May 2013
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StarTrek: Into Darkness
More like Nerds Crying; In The Darkness
May 20th
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“It is Zimmer’s policy that no employee or interviewee will ever undergo a...”
– George Zimmer, founder, Men’s Wearhouse (via thepolitics)
May 17th
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All shootings aren't created equal?
jkottke: American tragedies don’t occur on the southside of Chicago or the New Orleans 9th Ward. They don’t occur where inner city high school kids shoot into school buses or someone shoots at a 10-year old’s birthday party in New Orleans. Or Gary, Indiana. Or Compton. Or Newport News. David Dennis asks (and answers) a compelling question: Why isn’t the New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting...
May 16th
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May 15th
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My phone autocorrects SnapChat to SnapCat. I think...
May 14th
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kottke.org: The Soviets cloned the Space Shuttle →
jkottke: How appropriate that at the height of the Cold War, in which the United States was attempting to spend the Soviet Union into collapse (a task at which they eventually succeeded), the Soviets cloned the buggiest, most inconsistant part of the US space program. Called Buran (Russian for…
May 14th
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“For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives...”
– Carrie Rickey (via fireworkselectricbright) “You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay...
May 13th
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“Renowned author Dan Brown got out of his luxurious four-poster bed in his...”
– Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown By Michael Deacon (via bostonreview) My favorite excerpt: “They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash...
May 13th
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May 11th
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May 7th
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May 4th
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convincingindie: I think we can all agree that this emoticon :-* should be reappropriated as duckface instead of a kiss, right?
May 3rd
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“We almost expect women athletes to not be classically beautiful or feminine, and...”
– On Jason Collins, Brittney Griner, and the need to decouple gender and sexuality - NYmag.com / The Cut (via annfriedman)
May 3rd
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“The dark red color was simply an order from the president. He had this dark red...”
– - Famicom hardware designer Masayuki Uemura explains why the Japanese console was painted red and white, in a Weekly Playboy interview translated by Kevin Gifford. The Famicom and former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi: Baller. BUY Famicom stuff, Real Steel (via tinycartridge)
May 2nd
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May 1st
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April 2013
kottke.org: The Boston Marathon shooters? →
jkottke: The New Yorker’s John Cassidy wonders how we would be thinking about the Boston Marathon bombing if it had been the Boston Marathon shooting instead. Yes, this is only a counterfactual exercise, which, like all such riffs, shouldn’t be taken too literally. But it’s hard to think about it for…
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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kottke.org: GIF of Yu Darvish's consistent... →
jkottke: One of the most formidable tools in a pro baseball pitcher’s arsenal is the consistency of pitching motion when throwing different kinds of pitches. If your delivery looks the same to an opposing batter when throwing a 95-mph fastball, a 80-mph curve, and a 85-mph change-up, well, you’ve really…
Apr 25th
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“If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash....”
– Rand Paul, elaborating on his position on drones.  (via officialssay) Fucking wow. “There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend...
Apr 25th
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Apr 23rd
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The wrong kind of white →
Nailed it.
Apr 22nd
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“To be sure, public officials in Boston appeared to be acting out of an abundance...”
– Why does America lose its head over ‘terror’ but ignore its daily gun deaths? (via thepolitics)
Apr 21st
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