August 2009
32 posts
Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
If you break...
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele simultaneously attacks...
High Theatre.
INSKEEP: Within a couple of paragraphs of writing we need to protect Medicare, you write that you oppose President Obama's, quote, plan for a government-run health care system. Now you're a veteran public policy official. You're aware that Medicare is a government-run health care program.
Mr. STEELE: Yeah, look how it's run. And that's my point. Take Medicare and make it writ large across the country, because here we're now - how many times have we been to the precipice of bankruptcy for a government-run health care program?
INSKEEP: It sounds like you don't like Medicare very much at all...
Mr. STEELE: No, I'm not saying that. No, Medicare...
INSKEEP: ...but you write in this op-ed that you want to protect Medicare because it's politically popular. People like Medicare.
Mr. STEELE: No, no, no, no, no. Please, don't...
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Hazy Shade of Winter
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“In El Paso, the for-profit health-care executive told me, a few leading...”
– The Cost Conundrum
by Atul Gawande
One of the best articles on the problems with the American health care system in recent memory. A real piece of journalism; I feel like I understand the issues much more for having read it.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Trailer.
With Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell
Whoa there, you missed Tom Waits. Playing the devil.
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Planet Calacanis
marco:
I’ve seen a lot of people quoting and linking to Jason Calacanis’ recent article, The Case Against Apple—in Five Parts, in a positive light. But I can’t. It’s ridiculous.
Let’s start with an easy one:
Sure, everything on the Mac platform costs twice as much …
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I over-pay for Apple products because I perceive them to be better (i.e. Windows-based hardware is 30-50% less–but at 38...
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“Remember that time you went on a long drug binge and it turned into a crime...”
– I <3 Infrastructurist.
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TinEye: A Reverse Image Search Engine.
TinEye.com
Maybe you’ve heard of it before; I know I had, and filed it away thinking, that’s cool, but I wonder what I’d ever use it for. Now I know! There are more unattributed image posts on Tumblr than anywhere I’ve ever seen. The worst are ‘architecture’ blogs, oddly (surely if you’re interested in architecture you might want more than one angle of a...
WatchA building in Turkey rolls.
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WatchBruce Sterling - reboot 11 closing talk “On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading.”