January 2012
16 posts
Joe Paterno Dies In Hospital; Doctors Promise To... →
infosuicide - Google Search →
Compare with “Going Galt”
I thought, in the new order, information was...
The money [from Megaupload premium accounts] mainly routed through US-based PayPal, which is how Megaupload collected subscriptions from users looking for premium accounts. This wasn’t chump change; the government claims that the Megaupload PayPal account has “received in excess of $110,000,000 from subscribers and other persons associated with Mega Conspiracy.”
What Mitt Romney Learned From His Dad | Rick... →
Most strikingly, asked about the idea that “rugged individualism” was the key to America’s success, [George Romney] snapped back, “It’s nothing but a political banner to cover up greed.”
Write Your Senator
I just wanted to write to let you know the I, and many of us in the entertainment industry, firmly support the passage of laws like the “PROTECT IP Act,” S. 968. I hope that you aren’t swayed by the obnoxious but relatively unrepresentative Internet campaign to neutralize it, being staged by loud, well-funded voices in the Big Data industry and their cloud of vaguely-informed...
“The Italian word De Falco used, “cazzo” in Italian, is slang for the...”
How Stanley Kubrick Invented the Modern Box-Office... →
Department of Phrases I Haven't Heard In A Long...
“Interlibrary loan”
Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to... →
The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night. The conductor, Alan Gilbert, did something almost unheard-of in a concert hall: He stopped the performance. But the ringing kept on going, prompting increasingly angry shouts in the audience directed at the...
GOP Candidate Passed Off ‘Home Economics’ Degree... →
Oh come on!
Should the Times be a Truth Vigilante →
Just throwing it out there, but I remember reading in Tuchman’s The Proud Tower about how in Paris in the 1890s, at the time of the Dreyfus affair, there were hundreds of newspapers, newsletters, magazines, periodical pamphlets, etc. and none of them professed objectivity, so everyone read a few of them, and while the reader might have tended to select sources according to their own biases,...
“Charlie Sheen is the poor man’s Charlie Sheen.”
– Nathan Rabin
Facebook Responsible for A Third of Divorces in... →
A recent survey conducted by a UK based divorce website disclosed that 33 per cent behaviour divorce petitions filed cite Facebook as a cause for filling for divorce in 2011. In 2009 this figure was 20 per cent.
Just bought a typewriter
Hipster transfiguration continues apace.
December 2011
44 posts
Ryan Lilla at the NYRB →
If you ever wondered where “political left” and “right” came from, this is a good start.
http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/ →
Why not? →
Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Chloe Moretz in an IMAX Dark Shadows feature.
"The Star Wars Holiday Special" in Context
Just some thoughts…
Friday, November 17, 1978, 8 PM, (7 central and mountain)
In November 1978, the Special was preempting Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk on CBS. It was against Donnie & Marie, The Rockford Files, and Diff’rent Strokes — then only in its fourth episode, and quickly building an audience with an assist from Charlotte Rae/”Edna Garrett,”...
“You know, Max… some times… I don’t — think I know you.”
– Captain von Trapp
Chaplin Film Locations THEN & NOW - Keystone... →
Edendale
Supervillain or Newt | Celebrating our next... →
The Irrelevance of Money →
Matt’s been a little flaky lately but this one’s a keeper.
Christopher Hitchens, 1949 — 2011
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where. It looks too...”
– Marissa Mayer
MIT slows down light with... →
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I’m going to the Nakatomi Christmas Party.
Rainy rainy rainy.
Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian →
I’m not sure how Hari Seldon’s psychohistory jibes with Catholic doctrine on free will or general conservative attitudes toward personal responsibility.
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, Newt Gingrich is from the planet Trantor, a fictional world created by Isaac Asimov in his classic Foundation series about galactic empire. Newt’s master plan for America does not...
Tomorrow morning is going to be quite the anti-climax.
Mobile Information Call Act →
If this passed, I’d probably disconnect my cellphone and try to do everything with Skype-to-Skype and AIM.
Nintendo's Miyamoto stepping down, working on... →
End of an era.
“Inside our office, I’ve been recently declaring, ‘I’m going to retire, I’m going to retire,’” Shigeru Miyamoto said through his interpreter. “I’m not saying that I’m going to retire from game development altogether. What I mean by retiring is, retiring from my current position.”
“What I really want to...
Identify the Pit Bull →
People generally have a lot of misconceptions about what a Pit Bull actually looks like, and people often report dog attacks as being “from a pit bull” on the basis of the fact the dog attacked, instead of what the dog actually looked like.
Viz.
WatchDolores Fuller, on her ex-boyfriend, Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Were you aware?
Michael Moore is an Academy governor?
Tonight's Plan →
Due to scheduling conflicts, the date of the Jeff Garlin in Conversation with… Michael Moore event has been changed from Tuesday, November 1st to Tuesday, December 6th. We apologize for the inconvience but we would love to see you here as Michael, creator of groundbreaking films such as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, SiCKO, and most recently Capitalism: A Love Story, joins Jeff onstage...
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