January 2011
23 posts
“Mechanized assignments generate 4.9 times more revenue than ideas generated by...”
– Demand Media’s Planet of the Algorithms - BusinessWeek
“The monologue isn’t so much about introducing Eisenberg to the audience so much...”
– Saturday Night Live Recap: Jesse Eisenberg Meets Mark Zuckerberg, Fred Armisen Does His Hosni Mubarak — Vulture
“Its second act would conclude with the young Ernest walking into a saloon,...”
– The Art of Good Writing - Financial Times
“The MLA convention is probably the safest place on earth.”
– The 126th MLA Convention: Invite Us All In! | The Awl
“Get used to hearing about how beautiful your culture is and how we’re all...”
– How to be Jewish - Thought Catalog
“She’s a good person, she talks about AIDS and stuff. But she’s not...”
– Barbara’s Backlash | The Magazine | Vanity Fair
“Price emerged as perhaps the first significant American novelist to compose a...”
– Classics Rock!: In Memory of Reynolds Price: Copperline and New Hymn/James Taylor
“On a train to Beijing in the middle of the night, a man readies himself for...”
– The Millions : Darts and Philosophy, Bowling and Metaphysics: A Primer on the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Femmes De Dictateur
Recently, the women of the world’s dictators and self-declared Presidents-for-life, have been in the headlines. And they are often just as involved in getting ill-gotten gains.
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, ex-dictator, Haiti. Ex-Husband of wife Michele Bennett who ”refrigerated a room of the presidential palace so she could comfortably wear her fur coats in tropical...
"At a depth of 4,200ft, a dribble of water...
James Cameron is building a submarine to obtain footage from the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, for Avatar II. He’ll be repeating a descent first accomplished by the U.S. Navy in 1960, and by few since. Here’s hoping the footage is higher quality than those Deepwater Horizon cameras, another disaster that Cameron had a hand in. No, I’m just kidding, Pochanatos 3D was...
“Grant achieved his easy look only through meticulous planning…...”
– Becoming Cary Grant - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Everything is in color and I can feel the air. I can see it, I can see all the...”
– Grandma on acid! Researcher finds rare footage of 1950s housewife in LSD experiment - Daily Mail
“Therapy gave this young man a coherent narrative of his life; it had demystified...”
– Does Insight in Therapy Equal Happiness? Not Always - NYTimes.com
“The re-rise of curation is partly about crowd curation — not one person,...”
– Curation is the New Search is the New Curation - Infectious Greed
“People talk about living a double life. I was actually living three lives. I...”
– Inside stories: The art of infiltration - Crime, UK - The Independent
“What’s surprising isn’t that students from elite universities have a leg up;...”
– Brown and Cornell are Second-Tier - Chronicle of Higher Education
“I have this fantasy that I mention “Google” to my grandchildren and...”
– Decline and Fall of the Google Empire | TheMediaBriefing
“In Texas, the martial arts of choice is the handgun,” he said. “If...”
– Straight-shooting press corps members get CHL permits for express access to Texas Capitol | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regional News
“Caroline began to ask Hannah, just as Hannah had once asked me, if she...”
– The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie | Orion Magazine
“They showed men scenes from “9 1/2 Weeks” — specifically, from the more...”
– In women’s tears, a chemical cold shower - New York Times
“It may be that exercising allows you to become a little less stupid as a result...”
– Alcohol and Exercise - NYTimes.com
“I like plots, and I work at them a lot; perhaps that’s one reason why...”
– Writers pick their favourite short stories | Books | The Guardian
“She has a way of moving as she talks that suggests thought is a kind of physical...”
– Transcending the Human, DIY Style - Wired 