October 2008
I know the country’s tanking, you guys; but I’m really lovin’ politics these days.
September 2008
Watchs4xton:
“My Twitter board is about to explode here.”
lol
the Criterion Collection finally releases "Can't... →
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“The RenGen is a psychographic more than a demographic, but when you look at...”
– Patricia Martin, author of “RenGen: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What It Means to Your Business”. Psychographic? Is that a Megadeth track? And fyi, if you want to hire me for a lot of money, I’ll cash out faster than any Boomer you’ve ever met.
Introduction to the story of Arcadio Salanic...
arcadio:
Although Arcadio Salanic Salanic had previously made several legal trips between the United States and his war-torn home country of Guatemala, he was detained on November 3rd, 2007 because of an issue with his VISA. Instead of simply going through with the deportation, and thereby giving up his ability to travel legally into the United States, Arcadio applied for asylum in the U. S.
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Hayao Miyazaki Films at the Uptown →
The two recent east coast college grads next to me at breakfast just called MSP ‘undiscovered’
at a crazy wedding at the turf club, the band is tearing it up
'Stay Out of Jail Free': a closer look at RNC... →
I’m not sure what I think about this CF
UCLA mathematicians discover a 13-million-digit... →
Prime numbers are those, like three, seven and 11, that are divisible only by themselves and one. Mersenne primes, named after the 17th century French mathematician Marin Mersenne, who discovered them, take the form 2P - 1, where P is also a prime number. In the new UCLA prime, P = 43,112,609.
10 Books that will Substitute A Computer Science...
klaatu:
I don’t buy into this sentiment at all but these books are well worth reading before going for a degree and re-reading years after a degree to refresh your mind. Source
1. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Godel, Escher and Bach, written by Douglas Hofstadter, while the title would suggest it is discussion of a mathematician, an artist, and a composer, is a complex examination...
When’s the last time a candidate wore striped tie to the debate? And this debate didn’t have a single mention of Bush. McCain 1, Obama 0
Oh man, got some candy now. Let.a get this debate going.
Watching the debates at the Take Up space. Not nearly drunk enough for this political theater bullshit.
BS debate officially over, time to check out DeRusha’s story on the U of MN Playmates
dear Car Soup, add an ‘export’ function so I can just run this shit into a pivot table and find what I want
Lil' Wayne is blogging for ESPN the magazine's... →
marrina:
The story of my crazy car accident (now with...
Don’t worry, I’m okay. But here’s what went down. I was was driving up Cedar Avenue with Erin riding shotgun. We pulled up to the row of cars stopped on the bridge over Lake Nokomis, and as I slowed down I glanced in my rearview mirror and noticed that the driver of the SUV behind us was on his phone and not slowing down.
I immediately grabbed Erin’s leg and said,...
Tim Gihring expands his MnMo blog; extended... →
just in a car accident, I’m okay, not my fault. cop asks for my license and then tells me to update my address.THANKS COP JUST WHAT I NEED!
Putting more jive in my walk
KOOL 108 named one of the 21 Oldies stations of... →
l'etoile plans your weekend →
http://howismccaindoing.com/ →
American Insurgents
Since Paul posted the DemocracyNOW! video about the new Army Combat team that’s being organized to manage domestic disturbances (you might recognize them from the previous work of the St. Paul RNC Police Brigade), here’s my piece in Flak from just after Katrina about the use of the term “insurgent” in the Army Times to refer to American citizens.
wait, the only guy who’s shown up to the Senate in the past 2 years less than McCain was Tim Johnson, the guy who had the stroke? MEGALULZ
local political ads are like sitcoms—the more they insult your intelligence, the more prevalent they are, like 2andahalfMen
I’m trying to talk mike into taking all his money out of the bank and convert it to xbox live points to weather the coming dollar slide
hey Paul and Chuck Olsen, you should join the MN SPJ, then people would have to stop asking if you were real journalists
WatchI watched the entire MN SPJ discussion, and what I don’t understand is why this horrible, horrible planning for the RNC didn’t include trying to get a “journalism identification” process that would’ve taken care of the issue. The only local press outreach was “cockamamie” embedding options? What? Also, I looked up what it would take for people like The...
CP's "can't believe this isn't paint thinner" →
WatchRemember Twitter? BenCredible just introduced it to my favorite local show, Twin Cities Live.
“I’m pretty sure that I first ran into David Carr sometime in 1986, when we were...”
– Observer
HUH-WHAT!?! Lambert had a cable access show? And it’s not on YouTube? SOMEBODY GET THIS ON YOUTUBE. And also, Lambert AND Lileks had cable access shows in the 80’s? This is blowing my mind.
Also, God bless Craig Cox.
Why Dave Mindeman Should Be The Political Expert... →
(via s4xton)
oh man, please let this be the beginning of a local backlash again the media ubiquity of Larry Jacobs
the [.pdf] link to DfW's syllabus →
This is just how I feel, you guys
Dear friends, family, colleagues and co-workers~ Do you remember that feeling you had as a little kid, when you were a just old enough to really know that Christmas meant getting presents, that particular feeling that Christmas was only a few weeks away and that you were going to get some presents? And the closer Christmas got, the slightly more tilted you became, because those presents were so...
Trying to save you from the vapidness of Downtown... →
In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard or easy.”
The fact that he’s never written fiction before is painfully, achingly, stupefyingly, annoyingly obvious.
Who’s got two thumbs and isn’t the least bit surprised that a well read...
the Renewed Mind is the Key →
does anyone know who drums for Metallagher? have his email address?