January 2012
Barbara Walters 1995 interview with Courtney...
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nedhepburn:
This is an album for a girl breaking up with a boyfriend for the first time. This is the album that they put on. Later, they will mature, but for now, this is perfect for them.
nedhepburn:
What, do you think you’re too good for Chipotle? It’s a thing. You put it in your mouth and eat it, goddamit.
nedhepburn:
It’s as if someone was trying to make a Lana Del Sandwich, or in this album’s case, a Sadwich.
nedhepburn:
And somehow, people drifted to different parts of the globe and settled and now we’ve pretty much filled out the whole planet except for the oceans but that’ll probably happen sooner or later
nedhepburn:
And then there were smart people.
nedhepburn:
Fucking dinosaurs! Think about it!
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Watch92y:
In our spare time, we like volunteering, long walks on the beach, the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal, and putting together highlight reels of dunks from the 92Y Adult Basketball League.
The next league begins February 21.
Sweet dunks.
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Tilt - “Unlucky Lounge”
How are you...
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ninety9:
“They could hire 3,000 people overnight,” said Jennifer Rigoni, who was Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?” It would be nice to cross-reference this article with the dust-up a couple weeks ago about how hard it is to be an engineer at a...
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Ned Hepburn
writersroutines:
Ned Hepburn has worked with/for Interview, Black Book, Vice, MTV news, Thought Catalog, Bust, National Geographic Channel. I wrote to him and asked how he got started as a freelance writer and what’s his writing routine. He wrote back to me!
“Right now, not many people are paying for writing, which is terrible. But the doors are wide open, as long as you don’t mind the shitty...
Am I A Troll?
A few days ago, I retweeted the same Childish Gambino lyrics from about twenty different people, twenty times. The line is roughly, “Eating oreos like the white girls that blow me.” I meant to retweet them over at @WhitePowerMilk, but (happily) accidentally put them on my personal account. I think that’s how this conversation got started about retweet curation, twitter as...
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Hiring! Betabeat, social reporters, commercial...
spiers:
Specific holes: I’d like some who’s good with the financing side (potentially someone who’s covered venture capital, can parse a term sheet, etc.) and someone who’s good with finding Fat, Pale Jewish Ass-y angles on big national tech stories.
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People can say what they want about Rolling Stone
but there’s a lot of talent and innovation there.
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Etta James
heatherday7:
I just found out that she has passed :( I’m sad. i know her music will live on forever & I believe it should be played more..when I told 2 of my friends they asked me who that was…I was shocked! how do you NOT know who Etta James was!!!!!!!!!!! Oh. My. Goodness!
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my popsicle stick doesn't have a joke on it
sur-le-tas:
I am appaled
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That moment when ...
inhalefumes:
… you almost feel like ‘this is how a heartache feels like’ and then it suddenly turns into relief.
I just had one. Thought something happened; even though, logically I knew his phone would more than likely be cut off. But I started to worry until I hear his ringtone cut in and I cried in relief. An emotion of relief came over and I just kept crying because I thought something...
Terry Gross’ NPR interview with Jay-Z...
“People with time on their hands drown out more valuable contributors.”
– The Nick Denton Interview: The Failure of Comments
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a stupid idea coming out of an egotist’s mouth — forever.
(via 6h057)
Barbara Manning - “When I Dream”
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Watchtanya77:
mashable:
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
but it wouldn’t. It would create...
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hman:
On opening nights for the neighboring gallery, hipsters wait for seating amid Littleneck’s whitewashed wainscoting and cute nautical doodads.
I’ll make my way over to Littleneck soon, tumblr dude.
The real story: the oysters.
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tanya77:
MPAA Responds to SOPA Protests
soupsoup:
The following is a statement by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on the so-called “Blackout Day” protesting anti-piracy legislation:
“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for...
