April 2008
46 posts
“I’d totally go in for pizza made with grease instead of tomato sauce.”
– Carolyn (via squashed) you may be aware, but this is readily available in italy… it’s pizza lardo - and is just pizza with strips of pure porcine back-fat. also available in NYC.
“when the soviet union blockaded the roads to & from west berlin in 1948 the...”
– barnaby, my welsch tour guide to berlin.
“Why aren’t there more Googles? The answer’s very simple. Because every company...”
– Umair Haque (via azspot). Why is it such a strange idea for web startups to try to establish a profitable business model before being bought? And why is being bought the only way out? (via marco)
On Eco-Populism
You are going to see a major realignment, as occurred with the New Deal and the Great Society programs of the mid-twentieth century and the rise of the Far Right toward the end of that century. Both the welfare state and the warfare state are exhausted ideas in U.S. politics. There has to be a new political center of gravity, where people join with government to try to solve the problems of the...
“I mean… the reason I don’t blog is that it’s inherently self-promotional and I...”
– Nicholson Baker (who was great last night at NYPL Live) (via christmasgorilla) that’s great. i really like nicholson baker’s writing - i’d definitely recommend the mezzanine - it’s short, funny & chock-full of great observations. on the webs, check out this piece on...
“Paul Julius Reuter noticed that, with the electric telegraph, news no longer...”
– from the wikipedia article on Reuters. I love how news & information have evolved.
“When Rob was defending Jose and his twin brother Ozzie a few years ago in a...”
– from a hysterical piece on jose conseco by pat jordan in deadspin.
“When you’re talking about risk management, there’s an assumption that not every...”
– from a continuing series of interviews with a hedge fund manager at n+1. risk models are built around normal market-conditions, in which there is a high degree of variance in transactions. when a constraint is placed on the market - lack of credit, in this case - it restricts the market, essentially...
“The Cartesian trick of starting from the beginning and thinking things down to...”
– stanley fish in the nyt online. via gaurav.
“The physicists tell us that if the eye could survive in an oven fired to the...”
– paul valery - the crisis of mind (1919) - via ekstasis
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always...”
– W.H. Auden (via jbearie) (via sexartandpolitics) (via ekstasis)
Watchjust rewatched the microsoft seadragon demo, since kottke linked it the other day & my mind remains blown. man… i can’t wait for this stuff.
Watchmareen: Adding to Justice - DVNO, here I have D.A.N.C.E from last year. Just as awesome. i love this video.
hey browser developers (mostly safari)
i want this new functionality : i want to be able to drag attachments into the attachment field in gmail and it to paste the file path into the field. in other words, i want safari to keep track of where i release the files i drag into the browser window… as if it were a real application. this is super easy and i can’t think of any possible reason it shouldn’t or...
Craiglist stoner thanks pizza guy for best pizza... →
erockappel: So funny! Some stoner from Ann Arbor posted a “missed connection” to his pizza guy: “I called you from my cell phone but had completely forgot who I was calling by the time you answered the phone. Of course, you were also baked to bajeezus and forgot to tell me that I had called Cottage Inn. When you answered and said, “Whatsup?” I thought about it, and after a 20 second pause I...
Watcherockappel: AKON CALLS T-PAIN And the award for funniest thing I’ve seen all week goes to, OLDE ENGLISH! This video is great! hahhahaha this is awesome… a nice follow-up to my prediction… i take this as an omen from the internet gods.
Watchclaytoncubitt: “Algorithmically generated hyper-edit of Hitchcock’s Psycho shower scene using cellular automata to determine sound and image.” -Maurice Methot
an answer
so, in response to this question i posed about how the quantity of paper people consume on a communal printer might vary with the amount of paper readily available, here’s the answer from this specific situation : people printed hardly anything. we used less than 50 sheets of paper. so… yea! to laptops, email & usb keys. people were just swapping files, not printing stuff out....
“Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America,...”
– The SFist on the San Francisco movement to name a sewage plant after the much-adored current president of the United States. (via zetahydrae) (via marco)
March Mux :: something abstract i keep falling...
i’m going to try and use muxtape to create atleast one mix a month starting in march. so… this is my march mix. In Our Talons - Bowerbirds - Hymns For A Dark Horse Helen - The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs Skinny Love - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Why (Do You Doubt Me Baby?) - andrew kaffer - idle idol Worried Blues - John Fahey - Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites...
