February 2012
“The thing about this is that Asia is where all the people are. All else being...”
– Yglesias
“I’ve increasingly felt that digital journalism and digital humanities are...”
– Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog » Blog Archive » Digital Journalism and Digital Humanities. Dan’s list of points of convergence is extremely smart and extremely provocative. (via ayjay)
“That ‘something else’ has a lot to do with the complexities of religious...”
– Catholics, Conscience and Contraception - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)
“Apple’s dramatic 1984 Super Bowl ad notwithstanding, in reality the interests...”
– If Not Orwell, Then Huxley: The Battle for Control of the Internet - Rebecca MacKinnon - Technology - The Atlantic (via ayjay)
“Dinehart, an assistant professor at the Florida International University School...”
– Connecting the dots between handwriting and high scores – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs (via ayjay) Tss. Couple things: 1- All the gifted children I know have TERRIBLE handwriting. This is because the ideas tumble out of our brains too fast. 2- Kids who are careful about handwriting will be...
“As we settled in with our papers, magazines and coffees, I watched fellow...”
– This Tyler Brule column has my favorite of his rants: People who wear inflated neck pillows around their necks while traveling.
Fast-track to life on the rails, please - FT.com (via heyitsnoah)
“In our Web 3.0 world, as we share our identities so publicly with everyone else,...”
– Does society benefit when we share personal information online? Or do social networks prompt us to publish unhealthy amounts of personal data, while little enriching our lives? Author Andrew Keen and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis lead the arguments in our debate.
(via theeconomist) These words...
“The sheer horror of Cicero’s murder and mutilation contributed to its mythic...”
– Mary Beard reviews ‘Cicero’ by Anthony Everitt · LRB 23 August 2001 (via ayjay)
“The brave ones were shooting the enemy. The crazy ones were shooting film.”
– US Marine Norman T. Hatch on combat photographers (via demons)
“Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you...”
– General MacArthur to West Point graduates, 1962 (via demons)
“Interestingly, when smart people feel less alienated, they seem to buy different...”
– Postrel: Can You Pass the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Test? - Bloomberg (via ayjay)
“When we first traveled in China, in the mid-1980s, we had our two then-young...”
– I am James Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic (and long-ago speechwriter for long-ago president Jimmy Carter) AMA : IAmA
A billion people raised on this, with an overabundance of young men, a geriatric leadership, and nukes. This will end well.
Random P. G. Wodehouse Quotation Generator →
“The two sides, in other words, can’t even agree about where the middle ground...”
– The Persistence of the Culture War - NYTimes.com
“From election to election, politics is mostly about jobs and the economy and the...”
– The Persistence of the Culture War - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)
It’s pretty neat that I can recognize Ross from a couple paragraphs.
“The “Socratic method,” so to speak, was conversational, and its results hugely...”
– Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century | Rightly Understood | Big Think (via ayjay)
“A year ago, Ohio ranked 48th in job creation. We trailed only Michigan and...”
– Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in his 2012 State of the State address. (via officialssay)
cc Caci
(via jericsinger)
we had steel! and tires! and heavy industry! which is all, of course, to say we need a great many new things in ohio. call me crazy, but i’m more bullish on the things that don’t make...
IMF ==> Despair in Once-Proud Argentina
alea:
Uhhh… STUPID DOLLAR PEG ==> Despair in Once-Proud Argentina.
““The popularity of cupcakes directly tracks the rise in cultural narcissism that...”
– The psychology of cupcakes - The Washington Post
I am in awe.
(via mwfrost)
I will gladly exchange cupcakes for a toke of what he’s having.
“Labor Activist Li Qiang wants you to know that the iPhone 4 in his pocket is not...”
– Labor Activist: Apple Best at Auditing Factories, Still Not Doing Enough (via ayjay)
Here are the two things that Apple fanboys don’t get about this controversy:
1- Apple’s own values blanch at the idea of “We’re slightly better than the other guys”; Apple’s...
“The social elite as portrayed in “Downton” is far from perfect. But in many...”
– Columnist Reihan Salam argues that “Downton Abbey” is popular because it portrays an admirable 1%. (via thedailyfeed)
“According to a new survey, more than three quarters of us consider having...”
– Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
Yesssssssss.
(via caro)
Good. Let’s end zoning regulations and building height limits. … What’s that Brooklyners? Can’t hear you.
In the New York Times, Sheryl Sandberg Is Lucky,... →
cacioppo:
I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE WROTE THIS ARTICLE
Also:
If you do quick math, the $1.6bn comp package Sandberg now has was worth ~$300mm when it was granted by Facebook’s board in March 2008.
The board hired her for COO role with a $300mm compensation package because they thought she could build a massive business at Facebook, including a supporting organization.
She did it — and is now...
“There’s no denying that Pinterest is fun, looks great, and a lot of people love...”
– Pinterest is over-hyped — Forrester Blogs (via courtenaybird)
Oh snap.
(via dpstyles)
*Eyeroll.* For the record, BI Intelligence is bullish on Pinterest.
“I found when disagreeing with Gruber that his fans were the most personal,...”
– The Apple fanboy problem | ZDNet
