December 2009
44 posts
I saw two people in the subway fighting in sign language and it reminded me of Tumblr.
New York, I Guess I Love You
It took almost nine years, but today marks the first time I paid $10 for a salad without needing a $10 drink to help me recover from the shock.
“Definitions are especially unhelpful to children. There’s an oft-cited 1987...”
– Erin McKean, “Redefining Definition”
(via NYT Magazine, “On Language”)
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual...”
– George Carlin (via marco) (via soupsoup)
This is my new Serenity Prayer.
“It tastes just like a White Russian, but with meat.”
– 29-year-old Georgia Hardstark of Los Angeles, describing the perplexing flavor of the McNuggetini
The McNuggetini’s Cult Status Gives Its Makers A Shot At Celebrity (via soupsoup)
And the Tumblr Simile of the Year Goes to...
brianvan:
ninety9:
I’m glad Hoyt is paying attention.
Best. Ombudsman. Ever.
(Well, actually, Okrent did a hell of a job over there, that prickly-but-loveable SOB)
Really, though, click through for Hoyt’s column just to see the (convoluted) explanation of how a poorly vetted freelancer/junketeer was able to pimp her babymaker-punching boyfriend’s burger shop in the part of the paper where...
I Don't Love iPhone's Landscape "Feature"
I guess this falls under the category of “lazy web,” but I actually have put much sweat and tears into trying to figure out how to shut off iPhone’s presumptuous and infuriating auto-landscape function.
Alas, I turn to you, my Internet friends, with this cry for help. Does anyone out there know how to stop the landscaping insanity?
You can't kill Douchebag.
cvxn:
chrismohney:
Douchebag kills you. How many generations of Gawker Media employees have to die before they understand?
4 Reasons The Douchebag Has Jumped The Shark Farewell, Douchebag Word of the Year: Still Not Twatwaffle Wrapping Up The Whole Douchebag Thing Douches: Time To Bag It?
The word “douchebag” is like Ugg Boots: clunky, ugly and utterly functional. Which is why...
Watchatencio:
Top Chef: Hungry Ladies
Top Chef judge Gail Simmons (Tess Lynch) presides over the final elimination of season 6 contestants Ashley, Bryan, and Mattin, but Ashley has an ace up her sleeve that may wow the judges and save them all: a Top Chef spin on Beyonce’s “Single Ladies.” My friend Jenn Fee wrote, produced, and stars in this video as Ashley. I directed and edited. Like it? Please...
Americans Are, 'ow doo you seh, uh, "Socialistes?"
whileyouweresleeping:
Bloomberg reports on a poll that shows Americans want their government to “spend for jobs” and “send the bill to the rich.”
Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless. They also want the deficit to come down. And most are ready to hand the bill to the wealthy.
In...
“Twitter is this thing invented by Jimmy Fallon.”
– David Letterman, right before losing his Twitterginity (sorry) on Tuesday
“Newspaper reporters like to say bloggers, like me, have no standards. The thing...”
– Matthew Cerrone: Bloggers have Standards (via soupsoup)
But what if you’re both an “educated reporter” (according to a piece of fancy paper) who has been accused of oversharing and a blog-type person (by trade)? Then do the above accusations/assessments regarding...
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
The “Permanent Press” cycle.
So, so confusing. I mean, there’s definitely no pressing going on in that machine, and if there is, well, it’s certainly not permanent.
“Once community exists, it is not about the person who created the conditions for...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman, as a comment on his own The Stars Look Down regarding the destruction of Favrd by Dean Allen (via mkowens) (via piscesinpurple)
Yes. Ideally, though, as the community changes and grows, the creator (such a weighty title, but I’ll stick with it) should at least consider...
Balls and Stars
Everyone on Twitter and Tumblr is writing either about Favrd* or football. I don’t have a heckuva lot to say about either at the moment, so I guess I this is a sign I should quit pretending to clean my closet and actually get to work cleaning my closet.
Or, wait. Didn’t Friendster just come back from the dead?
BRB.
*This is not to say I didn’t get a lot out of Favrd. I did,...
“People say, ‘We don’t need conversate, we have converse.’ Well then, we don’t...”
– Jesse Sheidlower, Editor At Large for the Oxford English Dictionary, interviewed by Ta-Nehisi Coates from the Atlantic last January.
This is old, but I don’t mind unearthing it. How do you define the word word? How thin is the line between rigorous and pedantic asshole?
— From London, just...
Bing search site suffers outage | BBC News →
inothernews:
crowth:
Microsoft has apologised for a brief outage which saw its search site Bing disappear from the internet.
That’s okay Microsoft, no one noticed.
I’d suspect they staged the outage for the publicity if I wasn’t so unsurprised that their new search engine had crashed already.
So, Bing pulled a Zune?
Photos or it Didn’t Happen! (or: If a Second-Tier Search Engine...
WatchBecause times like these call for a good kittieo…
(via Dave Basner, via Break.com)
“Feel The Pain” - Dinosaur Jr.
A few...
