January 2012
1 post
“It has been remarkable to look at the radar display day after day and see...”
– Jeff Masters, “Remarkably dry and warm winter due to record extreme jet stream configuration”
November 2011
1 post
“Get your ass to Mars.”
– Hauser, Total Recall (1990)
September 2011
2 posts
“As usual Catholicism made the hole and your boss filled it.”
– Mike Monteiro, “What I did on summer vacation” (~29:30)
“The real news would be that men, like women, are evolved to care for...”
– Christopher Ryan, “Childcare, Testosterone, and the Marital Industrial Complex”
August 2011
2 posts
“It’s as if we love our icons so much we can’t bare to know who they really were.”
– Christopher Kremmer, talking to Sarah L’Estrange.
“The Dow is trying to spell something out. I think it might be ‘Keynes,’ but too...”
– @pourmecoffee on Twitter.
July 2011
3 posts
“The blindness of the DLC-era ‘Third Way’ Democratic Party continues to be an...”
– Matt Taibbi, “Obama doesn’t want a progressive deficit deal”
“In this country people prefer bullshit to truth 99 to 1.”
– Roseanne Barr talking to Ramona Koval (~21:30)
“Listen, these are people who simply—my God, I become here a kind of moral...”
– Slavoj Žižek on Newt Gingrich, “Video: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and philosopher Slavoj Žižek with Amy Goodman”
June 2011
1 post
“If there are no final victories, there are also no final losses.”
– John Sayles, talking to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (June 17, 2011)
February 2011
2 posts
“Chaque homme porte la forme entière de l’humaine condition.”
– Michel de Montaigne, “Essays” (1575)
“I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence / Fear is such a...”
– Lupe Fiasco with Skylar Grey, “The Words I Never Said” (2011)
January 2011
1 post
“He’s like the salt of the earth, rubbed in your wounds.”
– David Lukas, in his wedding speech about my brother-in-law, Andy Lukas
December 2010
6 posts
“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried...”
– Black Elk, quoted by Molly Stephey, “On the 120th anniversary of Wounded Knee”
“Gay marketers, using unreliable data, relentlessly promoted the image of...”
– Joe Clark, “Gay money: The truth about lesbian and gay economics”
“So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without...”
– George Orwell, 1984
“This tax deal, frankly and unequivocally, is the result of a relatively small...”
– Matt Taibbi, “Bernie Sanders puts Barack Obama to shame”
“You go through first. / I’m gunna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench.”
– Male lead, Take on Me: Literal Video Version (2008)
“Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for something...”
– Daryl Zero, Zero Effect (1998)
November 2010
5 posts
“The main thing to remember, though, is that money—real money—represents a unit...”
– Brian Czech, “The trophic theory of money”
“The last defense of every Facebook addict is: but it helps me keep in contact...”
– Zadie Smith, “Generation Why?”
“My problem is that I hate Google as much as I hate Facebook. So I’m not sure...”
– Fake Steve Jobs, “Betting pool: How soon until David Kirkpatrick defends Facebook for not exporting contact data?”
“He felt me up good, but not great.”
– Jeffrey Goldberg, “For the first time, the TSA meets Resistance”
“The piñata breaks with a crack and children rush in like piranhas to a carcass.”
– LydiaT, “This is your Id on high fructose corn syrup”
October 2010
5 posts
“I wonder, will student loans soon be considered bad debt, similar to credit card...”
– Heather Alderfer, “Congratulations! Your loan is now in repayment”
“I’m sorry, but this won’t get fixed until I talk to an engineer. Can you look...”
– xkcd, “Tech Support”
“It may someday be possible to build a secure method for submitting ballots over...”
– J. Alex Halderman, “Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot”
“So I agree wholeheartedly with what Huxley said in the last century just across...”
– Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, “The Emerging Mind, lecture 4: Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese” (BBC Reith Lectures, 2003)
“It’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to...”
– Bruce Schneier, “Wiretapping the Internet”
September 2010
1 post
“Tell me what you know about dreamin’ dreamin’
You don’t really know about...”
– Kid Cudi, “Pursuit of Happiness” (2009)
August 2010
8 posts
“NPR legal told me this language was unacceptable, quote, ‘documentary about why...”
– Harry Shearer talking to Anjali Kamat, “‘The Big Uneasy’–Katrina was an unnatural disaster”
“I don’t like being called an atheist because that defines me as not being...”
– Jeff Schweitzer talking to D.J. Grothe, “Interview: Beyond Cosmic Dice”
“Because every country has a database of terrorist skeletons just waiting to be...”
– Bruce Schneier, “Skeletal identification”
“India’s electronic voting machines have fundamental security flaws, and do not...”
– J. Alex Halderman, “Electronic voting researcher arrested over anonymous source”
“The whole process is an arms race of flattery, in which people with more and...”
– Joe Clark, “Why does ‘cognitive surplus’ exist?”
“Did he drug you? Are you on sodium pentothal? That’s what they do, the secular...”
– Marietta, Whatever Works (2009)
“Everyone, welcome to the moment when the pawns and the catspaws (that’s you)...”
– Seth Finkelstein, “‘Net Neutrality’”
“Because we see the world through the media. So we’re in danger of believing that...”
– Michael Haneke, in an interview about Benny’s Video (1992) with Serge Toubiana.
July 2010
5 posts
“We are on the verge of the perpetual flight.”
– Bertrand Piccard, “Solar-powered plane flies for 26 hours”
“We were full of beans, but we were dying like flies / And those big black birds,...”
– Hunters & Collectors, “Holy Grail” (1992)
“When the Germans retreated in 1944, they burned this entire province to the...”
– Maciej Cegłowski, “Mission: Burfjord”
“The trees grow so close to and on these houses because the city tractors that...”
– Jim Griffioen, “(More) feral houses”
“Four hours after the seizure, tvshack administrators registered a new domain...”
– Craig Labovitz, “Takedown”
June 2010
1 post
“Writers already have their own Merlin Mann hovering over the shoulder reminding...”
– Joe Clark, “Advice from hypergraphic workaholics”
May 2010
4 posts
“No more turning away…”
– Pink Floyd, “On the Turning Away” (1987)
“The exhibition titled “Living Our Cultures: Sharing Our Heritage” brings back to...”
– Kara Briggs, “Smithsonian loan brings Alaska Native treasures home”
“Mark Zuckerberg, I salute you. You babyfaced killah, you sociopathic bastard—do...”
– Fake Steve Jobs, “The best article ever about Facebook”
“So let me rewrite the abstract: ‘In a study of people who were not depressed,...”
– The Last Psychiatrist, “Study finds chocolate causes depression…”
April 2010
11 posts
“I’d say it’s a combination of soccer, American football, rugby and there’s a...”
– David King, “New Patriots punter takes Aussie rules to the NFL”
“The Double Down—which consists of two boneless chicken filets that enclose two...”
– Lore Sjöberg, “Embrace suicide cuisine with new fast-food delicacies”