February 2010
34 posts
January 2010
34 posts
“The notion of sending and getting brief updates to and from dozens or thousands...”
– — Stop the World, George Packer
“Children of Klassytown, The Striptacular $5 all-you-can-eat chicken buffet...”
– This is the body an email I received this morning from my friend Nathan in San Francisco. Sometimes, I really miss that town.
“We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us...”
– Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via nevver)
“I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or...”
– Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That
“If you want worthwhile messages in your inbox, the value of being...”
– The 4 Big Myth of Profile Pictures.
“But the danger of hunger-crazed mobs never came up after the 2004 Pacific...”
– via The Awl
“This “change-yourself-to-fit-in” advice has been given to pretty...”
– Jezebel’s response to Clay Shirky’s response.
Just one of the advantages of being a dude
Although a nude centerfold might not kill a female politician’s career, it would most certainly prompt questions about her character. Was she unacceptably promiscuous? Did she have a wild, compromising youth? While we scoff at the exploits of young men─they’re allowed to be “footloose and carefree”─women are rarely afforded that luxury. For Brown, who just turned 50,...
“We have to get this really, really right.”
– The NYT is going to start charging for content. Giving readers a healthy headstart to get used to the idea — and to allow for other sites such as Boxee, maybe Hulu, to also begin charging for content — is smart.
“Very rapidly, President Obama needs to come to terms with the idea that the...”
– via Marginal Revolution
“But right now, it feels kind of like an icky fetishization of difference to...”
– On Jersey Shore via The Awl
