March 2009
1 post
Still Lurking...
Just wanted to let you know that, despite my now-longstanding silence, I still read and thoroughly enjoy my dashboard every day. Thanks for posting, sorry I’m freeloading, keep it up, etc. etc.
February 2009
1 post
“The show is about having fun, partying, rolling around, rolling over, piling up,...”
– Andrew W.K., who will be hosting a TV show on Adult Swim (#)
January 2009
2 posts
"Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog." →
Currently the most-emailed on NYT.
http://www.whitehouse.gov →
November 2008
4 posts
A question of the utmost importance
sunplusnightplusjess:
I’m thinking about making an apple pie this weekend (sorry, Mr. Smouth!).
What kind of ice cream should I make to go with it? (Vanilla is not an acceptable answer.)
Obviously Maple-Walnut. Or Cheddar, if you want to get tricky.
Live Streaming Puppies →
That main thing went well...
fiatluxemburg:
But everything else not so much:
It’s 56-41 in the senate right now, with three races outstanding and all leaning republican: Oregon (when it looked like Democrats were headed for a fairly easy win), Georgia (where Chamblis needs 50% to avoid a run-off and it’s both very close and a little fuzzy), and Alaska (where convicted felon Ted Stevens seems to be ahead).
Minnesota has...
October 2008
13 posts
People in the Middle for Obama →
Errol Morris’ new videos, just like what he did for Kerry. Pls forward.
U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists →
Shouldn’t it be “Tweeting”?
Mmhaaay World. →
Watchsunplusnightplusjess:
“are you deliberately trying to lose us this election?”
I guess it’s possible that there are still one or two people out there who like McCain but aren’t completely psychotic? (Although, really. Who are they, and what are they thinking?!)
(via HuffPo)
It’s a pretty classy logo though. Graphic design has no party, just sayin’
Nuclear Elephant: Data Center Facility Vulnerabilities:
Data center facilities are at the heart of today’s electronic infrastructure, giving life to significant percentage of online commerce. Due to their planned construction on critical infrastructure, such as converging power grids and dense telecom networks, they are also, however largely unguarded potential targets for terrorists. Data...
seedz:
Following an enlightening conversation with Lux and others, I have quit the FB. Don’t worry. We can still be friends, just not “friends.”
Can somebody enlighten me? Why would you go out of your way to remove yourself? Doesn’t seem to lead to much practical benefit, and taking a principled stance against the FB is a little silly.
the more I think about it
keyholez:
the more I realize how strange and baffling the world must seem to the people who believe that “it is well known” that Obama is a terrorist Muslim terrorist. Just put yourself in their shoes for a second: the terrorist is winning in the polls. The old war guy patriot is losing. Yet everyone, certainly everyone you know, is perfectly aware that the terrorist is a terrorist. How is this...
FAIL: they printed 'Osama' on some absentee... →
fiatluxemburg:
darkwingdach:
I was delighted by this movie.
Really?
I was worried about this happening.
hartman:
There is an enormous, amazing rainbow over Boston right now, viewable from my office window. It’s by a wide margin the most impressive rainbow I’ve seen — I did not know they could get this large in real life.
I SEE IT TOO!
September 2008
9 posts
Not the NYT mention “we” need, but the one we deserve:
“We have to find a way to cover this, in English, on Monday,” Mr. Cramer wrote in a long e-mail message to Cliff Mason, a nephew and a writer for the show, on Sept. 21. […] Mr. Cramer’s solution was telling his nephew to get a clip from Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Western film “Unforgiven” and suggested showing the scene when the...
It’s never a good day when somebody liveblogs the economy
“Answer: NEVER”
– - reblogging @leoncrawl, who said something like “Sam, for christ’s sake learn to tumble.”
Sent from Sam’s iPhone.
When Materialists Try To Fix Things
“Dengue, in other words, is on the rise. It is an up-and-coming virus.
But there is no vaccine and no cure. The only way to reduce the incidence of the disease is to control the mosquitoes that spread it. Which is not working.
