December 2010
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“Fuck getting older, feeling like time is going faster and faster and it’s...”
– Dodal Stewart
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Help Me Bring My Momma to New York!
heyamberrae:
Chicago is nice but it’s no place like New York!
My mom is an incredible entrepreneur, flooring contractor and new development specialist hailing from Chicago. I feel like her time in Chicago is long-over and I’m eager to have her join me in New York! The good news is that she’s very open to living in the same city as her baby, especially if I can help her land some work. That’s...
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“Too many years working the other side of New Years Eve. It will always be...”
– Anthony Bourdain + (via kateoplis)
Anthony Bourdain is my spirit animal.
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8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread... →
The corporate media’s tendency to blare misinformation and outright fabrications has been particularly egregious in coverage of WikiLeaks. As Glenn Greenwald has argued, mainstream news outlets are parroting smears and falsehoods about the whistleblower site and its founder Julian Assange, helping to perpetuate a number of “zombie lies” — misconceptions that refuse...
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WatchMy response to “what are your feelings regarding The Daily What?”
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“We’re closed tonight. If you need comedy go to Times Square and watch 1,000...”
– @UCB Theatre NY on Twitter. (via popculturebrain)
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New York City Government : We Have The Right To... →
neighborhoodr:
A video where a New York City snow removal worker was seen destroying a car by improperly attempting to free themselves from being stuck in the snow circulated all over the Internet this past week.
We copied the official New York City 411 Twitter account on the link he posted:
Here’s their response:
I agree that in an emergency, your car will need to be damaged if it helps...
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Murder unsolved one year later →
idlewyld:
“One year later, and we have no word. Nobody returns our calls. We still haven’t received his personal effects back. We have no idea what’s going on,” Gasparinetti’s daughter Denise Vazzano, of Budd Lake, said. “The prosecutor has no answers. It’s very frustrating.”
My grandfather was murdered just over a year ago. My mom speaks for our family, as we have heard little to nothing...
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Obama's approval rating higher than Reagan and... →
As the economy turns upwards, Obama’s approval ratings will follow. The fact that this president has managed to keep his approval rating near 50% despite the economy, an epic midterm election loss by his party, and daily criticism by his opposition is not good news for Republicans looking ahead to 2012. Should the economy improve by the time Obama faces reelection, I think he will probably...
Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers →
(via Instapaper)
“In exactly the same way, I think it was right to publish our story about the...”
– Nick Davies: The Julian Assange Investigation — Let’s Clear the Air of Misinformation (via Instapaper)
“Whether Manning actually said these things to Lamo could be verified in one...”
– The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (via Instapaper)
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“It’s bio-digital jazz, man!”
– Kevin Flynn
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“Jerry Seinfeld once famously made a show of retiring all of his material and...”
– The Year of Louis CK (via johnness)
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“By November 2012, if we stay on the path that we’re on, just in time for the...”
– Former Shell Oil executive John Hofmeister on “ABC World News.” More details here. (via abcworldnews)
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A New York Observer story about my New York Times... →
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WatchI answer a VYou question asking “How do you manage an out of control Tumblr feed?”
I propose adding a groups/list feature like Twitter to make it easier to keep track of the people you follow.
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Assange Alerts His Hostages →
Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks.“These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an...
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Skype Adds Video Calling To iPhone App →
Skype for iPhone lets you make and receive free Skype video calls on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, and works over both WiFi and 3G connections.
Make video calls to people on their computers as well as other iPhones (details below)
Make free audio calls to anyone else on Skype
Make great value calls to landlines and mobiles around the world
The new app is compatible with the iPhone 4,...
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Reuters: The evanescence of Twitter debates →
The point here is that the fight is not like the blogwars of old, despite the fact that both sides are publishing on blogs. We haven’t seen a lot of back-and-forth on the blogs, and the blog entries that we have seen have been clearly worked at considerable length. Instead, the debate has been raging on Twitter, where it’s much harder for an outsider coming to the subject afresh to follow what’s...
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Paul McCartney : Here Today
“I think the media story of the year, in 2010, was the New York Times’ discovery...”
– NBC’s Brian Williams on “Morning Joe,” via The Atlantic Wire. (via langer)
I’ve already posted the video, but these words bear repeating. (via kateoplis)
Choire: Magazines Are At War With Their Own iPad...
peterfeld:
choire:
So while novelty purchase rates for magazines on the iPad have dropped off crazily, because people checked it out and are either unenthused or distracted or whatever, no telling the motivation, what’s also happening is that print subscription rates (and the print-side ad people) are totally undercutting iPad subscription initiatives. The rates I get for print subscriptions...
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“That’s what so much “journalism” now is: a means of shielding secrets from the...”
– Glenn Greenwald on Wired’s lies about Adrian Lamo. Read the archives before this article if you want the full context, which does not paint a flattering picture of Wired. (via jonathan-cunningham)
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Grenade Standoff Forces SWAT to Shutdown Norfolk... →
NearSay just heard from @Vivnsect on Twitter that earlier Wednesday morning, part of Norfolk Street was shut down. @Vivnsect tweeted “Evacuated from apartment. SWAT team [not pictured] closed off block. Norfolk Street, Lower East Side.” The reason for evacuation was due to “something about someone in my building pulling a grenade on the cops resisting arrest.”
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iPad Magazine Sales Drop →
Remember when Wired’s debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Gogol Bordello on The Interface
aolmusic:
Watch + Download Gogol Bordello’s Interface Set
“On the day of the Gogol Bordello shoot, I had a few ideas for the pictures. One minute into the shoot, I had the members of the band arranged single file, with their heads rested on the shoulder of the person in front of them. I thought it’d be a tender moment that’d provoke some emotion from the band, be it tenderness or complete...
