May 2012
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“Not only is Twitter a tightly networked circle of Chinese dissent, it is also a...”
– Emily Parker: How The Obama Administration’s Narrative About Chen Guangcheng Unraveled, One Tweet At A Time | The New Republic (via s-m-i)
April 2012
2 posts
Aggregators Fighting Over Aggregation
alexleo:
It’s a fair point that you add insult to injury when you embed someone’s photo without linking to their post or crediting them in any way, but it’s a dangerous case to make for an aggregation site. After almost four years at the Huffington Post, I know! But it’s ok because Simon Dumenco’s gonna save us all.
March 2012
7 posts
Stop Celebrating St. Patrick Because He Was... →
caro:
I’m not out there celebrating my last name’s country of origin because it really kind of horrifies me that a holiday laden with undertones of defiance of rules designed to oppress an ethnic minority has turned into an excuse for people with no connection whatsoever to said ethnic group to dress up as the worst possible cartoon stereotypes of it and get wasted in the streets. That was a...
“As New Yorkers, we all live in a peculiar state of location upgrade, a kind of...”
– 314 Bedford | The Paris Review (via taylorlorenz)
“I’m going to be 35 this year. ... I want to be... →
February 2012
37 posts
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“I’d love to speak with Leonard,...
“I watched a music awards show last year and started crying afterwards. I just...”
– Santigold talks to us about the state of popular music and her forthcoming album, Master of My Make Believe. (via pitchfork)
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“Nothing will ever replace the moment when Jesse Orosco struck out Marty Barrett...”
– RIP Gary Carter. He always seemed a bit out of place — as if an overachieving, slightly overweight middle-aged dad with bad knees walked into Shea Stadium and became the catcher for the coolest team in baseball.
Here’s the moment he’s discussing above:
Tracy Jordan's Tour Rider →
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“Eventually, everyone becomes who they always were.”
– Chuck Klosterman, on Eddie Van Halen, the new VH record, getting older and, yeah, destiny.
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“Jesus Christ,” [Kobe] Bryant said chuckling. “Let’s not get...”
– Kobe Bryant knows not of Linsanity.
Craig Finn | Clear Heart Full Eyes: Tiny Desk... →
steadycraig:
Hey Everyone,
Two really cool performances just became available online.
A few weeks ago Ricky and I drove to DC to do a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to Bob Boilen and everyone there for having us. We took the opportunity to play an unreleased track called “Jeremiah’s…
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“I curse a lot”
– My good friend Shahien Nasiripour in one of the most entertaining interviews you’ll read all year.
Plus, there’s this:
: Wall Street is either dying or doing completely... →
counterparties:
We’re not going to choose sides in this battle — though we certainly do have a side — but suffice to say there’s been a lot of reaction to Gabriel Sherman’s cover story in New York magazine about the ostensible “end” of Wall Street. (We suggest you read Chris Lehmann’s takedown for a full …
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“At the end of the night (for me, anyway) there was still a line outside. Phil’s...”
– Park Slope is dead, “parents are cool, I guess” and “drunks never bother me”
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“People seem to feel that Del Rey is trying to trick us, though it’s impossible...”
– We trick ourselves into believing in auteurs and authentic. Sasha Frere-Jones on Lana Del Rey
AOL Bets $30 mill on Huffington Post Streaming... →
The video ad market is still heating up, but AOL is betting it will come to a boil very soon. It’s making a major bet with a new streaming service on Huffington Post that will launch in the summer and promises live content twelve hours a day, five days a week and hope to get up to sixteen hours a day by 2013.
The service itself is ambitious, but even more so is the investment AOL is putting...
“But as I have noted on many occasions, the moral hazard problem from tail-risk...”
– Private equity and the Greenspan put - by Macro Resilience (via counterparties)
The Generalized Theory of Bernanke's Beard Length
Bernank Beard Length = Fed Funds Rate / Libor * U6 Unemployment Rate + (52-Week Moving Average of ConAir Corp. Shares - Length of Putting Greens on 18th Hole of the Master’s course in Augusta, Georgia)
[ConAir corp. manufactures beard trimmers]
[All putting green lengths in CM]
January 2012
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