February 2012
“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...
Watchhodinkee:
Rolex for Panerai, from the 1940s.
Fascinating.
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
“Whatever startup you’re working on right now probably won’t exist in ten years....”
– Jeff Atwood leaves Stack Exchange – Marco.org (via ayjay)
1- I’m pretty sure the startup I’m working on right now will exist in ten years. (Otherwise I wouldn’t work there.)
2- Marco is pretty rich because he worked for a startup that took VC money, hired a bunch of people and...
“Coke also turns out to be a good example of one of my favorite phenomena—people...”
– Yglesias
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via kadrey)
Love it.
(via harkaway)
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones
This. A thousand times.
(via blancateli)
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (via jedsundwall)
“Design is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand,...”
– An Important Time for Design - brilliant, timely piece by Gimmebar founder Cameron Koczon. (via curiositycounts)
“Planned Parenthood likes to claim that abortion accounts for just 3 percent of...”
– The Media’s Blinders on Abortion - NYTimes.com
The Media’s Blinders on Abortion - NYTimes.com →
Read it and read it and read it again.
“All that said, the essay does usefully challenge a number of left-of-center...”
– n 1 on Raising the Crime Rate
My stories in the FT this week
timb:
The Facebook IPO: Zynga shows the importance of friends & Facebook’s conundrum over mobile ads
Facebook backers take stake in Zalando (a scoop)
Google refuses to halt privacy change
Hacker group Anonymous infiltrates call into its own case
BSkyB in climbdown over iPlayer
TripAdvisor censured over claims of trusted reviews
Tech groups’ London office space doubled last year
GOV.UK...
“In May 1896, on returning from a trip to Cairo, Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson...”
– Benjamin Balint (via ayjay)
“The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the...”
– “Fight Or Fuck” - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Related: private prisons are a multi-billion dollar industry. (via jericsinger)