then expand by a 2.3% pace in the second half, don’t you end the year up by something over 1.1% overall? Rather than being up just 0.5%? What am I missing here?
OK, never mind, I can’t do math.
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The top 15 contemporary artists, according to...
1 Bacon, Francis 2 Still, Clyfford 3 Zao Wou-Ki 4 Zeng Fanzhi 5 Rothko, Mark 6 Basquiat, Jean-Michel 7 Warhol, Andy 8 Thiebaud, Wayne 9 Kooning, Willem de 10 Richter, Gerhard 11 Chu Teh-Chun 12 Zhang Xiaogang 13 Botero, Fernando 14 Wang Yidong 15 Fontana, Lucio
“If someone at Facebook did whisper in the ear of the underwriters’ analysts...”
– Facebook Forecast Scandal’s Big Question: Insider Trading? - CNBC 