January 2009
107 posts
“But does all this sexual imagery in the air mean that sex has been liberated—or...”
– Naomi Wolf on porn in NY Mag via debauchette (via gtmcknight)
Cows with names like Daisy, Gertrude or Buttercup... →
“Here’s a perfect example of what I have to deal with: I’ve been...”
– I Don’t Define Myself By My Ability To Travel Between Dimensions - The Onion.
Belarus Free Theatre - the amazing dissident group... →
TAKE THAT, ANNA WIERZBICKA!
Language Log smacks her down - almost as much as I did in an undergraduate paper about 6 years ago.
Oh yeah, this is going to get me soooo much tumblr action.
“sorry i called you at work. had anxiety mid-call that you were in a conference...”
– I am dating Bridget Jones…
“Is it really possible that all the triumphant declarations that the Reagan tax...”
– Reagan and revenue - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (via robot-heart-politics)
Hell, people are still giving Reagan credit for ending the Cold War, which to my mind is a bit like giving Stalin credit for ending the partition of Germany.
“‘Certainty’ is not the word I would use for what it is like to be a...”
– Greg Clarke - Opinion, ABC Online.
“Why did Rite Aid take so many chances with the law? Perhaps because it made...”
– The Little Unions That Couldn’t via Give me something to read.
While learning about a visit to the doctor...
sisterpearl:
Sydney: Yeah, but “aaaaaah” isn’t even a Spanish word, it’s an English one.
It is! Interjections are language specific, even though they sit fascinatingly outside the normal rules of syntax (and in some cases, phonology - for example, uh-oh includes the glottal stop: not a standard English phoneme).
Those nonexistant Guantanamo Files
squashed:
Robot-heart links to another discouraging article on the lack of any organized files for those held without charge at Guantanamo Bay.
I don’t understand something about this. If you’re the one designing this whole Guantanamo Bay fiasco, you have to know you’re compromising some important values. I can see why somebody might think this was justified due to some overwhelming danger. But...
“The Tin Bar manager, Brad, who refused to give his last name, said...”
– Bullshit. I can personally attest this is not true. (Why was I trying to get into Tin Billy’s? Long story.)
Courier-Mail
pterodactyls:
I want to open a Japanese restaurant called ‘O Tempura, O Morays.’
AUTOMATIC FOLLOW.
““Take a busy day for Akamai and double it, that is where you are,”...”
– ABC News: Internet goes into overdrive for Obama inauguration.
Swearing in question
robot-heart:
So who holds the Bible if you’re single?
I tried to look up Condi’s swearing in, but the only picture I can find doesn’t show who’s holding the book.
I don’t know. You don’t have to hold a Bible, or anything; LBJ was sworn in on a Missal that they found in Air Force One. The witnessing judge held it.
I want to know what on earth Biden was sworn in on. Must have...
“The Bush administration authorized the waterboarding of prisoners. Waterboarding...”
– lg&m on the rarely cited “awkwardness” doctrine. (via abbyjean) (via jhnbrssndn)
It’s deeply disappointing that this won’t happen, but I think there’s another reason. I think it’s the very real danger of Republican Revanchism. It’s the danger that, given that one...
“Alvin Booker, a retired postman from Baltimore, said: “If you had told me 40...”
– HOPE, CHALLENGES, WHATEVER - The Daily Mash (via jhnbrssndn)
I like the “YES, I DID THINK I WOULD LIVE TO SEE THIS DAY” t-shirts they were adverstising on the Colbert Report.
Obama's inaugural address had a factual error
44 people have not taken the presidential oath of office. In fact, 43 people have.
The confusion arises from the idiosyncratic conventions governing US President enumeration. Presidents who serve multiple consecutive terms are numbered as a single President, but Grover Cleveland, who is, as you all know, the only person ever to serve non-consecutive presidential terms, is apparently two separate...
“You’ll always notice that of the 5,000 followers that a social media expert has...”
– Social Media “Experts” Are the Cancer of Twitter
(thanks Barry Saunders)
Everyone's clapping along with Stevie
squashed:
(via inauguration)
I’m sorry Inauguration Tumblr. I’m very excited by this event—but this last series of posts has surpassed even my ability to care. If you’re still alive tomorrow, I’ll refollow you then.
I unfollowed as well. I think the current handlers think they’re on twitter. But to be fair, it’s not easy to know what to put up on there once the thing itself is...
...did they just play Eensy Weensy Spider as...
(via semisetadrift)
No! it’s Hail to the Chief.
“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world… happiness isn’t good...”
– -Calvin and Hobbes (via msbojangles) (via radarchive)
Oh gosh. Is this reblogged with or without irony? It’s getting so hard to tell.
buyhercandy:
Rudd and Obama are not even comparable. I don’t know how you could suggest they’re similar, Steve.
They shouldn’t be; different leaders work better in different political climates and different times, and of course, different countries. They are comparable in some ways. It often surprises me reading history how state leaders wherever they are, can be comparable...
buyhercandy:
Do it. Both of you. I will be.
settled.
I will be too. Don’t expect a liveblog though.
(hear that US Americans? You may be braving freezing temperatures, but we Aussies are getting up at (in my case) 2am! And you’re just lucky we won’t be complaining that it’s already 21 January and Obama isn’t President yet!)
Trick to getting followers: Post. Nothing.
robot-heart:
erikgraham:
Can we as a web-community put a moratorium on talking about the number of friends or followers or subscribers we have? Some people on this site are here for the express purpose of selling themselves as a brand and aren’t as self-indulgent to whine about this stuff.
Uhhhh… “selling oneself as a brand” is an alternative to being self-indulgent?
How not to run a viral campaign →
Tourism Queensland’s campaign to promote The Best Job In the World (seriously, it is the best job in the world; check the site out) is actually extremely clever, IMHO.
But the decision by the agency to run a fake vid about a woman getting a tatto for it was wrong, wrong, wrong. You can’t astroturf like that.
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and...”
– Mel Brooks
Via Bait and Switch
(via tmblg)
Hey, no fair! I posted this months ago.
“And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be...”
– Martin Luther King (via azspot)
Just sayin
today my cowlick is OUT OF CONTROL.
"New Zealand Prime Minister John Key broke his... →
Only in New Zealand (ABC News).