May 2012
5 posts
April 2012
13 posts
Lapham's Quarterly: We're always tired of... →
theatlantic:
“Tired of staring at a computer all day? Well, go back a 100 years and you’d have been working in a grueling factory all day. Go back another century and you’d have been tending a field all day. Go back 500 years and more than half of your children would have died before the…
I’m pretty sure Marx had the answer to this, didn’t he? The answer of course isn’t...
my most recent iPhone web searches
keyholez:
suicide doors
pirates of dark water
comme des garcons
comics shipping next week
sleep cycle
stations of the cross
corned beef
demosthenes
ants mate queen
ants
I just talked about this show at work today.
February 2012
2 posts
Where American criminal justice went wrong →
“During the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin once went to a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike...”
– Look-alike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via soxiam)
This probably says something about identity.
December 2011
7 posts
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a couple of well-made interactive graphics
sex in modern Britain
road fatalities in the United States
The Burning House →
‘If your house was burning, what would you take with you?’
The answer, in a series of elegant photographs.
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CIA's secret Romanian prison →
From an accompanying article:
The basement consisted of six prefabricated cells, each with a clock and arrow pointing to Mecca, the officials said. The cells were on springs, keeping them slightly off balance and causing disorientation among some detainees.
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November 2011
1 post
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October 2011
7 posts
Neurotics experience more immersion when watching... →
psychotherapy:
Descriptions of neurotics are typically unflattering: they’re fearful, tense people, prone to catastrophise and will often shy away from challenges. Well, here’s some more uplifting news for folk matching this personality description. A study of film immersion has found that people who score highly in neuroticism (as measured by agreement with statements like “I worry a lot”) tend...
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occupy ______
Regarding the “occupy _____” meme, is anyone using it as a verb in the second definition, as listed here?
That would be kind of interesting. As in, distract Wall Street! Or, put Wall Street to work!
(I’m just trying to make the most of this, guys.)
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“The writer Elizabeth Wurtzel got to know Franzen and Wallace in the...”
– lovely article. how do i meet, and become one of, the people doing this today?
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June 2011
7 posts
pet names
I’m working on a volunteer project for the local humane society that involves looking at their adoption and return data. The spreadsheet that I’m working from has the animals’ names as well as their ID numbers. I’m almost at the end of the sheet, and I just ran across a dog named “Gwen Stacey” - probably my favorite so far. (There was also a cat named...
Richard Dienst on WBAI.
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billing + trust
I’m generally not a whiny consumer, and I will always recognize the phenomenal benefits of mobile technology over the flaws of its providers.
That said, my billing relationship with Sprint Wireless is increasingly fraught. I’d like to treat their bills like any other - glance over an email once a month and let the money slide out of my bank account with a quiet sigh - but they insist...
May 2011
7 posts
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“Even if localizing specific brain functions is at some point wholly agreed upon...”
– “Looking for Empathy in a Conflict-Ridden World,” Scientific American
DealBook: Jimmy Choo Sold to Labelux for About... →
I understand that things like this happen, and that it’s fundamentally an issue of the financials, but it’s still weird to me that PE firms own things like luxury shoe companies.
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“Mermaids may be beautiful, but can they be trusted?”
– important questions posed by facebook ads.
April 2011
6 posts
