February 2010
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Dark Roasted Blend: Hallucinatory Architecture of... →
Time to Press China on Its Exchange Rate -... →
“What they found intolerable was not exactly the poverty, the low wages, the...”
– from The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France by Jacques Rancière, translated by John Drury
via wood s lot (via ascendingcoherence)
NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art... →
Deadspin, via Marketplace.org radio, which quoted the best bit (no spoilers) right as I drove into my bland-as-hell suburban workplace “campus”. I’ll consider it a break-even day.
“Never bet against the expansion of Americans’ waistlines, especially not when...”
– Findings - When It Comes to Salt, No Rights or Wrongs. Yet. - NYTimes.com
“This leaves us with two choices going forward: either we’re going to have...”
– Active Presidents Worsen Bipartisanship - Ezra Klein - Newsweek.com
CrossingWallStreet: Wall Street Loves to Round Up →
“When Great Britain was ascendant the world broke out in parliaments and the...”
– The Ruricolist: New York
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Momentary infirmity
Today I issued a strong opening attack on the yard, hitting it on a day when the ground is not yet dry and the weed are immature. The ‘dispatched’ surrendered the ground with little resistance, bewildered by their own weakness and the inevitability of my metal shears.
It will look charming for a few short days, until El Niño’s early warmth brings shocking growth to the three...
Geocaching: Augmenting Reality for Enhanced... →
Lost the ‘via’. But thanks to whomever posted it. I aspire to be a more consistent geocacher.
McSweeney's: Could It Be That the Best Chance to... →
Subhead: “WELLS FARGO, YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT YOU.”.
Via @kpriore on Reader.
WatchFun with SEC filings! | footnoted.org
Bad drivers are more dangerous than recalled... →
Tom Vanderbilt for Slate:
But even though bum drivers cause more fatalities than bum cars, the Toyota recall still raises a number of interesting questions: Why has there been so much coverage? Do auto recalls actually improve car safety? And is there a broader effect, either positive or negative, on traffic safety in society at large?
U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes... →
According to witnesses, Finance Committee members sat in thunderstruck silence for several moments until Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) finally shouted out, “Oh my God, he’s right. It’s all a mirage. All of it—the money, our whole economy—it’s all a lie!”
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As news of the nation’s collectively held delusion spread, the economy ground a halt, with dumbfounded...
WatchJanelle Monae - Tightrope f. Big Boi via Nialler9
CrossingWallStreet.com: Something’s Brewing in... →
If China did revalue the yuan, it would help cool off their economy, and it would help our economy which is something we desperately need. Why have the Chinese been so stringent? Let’s say you’re a communist official in Beijing. Which choice would you rather face? A) Millions of unemployed young men in your central cities. B) Anything that’s not A. Now you get the idea. The migration of people...
IT, Développement et opinions: The tale of an... →
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Social search, Google Profiles and Buzz
On top of a busy week, the debut of Buzz sent me on a multi-day exploration and adjustment of my social networks and profiles across a variety of sites. Buzz itself—ouroborus, anyone?—brought me Reader links from Brian Oberkirch and a blog post from Anil Dash, both considering the moves within social networking and privacy with thoughtful reflection. As a result, Buzz helped me read a bunch of...
WatchThe Last Airbender Trailer - Trailer Addict via dotsara.
Uwe! Uncle Iroh! Still no Appa!
Daedelus - Order Of The golden Dawn →
http://www.nialler9.com/2010/02/10/daedelus-ep-righteous-fists-of-harmony/
WatchThe Scale of the Universe
Via @elclon.
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Katy: got confused when Ben said he wanted his birthday party at the Nevermore pool. Was picturing party at the Neverland Ranch until I realized Nevermore = Livermore
Naomi: Are you sure he wasn't quoting Edgar Allan Poe? He is, after all, the child of a Wellesley English major....
Katy: I don't remember any blue waterslides in Poe's poetry, but then again, there was a lot of reading for class I never did.
CrossingWallStreet.com: The Very Long View →
What this means is that, on average, stock investors have doubled their money in real terms every 11 years. Of course, that’s an average. Over the last 11 years, the stock market hasn’t made any money in real terms.
Watch!
(Hopping up and down in anticipation of some earthbending.)
The Smart Set: In Defense of Elizabeth Gilbert -... →
Like a lot of people who care about books and writing and sentence structure, I was initially horrified at the success at Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Then I realized what it meant: 80 million people read a book about the removal of femininity from the Catholic Church, about how Jesus liked women and prostitutes and screw-ups and freaks, about how the Bible was edited by men in power,...
