May 2012
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April 2012
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After writing this, I realized it comes off a little negative, so let me preface: I’m a Guy Who Likes Sports. Sports are the best - I love the narrative of a season, the excitement of a game, the steamy laziness of a late afternoon baseball game in August.
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There’s a particular type of sports fan that really fascinates me: The Playoff Theorist. The comments section of this...
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March 2012
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“Smoked Gouda is the most delicious cheese in the world, so obviously it is the...”
– Wild, unsupportable declamations are my favorite kind of humor.
(from Slate)
“An app which is very clearly part of the new world ultra-simple design movement...”
– Of sentences, is there one - syntactically correct, mind you - that is more jumbled (confused) and difficult (hard) to find the point of, the “main idea,” than this above sentence?
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seoulbrother:
“Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent iPad, this concept of “apps as content” has gained a lot of currency, and now every media company in the world feels compelled to be in the business of developing native software as a distribution channel. Despite the press’s tendency to portray this trend as futuristic, I actually think of it as a bit...
“Well, this is amazing news: Not only is Fiona Apple’s latest album now rumored...”
– Fiona Apple’s New Album Title Is As Long and Crazy As You’d Hope — Vulture
First I hear that my favorite sleepover double bill will be playing at BAM, and then this? This is like, the best day ’90s me has had since they released The State on DVD. (I was kinda tired of keeping my VCR just for this.)
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February 2012
18 posts
Watch Out, Silicon Valley Sure is Dangerous
The Daily Post Police Blotter report for Redwood City, Atherton, and Belmont California:
Redwood City:
Auto burglary Woman says she was punched in the face Auto Burglary Forcible entry and burglary
Belmont:
Two youths steal cigarrettes from Walgreen’s Complaint of barking dogs
Atherton:
Leash law violation Leash law violation House “teepeed” Streaker
And they want to make...
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“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, Kick-Ass Mega-Judge (via jessethorn)
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Waiting For the Glue to Dry - Making necks leaves...
areasofmyexpertise:
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, this is...
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Jesse Thorn: My ten favorite soul albums →
jessethorn:
Soul’s not really an LP genre (James Brown particularly was a singles artist - perhaps the most brilliant of all but just not an album guy, and the 60s in general were a great time for soul but not for albums), but by request, my ten favorite soul albums, off the top of my head…
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January 2012
25 posts
“Monday Night Waltz” - GarageBand is a...
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Religious Groups Taking Fight Against... →
Yet another legal fight we could have avoided. Instead of trying to attach requirements and rules for the good of everyone on top of a health care system that functions mainly to deny care and enrich insurers we could have just expanded Medicare to everyone.
All those insurance administrators who’d be out of a job? Guess what, there’s a huge need for admins in Medicare now! All those...