quote out of context
If a Press-man Takes too much Inck with his Balls, he Beats Fat.
quote out of context
I wanted to kill Li myself, but I was too weak.
Just like Liz Parker said
My grandmother watched CSPAN like it was a marathon of General Hospital. While she thumbed through the morning’s newspaper and Senate committees hocked in the background, we kids jumped in and out of the swimming pool and then raced each other down to the beach. On the off-chance that she’d manage to grab one of us for a cuddle, Grandma would point at her 6″ television screen and say, “See that man? Look, see that wide smile? That man is a Democrat.
“Now wait. See that scowler? Can y’see how unhappy that man is? That’ll happen to you if you become a Republican.”
I never doubted her, not even for a minute. And then I came across this research, coincidentally from my grandmother’s nephew.
tummy time
I can’t help it; I’m a proud uncle.
Dear clusterflock
On the heels of Sheila’s post, what in your [house/loft/apartment/shoe] piles up first? My studio just seems to grow scarves.
What this says about me…
NYT paywall
This won’t affect me since I read the hard print copy at my local café, but it’s still dumb:
Taking a step that has tempted and terrified much of the newspaper industry, The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it would charge some frequent readers for access to its Web site — news that drew ample reaction from media analysts and consumers, ranging from enthusiastic to withering.
I foresee a bleak, copy-and-paste future for the news organization with my email inbox filled with entire NYT articles from friends who actually shell out the cash for a subscription.
kicking the chicken
Tell me you didn’t do this when you played one of the Zelda games. (thanks, Autumn)
New Digs for the Fancy Avian Platter…
[more pics of our new loft & an invite to NY clusterflockers to the [belated] Sleepingfish 8 launch/loft-warming shindig here]
from the dissent
While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.
Trexa, build your own electric vehicle
Built with carbon steel tubing, aluminum and fiber-reinforced thermoplastics, the modular Trexa platform can contain enough lithium iron phosphate battery modules to carry you 105 miles with dual motors capable of reaching 60 miles per hour in eight seconds. Top speed is a claimed 100 mph. It has impact-absorbing front, rear and side safety structures to help protect you whether you have it outfitted as a city commuter or have it adorned for the weekend with a pickup truck app. There is a 6 kW charger built-in that allows it to go from flat to full in four hours but they also allow access to the main power bus so you could plug into a more powerful off-board rapid charger or, if you want to get fancy, attach a range-extender.
The doppelganger of William S. Burroughs
has been haunting Greenwich Village:
A mini-crime wave among the boutiques and specialty shops of Greenwich Village has a face, and it looks an awful lot like William S. Burroughs’s.
from the comments
So long was that shadow of one so little, stretching across the stubble of the field, snagging and tearing but going on. I would reach home late, and knew it by the light at my back that failed into my larger self. I tried to imagine I was huge, and a faint courage came then with each stitching lift of my shoes. But when I was bigger still—as large as the night—approaching a small light in a window, I stopped, and looked. Fearing to go in to my father.
diamond oceans on Uranus?
Then the diamond did something unexpected. The chunks of diamond didn’t sink. They floated. Microscopic diamond ice burgs floated in a tiny sea of liquid diamond. The diamond was behaving like water.
Awesome.
(via marginal revolution)
mighty big striatum
How well you perform on video games may be determined, at least in part, by the size of a certain region in your brain, a new study suggests. Researchers were able to predict a player’s performance simply based on the size of brain structures linked with learning and memory, with larger being better.
touch sensitive book jacket
(thanks, Elisabeth)
spam name
Krond Simona.
something, 35
Andrew — holding two remotes — won Mr. Bachelor, Brooklyn, 2009. Mary asked, what happened? I was happy to tell her.
Just Longing for the “Good Ole’ Days”
An Atlanta-area sports promoter has announced plans for—brace yourself—a whites-only pro basketball league. Dubbed the “All-American Basketball Alliance,” the league would only be open to “natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race.” The commissioner, former pro-wrestling promoter Don “Moose” Lewis, says the league will tip off in June, with teams in 12 Southern cities. Lewis insists he’s not racist; he just doesn’t like the “street-ball” that “people of color” play.
Ah, yes. Just a nostalgic return to the fundamental basketball of the good ole’ days — it could be painted by Rockwell himself.
I wonder, at what point will “I’m not racist, I just long for the good ole’ days” cease to be a valid defense?
The Futurist
From a NewsWeek profile of Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and futurist who believes the next step in human evolution is a merge with technology he’s calling The Singularity:
Kurzweil took some serious heat on this last point during a panel discussion after the premiere of Transcendent Man at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. Some leading artificial-intelligence experts were in the audience, and they think we are racing toward a dystopian future. But Kurzweil is having none of that—he thinks the “man-machine civilization” is going to be wonderful. He doesn’t argue. He just sits there, smiling. Ask him a pointed question and he just dodges it and launches into another monologue. He has no doubt. None. He is utterly, completely, 100 percent sure that he is going to live forever. He will be reunited with his beloved father, and they will become immortal and spend eternity together. He is absolutely certain about this. Nothing can talk him out of it. And that, at the end of the day, may be the scariest, or saddest, thing of all.
The article is fascinating, not necessarily because his ideas are too grandiose, but because he’s such a serious man.
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No Substitutions
The couple wanted to start a business that reflected their values: a neighborhood shop that purchases top-quality ingredients directly from farmers, makes every pizza by hand and serves great food at affordable prices. They also wanted to make sure their business did not take over their lives.
I love this business concept.
Quote out of context
A man cannot withstand a story, even if the man is remarkable and the story is simple. The story always wins.
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities’
digital 7-inch at Ampeater.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Stripped of Award
Jose Luis Rodriguez recently won the Veolia Environmental Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award in 2009 for this picture of an Ossian Iberian Wolf jumping over a rustic fence. However, it has come to light that the animal in the picture may in fact be a trained animal. This was discerned by “the dark, scar-like sign under the right eye [that] seems to be a unique mark of this individual.”
Not only is it sad that this picture had to be created, but that the false pretenses came undone because these animals are so rare that someone could positively identify one of the remaining specimens in a picture.
More here.
Park City Banksy
New Banksy spotted at Sundance, which starts either today or in a few days.
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Emigre Cover Stories
Emigre Cover Stories is a series of 10 digital collages created specifically for the 2010 exhibit Emigre at Gallery 16 celebrating Emigre’s 25th anniversary. These digital pigment prints, measuring 34 x 46, are signed and numbered and printed in editions of 10 each.
