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 →
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…
JD Ferguson's Art Basel Miami Photo Album →
via www.papermag.com Cool photo. Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello typepad
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 →
Autocomplete map of the United States →
Dorothy Gambrell looked up all of the state names on Google and made a map of what the autocomplete suggestions were. Here’s part of it: Lots of sports and schools. Tags: Dorothy…
Portland, OR: Grüner Makes a Burger Worthy of... →
From A Hamburger Today [Photographs: Adam Lindsley]
Grüner
527 SW 12th Ave., Portland, OR 97205 (map); 503-241-7163; grunerpdx.com Cooking Method: Grilled Short Order: …
Francoeur Is Destiny, or Contest Over →
Let’s see: former Atlanta prospect from the early 2000s, terrible plate discipline, was last decent more than three seasons ago, strong arm, questionable range, reportedly a “good clubhouse guy”…
Spotted in Shanghai: Buddhobama →
via shanghaiist.com Buddhobama - for our list of portmanteaus. Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello typepad
The economy of generosity →
If I had ventured upon that iron sculpture on my own. I would have simply been entertained and intrigued at the audacity of the artist. But when I look back at the light and the way it casts, I…
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…
Surprise speaker onstage: Hillary Rodham Clinton... →
The US Secretary of State is onstage right now. What Twitter‘s saying:
Monica Hesse, Washington Post @MonicaHesse:
Holy cannoli, Hillary Clinton the surprise speaker at #TEDWomen
…
How To Optimize Your Restaurant's Facebook... →
These days, just having a web page is not enough—social networking is key to getting the word out about your restaurant. Over at the AmEx OPEN Forum, Adam talks about how restaurants…
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…
Video: Hip Hop Kimbap →
I love kimbap enough to consider roaming the streets of Seoul dressed up in a kimbap costume while rapping about my love of kimbap, but considering how well this Korean hip hop trio does…
Louis C.K. Does the Math on Slavery →
Serious Eats Is Four Years Old: Happy Birthday to... →
©iStockphoto.com/efesan Serious Eats turns four years old today. How cool is that? Who would have thunk it? Four years ago, we launched Serious Eats hoping that serious eaters—people…
A is for Ackbar →
From BrandonPeat.com:
When my wife Emma and I found out we were pregnant with our first child, Tycho, we began thinking of fun ways to decorate a baby boy’s room. Since we live in an…
Serious Eats Is Four Years Old: Happy Birthday to... →
From Serious Eats ©iStockphoto.com/efesan Serious Eats turns four years old today. How cool is that? Who would have thunk it? Four years ago, we launched Serious Eats hoping that…
The Winter Meetings Have a Logo, Apparently →
I suppose this isn’t surprising, as everything these days has to have a logo.
However, I’m pretty surprised at how elaborate this logo is. For as much craziness as the Winter Meetings…
It’ll Change Your Life, I Swear. →
Closer to Fine began playing from my iphone in the car on the way home from school. Emily says, “WOAH. What is this song? I am absolutely in love with it.” I hadn’t heard it in years. But, yet,…
Tom Paciorek →
What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 13 of 25)
(continued from Biff Pocoroba)
I haven’t turned this card over yet. It’s been sitting face up on my desk for a few…
Syncing multiple computers to a single itunes... →
Kevin Cheng twittered recently “Cannot find any iTunes solution that lets me have an external master library, laptop w/ synced subset, and synced ratings/metadata.” Ahh.. the holy grail. I’ve…
George Lucas invites ‘a select group’ of artists... →
“The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of” by Peter Ferk, acrylic on Gessoboard, from the book “Star Wars Art: Visions” (Peter Ferk / Lucasfilm / Abrams)
What is “Star Wars: Visions” (Abrams:…
Steve at the Y →
I can’t help wondering what we might have said if we hadn’t been stopped. Maybe we were just around the corner from something thrilling. Isn’t that the nature of a live conversation? It halts, it…
My Critiques are but a Broken Mirror →
IMG_9374, originally uploaded by jakedobkin.Friend of Hello, TypePad Finn encouraged me to continue to use Jake as a muse for inspiration on my blog. Finn does not like too many blog posts at once,…
PHOTO: For today’s tech blog reading. →
<p>For today’s tech blog reading.</p>
Originally posted by Jamie from Signal vs. Noise
Tumblr Scaling →
Network-wide, they’re now serving 3 billion page views a month, and growing fast.
