December 2009
30 posts
“The Hamas administration says more than US $100m invested by Gazans was lost in...”
– Heather Sharp, “Smuggling fuels Gaza’s stalled economy”
“The language used in these remarks resembles the same language used throughout...”
– Danah Boyd, “How race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook (PDF)”
“In general, of course, it’s good for an animal to have a model of its own body....”
– Thomas Metzinger, “You are not a self!”
“Defying a band name that suggests political acumen, it’s hard to think of a more...”
– Jeff Klingman, “On ‘Manchasm’”
“A soft paternalistic approach might, instead, provide context to aid the user’s...”
– Alessandro Acquisti, “The behavioral economics of personal information (PDF)”
“Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow.”
– Carl Fox, Wall Street
“It’s always amazed me that this stuff isn’t more of an issue with the right....”
– Matt Taibbi, “Defense Bill Raids Personnel Fund to Pay for Weapons”
“If other delegation leaders, for example are each being assigned 20 karate...”
– Internal letter to British Foreign Office on May 21, 1979
“Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I wish that,...”
– Bruce Schneier, “Separating Explosives from the Detonator”
“Apart from the fact that Canadian magazine editors are afraid of their computers...”
– Joe Clark, “Magazine deathwatch (1)”
“Google is outside our system of checks and balances. They are quickly becoming...”
– Sherri Davidoff, “Our Google Government”
“Unfortunately, most of the infantry think you’re a prat. Ask them who they’d...”
– Blackadder, “Private Plane”
“We don’t have time for despair. We now have to move on to the new world, the one...”
– Paul Gilding, “The World After Copenhagen”
“My response is a simple one. The world is not divided into an Occident and the...”
– Lumumba Di-Aping responding to a question by Amy Goodman
“There are those who say that Mr. Skaggs and his ilk are not artistic...”
– Mark Dery, “The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax”
“Unlike carbon dioxide, however, which can hang in the atmosphere for centuries,...”
– Brandon Keim, “How to slow climate change for just $15 billion”
“Whether we get a political agreement in Copenhagen or not just doesn’t matter....”
– Paul Gilding, “Why Copenhagen will fail and why it doesn’t matter.”
“Let me hear you make decisions, without your television. / Let me hear you...”
– Depeche Mode, and later Rammstein, “Stripped.”
“Now, I guess it is some people’s dream to meet Charlie Chaplin, or just someone...”
– John Hodgman, “Hello, I’m Famous Starring John Hodgman” (via briandigital)”
“Canes are a risky proposition, and depend both on the shoes and the type of...”
– Sam Korda, “A Contemporary Fashion Guide for the Discerning Young Gentleman”
“That a handful of those technical people express their belief loudly, rudely,...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman, “A Zing Too Far”
“University students are trained to navigate the power dynamics of the outside...”
– Ze Frank, “Digital Natives”
“Some day, when historians finish peeling back all the different onion-layers of...”
– Matt Taibbi, “Goldman One-Ups Gordon Gekko, Says Jesus Embraced Greed”
“According to the theory, if flight costs 100 calories, both in flying and lost...”
– Bruce Schneier, “Fear and Overreaction”
“Hah! It’s laughable. She should have settled for jobs, rather than… I mean,...”
– Long Standing Bear Chief (Blackfoot): “Largest US settlement awarded for Native Americans”
“…In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map...”
– Bernhard Schölkopf’s translation of Borges’ Del rigor en la ciencia
“We have to start focusing on what’s the real security in America. It should be...”
– Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now, December 2, 2009
“Chanukah is not a Jewish version of Christmas. Christmas is an important holiday...”
– Sometimes Davey Wins: “What gentiles should know about the holiday season”
“Don’t give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala / Don’t really see what all...”
– Trent Reznor, “Capital G”
“The VAB is a fitting symbol of its age’s post-WWII optimism and bellicosity....”
– Zach Mortice: “Architects remember the building that helped put a man on the moon”