August 2010
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Palestinian kills 4 Israelis on eve of peace talks →
One was pregnant. Here’s to another goddamn New Year.
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SNFU - “Devil’s Voice”
Tyler...
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Foursquare offers reward for checking in after STD... →
Who’s going to make the Rex Sorgatz joke?
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Lilit's Book Is Out Today!
peterfeld:
Time to order a copy of Save The Assistants!
b5media:
lilitmarcus:
Six years ago tomorrow, I moved to New York. I didn’t know anyone here. My parents told me they’d see me in six months, after I got this thing out of my system. I wanted to write a book, and the subject eventually found me. Today, the product of all the terrible...
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City's Worst Slumlords Outed on New Online...
nycthe:
“I feel like the poorest New Yorker,” he said through a translator.
City’s Worst Slumlords Outed on New Online Database [DNAinfo]
Let’s George Lynch the Landlord.
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The August Day Plutocracy Would Love Us to Forget →
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the most ‘radical speech’ an American ex-President has ever delivered. Now, this means that our government, national and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business...
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leoncrawl:
Wait, why would a punk metal band have a guy skanking as their logo? That’s just bad branding.
Excellent question and Wikipedia, of course, provides an excellent answer:The “Skanker Man” logo was designed by original Drummer Eric Brecht as a high school art assignment to create a “corporate” logo. He got an “A” on it. Ska, by the early 80s, was...
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rickwebb:
Young Manhattanite: nycthe: … Some people care about the community they live in, Rick….
nycthe:
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Some people care about the community they live in, Rick.
OH NO! Makes you wish you hadn’t bothered looking at Tumblr almost EVER?? Pretty severe, dude. Where’d you get the ounce of outrage to think that? And congratulations on the most asinine defense for littering and...
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Not watching the Emmys (never have and most likely never will) but speaking of “entertainment,” I just got around to reading the recent Jason Bateman profile in New York mag. This is my favorite part:David Cross, his Arrested co-star (and fantasy-baseball-league-mate, along with Olbermann), says Bateman “was a natural leader on set. He fought for us, and I remember being so moved when...
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Category:Bisexual musicians →
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nycthe:
rickwebb:
Wow. This whole thing makes me wish I hadn’t bothered looking at Tumblr today. Or, almost ever. What’s the situation here? Someone made a boring sorta bad ad campaign? For an internet company? That someone owns some of? And that person owns something else? And someone reported on it?
God, I own things, make ads, own an internet company and write, and I still can’t work up...
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Why shouldn't a stripper wear reading glasses? →
changetheratio:
I get that John Mayer is annoyed by an unconfirmed, shoddily-reported story suggesting he and Jennifer Aniston may be back together, but why does he need to slide into sexis
Should’ve pitched it to Jezebel.
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Government Issue - “Vanity Fare”
In...
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I agree with you, Peter! →
charitini:
peterfeld:
Sorry Glynnis and Rachel. This isn’t the post-9/11 New York I remember at all. Yes, we were anxious and depressed. I stopped going out that fall. But the more dominant emotion, I remember well, was that we pulled together, even though there would have been lots of room for hatred then if that had been our bent. We cheered people we hated, like (in my case) Mayor Giuliani....
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WPIX, your heart is in the right place but you... →
Update: peterfeld replies, “The ad agency should have been cited, but calling out the company and investors is legit. The investors have a pretty good idea of what Zynga is all about.”
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I’m not going to bother linking, because I’m lazy (persecution is hard!), but a couple more points about social media and influences, yadda yadda. As near as I can tell, many of the ‘players’ now (willfully and not) engaged in this 36 hour ‘scandal’ (to date: Zygna, Fred Wilson, Davis Elen, and Lockhart Steele, who raised his hand to join, and some other folks...
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Coming Soon: What Was the Hipster? →
Hello from the n+1 office. We’re hard at work making the next installment of our small book series, What Was the Hipster? Based on a panel discussion of the same name held at the New School last spring—featuring editor Mark Greif, hipster critic Christian Lorentzen, and contributor Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture—the book represents our investigation of the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster....
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daviselen:
Hey guys, great stuff coming up! We’re getting Morgan Spurlock and Chrissie Hynde together for an exciting new viral campaign. We’ve had such a wild response to our cool new Mafia Wars ‘guerrilla’ campaign, that several of our other clients have asked if there is a way to illegally appropriate public resources for their gain as well. Exciting billable hours to come!
How long before...
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East Village Feed: Update: Zynga's Agency to Clean... →
nycthe:
Zynga’s agency, Davis Elen, has responded and has committed to clean up the ‘Mafia Wars’ campaign within a week. We will keep everyone updated, but this is great news.
Everyone - thank you for your help spreading the word about this campaign: NYTimes, BusinessInsider, …
Also, YM and Peter Feld were killing it.
Do you hear that? It’s the sound of activist bloggers giving a...
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Things I DO Understand And WILL Definitely Talk...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Today is 8/26. Have you donated to 826NYC yet? A donation of $8.26 can help 826NYC purchase six-and-a-half boxes of pencils.
Do you know how many students can write how many stories and work on how many hours of homework while using your six and a half boxes of pencils at the free after-school tutoring and writing programs that 826NYC provides?
A lot of students. A...
