October 2008
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September 2008
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Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To...
From The Onion:
The report also confirmed that even if you were able to communicate with these other citizens, your passion and conviction would never be enough to convince them not to vote for their candidate, just as they would never be able to convince you not to vote for your candidate, and just as nobody can convince anybody else that what they believe to be right is wrong, regardless of...
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“You know why your grandparents don’t like Barack Obama? Because his name...”
– Sarah Silverman for The Great Schlep, a call to all Jews to get out to Florida to convince Nana and Papa to vote for Obama. I’m just going to say it, even though I know I’ll regret this. Lox the Vote. There, now I hate myself. Like a good Jew.
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“Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six...”
– the speech accent archive, a compendium of recordings of accents from around the world, set to Dadaist poetry
via Design Info
UPDATE: Neven adds one to the bag. I think it’s “Mid-Atlantic Muppet”.
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“…I sometimes harbor this fantasy that a bunch of homosexuals will break...”
– Todd Levin on aspiring to dress himself like a big boy
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“Knowing what you don’t know is the most essential step to knowing, you...”
– Claire Keen, as voiced by Michelle Williams in Charlie Kaufman’s upcoming “Synecdoche, New York” (2008), the trailer for which I will now resume watching
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WatchDisney Lab Unveils its Latest Line of Genetically Engineered Child Stars
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“Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be...”
– David Foster Wallace, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address - May 21, 2005
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WatchAlice is one of the good ones.
And dig the keyboard collar.
via flickr/neven
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Calm now
There’s a sense that people sympathetic to the cause are starting to get nervous post-RNC, and are calling out for a change of tactic - one in which our side plays dirty, to win at all costs with so much at stake.
This fear that we’re letting it slip away, once again, when it matters most and when our chances are best has even gotten the better of me. And I like to think I’m...
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Solitary Diner's Gaze →
onandon:
The tendency of a lone diner a. to look up in a café or restaurant, and b. to move the eyes horizontally across the view-field while taking a bite of food or drinking from a cup, bottle, or glass.
I don’t know, I just like the idea of something like this having a name.
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Wildest fantasies, part I
magicmolly:
“Methinks” is a useful archaism but a faintly irritating one. Is there such a word as “mehopes”? This would be both useful and elegant-sounding.
“Methinks” has always struck me as something one says having found oneself with one’s ponytail inextricably ensconced in the wheel of the horsedrawn mead cart at the Irvine Ren Faire.
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Open Letter To Matthew Weiner & The Staff Of Mad...
mollylambert:
You should never use anachronistic music.
You’re better than that.
Using modern music takes us out of the show. Mad Men excels at demonstrating the perverseness of the culture using real artifacts from the time. No later indie rock or punk song will ever be as subversive or weird as ACTUAL MUSIC FROM 1962 which sounds so weird and alien and uncool to us.
Couldn’t agree...