December 2009
95 posts
November 2009
50 posts
After a few years of closely following politics,...
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… I don’t like politics.
I don’t like the petty back and forth. I don’t like the commentators who distort or ignore facts so their side can win some national popularity contest. And I don’t like the rapt attention paid by those craving pointless conflict but too bourgeois people who avidly follow politics because they like pointless struggle but consider themselves to be too serious...
“In response to Erick’s suggestion that people might not welcome this...”
– NSFW: Give me ad-free conversations, or give me death (please RT) (via Instapaper)
“A tweet isn’t a “piece of content”. It isn’t editorial. No matter whether we’re...”
– NSFW: Give me ad-free conversations, or give me death (please RT)
(via Instapaper)
“Now, I know about good and bad actors mostly because I saw them directly. But...”
– Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector - T. A. Frank
Target’s no Wal-Mart by this measure.
(via Instapaper)
“So the next time you find yourself at your fifth Social Media mixer this month,...”
– Where did all the gurus go?
“Lastly, Nielsen reports we’re on track to see smartphones cross the 50 percent...”
– The term smartphone has never really caught on. There mus be a better term to describe pocket computers that just happen to have the ability to make phone calls among other things. via Kelsey
Watchjimray:
Do you really need to know more than “Paula Deen hit by a flying ham” to click play?
If so, it’s worth clicking for Ann Curry’s delivery and the bizarre banter at the end.
It was only a matter of time before the hams started fighting back against Paula Deen. Personally, I’m more likely to be attacked by Macaroni & Cheese. Everyone has an enemy.
“I’m going to take a much cruder approach to this debate and argue that newspaper...”
– Greg’s on it.
“Nice Ride wants to provide 1,000 bikes at roughly 80 self-service kiosks...”
– I’m cautiously optimistic about this program. Things like this have the potential to be awesome, but only if the economics work out right. I do like that there is some accountability built into the system int he form of a membership card. That may help prevent the abuse of bikes I’ve...
Explaining Blog Comments to PR People →
Mike Masnick does an excellent job explaining how he’d like PR people and the people they represent to interact with him on his blog. I think just about anyone looking to engage with influential bloggers in their industry would do well following Mike’s advice.
I’m no Techdirt, but I still get plenty of “offline” chatter from people who want to state their case but...
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to...”
– Susan B. Anthony (penny-farthings were fixies too) (via syntheticpubes)
“Contrary to popular myth, there are many in our society that, for whatever...”
– Entrepreneurial Liberals
“The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to...”
– Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho on the RNC’s health insurance plan, which covers elective abortion.
But wait, it gets better! Cigna, the company that covers the RNC, says that it offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage and they decided not to opt...
Free WiFi for the Holidays, from Google
brit:
From now until January 15, 2010, you can access free wifi in 47 different airports and on all Virgin America flights. Pretty sweet, eh?
List of participating airports:
Austin (AUS)
Baltimore (BWI)
Billings (BIL)
Boston (BOS)
Bozeman (BZN)
Buffalo (BUF)
Burbank (BUR)
Central Wisconsin (CWA)
Charlotte (CLT)
Des Moines (DSM)
El Paso (ELP)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Fort Myers/SW...
“Having lived and worked in Philadelphia, New York and Boston I have spent plenty...”
– White Population and Its Effect on Transit « The Transit Pass (via Instapaper)
Cost of Electricity by State →
West Virginia’s cheap power comes with a side of Black Lung.
“[Iric] Nathanson begins his century with Mayor Doc Ames, an executive so venal...”
– Longfellow resident, Iric Nathanson, traces Minneapolis’ past in his new book, Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century. Steve Brandt reviews it here (for a limited StarTribune.com access cut-off time).
“Probably the nicest thing I can say about the pit beef is that it was tasteless,...”
– Doug keeps things positive in his negative review of Lyndale Tap House.
“Brand is the refuge of the ignorant. Advertisers don’t believe it’s...”
– Leo LaPorte recalling a conversation he had with a TV executive. He comments, “Suddenly, television makes sense, doesn’t it?”
“I’ve found the experience liberating, and to the best of my knowledge, have not...”
– To Pee or Not To Pee Off Your Treestand?
via @tdrichter
Pandora Judges Me
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Seriously, what made it think that nostalgically asking to here music by They Might Be Giants meant I would be thrilled to hear Monty Python’s “Lumber Jack Song”? Okay, I understand what, but come on. My wife’s in the room. I’m pretending to be cool.
I had similar issues the other day on my Eazy-E station. Sure, I get the NWA and Snoop, but when they start mixing in Warren G and then...