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Originally posted by John Gruber from Daring Fireball
On editing →
From a long-time editor, some thoughts on editing. Perhaps the most important attribute of an editor is obsessive organization, processing work unrelentingly until it is done. The focus is on…
Another Way to Talk About Books →
The Mets have assembled an imposing front office.
Our fearless, not feckless, leader here at NotG recently debuted a series in which he will annotate readings that are germane to…
WikiLeaks in the Moral Void →
Christian Caryl Lennart Preiss/AP/dapd WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, October 23, 2010
WikiLeaks changes everything. We can act as if the old standards of journalism…
Carey Mulligan's Prabal Gurung Red Carpet... →
What’s not to love about a stylish starlet with actual talent? Enter Carey Mulligan, the Oscar-nominated actress who continues to stun us in films like Never Let Me Go and Wall Street—not…
'American Psycho' musical in the works -... →
Shared by Jake Dobkin
i normally don’t go for the musical theater, but i will see this!
Move over, Sweeney Todd — another singing psycho is nearing his Broadway debut. Originally posted by…
MetaFilter Thread on Stacey Armato’s ‘TSA Revenge... →
I thought this comment was particularly good: The thing is, as presented, [Armato is] trying to follow their
procedure. The agents clearly don’t want to be bothered do so. It
doesn’t matter…
Newsweek on David Foster Wallace's Personal Files →
It will be fittingly postmodern if an archive without personal correspondence and heavy on other writers’ original texts can recast an author’s reputation. Most of the profiles written lately about…
Oregon's speed-freak football →
Nice piece in the NY Times about the University of Oregon’s innovative football offense, which turns the game into something that’s paced a bit more like soccer or basketball. In the city of…
Beats, Rhymes, and Life →
Allow me to echo Postbourgie and say I can’t wait to see Michael Rapaport’s Beats, Rhymes and Life, a documentary on A Tribe Called Quest. Apparently the trailer was a bootleg. Rapaport talks…
Tax cuts, Oprah-style →
The outlines of the tax-cut negotiations have finally come into focus: basically, it’s a kitchen-sink approach where Republicans and Democrats all get the tax cuts they want. The Bush tax cuts…
Readings: A Brief History of American Sports →
Only one of these beards is real.
Over the weekend, I made a case for a way of discussing books in a manner conducive to NotGraphs. You can read those exact words, if you want….
The Way We Rationalize Obsessive Fandom Now →
by JL Weill
It was a Sunday morning not long ago and I was about two-thirds of the way through the full college basketball scoreboard, over 100 games of it, scanning the box score of a…
Cataloguing Portmeanteaus →
Loading… per my Quora question. Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello typepad
Erik Hahmann Is Covering Hell Out Of Winter... →
There’s no official contest for best coverage of basball’s Winter Meetings, but if there were Erik Hahmann of DRaysBay would currently be winning it.
Regard, Exhibit One:
Exhibit…
What If Tumblr Is Gone FOREVER??? →
by Choire Sicha
Tumblr has been down a long time. Hipsters should meet at Starbucks and pass around Moleskine diaries until it’s back up.Mon Dec 06 17:35:31 via tGadget…
College Degrees: The Six-Year-Plus Plan →
Examiner for December 8.
One of the strengths of George Mason University is the work ethic of its students. When I first began teaching in 1975, GMU’s population of somewhat older, working…