May 2011
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April 2011
8 posts
Sarah Kay’s “If I should have a daughter” at TED 2011. Worth watching all the way through. Very, very powerful.
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December 2010
19 posts
Squashed: 2010 in Politics →
Great 2010-wrap up
squashed:
2010 in Politics
The Good
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repealed
Extended unemployment benefits secured for another 14 months
Payroll tax holiday creates a (somewhat) more progressive tax structure
Financial Reform
NEW START Ratified
Benefits extended to same-sex partners of federal employees
Fair Sentencing Act increases the threshhold of felony possession of crack...
The James Franco Project →
I read this a few months ago and I think Sam Anderson nailed it. This is an excellent profile of Franco, that shows him as extremely hardworking and a little nuts.
cluo:
highly entertaining tid-bit about James Franco. totally think it’s worth the read
Charlie Rose - An hour with Jay-Z from the Brooklyn Museum
This is an amazing interview, full of great questions & stories that’s both funny and deep.
I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I...
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. FIVE DAYS. (via paintsusgold)
This has been on my to-read list for a while. Hopefully I’ll get a chance soon.
Minority internet users are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as are...
– 8% of online Americans use Twitter | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (via fred-wilson)
November 2010
47 posts
By proving that she’s useless, she helps a system she rejects.
– Shepherd/philospher, Agnès Varda’s Sans Toit Ni Loi. Re: Mona, the main female character, a beatnik/vagabond who refuses opportunities to work or rejoin society.
This film should be required viewing for all residents of Williamsburg.
Sandrine Bonnaire = OH (Original Hipster)
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I fantasized about this back at Chicago / Mercy mercy me, that Mur-ci-é-lago.
– Kanye West, “Dark Fantasy” — first rhyme on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and it’s a good start.
When I see articles with four or five thousand comments on the Huffington Post...
– TechCrunch’s Devin Coldewey, The Future Of Paywalls: Microtransactions, Buy-Ins, And Content Wars
Devin nails it with regard to the future of the “paid internet”, payfences and micropayments.
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Pearls Before Breakfast (8 April 2007) -... →
gentlemanesque:
woke up to an article from one of my best boys. he later called to make sure i read it. i did & wanted to share it with whomever will read it+
I just read this and here are my thoughts. There are parts of it i think are great, and parts I think are awful. Let’s go:
It’s obviously a travesty that so few people stopped and recognized or acknowledged a...
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…for the long term, I like stocks. Medium term? Bonds. Short term? Scotch.
– Cartoon Editor Robert Mankoff on investing (via newyorker)
My feelings exactly.