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RT @mariancw: Iraq has been deadliest war for the media since WW2, w/ 230 murders of journalists & media workers. http://bit.ly/a6AVtx
OKCupid has an awesome chart about "What xx people like": Among Asians, vietnamese food is tops. As it should be. http://gizmo.do/dBirN0
Google Instant Search does not live-refresh as you type in "fuck". Their fancy invention is useless to 90% of Internet users.
From the bottom of this CJR piece: TPM, using chartbeat, found that most readers quit before midway of long stories http://bit.ly/9YElPn
RT @ProPublica: Announcing the ProPublica Nerd Blog. http://bit.ly/bytJ4c
DailyFinance @jeffbercovici looks at media vs. Huff Po's obsession with balloon boy http://bit.ly/aXGuT2
Foreign Policy: How different is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? http://bit.ly/9Z7i5p
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Williamsburg rooftop, into Manhattan
SoHo graffiti, near Thompson St.
East Village auto garage graffiti
From the deck of the New Museum
Wednesday 3:00
What happens when your rand() function sucks: http://bit.ly/hzIYF h/t @reddit
Slate's Tim Noah examines U.S. income equality with a visual guide: http://bit.ly/ancGwa
Awa Dancing Festival in Kouenji, Tokyo
...and one was playing his guitar at day break.
Thursday 4:51
Hm: @reddit says that media should stop calling it "small" when it has 40% more pageviews than Digg now http://bit.ly/cN0g9F
I love how this becomes notable only b/c of FB. This asshole would've killed were it the paper's wedding section http://bit.ly/aSeUDA
Study: old people like reading shit about young people http://j.mp/d6BENy
This bus-thief needs to be the next "Catch Me If You Can" movie http://nyti.ms/cllMZd
Is there any question why Metro deserves it's claim of being the highest circ daily newspaper in the world? http://yfrog.com/5u93010350j
Admins from @reddit tell redditors to stop with the internet vigilante lynch mobs http://bit.ly/9991IG
Glenn Beck vs. Martin Luther King Jr. Both of them have done more than I have (including owning a DeLorean) http://bit.ly/aqHxKS
OK New Museum, I will join you for now, thanks to Groupon. I just want to see the view http://bit.ly/bOVbh1
I love that there's a free collection of Google map icons, thanks to Nico Mollet & myBCN http://bit.ly/gXt6I #boredonaSunday
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Questionable Psychic #392: Missing Jacquelyn Kotarac
There’s no point in piling upon the sordid, awful, pointless death of Jacquelyn Kotarac, a respected 49-year-old doctor who apparently got stuck in the chimney of her estranged boyfriend’s home while trying to break in, and where she was found dead after her body decomposed. But this small related detail in the Bakersfield Californian follow-up [...]
How Researchers Keep Their Bedbugs Alive
The NYT looks at the scientific research side of bedbugs. It’s as gross as you might expect: The classic bedbug strain that all newly caught bugs are compared against is a colony originally from Fort Dix, N.J., that a researcher kept alive for 30 years by letting it feed on him. But Stephen A. Kells, [...]
Col. Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D: F*** Powerpoint, Afghanistan edition
Colonel Sellin, who was fired from his post after writing this awesomely frank description of his duties as staff officer at ISAF Joint Command in Afghanistan for UPI. Excerpting doesn’t do it justice, but here are some highlights: For headquarters staff, war consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the [...]
Summer’s Almost Over (Battery Park)
Battery Park, originally uploaded by zokuga. Sigh.
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“If you can sleep with it, do it”; New Orleans cops given orders to shoot looters
New evidence and reports showing that New Orleans police were given orders to shoot looters in order to take back the city after Hurricane Katrina, a fundamental change in use-of-force policies. This gives some context to the reports of innocents gunned down during that chaotic time. The story is the result of an investigation by [...]
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Settlers of Catan: A peaceful “Monopoly Killer”
Just finished reading this 2009 Wired piece by Andrew Curry on the popularity of Settlers of Catan, which apparently is the “Mona Lisa” of modern board gaming. The most interesting insights to me were how board games are so popular in Germany that major media review them with the same seriousness as they do movies [...]
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Wikileaks Julian Assange, Ralph-Nadered in Swedish Rape Case?
In retrospect: I used the rightfully-maligned practice of putting a question in a headline to state something which is just pure speculation. I don’t mean to speculate (the rape case has since been dropped, but the molestation charges haven’t), but was more interested in how just about anything Assange-related, particularly in this timeframe, should be [...]
Rep. Ron Paul shows how conservatism is done, re: Cordoba House
In contrast to my previous post on Republican U.S. House candidate Ron McNeil telling schoolkids that Islam is the enemy, Rep. Ron Paul demonstrates what happens when you take conservatism to its logical end (and in the process, showing up even Democrats when it comes to protecting civil rights): I think it’s a big distraction, [...]
Columbus Circle, viewed from Jazz at Lincoln Center