April 2011
March 2011
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WatchI somehow managed to get Boxcar and Growl into an infinite loop.
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“So here’s the Android bait-and-switch laid bare. Android was “open” only until...”
– John Gruber
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WatchStratfor Analyst Matt Gertken examines Japan’s debt and how it affects reconstruction following the March 10th earthquake and tsunami.
Yikes.
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
A great song...
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“I can guarantee you, or most of you, I guarantee that I have more debt than all...”
– Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI), who makes $174,000, which is more than 3x the median household income in Polk County, where he lives.
He made this statement when asked if he thought his pay should be cut, since he wants to cut pay for all other public employees.
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“Our popular culture often falsely concludes that truth is the foundation of...”
– Alex Johnson
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WatchA young Jon Stewart interviews Bradley Whitford about The West Wing on this 10 year old episode of The Daily Show. (via wehavebigdreams)
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“At that time […] the console was about this big with four faders on it....”
– George Harrison
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eversonpoe replied to your photo: Mono! (Taken with instagram)
i’ve been wondering about the advantages of the mono box vs the stereo box. thoughts?
Most of the Beatles records were originally, definitively mixed in mono. The stereo mixes of everything up through the White Album were afterthoughts. The records were fully mixed and deemed complete by the band before the stereo mixes were even...
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WatchWreck & Salvage presents Thom Yorke’s Hell aka Thom Yorke vs Rebecca Black
2011’s two most mashed up music videos mashed together…if only for a moment.
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“There is no such thing as laughing at something you shouldn’t. You should laugh...”
– Doug Stanhope (via klocksien)
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Japan will rebuild, but not how you think. And 20... →
The Japanese economic miracle had nothing to do with competitiveness or the supposed omniscience of Tokyo’s elite bureaucrats; it had everything to do with the resilience of ordinary Japanese people and the country’s deep reservoir of social capital. And when Japan’s economy faltered during the “lost decades,” this likewise had nothing to do with a stodgy growth...
“Not only does the service host the official Blip blog, but 28 of Blip’s 42...”
– lizlet, writing about our excessive use of Tumblr at NewTeeVee.
If you’ve somehow missed the fact that blip.tv likes Tumblr, read on.
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Barack Obama consistently takes an offstage... →
He has approached each uprising as a blank slate that demands new assessments and recalibrated policies: Even in the deserts of the Middle East, he resists drawing lines in the sand. Bahrain, an ally, receives quiet exhortation. In Libya, Obama speaks with cruise missiles. “Each of these cases presents a different set of circumstances,” a senior national-security official insists. “The...
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“The audience is our anchor. They hold us here when the sirens and demons try to...”
– Genesis P-Orridge, writing about Ian Curtis.
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The U.S. Census Is Thorough →
25 people live in Central Park, a 39% jump from 2000
56 people live in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
5 people live in Greenwood Cemetery
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For the artists behind what is one of the most ambitious contemporary street art projects to vibrate the Arab world, the artwork is about replacing the once all-pervasive presidential photography with mosaics of ordinary, anonymous Tunisians who rose up against their government. The group are using street art to kick-start conversations and to challenge their compatriots to see the familiar in a...
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E-Books Poised To Overtake Mass Market Paperbacks →
With independent and smaller publishers not generating the e-book volume of the largest houses, sales of adult hardcover are certainly larger than e-books across the entire industry. The same, however, cannot be said for mass market paperbacks. The nine mass market houses that report results to the AAP account for the vast majority of mass market paperback sales. A year ago, when [Publishers...
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Study: Organic chicken carries significantly lower... →
38.8 percent of the conventional birds were carrying salmonella, versus 5.6 percent for the organic birds. As for feed, 27.5 percent of the conventional feed samples were carrying the pathogen, versus 5 percent of the organic.
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Now for the creepy part: 39.7 percent of the salmonella found in the conventional birds had resistance to no fewer than six different antibiotics. None of the...
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themattsmith:
Oh, y’know, makin’ bangers with...
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“Not to steal Bill Maher’s schtick, but new rule: if you’re not willing to...”
– Ezra Klein (via thepoliticalpartygirl)
Republicans don’t care about deficits. They care about taxes. That’s why Clinton balanced the budget and Cheney said, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.”