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• links for 2009-02-28

  Periodic Table of Cupcakes (via design observer) (tags: food) List of Words it is NOT ok to ever say. I disagree with the inclusion of "Meh." It is sometimes the only word one can say. (tags: humor language)

  28 Feb 2009 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2009-02-27

  Smitten: We Left Two Cameras on New York City Benches. What Happened Next? A couple disposable cameras result in an brief outpouring of cute that only New York can provide. (What? What part of that doesn't make sense? It's not like I'm talking about Philly.) (tags: photography art new_york sappy) swissmiss: Toothpaste Type: Heldentica.ttf And [...]

  27 Feb 2009 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2009-02-26

  furialog: 7 Habits of Partly Successful People (tags: humor productivity) DNA India: VHP wants India to ban American products over H1B visa issue If wisdom, calm, and the constant search for truth are virtues in Hinduism, then the VHP is hard-pressed to call itself a pious Hindu organization. (tags: hinduism politics india stupidity)

  26 Feb 2009 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2009-02-25

  WSJ: The Repair of The Paul Randolph Building at Yale May Help Other Structures in Need of Restoration The irony of historical preservation: the same movement to prevent Brutalist architecture from overrunning older buildings is now helping to preserve Brutalist masterpieces from their own demise due to neglect and popular backlash. (tags: architecture design history [...]

  25 Feb 2009 Uncategorized; 2 comments. permalink   

• in which i remember that i need to edit my page’s LI tags

  The first published top10 this year. 1) Indie Rokkers • Time To Pretend EP • MGMT 2) Three More Days • Till The Sun Turns Black • Ray LaMontagne 3) Notebooks • Wake Up, Thunderbabe • The Battle Royale 4) Eyes • … • Rogue Wave 5) I’m the Man Who Loves You • Yankee [...]

  25 Feb 2009 Music; no comments. permalink   

• misunderestimating obama

  From tonight’s address to Congress: But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it. The first internal combustion engine was [...]

  25 Feb 2009 Economics, History, Politics; no comments. permalink   

• tech stifling we can believe in

  I hate to say I told you so, techhie and dynamist Obamaniacs, but: I told you so. President Obama plans to appoint current Federal Trade Commission member Jon Leibowitz to lead the agency, which partially enforces antitrust laws and has taken a recent interest in online advertising. . . . “Industry needs to do a [...]

  24 Feb 2009 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2009-02-24

  Last.fm – the Blog: "Techcrunch are full of shit" The hacks at Tech Crunch post a rumor whose source neither Last.fm nor the RIAA know about. Congrats, chumps, you're sending the digital journalism community back several years with every post. (tags: music business stupidity) The Distributed Republic: Deflating Populism How full of crap ARE alarmist [...]

  24 Feb 2009 Uncategorized; 2 comments. permalink   

• links for 2009-02-21

  NYT: Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems (via Daring Fireball) (tags: tech hacks) Kottke: Self-adjusting lenses An English physicist has made $19 eyeglasses with self-adjusting gel lenses. They're meant for people in developing countries who can't afford good eyewear, but it would certainly make it easier to afford contacts _and_ glasses for people in the first [...]

  21 Feb 2009 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• rick santelli’s capitalist rant

  He’s no Jim Mora (he actually makes sense), but CNBC’s longtime man in Chicago works up the crowd at the CBOT: (via Jeremy H)

  20 Feb 2009 Economics, Politics; one comment. permalink