November 2011
1 post
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m...”
– Retired NY Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer Tuesday morning in New York after the Occupy Wall Street police raid. Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
July 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
“Tolerance and intolerance are opposites, and like most opposites, are mutually...”
– Posted by Ursula L at slacktivist: Manifested
January 2011
1 post
“It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to...”
– The New York Times (via marco)
December 2010
1 post
“That’s why this cannot-be-killed lie about WikiLeaks’...”
– WikiLeaks - Salon.com
November 2010
4 posts
Several months ago, my wife noticed a small lump in her neck. It grew noticeably larger week by week. In early November, we found out it was thyroid cancer. Today, she’s having surgery to have it removed.
It’s a routine procedure and as far as cancers go, it’s a really minor one; very treatable with a high chance of success. We’re staying positive as much as we can.
October 2010
2 posts
“The major, serial bailouts of 2008 were not the result of some unelected,...”
– The Post Election GOP War on Financial Reform « Rortybomb
“Ever since the 1930s, something very much like the tea party movement has...”
– Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles | Mother Jones
September 2010
1 post
“What we’re reaching in some classes is the transformation stage....”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - The iPad Project: How It’s Going
August 2010
2 posts
“The difference between the smooth Flash trailers on Sony.com, the jerky episode...”
– Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right
“Dr. Laura’s career has been to exalt no-nonsense personal responsibility and...”
– Rob Beschizza in comment #74 of Dr. Laura: criticism of me infringes my first amendment rights - Boing Boing
July 2010
1 post
“But sexual predators aren’t monsters. They’re men (about 98 percent...”
– How the Media Should Treat the Sexual Assault Allegations Against Al Gore | The Nation
June 2010
5 posts
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. I knew about this behavior so I make it a point to never hit the close door button. This backfired when I visited Taiwan and Japan. The elevator doors there (at least the ones I interacted with) wait forever unless you press the close door button.
On a side note,...
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the [mailing list name] list:
We at [department name]...”
– From [person’s name] on the [mailing list name] list earlier today.
“Employing tricks like needless pagination, auto-refreshing (see Salon.com),...”
– Richard Dunlop-Walters (via marco)
...from #wowuidev...
cog|work: http://www.blaghag.com/2010/06/spit-swallow-or-souffle.html
malreth: "Semen is inexpensive to produce" *pfft* yeah, right.
malreth: THEN WHY DOES IT KEEP COSTING ME $50 PER VISIT?
Amarande: malreth: you need to pick cheaper whores? :)
malreth: Amarande: HOW DARE YOU CALL MY WIFE A WHORE!
May 2010
2 posts
“The hero of the Times Square bomb attempt was an immigrant. A Muslim. Senegalese...”
– Some Assembly Required (via AZspot) (via marco)
“Yesterday, when the primary suspect in the attempted bombing of Times Square was...”
– TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
April 2010
6 posts
“D’you know what that little girl of mine did last Saturday, when her troop was on a hike out Berkhamsted way? She got two other girls to go with her, slipped off from the hike, and spent the whole afternoon following a strange man. They kept on his tail for two hours, right through the woods, and then, when they got into Amersham, handed him over to the patrols.”
“What did they do that for?”...
“In Japan, millions of novels have been written on cell phones. My...”
– Why the iPad is a creativity machine /via @steverubel
“Most of the work in this world completely sucks balls and the only reward most...”
– Brooks: Let Them Eat Work - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant
“What [Reformed Theological Seminary] is arguing about the Bible, ultimately, is...”
– slacktivist: L’affaire Waltke
“I would give just about anything to sit David Brooks down in front of some...”
– Brooks: Let Them Eat Work - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant
“I suspect what we’ll see instead, as the iPad turns into a big hit, are...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Markos Moulitsas on the iPad
February 2010
4 posts
Thinking about a lunchtime conversation on Friday...
Requiring clients to provide bullshit justification for their choice of platform means they’ll take their platform of choice anyways and give us a bullshit justification. I’d prefer it if we simply cut out the bullshit and support their platform choice.
If you continue to make the “Numbers Argument” about how much more expensive one platform is over the other in one...
“I couldn’t resist a title so apropos for a city that likes to bitch and moan...”
– Downtown Austin Link Roundup « Downtown Austin Article includes proposals for light rail projects.
“Fiscally speaking, the GOP keeps promising voters an excursion to Big Rock Candy...”
– The deficit blame game - Salon.com — The GOP ideal of being deficit hawks is an act; a sham; a ruse.
“About all this service WILL do is finally put a nail in the coffin of rail on...”
– M1EK’s Bake-Sale of Bile: Rapid Bus ain’t BRT
January 2010
1 post
The Mythical Unicorn (Tablet)
The two most difficult things that I have to deal with when helping my parents with their computer is figuring out where they downloaded or saved a file to and dealing with application windows.
If my dad minimizes a window, it’s “out of sight, out of mind” and he just re-launches the app to get a new window. Since it’s a laptop, my parents hardly ever shut it down since...
“A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life;...”
– Bruce Schneier: Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com
December 2009
8 posts
“Most serious news stories are peppered with information that is laughably false,...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via marco)
Sugru: polymer clay that fixes and sticks to... →
Do I want it? Oh, yes. I do.
Embezzle a bit more of your building’s... →
“Favrd may have been a toy, but it was a toy that made friends. That’s a hell of...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Dean Allen Pulls the Plug on Favrd
“As Wendell Berry has tartly observed, to take animals off farms and put them on...”
– Farms, Hamburgers, and “Free” Enterprise (via marco)
Dogs and Cats
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
Mayor: Enough! I get the point! And what if you’re wrong?
Dr. Peter Venkman: If we’re wrong, then nothing happens. We go to jail. Peacefully. Quietly. We’ll enjoy it. But if we’re right, and we can stop this thing, Lenny… You will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
It’s easy to deny global...
November 2008
1 post
Here’s my prediction: Apple TV (hardware) is dumped entirely and its full functionality (software) is ported to the iPhone/iPod touch.