January 2012
21 posts
How do japanese multiply?? →
Check out this video on YouTube:
Hat tip: Aditya Khana
“In fact it is precisely because we do live in a plural society that we need the...”
– TO NAME THE UNNAMEABLE « Pandaemonium
I hope Apple releases a water resistant iPhone so I can watch Scott Forstall do a demo in scuba gear.
SOPA is to copyright violations what firebombing a perp’s neighborhood is to shoplifting.
Schneier on Security: Going Dark to Protest... →
For all the talk of the captains of the banking industry “going Galt” if we don’t love them for being job creators, it amuses me no end that the people producing something of real value (much of the best freely available content on the web) ARE. Of course, we call it by its more traditional name when it is actually people who ad fundamental value to the world going Galt, we call...
A succinct presentation on why Protect IP is... →
“Hey Ilana, wanna come see science?”
– Leah
I saw Michael Fassbender and his girlfriend Zoe Kravitz at the Whole Foods in Honolulu today. Made me kind of sad, because here he was enjoying a comparitably normal and undisturbed moment, and if the Oscar talk about Shame is right, I don’t think that is going to last.
There was a funny thing though. He and Zoe were the only ones sitting at the tables outside Whole Foods wearing...
December 2011
12 posts
“A question is a relatively short set of words ending in a question mark, capable...”
– What is a question? According to Neil Gaiman and Tom Stoppard | Ideas At The House Blog
Off to the races
It was chaotic, crazy, and a heck of a lot of fun. The girls participated in their first candy cane race today, and had a blast. Everyone got medals at the end, everyone found candy canes or had them given to them by Santa, everyone had cookies and cocoa. And the girls had a lot of fun on their cross country skis!
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011 →
“I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic that serves the individual and that therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn.”
Eww.
Being a guy, I’ve seen plenty of toilets I needed to avoid because some jerk had poor aim and didn’t bother to lift the seat. Today was the first time I’ve seen this because the jerk had poor aim going number 2.
“The Germans and the ECB are insisting on common sense … after all, if the...”
– No Draghi Ex Machina - NYTimes.com
Maybe I should read the comments more often.
“I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact...”
– Gingrich calls Palestinians an “invented” people | XYDO
I always suspected Gringrich was a little nutso, but the same thing could be said about Italians, or pretty much any other ethnic group assembled out of other preexisting cultural groups during nation forming. By which or course,...
“The spot, which began airing in Iowa on Wednesday, features the governor...”
– Rick Perry’s Anti-Gay Iowa Ad Divides His Top Staff | XYDO
OK, two comments.
1) To qualify as a dog whistle it needs to be phrased in language that might pass as meaning something else, or something less offensive, to people outside the target audience. This is a train whistle.
2) Have any...
Want economic recovery? Restore the basic bargain. →
“A revised Democratic proposal unveiled Monday by Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania,...”
– Obama channels Roosevelt’s ‘New Nationalism’ - CNN.com
So Let me get this straight. Is the idea that we are building into the system the idea that it is the government’s job to provide large bailouts? ‘Cause that’s what it sounds like to me!
Here’s an...
November 2011
11 posts
“But I believe, though I can’t back it up with numbers, that such a site with...”
– inessential.com: Pub Rules
I think he means daring fireball.
All Reporters on Earth Must Have an NYPD Press... →
action.firedoglake.com | Demand the DOJ... →
If you haven’t signed this petition, you probably should.
I had always understood it to be unlawful for police to use force except to protect themselves or the public. Just as it would be unlawful for me as a private citizen to pepper spray someone (no matter how noxious I find their opinions or means of expressing themselves), it is clear from the video of the event that the police at UC...
“show solidarity and support to the students who were beaten and sprayed by U. C....”
– Police Chief at U.C.-Davis Put on Leave in Pepper Spray Incident - NYTimes.com
*As sympathetic as I am to the Occupy people, and as much as I think the use of force here was inappropriate, I find the suggestion that the police when confronting a large crowd whom they intended to remove from the...
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Why Aren't More Students Sticking With STEM? →
Sam Harris on Self-Defense →
An excellent article.
“They’re wrong. Waterboarding is torture,” Obama said. “Anybody...”
– ‘Waterboarding is torture,’ says Obama - CSMonitor.com
So under the Geneva Conventions, doesn’t this require the president to initiate prosecutions for war crimes?
“program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to...”
– Obama Administration to Delay New 15-Cent Christmas Tree Tax - ABC News
A classic example of how taxes can promote jobs, and Republicans will oppose them to score points in the media. Because, after all, the “Got Milk?” campaign turned out sooo badly for the dairy industry (who did...
“The rules are just there to benefit creditors, not debtors. It is in this world...”
– slacktivist » Smart people saying smart things
October 2011
13 posts
by Lemony Snicket | OccupyWriters.com →
Just awesome.
Most meta comic ever
Font nerds hate Roboto for all of the wrong...
The blogosphere has exploded (or at least, the techy font nerdy parts of it) over Google’s reveal of their new font for Android devices called Roboto. I’m not a font nerd, though I’d kind of like to be one some day, but all of the critiques I’ve seen so far have to do with aesthetic considerations that will be totally lost on most users. Instead, I think the commentary...
What OWS is about data behind the movement! -... →