December 2008
37 posts
Dec 31st
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Andy Warhol Interviews Steven Spielberg. For some reason, I’m catching a liar vibe from Spielberg.
Dec 31st
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around...”
– Paul Graham Cities and Ambition
Dec 31st
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Single Handedly Making Wise Decisions
This guy named Tim DeChristopher, an economics student at the University of Utah, decided to throw a wrench in the leasing process of hundreds of acres of federal land the Bush administration had allowed access to recently. He participated in the bidding, drove the prices up, and even won some auctions. Of course this pissed everyone off and he is more than likely going to be prosecuted. The...
Dec 31st
Worms in Australia are Weird
Joshua: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pokerchampdaniel/3136421527/
David: whoooooooooooooa
Joshua: nice one
David: intense
Joshua: it's like a dog penis worm
Dec 31st
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I eat this shit up. History of the World - Stop motion lego style (via Vimeo)
Dec 30th
“The concept of the passive house, pioneered in this city of 140,000 outside...”
– The Energy Challenge - No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in Innovative ‘Passive Houses’ - Series - NYTimes.com
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“From the earthquake in Sichuan to the subway bombings in London to the recent...”
– Letter From Athens: Greek Tragedies and the News Media in the Age of Twitter - NAM
Dec 16th
“This would be a problem if most of what we consumed during our big-spending...”
– Robert Reich’s Blog: The Logic of Keynes in Today’s World
Dec 16th
velociroflcoptersaurus →
Hadn’t heard of this one before, but apparently it’s a new trend.
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
Universal Login
I just wrote this article for internal use at work. One of the bigger social media stories to emerge the last few months has been the competition to provide universal login and profile information across the web by three separate groups comprised of the heavy hitters in online applications. Facebook is offering Facebook Connect, MySpace has teamed up with Google to offer its MySpaceID, and the...
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“Fed up with earbud-wearing, cell phone-yakking motorists who don’t heed...”
– Seismic Siren Shakes Up Distracted Drivers
Dec 10th
“When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to...”
– Haruki Murakami
Dec 10th
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Paris in September... →
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Paris in September 2009.
Dec 9th
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Montréal in February... →
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Montréal in February 2009.
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“Take that, The French!”
– dalas verdugo
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When those people you hear about talk to you...
Like a good little change supporter, I subscribed to the President-Elect’s blog when he got it up and running. Since then I’ve seen a lot of fluffy posts about what he is doing, what is going on, how the transition is shaping up, et cetera. The thing that has been catching my eye are the videos, however. They’ve had a lot of content and I started watching some of it just to see...
Dec 3rd
“But what angered Mr D’Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police...”
– Mumbai photographer: I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back - World news, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Dec 3rd
“According to the police records, the boy told a Child Protective Services...”
– Boy ‘killed father after 1,000 smacks’ - Telegraph
Dec 3rd
Doctors don't know why my legs are getting bigger... →
Dec 3rd