February 2011
4 posts
One of us! One of us! →
Who's That? →
What the Daily, Yo? →
"We're not doing our jobs if we let it slide" →
January 2011
33 posts
How the Modcult Gets Made →
How the Times Sees Political News Sites Seeing... →
In Praise of Brian Libby →
Jake Dobkin is my Angry Panda →
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Jason Calacanis Starts Promoting Mahalo 4.0... →
Shared by Jake Dobkin
I always said with $20MM, JC could pivot 5 or 10 times! I vote for bulldog breeding social network!
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider: Jason…
The Nespresso Flavor Wheel →
You can say whatever you want about how bad it tastes, the evils of Nestlé, or the negative environmental impact. It still looks good, and often that’s enough (unfortunately).
See…
Baltimore Crime Beat: "Wire" creator responds to... →
But publicly, let me state that The Wire owes no apologies — at least not for its depiction of those portions of Baltimore where we set our story, for its address of economic and political…
Baltimore Crime Beat: "Wire" creator responds to... →
Why Doesn't My Boyfriend Get Boners When I Want... →
by A Dude
Is anything to be gleaned from the fact that my boyfriend never tries to have sex with me in the morning? Never a morning boner that he wants to do anything with. I like it…
Leading with my chin →
Judging Books by Their Covers: 42 →
About 3 or 4 years after I first got involved in the then-tiny prison activist movement, the movement began quickly growing on college campuses, and a new round of activist, academics, and…
Why is Boba Fett so popular? →
Han Solo’s the most badass character in Star Wars. Just don’t give a damn, handsome as hell, rocks the vest to a degree that science still cannot explain, seduces the heck out of Leia, shoots…
Ego Boosts Are the Best, Better Even Than Sex →
by Liz Colville
Remember in psychology class when you learned that America was an ‘independent’ society and many other countries, e.g. India, were ‘dependent’ societies? Well, I do,…
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Spice Hunting: What's The Deal With Saffron? →
[Photographs: Max Falkowitz] At a price of $2,000 to $10,000 a pound, saffron is far and away the most expensive food on earth, way more than truffles, caviar, and real balsamic vinegar….
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Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello typepad
Autism study fraudulent →
As if there was actually more evidence needed that vaccines don’t cause autism, the 1998 British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was recently discovered to be an elaborate fraud….
Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web... →
Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The…
Mile End: Great Dinner Menu, But Skip the Smoked... →
From Serious Eats: New York VIEW SLIDESHOW: Mile End: Great Dinner Menu, But Skip the Smoked Meat [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]
Mile End
97 Hoyt Street, Brooklyn NY 11217 (b/n…
Everything Is Dying →
by Edith Zimmerman
The birds are dying, the fish are dying, the bees are dying. I am dying, you are dying, we are dying. They are dying.
But if we die because we’re struck by a…
Erin McKean's answer to What can I do to... →
[D]eliberately pretend to misunderstand people who use the word in this sense (“wait, like Gilgamesh?”). [Note, this is sure to lose friends and alienate people] via www.quora.com There are more…
Erin McKean's answer to What can I do to... →
2010: My year in review (a personal view) →
As always, I am a little late getting a blog post out, but here is my year in review (a very quick summary). I am going to post a “Tech Review” of my thoughts next.
The most important thing that…
Women Laughing Alone With Salad →
by Edith Zimmerman
47 Comments Originally posted by…
Today’s LA Times Mention →
This was a pleasant surprise today:
Thanks to Alex for including me.
I can’t wait for the commenters on Digital Music News to talk about how great our publicist is. I feel…
Udon for the New Family →
As my wife and I adjust to our new life with Blizzard Baby — our cute son was born smack in the middle of last weekend’s raging snow storm (getting to the hospital was an unbelievable saga) — I…
Lack of Jobs in Southern Europe Frustrates the... →
Shared by Jake Dobkin
I’ll say it again- generational warfare is starting to edge out race and class warfare as the defining economic conflict of our times.
ility in state finances and the…
Wallrazer →
For 2011, I’m going indie. I’m hanging my shingle at http://wallrazer.com, and I’m actually pretty excited about the prospects. This is a big deal for me — I haven’t been outside a…
biblioklept's Favorite Book Covers of 2010 →
via biblioklept.org Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello typepad
biblioklept's Favorite Book Covers of 2010 →
The Swimmer by John Cheever →
Shared by Jake Dobkin
DJ and I were talking about this story today.
John Cheever’s short story The Swimmer: full text in html Originally posted by (author unknown) from…
Not Modcult Material →
December 2010
133 posts
Rip, Mix, Burn, 2011 Style →
http://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/... →
They Had Me at "Scale of 1:20 Million" →
Greatest Trailer of All Time →
JD Ferguson's Art Basel Miami Photo Album →
via www.papermag.com Cool photo. Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello typepad
Mark Zuckerberg To Donate Wealth To Charity →
Shared by Jake Dobkin
wow- more than half! from the 1930s to the 1970s we had an estate tax of about 80%! http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/estate-taxes-an-histo…
Royals - Signed Frenchy →
Kansas City Royals - Signed OF Jeff Francoeur to a 1-year contract with a 2012 option.
The nicest thing I can say about this signing is that, if used correctly, Jeff Francoeur isn’t the worst…
My heart just broke all over again. →
My heart just broke all over again. Originally posted by (author unknown) from lather rinse repeat
Google Chrome Update →
Shared by Bud
Astonishing that there might be 60,000 CR-48 devices. There are only 20,000 googlers. Does that mean 40,000 beta test units?
On Tuesday I attended Google’s Chrome update event in…
The Viral MeI very very lightly helped with this... →
The Viral Me I very very lightly helped with this GQ article which centers on the startup scene around Y Combinator. It’s a really great read — people inside the scene will be surprised to…
Spotted in Shanghai: Buddhobama →
Justseeds Show & Art Sale this Friday in NYC! →
Brecht Holiday Party & Justseeds Print Exhibit! Come celebrate the end of the year and the start of a new one with the annual Brecht Forum holiday party and a Justseeds print show and…
di liu: animal regulation series →
di liu is known for his work which deals with conflicting relationships between nature and human society, generated by the rate of chinese urban development. read more Originally posted by…