January 2012
1 post
Samantha Pitchel: Link love: Tuesday, January 17 →
samanthapitchel:
Here’s today’s Links We Love:
Stop everything you’re doing and read the script for ROCKY VS RAMBO, an epic piece of fanfic from Scott Aukerman, Harris Wittels, Paul Rust, Kulap Vilaysack, Michael Cassady and Neil Campbell.
Then: enjoy this infinite gif of a tiny-hatted, dancing Ron…
Holy shit, this is a polymathic link-roundup.
December 2011
4 posts
“Another former inmate at the Marion C.M.U., Andy Stepanian, an animal rights...”
– Beyond Guantanamo, A Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates
November 2011
1 post
September 2011
5 posts
“McCartney’s partnership with John Lennon in The Beatles in 1960s Britain...”
– Paul McCartney posts wedding banns in London (via reutersexplains)
“A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.”
– Nicolas Cage awoken by naked man with Fudgesicle (via reutersexplains)
“advertisers are increasingly less interested in buying eyeballs by the ton than...”
– News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites - NYTimes.com
I’d love to see some actual evidence for this assertion. Especially the “increasingly” bit.
(via felixsalmon)
CPM for large, general audience sites has (anecdotally) been decreasing for at least a year. As Denton pointed out a while ago,...
August 2011
1 post
What's So Weird About Today's Stock Market Crash
The value of pretty much every stock in America declined by a lot today. This is of course ostensibly because the S&P downgraded the U.S. debt rating on Friday evening. But if the market really thought that U.S. debt was riskier, shouldn’t we have seen the government’s cost of borrowing increase today? Instead, the opposite happened. The chart above, via Bloomberg, is of T-bill...
July 2011
5 posts
Soup: futurejournalismproject: Felix: There’s been... →
futurejournalismproject:
Felix: There’s been a lot of shamefacedness and embarrassment on Twitter from…
@poynterinstitute: Agreed if you include his statement that the organizations themselves (eg., @WSJ, @Reuters, etc) need be held to a higher standard. Doesn’t wash if @NYTimes posts errors and comes back saying, Don’t mind that, it’s idle water cooler gossip. — Michael
...
Rafael Espinal Nominated By Conservative,...
I thought that was a bit strange, so I called up Brooklyn Conservative Party Chairman Jerry Kassar. Kassar told me that Espinal has accepted the nomination, and that “He shares a lot of our positions on values.” Espinal met with the executive committee of the Brooklyn Conservative Party twice, and told them that he is anti-abortion. Furthermore, Kassar told me:
“We asked him...
"NO i am not a bot"
joshuakaufman:
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June 2011
5 posts
Is Assemblywoman Inez Barron Having It Both Ways...
Assemblywoman Inez Barron of East New York, one-half of everyone’s favorite black revolutionary power couple, voted against marriage equality last night. Apparently, the “freedom” in the Freedom Party doesn’t extend to gays who want to marry, not even black ones. We shouldn’t be completely surprised: she voted against it last time, as well.
So why did she issue this...
thebrooklynpolitics:
The Brooklyn Politics...
May 2011
2 posts
"It's a tragedy to tell you that we could do... →
youngmanhattanite:
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, go fuck yourself a million times over.
[via]
Oh, we are tossing that motherfucker off the CUNY board.
April 2011
2 posts
The Brooklyn Politics Blog: Brad Lander scores... →
thebrooklynpolitics:
Councilman Brad Lander (D-Park Slope) has successfully worked to ease alternate side parking rules for streets that don’t need additionally cleaning:
The New York City Council plans Thursday to pass legislation that could significantly alter the landscape of parking in New York City, reducing the number of days that motorists must deal with ...
Signal To Noise Ratio: It's official: I am leaving... →
porges:
If I had a time machine and could go back and tell 17-year-old Seth that he’d someday work at Maxim magazine, I’m not quite sure what he’d say. (Or if he’d believe me.)
But anyway, it’s official: After almost four years at Popular Mechanics, I am moving on to a new job at Maxim, where I will be…
I think Seth joined Tumblr just so he’d have a platform for this announcement.
March 2011
2 posts
7 tags
Some Thoughts On Coverage of Alex Jones
Several times in the last year, I’ve been in the middle of a pleasant conversation with a stranger in Brooklyn—at a bar, during jury duty—when, apropos of nothing, his expression will change and he’ll earnestly say to me, “Do you know what really happened on 9/11?”
Ugh.
And every time, because I cannot help myself, even though I know that he is manifestly in...
February 2011
14 posts
7 tags
Washington City Paper Slips Up
The Washington City Paper yesterday issued an update regarding its legal defense fund against Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s frivolous libel lawsuit. Let me be clear at the outset that I believe that Snyder’s suit proves once again that he is a thin-skinned bully, an enemy of free speech, and an incompetent sports owner. His claims of anti-Semitism—a view endorsed by the...
History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes
(As pointed out by Gabriel Snyder)
11 Years Ago:
Mr. Case said: “This is an historic moment in which new media has truly come of age. We’ve always said that America Online’s mission is to make the Internet as central to people’s lives as the telephone and television, and even more valuable, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn this promise into reality....
for the story goes: very, very late to the game:... →
jaimeleigh:
THERE WAS NEVER ANY NICENESS. NEVER.
I was just writing a friend about why I try not to be a dick to people on Tumblr anymore, even the ones I don’t like, and I realized, as I was typing my official reason, why I really don’t do it. I’m not trying to be nicer. Not at all. It’s just that one day…
I’d just like to point out that this is in fact the exact thesis of the...
"Twitter bears about as much responsibility for... →
peterfeld:
rickwebb:
peterfeld:
rickwebb:
I must have missed Mubarek shutting down Soros, FSM and that lamplight kicking cow along with his shutting down of THE INTERNET.
Or maybe he was shutting the internet down because he was afraid of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I suppose that’s conceivable. Silly EVERYONE for thinking it was because of Twitter and Facebook that he was afraid...
The Doree Chronicles: Party Report →
doree:
Tonight there was a party for a book that is coming out in May that was billed in the email subject line as a “media event” and an “advance celebration” in the body of the email and, in the attached .jpg invitation — which featured the party’s honoree in a tank top and a gray skirt made out of…
See this, this beats the shit out Tao Lin-style reports that the Pitchfork Reviews...
January 2011
8 posts
“I did like nine television shows in two days,” Daulerio recalls....”
– A. J. Daulerio has enormous balls for giving that quote to GQ.
klausnerama: Presenting: MUSES →
julieklausner:
I’m working on a new book!
From Publishers Lunch:
January 17, 2011 Children’s: Young Adult Writer/comedian and I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR BAND: WHAT I LEARNED FROM INDIE ROCKERS, TRUST FUNDERS, PORNOGRAPHERS, FELONS, FAUX-SENSITIVE HIPSTERS, AND OTHER GUYS I’VE DATED author Julie…
From the proposal description:
This isn’t your Meatballs brand of summer camp. The young...
There's Lots More That's Weird Besides The Blood...
Can’t believe I’m doing this, but here’s the full text of Sarah Palin’s address. Normal politicians give out the text of their remarks instead of just releasing videos like someone hiding in the Northwest Frontier Province, but I think everyone agrees that Sarah Palin is not a normal politician. This reads like a Shouts & Murmurs.
Like millions of Americans, I learned...
“There is also a terrific stand-up comic in dreadlocks named Doug E. Doug, who...”
– David Denby reviews a Kid ‘n Play movie
