November 2009
44 posts
“[Obama] reminds me of a chess grandmaster who has played his opening in six...”
– Henry Kissinger
Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
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“Sarah Palin is the Empress-Queen of the screaming-for-screaming’s sake...”
– Love this post by Matt Taibbi. I think he’s right in a big way. Andrew Sullivan and other, otherwise intelligent analysts of her career and her book are totally missing the point. It’s not a book, it’s not politics; it’s more like a bolt of pure Dada. And she doesn’t...
“Even through a veil of censorship and propaganda, the Chinese people managed a...”
– Tish Durkin
Running ≈ sanity. But only ≈.
R.E.M. - Hope
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Phoenix - Countdown (Sick For The Big Sun)
Heeeeey Last.fm - you know what would rock?
A pause button.
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Jesse Winchester - Step by Step (from The Wire...
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blondesnotbombs:
I think The Wire season 3 is the greatest thing in the world ever. At this particular moment, it feels like the most important thing in my life… (Sorry, honey.)
Hamsterdam.
It’s dangerous. You watch one episode and then five hours later it’s 2 am but you only have two more episodes to this season, so….? Or, maybe that’s just my particular brand of The...
HOSED: Is there a quick fix for the climate? →
A final, authoritative debunking of Superfreakonomics - and the intellectual immaturity of economists of the authors’ stripe.
But what’s most troubling about “SuperFreakonomics” isn’t the authors’ many blunders; it’s the whole spirit of the enterprise. Though climate change is a grave problem, Levitt and Dubner treat it mainly as an opportunity to show how clever they are. Leaving aside the...
The L3C: Low-profit Limited Liability Company →
tumblelikeyougiveadamn:
The details:
The low-profit, limited liability company, or L3C, is a hybrid of a nonprofit and for-profit organization. More specifically, it is a new type of limited liability company (LLC) designed to attract private investments and philanthropic capital in ventures designed to provide a social benefit. Unlike a standard LLC, the L3C has an explicit primary charitable...
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“4. Joe Lieberman is on a lifeboat with a young woman who was denied insurance...”
– 10 jokes about Joe Lieberman & his threat to filibuster any health care bill which includes a public option (via emptyage)
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WatchLCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
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Signature Of Antimatter Detected In Lightning
fuckyeahphysics:
roomthily:
During two recent lightning storms, Fermi recorded gamma-ray emissions of a particular energy that could have been produced only by the decay of energetic positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons. The observations are the first of their kind for lightning storms. Michael Briggs of the University of Alabama in Huntsville announced the puzzling findings...
WatchFrancesco Tristano & Carl Craig - The Melody
This is stunningly good.
(via @bruces)
Do NOT use Lunarpages for web hosting.
burn:
Nerd moment: These fuckers are fuckers. A while ago, my site was hacked. They got my FTP password somehow, and basically messed with my site, rearranging the pages and folder hierarchies, and basically trashing the site. When I called Lunarpages and asked for a backup, they told me I probably had an unsafe script (their FACES are unsafe scripts!) and that a backup would cost $80 bucks, but...
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Oh hai, if anyone is actually subscribing to my feed: I’m migrating to feedburner, so you may want to update your favorite feedreader with AYCDICDM’s new feed.
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Finally re-enabled comments.
But Disqus and Tumblr both are acting up, so, who knows.
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www.steakhouseorgaybar.com →
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The National - The Geese Of Beverly Road
oh come,...
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“‘It’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United...”
– Reuters/Nick Zieminski
With Berkshire’s support, BNSF will be able to invest in its infrastructure and not have to worry about meeting quarterly expectations, said Thomas Russo, a partner with Gardner Russo & Gardner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which counts Berkshire as its...
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“The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power … has attacked...”
– Theodor Adorno (1903–1969)
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