December 2009
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“I suppose that’s a major theme of this decade that has just been: the failure of...”
– ck/ck: The Sound Of My Head Banging Against The Wall (via inky) (via marco)
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“Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them...”
– Alice Hoffman (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“The blend of fiction, bigotry and jingoism became known as ‘yellow journalism.’...”
– jon stewart (america: the book) (via quellequaintrelle)
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To title too assemble hard. →
(via You Suck at Craigslist) For those looking for a free blinder, and/or a free expressor machine.  I double-plus dare you not to giggle.
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“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and...”
– Tom Bodett (via chickenshit) (via quote-book)
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“It’s impossible to write about how human activities are altering the climate...”
– Begley, bringing rationality. (via newsweek)
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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the...”
– Woodrow T. Wilson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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“During my time in Washington, the quantity of information has increased but its...”
– Samuelson, with his take on what’s wrong with journalism. (via newsweek) (Read Robert Samuelson’s column, and read Morris Fiorina’s article Electoral Behaviour in the USA: the Newest Results in PDF - both are excellent.)
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“Dan Frommer is 27 years old and works as a writer for a technology Web site....”
– Lyons, explaining the Comcast-NBC deal (via newsweek) (Nuts to TV)
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Welcome to Your New Job!
newsweek: The world of digital sweatshops: At the bottom of the pyramid are mindless tasks that are still too tricky for a computer to handle. Amazon’s little-known but game-changing Mechanical Turk offers tasks for as little as penny a pop. One task displays pictures and asks “Turkers” to label them with keywords. Another seeks people who know coffee-shop owners—and then asks them to send the...
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“The GOP is a top-down, wait-your-turn, establishmentarian organization. Three of...”
– Romano, asking whether Sarah Palin is being too selfish. (via newsweek)
Dec 28th
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I AM LOCKING THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ON OUR SEX LIFE →
newsweek: meaghano: via mcsweeney’s internet tendency. I’m sorry that it has been necessary for this article to become one of only a handful of fully protected articles editable only by administrators, but Wikipedia is a serious and worthy endeavor, which you have repeatedly attempted to compromise by means of proxy IP addresses, puppet user accounts, and your bitch friend Carol. Love this....
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