April 2011
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Lynsey Addario on women, war and photojournalism →
latimes:
Addario was one of the NYT photojournalists freed from captivity in Libya.
This reading isn’t just for the lady journos.
Great read. Wanna be a war photographer someday. Just sort of. Maybe.
March 2011
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hankpeters replied to your post: AWESOME i’m pretty sure my roommate is about to…
you could always just you know go “hey don’t do that with my muffin pan go get your own” or maybe i’m just fantasizing how things should go
too late, started using it before i could pull it out of the kitchen
AWESOME i’m pretty sure my roommate is about to make hash muffins (not brownies?? probably because he’s gay) with a brand new muffin pan i just bought, i love living here, great, just awesome
Dumb phones
nhaler:
emadness:
Here I am typing away on this smartphone while the lady sitting across from me is struggling to get a few text messages out on an old dumb phone. Looking at the old phone, I don’t think I could even imagine going back to one of those now that I’ve been spoiled by things like rich media and access to a full keyboard. I don’t -need- the extra features, but going back to a...
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heyyashton replied to your photo: First attempt at frittatas. Spinach, red bell…
well fine. don’t let me make it for you. also, it looks amazing
We hope it is amazing. it doesn’t feel amazing but it’s still setting. i hope it’s not eggy goop on the inside after letting it set for 20 minutes.
i sure am embarrassed after freaking out last night, jeez it was only 1000 words. 1200 and i haven’t even driven it home yet. i guess not sleeping might have been worth it
and magically after edits i rather like how that...
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snap
i am so tired it is 2am and i am nowhere near done with no end in sight. i can’t stop thinking about all of my assignments to focus on getting this one finished. it’s going to be another hour or two before i even get close to being done and then the rest of my wednesday afternoon will be a disjointed mess. i definitely won’t be going into work, mostly because i forgot i had a...
(Some) Republicans' War on the Constitution
politicalprof:
In light of recent Republican Party requests for professors’ email records at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan, I think it’s about time we make one thing perfectly clear: there are some Republicans who really, really hate the Constitution.
I’m not talking about whether or not these people pay lip service to the Constitution, or whether they cry when they...
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“I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we...”
– Newt Gingrich, speaking at Cornerstone Church. I had some thoughts on the speech here, but should have been clearer on one point: Newt, you have to pick one! It’s either radical Islam and Sharia law or a Bacchanalia of godlessness. It cannot be both. (via ilyagerner)
(via nhaler)
Wow! Another...
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cattylala replied to your photo: new food thing that i want to try making all the…
if you make good food without me I will cry. I know it’s boring, but spaghetti is pretty much the easiest way to get a load of good eatins into one meal. any kind of pasta is, really. but so many carbs guh. I want to make more things. exciting things
you won’t cry because you can make good food with...
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Tom Ford's five easy lessons in how to be a... →
coketalk:
1. You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
2. A gentleman today has to work. People who do not work are so boring and are usually bored. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
3. Manners are very important and actually knowing...
fish-blog replied to your post:in less than four hours my apartment was turned…
how many girls showed up? please say 0
i will keep the internet posted as i’m sure that number will fluctuate throughout the night
in less than four hours my apartment was turned into a bro den
i should note that yesterday i overheard our new roommate excited about two things: one, he scored a ton of awesome weed, and two, his probation officer called to tell him that his court date was actually this coming sunday, not this past sunday.
all of the furniture. shoved into the corner. couches, lampstands, dinner table....
gowns:
YOU THOUGHT YOU MARRIED A WOMAN
YOU...
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Why I don't get Color
cnnmoneytech:
Photo of people I don’t care about using Color: Color.com
With the risk of sounding like an old man, I really don’t understand what the fuss is about this new mobile app called Color.
