December 2010
“People who believe in God sometimes have moments of doubt about their faith....”
– Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions - Speakeasy - WSJ
“People who believe in God sometimes have moments of doubt about their faith....”
– Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions - Speakeasy - WSJ
Democrats Seek Changes to Senate Procedures -... →
In a letter to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, Democratic senators expressed “strong sentiment” for ending what they see as Republican misuse of Senate process.
“We believe the current abuse of the rules by the minority threatens the ability of the Senate to do the necessary work of the nation, and we urge you to take steps to bring these abuses of our rules to an end,” said...
Qwest just won’t go quietly into the night… |... →
We’ve been waiting — patiently, which isn’t something that we do very well — for Qwest (Q) to go quietly into that good night following its deal with CenturyTel (CTL) that was announced back in April. The company, which in many ways was the inspiration for footnoted and which has been the focus of more posts than any other company (including multiple entries for the worst footnote of the year)...
Qwest just won’t go quietly into the night… |... →
We’ve been waiting — patiently, which isn’t something that we do very well — for Qwest (Q) to go quietly into that good night following its deal with CenturyTel (CTL) that was announced back in April. The company, which in many ways was the inspiration for footnoted and which has been the focus of more posts than any other company (including multiple entries for the worst footnote of the year)...
“The discovery of Marrero’s remains raises two questions: Could Ridgway be...”
– Local News | Auburn skull, bones ID’d as likely Green River victim | Seattle Times Newspaper
“The discovery of Marrero’s remains raises two questions: Could Ridgway be...”
– Local News | Auburn skull, bones ID’d as likely Green River victim | Seattle Times Newspaper
2105:
2010: The Year of Whining About Women In Tech | ZDNet
Yesterday @caterpillarcowboy linked to a rather flammable piece by Violet Blue calling out various women and men for “whining” about the lack of women in technology without clearly answering why it would be a good thing. I appreciate her preciseness as an discussion tactic yet I don’t see unsatisfactory answers as a...
“Designers are expected to operate on engineer’s terms. A friend of mine...”
– Designers: Why is there such a stunningly short supply of designers in Silicon Valley right now? - Quora
Very interesting thread.
“Designers are expected to operate on engineer’s terms. A friend of mine...”
– Designers: Why is there such a stunningly short supply of designers in Silicon Valley right now? - Quora
Very interesting thread.
Credit unions pay for risky behavior by a few →
Under Business > Stocks & economy on msnbc.com.
…every credit union in the country finds itself paying to clean up a multibillion-dollar mess created by a handful of failed “corporate” credit unions, which invested heavily in now-toxic mortgage-backed securities peddled by Wall Street during the housing boom. The losses were allowed to continue as federal credit-union regulators...
Credit unions pay for risky behavior by a few →
Under Business > Stocks & economy on msnbc.com.
…every credit union in the country finds itself paying to clean up a multibillion-dollar mess created by a handful of failed “corporate” credit unions, which invested heavily in now-toxic mortgage-backed securities peddled by Wall Street during the housing boom. The losses were allowed to continue as federal credit-union regulators...
Clementine →
hellbox:
Did you know that the National Institute of Environmental Sciences has a webpage that uses the song Clementine as an impetus to talk about water safety issues?
Clementine →
hellbox:
Did you know that the National Institute of Environmental Sciences has a webpage that uses the song Clementine as an impetus to talk about water safety issues?
Utne Reader Visionary: Conscientious fashionista... →
utnereader:
More than 8,000 chemicals were used to make the clothes in your closet. Approximately 1,800 gallons of fresh water were used to manufacture the jeans you’re wearing right now. All-too-commonplace numbers like these make it clear that the fashion industry needs an eco-makeover. Natalia Allen is up for the challenge.
Utne Reader Visionary: Conscientious fashionista... →
utnereader:
More than 8,000 chemicals were used to make the clothes in your closet. Approximately 1,800 gallons of fresh water were used to manufacture the jeans you’re wearing right now. All-too-commonplace numbers like these make it clear that the fashion industry needs an eco-makeover. Natalia Allen is up for the challenge.
The Real 12 Stages of a Lunar Eclipse
roomthily:
Faint penumbral dimming of the moon’s disk.
Pervasive creeping sensations of unease.
Howling of wolves.
Unclean things walk the earth; Dick Cheney rises from the grave.
Contortion of the zodiac.
Intrusion of strange dimensions.
Universal gibbering madness.
Cthulhu.
A glimmer of sanity in the chaos.
Restoration of Euclidean geometry.
Fungal Mi-go from Yuggoth return captive...
The Big Business of Micro-Lending →
utnereader:
You’ve heard of Big Oil and Big Tobacco. How about Big Microfinance?
A show of nerves at Yahoo… | footnoted.com →
With all the rumors, speculation and well-meaning advice swirling around Yahoo, we weren’t terribly surprised to find some indications that the board and management were getting a little twitchy.
Of course, when corporate titans get twitchy, lawyers usually get busy. And sure enough, Yahoo filed an 8-K on Thursday afternoon disclosing a series of changes to its bylaws, the net effect of which...
languagehat.com: MUCH? →
Update. I … checked the OED, which just updated the much entry this year and has a section on this use:
colloq. (orig. U.S., freq. ironic). With a preceding adjective, infinitive verb, or noun phrase, forming an elliptical comment or question.
The use was popularized by the film Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and the television series derived from it.
1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script)...
The Running of the Dead, Part 1 →
Christian Thorne, closing Part 1 in quite a wonderful way:
…The late ‘80s and ‘90s were a fallow period for zombie movies, so the few fleet corpses of the Reagan era hadn’t really led anywhere, and this allowed the press to feel, when 28 Days Later was released, that its creatures were next-generation zombies. We remembered zombies as slow, and these weren’t. But then does that change...