July 2012
49 posts
“I should’ve known you were here,” said one leading House Republican after...”
– Barney Frank Weds Jim Ready - NYTimes.com
Allowing gays to marry means allowing 72-year-old curmudgeons to wed 42-year-old hunks. I couldn’t be happier for them both.
“Risibly, Bob Diamond retorted in a memo to staff that “on the majority of days,...”
– The LIBOR scandal: The rotten heart of finance | The Economist
“I suspect the misdirection of the “phone” in “iPhone” helped Apple. By framing...”
– Daring Fireball: The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In
“At one point, Mr. Romney declared that “I would probably bring in McKinsey,” the...”
– Journal Critique of Romney Shows Murdoch Doubt on Candidacy - NYTimes.com
“If ‘1984’ or ‘The Trial’ had been a children’s...”
– Marxian reviews of the Mr Men books. If you’re English, this is probably the best page on the internet. If you’re not, you should read it anyway.
Amazon.co.uk: Profile For Hamilton Richardson: Reviews
The new double issue of the New Yorker has a not-very-clever illustration of Barack Obama as a happy doctor on its front cover.
On the back cover is an ad for Glenmorangie. “Proud to be The Official Whisky of The Open Championship”, it says, over a badge saying “The Open Championship” on top and “Official Whisky” underneath. At the bottom the ad says...
“I’m not here to say I don’t eat vegetables—I do, a lot of them—but,...”
– Dan Barber’s Culinary Crusade - WSJ.com
creativetime:
It’s easy to miss how subversive Tom Otterness’s cute bronze figures in the NYC subway really are. .
Subversive???? Not exactly the word I’d use for the kind of guy who sells fugly playground toys to the likes of Larry Silverstein for $1.2 million apiece. As Otterness himself told the NYT, “You’d be surprised at the number of real-estate guys who have collected...
“There have been no epidemiological studies attempting to find a correlation...”
– Ugh ugh ugh. Never mind the tortured syntax, this entire article is a classic of the evidence-free trend-piece genre. Writer creates a web resource for suicidal students, where she finds suicidal students. She then declares that suicidal students are some kind of trend — and, what’s...
June 2012
53 posts
wallofdis asked: I see 753 backers, 535 of whom are in the $15 spot. What's the thinking behind your result?
TOMORROW: You are all amazing. →
tomorrowmag:
Wow. You all funded Tomorrow magazine within 5 hours, and the numbers keep climbing. We’re touched and thrilled—thank you SO MUCH! Most of the funding has come from $15 donations! This is the people’s mag for real.
I don’t think this is true, either. Right now, decidedly less than half the total funding has come from $15 donations. And that’s been the case every...