I’ve seen headlines that say “not since Google have we seen something like this” and “everyone is freaking out about it,” calling the app “radical,” “amazing” and predicting it will “reinvent...
gowns asked: that dude who tried to troll you sounds like he has serious mental issues, and in a sad way
How to Internet:
bestrooftalkever:
Guy makes fun of you on twitter
Write epic exposé uncovering his fake girlfriend
Profit
I don’t think there’s a 4th step
There’s definitely not a 5th step.
I actually was attacked for no reason by somebody on Facebook once and pretty much did exactly this. He threw a fit and demanded that I take his name down after exposing him to be a giant internet asshole with a weird...
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Conservative Pie; Republicans Introduce... →
nhaler:
abcsoupdot:
tayman:
I don’t even know…. I think I’m going to have to kill my self soon.
From the article:
“That long-held empirical value of pi, I am not saying it should be necessarily viewed as wrong, but 3 is a lot better,” said Roby, the 34-year old legislator representing Alabama’s second congressional district, ushered into office in the historic 2010 Republican...
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Watchhotcocksauce:
Lawrence O’Donnell tears into Glenn Beck.
dddddamn
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“A conversation this week in the offices of Neon Tommy, a USC student-run online...”
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James Rainey
Maybe it’s just greek to people who use words like ‘mediasphere?’
(via soupsoup)
“Mediasphere” evokes images of Mad Max-like cage fights comprised entirely of articles and content.
Seriously though, this is a good point. Anyone vexed by these terms have fundamentally...
Teaparties, Race and a Union Rally in a Tiny Tampa...
mrdestructo:
Thanks in part to union demonstrations and outrage in Wisconsin, as well as Florida Governor Rick Scott’s criminal and imperial dismissal of the obligations of office, bizarre disdain for even bipartisan legislation and ruthless de-funding of public services, even Floridians have evinced anger strong enough to drag them out in public. Last Tuesday, thousands of citizens organized in...
Slouching from Benghazi: The Magical Monied...
mrdestructo:
Gaddafi has spent the past fifteen years ingratiating himself with the “good guys,” flipping over small-fry terrorist schemers, churning the oil, scrapping his two-bit nuke program. This is a pretty impressive feat for a guy who made his name sponsoring full-throated bloody murder against American and British civilians. Those governments might not give a shit about anyone else in...
The right news for the right gadget
cnnmoneytech:
News organizations are spending a big chunk of time right now trying to wrap their heads around the Cambrian device explosion.
We (that’s the royal we, not the CNNMoney we) were still struggling to get a handle on this “ok, people want news on the Web, not on dead trees” idea, and now all the sudden it’s “and they want it on their iPad, iPhone, Droid, Xoom, prototype PlayBook and...
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“My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (hereafter referred to as MLP: FiM) is...”
– Solidarity is Illusion: The Political Economy of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
oh uh yes of course this is exactly what i first thought about a children’s cartoon, its socioeconomic caste systems and gross exploitation of the proletariat, heh
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Would you include a QR code on your resume?
cnnmoneytech:
My pal Lindsey Pollak is a Gen Y career expert, and as she’s writing about the young’uns, her blog often mixes technology bites with job advice. But her most recent headline really grabbed me: Should Your Resume Have a QR Code?
Never occurred to me as an option. But Lindsey has seen it in her travels, and she posed the question to her Twitter followers. Responses ranged from “edgy...
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via hotcocksauce)
BAPE ONION
Transformers Review: Sea Spray →
Being a fan of the classics line, I was excited to see that Seaspray was getting…
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And now for something completely different
gamejournos:
A couple of days ago, following the “5 is average” debate that took place on the blog, nhaler sent me this commentary. I thought you might like to read it.
In no other industry centered around the creation and consumption of media is criticism met with childish aspersions of blame and responsibility: readers get flack, consumers get flack, reviewers get flack, and even websites...
murasakidoku replied to your post:The problem is that many branches of feminist thought.…
i wish this ask-er wasn’t anonymous, or else i’d follow them.
might as well go to the source while we’re on the subject.
