January 2010
62 posts
Watchnewsweek:
andrewromano:
President Obama sparred with House Republicans today. Live. Without a teleprompter. For 90 straight minutes. Ambinder reports:
Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s...
Some More Thoughts on the iPad viz. Print Media...
I had a few more thoughts on the whole print-media-app situation. (Last iPad-related post from me, I promise.)
What if a few magazines took the Sports Illustrated mockup and modeled it on their own content?
Instead of a static, printed page you could have a live page, complete with working video and interactive charts.
Instead of waiting for it to come in the mail or going out to the store to...
A few thoughts on the Apple iPad
A lot has been written about the iPad in two days since it was introduced (some good, some bad). While I don’t think I have much to add that hasn’t already been said, I feel like I need to get a few thoughts I have about it out of my head, if only so I can have a concrete list of my personal pros and cons which hopefully will help me make up my mind on whether or not I’m going to...
The Guiding Principle of a Music Blog
gbabuts:
Shut the fuck up & listen!
Watchthedailywhat:
Spoil Yourself of the Day: DarkUFO has just posted a video containing the first 4 minutes and 12 seconds of the first episode of the final season of Lost.
I’m not watching, but you’re a big boy/girl and should be allowed to make this decision for yourself.
Happy spoiling!
[darkufo.]
MUST. NOT. CLICK.
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I left my copy of Catcher in the Rye in Knoxville
I just realized it tonight when I went to finish it. After hearing the news I thought it would be a nice tribute.
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Knowing the grader for your class sucks when:
You’ve worked on a problem for a couple of hours going step-by-step what you did in class and it’s not coming out the way it did in class. You know it’s something easy like you added when you should have subtracted and now you look like the idiot who doesn’t know basic math.
How to Suck at Facebook →
corcarpemei:
jerry:
Does posting make me The Passive Aggressor?
You know who you are, not that anyone that is guilty of any of these is reading this here.
“Hey everybody, I just took a dump and it looks like a mountain lion!”
How sad is it that if that happened I probably would post it to facebook (or more likely, twitter)?
Five albums I've been digging lately
Laura Veirs - July Flame
Beach House - Teen Dream
Spoon - Transference
Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. II
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall....”
– Mr. Antolini, The Catcher In The Rye. (via nedhepburn)
It's Not a Big iPhone →
I would say that redefining mobile computing is exactly what happened. It is surprisingly, delightfully, iPhone-esque in many ways. But if you use it for just a few minutes, it becomes obvious that the iPad is not a big stretched-out iPhone, but rather that the iPhone is a shrunken stripped-down version of the iPad. The iPad is what they’ve been building toward all along.
The iWork apps are...
“For those of you who marveled at Sports Illustrated’s mock-up of the magazine...”
– The iPad Is No Magic Bullet for Media
(via The Big Money, soupsoup & indefensible)
Related: The Sports Illustrated mock up.
I've had enough to drink that I had to look this... →
It confused me even more.
I do not be able, do not I be able with this Worse I, that it reblogueo
sintantapaja:
No puedo, no puedo con esto
Peor yo, que lo reblogueo :(
I'M GOING TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT YOU GUYS HAVEN'T...
(via afghanibanani)
Shouldn’t it be Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT)?
“I forgot he was black tonight, for an hour.”
– Chris Matthews, MSNBC.
Oh Chris. No.
(via dailyhuff)
WHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?????????
(via afghanibanani)
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh Chris Matthews… *facepalm*
Yay! Maybe all my school debt will be forgiven in...
(via afghanibanani)
Guest Lists: Owen Pallett →
Favorite Music Venue
Whelan’s in Dublin or the Bottle Tree in Birmingham.
(via Pitchfork)
“It is a matter of simple historical fact that the United States was not founded...”
– Rev. Richard T. Zuelch
Roy Moore (yes, that Roy Moore) spoke on campus today and it got me thinking about that mess a few years ago which reminded me of this quote.
It's just a TV show
That’s what I keep telling myself. In this day an age of DVRs and YouTube, it’s just an outdated TV show that frankly I never watched. But damnit if Conan’s farewell didn’t leave me a tad teary-eyed.
“The last thing this country needs is two Republican parties.”
– Ted Kennedy (via azspot)
A Very Short Engagement →
singlemansdiary:
One of the biggest regrets I have about my engagement was not waiting it out before I popped the question. I got caught up and didn’t go with my gut. When first falling in love, it is easy to feel like there is no one else in the world but this relationship, but when the love dust settles and we get back to our ‘normal’ selves, the dynamic of a relationship tends to change....
“Last year, when NASA’s IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft...”
– Giant Ribbon at the Edge of the Solar System: Mystery Solved? (via afghanibanani)
University of Alabama FTW
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrow eyes with which to sorrow it.”
– The Road by Cormic McCarthy p. 130
This is a Big Fat Tumblr Kiss-Ass
lindsaydinkins:
jimmyjosh:
lindsaydinkins:
thelos:
lindsaydinkins:
I prefer Leno. I’ve always hated Conan.
Long live what’s left of decent TV.
(Although if it was a choice between Leno and Ferguson, I’d have to choose the Scot.)
but to be fair, Conan got screwed!
Okay, I’m about to get a virtual ass-kicking, I feel. Sure, we can admit that Conan got screwed. But when the ratings...
This is a Big Fat Tumblr Kiss-Ass
lindsaydinkins:
thelos:
lindsaydinkins:
I prefer Leno. I’ve always hated Conan.
Long live what’s left of decent TV.
(Although if it was a choice between Leno and Ferguson, I’d have to choose the Scot.)
but to be fair, Conan got screwed!
Okay, I’m about to get a virtual ass-kicking, I feel. Sure, we can admit that Conan got screwed. But when the ratings aren’t getting up to where...
This is a Big Fat Tumblr Kiss-Ass
lindsaydinkins:
I prefer Leno. I’ve always hated Conan.
Long live what’s left of decent TV.
(Although if it was a choice between Leno and Ferguson, I’d have to choose the Scot.)
….
I’m speechless.