April 2011
“A boss is like a teacher, and I am like the cool teacher. Like Mr. Handell. Mr....”
– Michael Scott
“The British Office, like the American Office, was an exceptionally well-made...”
– The Office: Why the American Remake Beats the British Original (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
It’s all about time. I’ve always admired how British shows tend to have short runs and not overstay their welcome, but I think the American Office is better for having taken the time to...
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WatchKeith Olbermann’s new show will debut on June 20.
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“[At gigs] we’d probably play hardcore songs for fifteen minutes, then put down...”
– Mike Diamond, Beastie Boys
The whole oral history is fantastic, with observations from Thurston Moore, Molly Ringwald, Rick Rubin, Run, DMC, Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains), Tabitha Soren, Kate Schellenbach and Chuck Eddy, among others.
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China's Strategic Pork Reserve →
China is a porcine superpower as well as a human one. The Middle Kingdom boasts more than 446 million pigs — one for every three Chinese people and more than the next 43 countries combined. So when there’s a major disruption in the pork supply it hits the economy hard; the “blue-ear pig” disease that forced Chinese farmers to slaughter millions of pigs in 2008, for...
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“We need you to come in and lock shields, and strengthen up the men who are going...”
– Rep. Allen West (R-FL), reminding women that they share the blame, along with poor people, for America’s current predicament.
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“To be anti-racist is to be clear on two points: First, race is a discourse, not...”
– Theresa Senft
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Behind A Major Law Firm's Decision To Ditch Its... →
As public relations debacles go, this was a doozy. But the firm must have calculated that the alternative would have been worse. In the intervening week, a series of public and behind-the-scenes developments made it clear that the firm would suffer recriminations for defending what many of its top clients and future recruits — not to mention gay rights advocates — consider to be an...
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WatchMark Proksch AKA K-Strass (Yo-Yo master) takes Dave Holmes through the epic story of the “greatest hoax in recent history” and how it lead him to a role on NBC’s The Office. (Part 2)
K-Strass is hilarious.
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WatchAl Jazeera Listening Post: Bahrain - a small kingdom cracking down on the media in a big way.
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“Barack Obama is no more pushy than any other President; in fact, it is human...”
– Mickey Edwards | Congress: Missing in Action
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Obama on Manning: “He Broke the Law.” So Much for... →
vruz:
—via wilwheaton:
President Barack Obama made stunning accusations about accused Wikileaks whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning, directly asserting that Manning “broke the law.” Apparently the President of the United States of America and a self-described Constitutional scholar does not care that Manning has yet to be tried or convicted for any crime.
vruz: operation lawlessness forever.
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Watchofficialbeastieboys:
Say It.
Oh yes. I heard a little bit of this in Fight For Your Right Revisited and was more than a little turned on.
“No society can advance if fifty percent of its population is locked up in the...”
– Prince Al-Waleed of Saudi Arabia, interviewed by Tom Brokaw (via kateoplis)
Yes yes yes yes yes. The truest thing that was ever true.
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Watch Food. Curated. - The Good Slaughter: A Meat Cutter Shares His Processing Floor
Meet Larry Althiser, the owner and head meat cutter for Larry’s Custom Meats in Hartwick, NY, a small farming community in the Northern Catskills. Larry takes pride in his slaughterhouse. He’s been butchering and processing animals for over 30 years, learning through hard work his philosophy on the right way to...
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WatchPhotojournalist Christopher Anderson talks about his friend Tim Hetherington on GRITtv with Laura Flanders.
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“It’s about divided attention as a new strategy of attention. I’m not being a...”
– Frieze Magazine | Comment | Kenneth Goldsmith
(Joanne McNeil’s interview with the UbuWeb publisher)
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“I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without...”
– Gary Ridgway, the “Green River Killer,” who admitted in 2003 to killing 48 women Getting Away with Murder on Long Island
Disposable human beings. :(
(via robot-heart-politics)
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“There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough,...”
– Barack Obama
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WatchThe era of cramming a plethora of celebrity cameos into Internet videos has come to an end.
Winner: Beastie Boys
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Recent polls from Washington Post/ABC News and...
Favor raising taxes on the rich.
Oppose privatizing medicare.
And not just a majority of Americans…
A majority of Republicans, too.
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Hashify does not solve a problem, it poses a... →
Hashify is different from virtually every other site on the Web in that every URL contains the complete contents of the page.