…
The mosquito chiefly responsible for spreading dengue (as well as several other nasties including yellow fever and chikungunya fever (but not malaria) is a...
When Idiots Try To Fix Things
“Profit Seed is an exploration of the issues surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the patenting of agricultural seeds. It is also an experiment with a novel game mechanic. A player uses her mouse to control the wind, trying to plant heirloom seeds while preventing GMO seeds from blowing onto a farmer’s plots. If enough GMO seeds land in the field and germinate, the lawyer...
Talking Fannie (Really Poorly)
Thanks seedz, very helpful. I’ve been spreading this to all those who, like toddlers at a funeral, have a vague sense that something really big and important and bad is going on but don’t know what or why.
Can you explain what it means for Fannie Mae to use “credits against future taxes as money”? Sounds fun!
seedz:
I was Gchatting with a pal and she said I should tumbl...
Upon closer inspection of Bristol Palin's...
groupuscule:
both stories could be true; the latest kid was born 4/18… so if the daughter got pregnant on 5/16… which would be a month later, she would today be 15 weeks pregnant. it is claimed she is around 20 weeks pregnant (five months), so that is not a big discrepancy… they can say she was early so, if you wanted a bet, mine would be: the daughter is now pregnant for the second time.
...
August 2008
5 posts
While reading a legitimate e-mail that included words such as “ape” “monkey” “baby flamingo” “mango” and “crazy,” the top AdSense ad, called monkey on acid, won my attention.
I think I was tricked in to viewing art today.
all is fair in love and war
“Scientists discovered a sexually deceptive orchid so convincing that male wasps will mate with it to the point of ejaculation. Because unfertilized female wasps can produce sons but not daughters, the orchids on which the wasps waste the sperm will eventually create a larger population of male wasps to pollinate them.”
— Findings, September issue of Harpers
July 2008
33 posts
Here's to being contrarian
My gripes with Free Rice, the site everyone loves to love, especially in games for change/serious games circles:
1) The game suggests that if we just make more rice for the poor people, hunger will end! To end world hunger, and particularly famine, we probably need to think more about the way we distribute food—e.g. the way food markets react to local or short-term food shortages,...
“The indictment unsealed Tuesday says the items included home improvements to his...”
– FYI, that’s a really good grill. #
fiatluxemburg:
There’s any number of reasons to be against the policy, but just an abstract appeal to “technology bad, nature good” is facile and reminds me much too much of Heidegger.
There. You’ve finally driven me to mention people like that here.
Yay!
“Lord - Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against...”
– “A written prayer that Barack Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site… published in the Maariv daily… The paper’s decision to make the note public drew fire. The rabbi in charge of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitz, said publishing the note intruded in...
This is amazing, wish there was more ink about it. I’ve always been inclined to believe that Obama is your standard politician-believer, a guy who kneels in prayer with a wink and a nod. It’s no small thing, for example, that Wright, Obama’s spiritual mentor or whatever, leads a particularly well-connected black congregation in Chicago (here, a few paragraphs in). Sure, blame...
"These now are the walls we must tear down" (??)
“That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from...”
– Barack, spreading hope?
This is a global problem. More than 130 research reactors in dozens of countries still operate with HEU fuel, and many have no more security than a night watchman and a chain-link fence.
darkwingdach:
Most 15-25 year olds on twitter probably should not be, and for reasons that emphasizing that sort of functionality on facebook only heightens. I’ve felt positive about getting involved in our little corner of tumble logs and, to a lesser extent, twitter because—contrary to the vast majority of users—we aren using them to communicate ideas rather than describe our personal or social...
darkwingdach:
[some selected complaints]
Continuing to confuse novelty for improvement (see: AOL 6.0-infinity) and worshiping on some twisted altar of fragmentation, Zuckerberg and his goons continue to ruin what they lucked into by creating four separate panes for each profile. Some four-year old should come along and tell them that any mouse that ships without a scroll wheel ships broken. And...