December 2011
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The New York Times on recent protests in Moscow:
… an estimated 5,000 people materialized, making it the largest anti-Kremlin demonstration in recent memory, and Mr. Navalny was arrested on charges of resisting the police and sentenced to 15 days in prison.
And:
All that night, as temperatures dipped below freezing, Mr. Navalny’s hipster disciples stood vigil outside the precinct where he...
October 2011
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“Mr. Jobs leaves behind a dominant Apple, fulfilling his original promise to save...”
– Steve Jobs, Enemy of Nostalgia - NYTimes.com
December 2009
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November 2009
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“In a way, some of the musicians said, the situation has come full circle. As in...”
– Musicians Who Poked at the Iron Curtain
September 2009
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August 2009
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pgwp:
The idea of willfully putting Radiohead on just for the hell of it elicits a kind of mental groan, like I’m getting ready to sit down and watch a Tarkovsky film. Get ready to experience a Work of Art.
Wallace in “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky”:
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living...
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lalitree:
“I say it’s time we take a stand against technologically-enhanced isolation and anomie. It’s time we relearn how to shut our yaps, listen to others and put that pluribus and unum back where they belong. And in the best U.S.A. fashion I say that we do this via expensive gadgets and monetizable web services. Below is a list of modest proposals for Infinite Jest-inspired solutions for life...
January 2009
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HIPSTER RUNOFF PODCAST →
perpetua:
Just when you think Hipster Runoff has hit a peak, or that it has fulfilled its potential, Carles takes it to the next level. This is brilliant.
When will Carles address the HR phenomenon itself? It almost happens in the Meaningful Near-Death Experience intro, but then it goes on to just be the website in audio form. I want HR to explode in a blaze of self-referential glory.
Watch“An Eluardian Instance” by Of Montreal (Jesse Ewles on Vimeo)
December 2008
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Distorte's Top 5 Albums, 2008 →
perpetua:
Year-end album lists are so boring and unimaginative. This one, however, is precisely the opposite. (Here is the list from last year. I totally owe him for turning me on to Dog Chorus #17.)
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MTA haiku
Max Deadlock obtained
use Diagnostic to resolve
or restart application
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“So far, though, “we haven’t studied the business cases much,” [Ev Williams, the...”
– Hilarious.
November 2008
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“Mr. Sander said the route alterations “will result in extra transfers, longer...”
– M.T.A. Plans Steep Service Cuts and Fare Increase | City Room Blog
Welcome to bizarro NYC, everybody! Sounds great!
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“The scenes of celebration are reminiscent of the end of a sci-fi movie where...”
– Twitter / Slate
October 2008
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Sonic Youth Live at Battery Park - July 4, 2008 →
perpetua:
WFMU has archived a top-notch recording of Sonic Youth’s excellent free concert at Battery Park earlier this year. It’s a great show covering a lot of classics, including “Schizophrenia,” “100%,” “Bull in the Heather,” “Skip Tracer,” “Jams Run Free,” and about half of Daydream Nation.
“The goal of Web 2.0 was to get users first, then figure out how to make money off of them. Well, at least that’s what you tell your investors. In reality, the goal is more like ‘get users, and hope to get acquired and become somebody else’s problem’.” — Maybe Yahoo Shouldn’t Have Bought All This Shit | uncov
(via catbird)
“My friends, I’m voting for “that one”.”
– reader comment on Check Point: The Second Presidential Debate
September 2008
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“Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican, said he was “resolute” in his...”
– House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge
“… We’re headed down a path in which not only will we become...”
– Andrew J. Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal
“… What if we chose to accept the fact that every few years, despite all...”
– Just Asking by DFW for The Atlantic
“On “Charlie Rose,” Wallace was like a giant combine moving through a...”
– Salon Books | A baffling man
WatchCharlie Rose interviews DFW (via perpetua).
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to...”
– David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
Roger Federer as Religious Experience →
By David Foster Wallace (1962 – 2008).
“In 2000, when [John McCain] was running against George Bush in the South...”
– Michael Tomasky: McCain is a bigger liar than Bush
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Though it ain’t very funny
It’s on an...
“Some economists argue that many lower-income Americans, young and old, vote...”
– Teenagers Are Growing Up the Class Ladder on the New ‘90210’ and Its Sibling Shows
WatchThunderheist: Jerk It | Pitchfork.tv
Do the Minimal Mambo. A paean to handjobs.
August 2008
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404 pages
John McCain Barack Obama
Also, so you know, one of these candidates is against torture.
“It happens to all Netflix subscribers eventually. Your buddy the film buff drags...”
– Slate reader poll: What unwatched Netflix rental have you kept unwatched the longest?
“But they treat their personal preferences for music as if they weren’t...”
– Pitchfork interviews David Berman One of many great quotes from the article.
“I love it,” said Ricki Rosen, the mother of the family. “Hilarious!” Her...”
– Coney Island Sideshow Has Guantánamo Waterboarding as Its Theme
“It was a sad ending, but also typically Russian. As Solzhenitsyn himself noted...”
– Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded Him
July 2008
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June 2008
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May 2008
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“Naturally, these tactics add an element of tension between Robic and team...”
– That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
The Climb →
”… is a blog that will chart my attempt, as a 41-year-old beginner cyclist who has never been in a bike race of any kind — and had never ridden even 50 miles in one day until last Saturday — to find out what it takes for an ordinary, not-particularly-fit mortal to survive a single, grueling, mountain stage of the world’s greatest cycling race.”
The Dazed Digital 50 →
It’s kinda funny how similar Momus and Kanye West are.
The Kills
So when a fireman appeared onstage during the last few notes of a completely obliterating “No Wow”, I wasn’t really surprised because well, yeah, of course things were going to ignite. But then the lights went back on, and it was an actual situation that took like half an hour to resolve, and when the lights dimmed again and the band returned, it just wasn’t the same.
April 2008
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Efficient JavaScript →
JS efficiency tips from Dev.Opera.