April 2011
March 2011
America is Giving Up: Why Geithner and GE CEO Must... →
wilwheaton:
General Electric earned more than $14 billion in profits last year. They paid ZERO federal taxes. In fact, the government GAVE GE more than $3 billion in tax credits. So General Electric is basically a corporate welfare king.
But it gets worse. Not only did they pay zero taxes. Not only did they get $3 billion back from you and me. GE has slashed nearly 20% of its American...
The Geico Gecko meets The AOL Way: Are display... →
bigboxcar:
Good post. I loathe CTR as the ONLY way to determine a ‘successful’ online ad.
This is a joke, right? Hey Nieman, welcome to 2007. Nice you could be here.
Unfuckingbelievable.
“A stark example of the fundamental unfairness that is now so widespread was in...”
– from Bob Herbert’s last NYTimes column
Watchthis week’s episode of Community could pretty much be the preface to the book I’m working on:
“Pulp Fiction, milkshakes, bean cans… listen to how we talk to each other. We’re like robots exchanging catch phrases and references…”
just cracking myself up over here
Angie: is your fucking email in comic sans?
me: >_<
Angie: Also, blue?
me: XD
Newsweek: Wow. In Which Marie Claire Breaks Down... →
newsweek:
LATE NIGHT, BY THE NUMBERS:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Male writers: 19 Female writers: 1
Conan Male writers: 17 Female writers: 1
The Colbert Report Male writers: 16 Female writers: 1
The Late Show With David Letterman Male writers: 13 Female writers: 1
Lopez…
A Danzig Story
noyoushutup:
hellyeahfuckyeahshityeah:
This Danzig tweet above is based on a true story. My pal Brendan, from @Filmdrunk’s podcast, knows Justin, the guy that runs @ShitMyDadSays, and he lives next to Danzig in Los Feliz. Here’s the story in chat form:
Here’s a picture of said bricks.
Here’s Danzig washing his Jaguar (Google Street View).
while on his tour bus years ago and eating...
Never humble, never resigned, and always hungry →
negevrockcity:
gillianmae:
I never quite lined up the golden era of the Observer with the time period David Carr and other media historians did. But I know what they mean when they say it: The Observer is needed whenever the rich get too rich, to remind them of themselves. It’s not the Village Voice…
Note for blog readers who are not journalists: Journalism - especially in New York - is...
“There is no actual or imminent threat to America from Libya. I supported Obama...”
– A Clarification - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (via johncarney)
This weekend I re-started the outline of a book I’d eventually like to write, tentatively called “The Rise of the Reference Society”.
The elevator pitch is that it’s a collection of essays that highlights certain trends in the past ten years in America’s changing society as a result of digital technology, networking and generational shifts.
Here’s the...
This weekend I re-started the outline of a book I’d eventually like to write, tentatively called “The Rise of the Reference Society”.
The elevator pitch is that it’s a collection of essays that highlights certain trends in the past ten years in America’s changing society as a result of digital technology, networking and generational shifts.
Here’s the general...
workorwar:
Satyricon - Raining Blood (Slayer...
“The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel...”
– Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1973
You could almost switch out anything these days with “buy and use its products”: buying into political narratives, to TV advertisements, etc.
Minneapolis Michael: Reading the Sunday Times So... →
minneapolismichael:
Let’s see if I can remember how to read a bike. With the impending paywall, let’s also see if I was a year too early with this little thing.
THE FRONT PAGE
Allies Open Air Assault on Qaddafi’s Forces - Unless you were deep in an NCAA-induced coma yesterday, you know that Allied…
“Steve Marsh: I didn’t get to see Howl! It was only here for a hot minute....”
– from Q&A With Elizabeth Redleaf
LOL. This is what mpls is like.
Twin Cities Fish Fry Club: Week One Recap: In... →
fishfry:
Welcome to the great Minneapolis Fish Fry Club recap! Coming to you live from St. Albert the Great in Seward. And by live, I mean five days late, because I’ve been learning how to do stuff like this:
Little Bingo Buttoneyes there didn’t win at bingo, sadly. But she did give St. Al’s fried…
“Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on,...”
– Jon Bon Jovi
OK, let me point-by-point this:
“A magical, magical time.” It was a magical time because you were a teenager discovering music, one of the two most amazing things in life. There are still teenagers; there’s still music.
“Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music...
“There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder...”
– Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via thedailyfeed)
What would the Obama campaign think of the Obama... →
wilwheaton:
The Obama campaign was only three years ago, but it had strong opinions on this sort of thing. “To lead the world, we must lead by example,” Candidate Obama said in October of 2007. “We must be willing to acknowledge our failings, not just trumpet our victories. And when I’m President, we’ll reject torture - without exception or equivocation.” But now we find there is both exception...