February 2012
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The MacBook Air, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
Behold: I have crossed to the dark side.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my unfortunate Apple experience in 2005, when I bought an iPod, it turned out to be a lemon, and an even bigger lemon was Apple’s warranty. I wrote:
I’ve all but resigned myself to buying a MacBook Air because its reviews are just so good, but I can’t bring myself to go into the store and plunk...
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M.I.A. shouldn't have apologized →
VIA @abhayology
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Come on, dudes.
brooklynmutt:
Romney: “I’m Not Concerned About The Very Poor”
nickoftime:
“This is a time people are worried. They’re frightened. They want someone who they have confidence in, and I believe I will be able to instill that confidence in the American people. And, by the way, I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a...
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I'm out of the loop
What’s the deal with Lana del Rey? Is there any reason I should know or care what everyone’s talking about?
January 2012
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Nightmares?
brooklynmutt:
“While finding a tiny coconut in a whale’s stomach is enchanting, there’s nothing so striking as the image of a sperm whale eating a shark. It disturbs me the way turducken does, like as a close cousin to cannibalism. More terrifying, with sharks in the diet, Americans who might have been swallowed by sperm whales would have had another thing to worry about: sharing the stomach of...
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What's a "vegetable" anyway?
newsweek:
“It seems the department still considers the potato a second-class vegetable.”
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A spokesman for the National Potato Council, irked that — despite a failed USDA attempt to limit potato use in new school lunch guidelines — potatoes are still passed over in favor of greener, leafier vegetables. (via bencrair)
“Vegetable” is nothing but a social construct....
Watch930club:
CONTEST: Death Cab For Cutie are hitting the road this winter accompanied by The Magik*Magik Orchestra (who recently joined them on their VH1 Storytellers performance) as well as up and coming indie act Youth Lagoon for a show that should be just as impressive as it is unique. For those of you who missed DCFC’s intimate performance at the club with an extremely crowd pleasing set that...
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The Thing about Apple Is
Photo by Flickr user e.r.w.i.n.
In 2005, after months of budgeting and saving, I bought an iPod. I was making $30K in New York City. This was a big purchase. I brought it home from Circuit City, and then I opened it.
Opening this box was a process of complete and utter joy.
I’m not surprise to read [via] that Apple’s designers pay obsessive attention to their product packaging,...
This is why I live where I live. →
Photo by Flickr user ElvertBarnes.
In three months on the block, I’ve already hit up many of these suggestions. Can’t wait to try them all!
She chops! She chops!
shitmystudentswrite:
She looks like a flower, but she stings like a bee, like every girl in history, She bangs! She bangs! An old Ricky Martin song, She Bangs, tells of the power that women have. In Lizzie Borden’s case however, she chops.
An “old” Ricky Martin song—oh lord.
“Journalists, I find, tend to come quite late to sites like Tumblr and Pinterest....”
– How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon (via markcoatney)
[If this had a picture accompanying it, wouldn’t it be just perfectly ironic.]
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Watching Them Watching Me →
This week’s Modern Love in the New York Times: Wow. Just—wow.
No-Tumblr Thursday
Starts riiiiight… now.
“I think that focusing so much on someone’s personal, sexual, or marital affairs...”
– Herman Cain, he the one-time frontrunner of the GOP primary campaign, tells us about the role he thinks sexual behavior ought to play in evaluating candidates for public office. (via newsweek)
Is the “polygamous life” a dig at Romney?
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A no-Tumblr Thursday
I decided I needed to have at least one day per week where blogging was entirely off-limits, so I could use my brain power for other things (like work). So, both this site and Law Review were silent yesterday. Given my current workload, it may have to be both Tuesday and Thursday next week. Unfortunately, Tumblr hours aren’t billable hours. Sad face for that sad fact.
Happy Friday...
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“We’re just getting started with our lives, just figuring out the rest of it. The...”
– In which Howie Kahn goes shooting guns and drinking whiskey with Channing Tatum for Details magazine. (via newsweek)
[This profile makes me fucking love Channing Tatum.]
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Huntsman ain't dropping out, folks. A third-place... →
shortformblog:
Huntsman put it like this to CNN: “If you look at the numbers now, we’re in a strong confident position.” There are three tickets out of New Hampshire, and he has one, or something like that. Huntsman is currently polling at a fairly-solid third place, far behind Romney but within shouting distance of second-place Ron Paul.
Third place behind Ron Paul = second place.
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New blog!
Hello my 6 real followers:
I started a new Tumblr blog! It’s called Law Review (wocka wocka) and you can find it here. It’ll be mostly law-related but hopefully still interesting to non-lawyers. In fact, my hope is that I can look at whatever’s trending from a legal point of view—which is something that I haven’t really found elsewhere on Tumblr. Check it out and,...
Stuxnet and the mystery of malware →
One of the best pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. [Via Longreads.]
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“I get so tired of people who say, “It’s simple, just eat less and move...”
– Tara Parker-Pope, author of “The Fat Trap” in the New York Times Magazine, in an interview with the NYT 6th Floor Blog. As Tara says, one reader wrote in: “I don’t think I’ll look at an overweight person in the same way again. You made some part of the world a more compassionate...
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