July 2010
1 post
Wee Racist
‘It was the search for televised cricket that took me into the Porter Bar in suburban Edinburgh on a Saturday lunchtime, and possibly the funniest incident I have witnessed while watching broadcast sport.
The Celtic v Rangers match was on, playing to an audience of enthusiastic Celtic fans, one of whom took to jumping on the table and
jabbing the screen with his finger at any outrage he...
April 2010
1 post
Is [insert name of celebrity] jewish… →
Fascinating.
March 2010
2 posts
For the teachers out there. Listen. Memorize....
January 2010
1 post
Allure of the mean friend. From This American...
December 2009
1 post
Coffee
I only drink coffee once a year. To do so I must travel to Celebes and build rapport with the locals, seeking out a different village every time in order to preserve some semblance of authenticity. Coffee is not to be taken lightly, after all. Once the village has accepted me I ask them where I might find the palm civets in that area. Armed only with my equipment and mind, I take to the jungle and...
October 2009
3 posts
Yahoo Answers: What are Norwegian women like? →
I have thought about getting a bride from Norway. I am so tired of American women. I guess Norwegian women and Scandinavian women are more traditional, just like Russian women. I think Norwegian women look more beautiful than American women. I have heard that they are better at cooking, more submissive, dress better, are more innocent, don’t drink as much, don’t smoke as much etc. Is...
When a Chef Can't Taste His Food →
I grabbed a pinch of salt, put it directly on my tongue, and it tasted—no, felt—like slowly dissolving sand. And just like that my sense of taste was gone.
Monty Python Videowall →
Monty Python, and not Monthy Pyton that I sometimes write.
September 2009
2 posts
Ooops →
When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring — in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu — it was warned the city would be overwhelmed with trash.
Birds as notes →
Music by birds.
August 2009
4 posts
Jani's at the mercy of her mind →
Jani talks about living in Calalini.
Where is Calalini?
She leans in to whisper her secret.
“Calalini is on the border between this world and my other world.”
Heartbreaking
The yin and the yang →
She’s the messiest person I’ve ever met in life,” Mr. Davoli said of the woman who never closes the kitchen cabinets and loses her keys regularly. “I have to pick up after her.”
But he also has obsessive-compulsive disorder, a common condition for those with Tourette’s, leading to excessive tidiness. “If I didn’t have to pick up her stuff, I’d still have the O.C.D. compulsion and I would end up...
July 2009
3 posts
The eBay creation myth and other corporate origin... →
Along the way, it’s mentioned that the whole story about eBay being founded to trade Pez dispensers is a myth.
A little bit funny considering the latest items I bought on eBay was some giant Star Wars Pez dispensers.
May 2009
1 post
How do you beat a guy who throws righty and lefty?... →
You’ll probably never witness an unassisted triple play in your lifetime, right? (There have been only 14.) Or see an intentional walk with the bases loaded. (Six.) Or watch one player hit two grand slams in an inning. (Once.)
But you can see something right now that hasn’t been around in baseball since the late 1800s: a switch-pitcher.
April 2009
9 posts
Brutus and me →
Brutus’ face says it all: “What? Don’t act like you’ve never seen a bear in a jacuzzi”.
Traffic →
According to the calculations of Frey and Stutzer, a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40 percent more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office. The reason long commutes make us so unhappy is that the flow of traffic is inherently unpredictable
I feel that is correct. For my previous job the getting to work wasn’t that bad (read the newspaper), but the...
Carousel →
visually beautiful, completely entrancing
But she is so pretty →
#1 threat to America
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Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal →
Funny
March 2009
16 posts
Is it art →
There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience. Books, films, TV, dance, theatre, music, painting, photography, sculpture, all have publics which either are or aren’t interested in them, but at least know that these forms exist, that things happen in them in which people who are interested in...
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Jesus Is My Friend →
Sonseed was a Christian pop band formed at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1970s.
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird Eating From My Hand →
In June of 2006 I was replacing empty feeders with clean ones and this hummingbird landed on the feeder as I was carrying it to the pole. I stopped instantly and stood perfectly still because motion will scare hummingbirds away. From this came the clips you will see in this video. It would eat from any feeder or cut flower that I would offer. Someone suggested I try to feed it directly from my...
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable →
Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.
Suicide bomb blast in Sri Lanka caught on camera -... →
This remarkable sequence of images shows a bomb going off behind a group of people in Sri Lanka.
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond... →
In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler...
The Browser →
Imagine a site of links chosen for you by very smart British people, including Bob Cottrell and Mary Ann Sieghart. They present some links from MR as well, plus by Jonathan Rauch, Oliver Morton, and other notables.
You are much more likely to find something good there than at www.digg.com.
When No News Is Bad News →
As an old saying used to go at the City News Bureau of Chicago, a now-defunct training ground for decades of reporters, “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.”
Credit : The Frontal Cortex →
I’ve blogged about this before, but it’s a reminder: one of the reasons credit cards are such a popular form of debt is that they take advantage of some innate flaws in the brain. When we buy something with cash, the purchase involves an actual loss - our wallet is literally lighter. Credit cards, however, make the transaction abstract, so that we don’t really feel the downside...
Last rites →
We’re uncovering more of the who’s, what’s, when’s, and where’s, but less of the how’s and why’s
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The Daily Show smackdown of CNBC →
Who would have believed that a half-hour comedy program that focuses completely on the mechanics of the mortgage crisis, stock market, bank failures, media economic coverage and government bailouts could be both more informative than most analysis on television and funny as hell, too?
Wall Street on the Tundra →
Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness.
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Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions on... →
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that you can always get people to do what they already want to do
Also visit ted.com for a presentation by the professor.
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Great interviews →
Great interviews of the 20th century.
February 2009
7 posts
1 tag
Projects and folders in Aperture →
I’m working on the keywording post I promised but first I thought I would write some more about how I organise my Aperture library. I’m aware that these blog posts are long, but I hope that explaining my thinking from start to finish on a particular area is more useful than just posting the odd tip or trick.
The Blow and the “song” Infinity, as...
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A peek inside Apple’s shareholders meeting? -... →
Next person is complimenting company for beautiful products. Wishes Steve well. Singing happy birthhday to Steve..EVERYONE singing.
Hail to the Dear Leader
A foot and a half: Finally, A Use for Twitter →
I feel twitterers around me, r there any twitterers in 5 n diner wit me, say somethin
He has the size of a monster, but he is probably the nicest monster around.
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success…but I can give you a formula for...”
– Herbert Bayard Swoope