February 2010
27 posts
Brass Bonanza
All this Olympic hockey is...
“Credit (or, more likely from your perspective, blame) for my interest in the...”
– Katie Baker - The Awl
YES! HE AND THE MAN WITH THE DEEP VOICE AND THE SILLY HAT WIN THE OLYMPICS.
ARTHUR MILLER NOT HENRY MILLER
Ugh. And this is why I stuck with machines.
1993
A few people were posting material from the zines they produced in the early 90s. And while I was in those days quite taken with the idea of creating a publication that I planned to call “Potato Famine: A Journal of Vegetable Youth”, I never got around to making it a reality. And so now, fifteen years later, I have nothing to show for it.
Which may be fitting. After all, I...
“Also, “puked on by a burlesque tranny performer” is how it feels...”
– Foster Kamer, meditating on his time at Gawker.
World History Blog: Did Alexander the Great Fight... →
As advertised, Dr. Miland Brown “features different aspects of world history.”
“Autism conspiracists tell you to be skeptical of the entire medical community...”
– Pareene, Gawker.
The Olympics is the only thing I enjoy exactly the same way now as I did when I was a little boy. (Except that I now find luge boring, and cross-country skiing sort of fascinating.)
What did you get for Valentine's Day? →
Poor Jim.
Computer Engineer Barbie →
This is actually happening. Reddit’s efforts did not go unrewarded.
“Our government isn’t innovative because it can’t fail. If it fails,...”
– Sunlight Labs: Blog - What if Government had a Google Buzz Moment?
In Which John Mayer Is A Douchebag For Possibly... →
atencio:
In which Molly Lambert completely destroys John Mayer.
Can somebody please get Molly Lambert to write more often?
Consider a stylus made of meat →
“Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two...”
– Good man.
(NYT, “Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord”)
“The link is more or less a video appraisal of what makes English such a...”
– Penny Arcade - This Lady (re: this video)
Daily Planet Hit by Massive Payroll Fraud →
sexpigeon:
Sorry to harp on it, but this is the most wonderful newspaper article of 2010. Some excerpts (and, oh, what the heck, some italics, all mine):
“The Planet is not the only victim of what looks like a major fraud and a possible Ponzi scheme worthy of Bernie Madoff.”
“No one—except perhaps the perpetrator—yet knows where the money might have gone.”
“Clickbooks.com Inc. maintained a...
Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey... →
