May 2012
10 posts
Urban Dictionary: 415 Scam →
A scheme to get investors to pour money into an unproven idea that will burn through cash at an alarming rate and probably never produce any revenue. AKA, a San Francisco start-up.
The frequent fliers who flew too much →
Descriptive Camera →
Anxiety Cat →
Article: Young Barack Obama in Love: A... →
Article: Descriptive Camera →
instead of insta-printing an image, the ‘camera’ prints a textual description of the captured scene.”
Article: Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a... →
North Carolina Pastor Suggests Parents Beat The... →
April 2012
2 posts
drewtoothpaste: Trolling Facebook →
“Jeff Burnside was fired Friday after making an edit to tape of George...”
– NBC Miami reporter fired for edited Zimmerman tape that aired on “Today” show
March 2012
1 post
Law Will Allow Employers to Fire Women for Using... →
A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they’re using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona’s an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees’ sex lives could fire them as a result. If we could harness the power of the crappy ideas...
January 2012
1 post
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November 2011
1 post
“There’s something deeper than making money off stuff. Being a part of...”
– Ilya Zhitomirskiy
September 2011
2 posts
http://allthingsd.com/20110923/yahoos-dueling-inter... →
“When used at the beginning of a sentence, this word is a variety of the...”
– Urban Dictionary: essentially
August 2011
4 posts
Stocking Is the New Planking →
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-... →
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July 2011
5 posts
Urban Dictionary: Sexting →
The unauthorized, non-maritime use of sextants in our schools.
“My friend Katy said we were going to drive up to Mile Rise, because some older boys wanted to determine its exact position relative to the moon. I didn’t want to tell my mom what we were doing, because she doesn’t approve of sexting, so I told her I was staying over at Katy’s house.”
A Hacker's Guide to Recent Hacks - On The Media →
June 2011
11 posts
NYT Article Asks Whether It's a Good Idea for... →
NPR.org » Stephen Colbert: In Good 'Company' On... →
“I have the body that I want,” Louie announces triumphantly in one episode....”
– TV’s best new taboo-busting comedy - Salon.com Mobile
What’s Your Start-up’s “Bus Count”? 7 Myths of... →
Does Mason want to get out of Groupon? - Fortune →
“Pat Robertson once said,
“It’s a long downward slide
That’ll...”
– Garfunkel and Oates - Sex With Ducks
Pandora's Coming IPO: Another Profit-less Wonder -... →
Don't Exaggerate Your Size | Inc. →
Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. -... →
'Incognito': What's Hiding In The Unconscious Mind... →
Eagleman explains how learning more about the unconscious portions of our brain can teach us more about time, reality, consciousness, religion and crime.
May 2011
9 posts
On The Media: The Personal Data Revolution →
On The Media: The 'Decline Effect' and Scientific... →
JAD ABUMRAD: I mean, the media is biased, and I mean not in the way that people think it is, but it’s certainly biased towards tension, it’s biased towards surprise. And so, there might be some kind of bias that leads us all towards a result that is counterintuitive and exciting.
“Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this...”
– The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between...”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
“The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
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“I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.”
– Steven Wright
April 2011
7 posts
Do Social Networks Make You Feel Left Out? -... →
How Social Media Can Induce Feelings of ‘Missing... →
Are You Following a Bot? - The Atlantic →