February 2012
13 posts
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking...”
– ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“Trubridge passes 100 feet, 150 feet, 200 feet. Almost two minutes into the dive,...”
– (via Outside Online - Open Your Mouth and You’re Dead)
““About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man...”
– (via NY Times
“Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only...”
– (Alan Moore via Co.Create)
“I think it’s often been portrayed as artists versus pirates. That isn’t accurate...”
– Aaron Swartz (via azspot)
Fuck this jowly, pompous dirt-bag.
Path assumes it can take what it wants from you. They feel free to steal your private information, lie to you about it then throw artificial barriers in your way to prevent you from deleting your account. Path doesn’t have respect for it’s customers.
“Governments that issue their own money don’t have to pay off their debts. They...”
– The Meme that Refuses to Die: Government Debt Must Be Paid Back (via azspot)
“As I looked backward and forward in time, however, I had to face this awkward...”
– David Frum (via azspot)
January 2012
34 posts
“Here’s the idea. Set up a trust for the movie industry. A bank account...”
– (via Scripting News - Dave Winer)
“Can one really claim they earned it the old-fashioned way when their father was...”
– (via Ethics Daily - Debunking the Bootstrap Myth)
“Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I...”
– Jonathan Franzen (via azspot)
Jonathan Franzen explaining why he’s slowly going to replace his print collection with novels chiselled into stone tablets.
To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
(via Huffington Post)
And that my friends is how the game is played. My hat’s...
“The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching...”
– (via The New Yorker)
Tennessee is trying to pass a bill that makes it... →
So this post makes it sound like you should support this. I’ll assume they didn’t intend that, a passionate mistype. It you do support it, you should be fucked in the eye socket by hyenas forever. Fight for equal rights. Always.
“Why is Google FUBAR, then? Because it is biting the hand that feeds it. Indexed...”
– Google is FUBAR (via azspot)
Swapped my default search on all my browsers and my phone over to Bing. Spent the first week double checking against Google. Now I don’t even think about going to Google to check. I get the same search without the creepy advertising-but-not results that seem to...
“Once I was held captive in Kabul. I was the bride of a charming, seductive and...”
– (via Choice In Dying - Reposting Times ONline)
“As Robert Levine describes in his book Free Ride, down this road lies a barren culture with lots of dancing kittens on YouTube but no infrastructure that can nurture future artists. Piracy enablers stress the need to maintain incentives for investment in tech companies. But maybe business models that depend on using copyrighted material for free should not attract investment in the first...
i still think it needs to be louder and it lacks...
“The ’70s, man. Martin Luther King Jr. is dead. Malcolm X is dead. The...”
– (via La Weekly)
“He influenced my songwriting, of course. He influenced everybody’s songwriting....”
– Tom Petty on Bob Dylan (via American Songwriter)
“Not only did Dr. Maayan and her husband have to sit separately, as men and women...”
– So let me see if I understand this correctly. Dr. Maayan has the option to watch a colleague accept an award given to her for her hard work and talent because a handful of “ultra-orthodox” religious kooks hate women? Almost everyone else decides this is completely normal and the...
It's Full of Stars: Russia and NASA plan to... →
itsfullofstars:
‘We want to do more than just step on it’
Russian, American and European space agencies are in talks to create a human colony on the moon, according to Russian news source Rianovosti.
Russia wants to build either a space base on the surface of the Moon itself or a space station that…
Where do I sign up?
“Although most people recognize that IQ tests do not measure important mental...”
– (via Scientific American)
I’ve been asked why I care about being an atheist, why can’t I, since I don’t believe in a god, be content to quietly not-believe in my own private corner. It’s sometimes hard to communicate that not believing and not caring are different. Why do I care? Why do I have opinions on religion? This is why. A high school student stood up to the status quo. She challenged her...
Super Cold-Treatment Reference Spectacular →
It’s cold season, I suggest a dose of information.
Coke Talk: Coke Talk of the Day →
coketalk:
There was a large group of ultra-orthodox jews on my flight this morning, each with a vast array of wacky hats. Some of the hats were big and fuzzy. Some of the hats were tiny and made of wood. None of the hats were allowed to touch the ground, so it took forever to board the damn plane.
Things…
I keep (very unfortunately) getting into conversations that end up focused on why...
“On January 13th 2012, the world will reach a remarkable milestone in the fight...”
– (via The End of Polio)
Watchfette:
Colin Stetson, The stars in his head (Dark Lights Remix) / New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges. Shot by Radwan Mounmeh, Montreal, 2011.
“If the sport of football ever dies, it will die from the outside in. It...”
– via Grantland
Debt ain't so bad
First, families have to pay back their debt. Governments don’t - all they need to do is ensure that debt grows more slowly than their tax base. The debt from World War II was never repaid; it just became increasingly irrelevant as the U.S. economy grew, and with it the income subject to taxation. Second - and this is the point almost nobody seems to get - an over-borrowed family owes...
“The real joke is on the rest of us. After the biggest financial meltdown in 80...”
– Mike Lofgren (via azspot)
Critics pick the best albums of 2011 →
A running tally of the albums most mentioned in year end lists.
December 2011
29 posts
Top Tracks Last 12 Months (according to LastFM)
1 The Naked And Famous – The Sun
2 Neko Case – Outro With Bees
3 Laura Marling – Old Stone
4 Laura Marling – Tap at My Window
5 The Naked And Famous – All Of This
6 The Naked And Famous – Frayed
7 The Naked And Famous – Punching In A Dream
8 The Naked And Famous – Eyes
9 Wilco – Art Of Almost
10 Brendan Benson – Metarie (just listened to this song again. Still no reccolection…...