December 2010
14 posts
November 2010
13 posts
Gate Rape →
urbandictionary.com
noun – The TSA airport screening procedure.
My sister got gate raped at LAX.
See also: freedom fondle
McSweeney's – The Williamsburg Address →
mcsweeneys.net
Absolutely genius re-imagining of the Gettysburg Address as—what else—an epic speech for Williamsburg, Queens-dwelling hipsters.
The brave hipsterati, bearded and bespectacled, who struggled on these streets before being priced out, have shrouded it in permanent air quotes, far above our poor power to tumbl or tweet.
“What file system does a Playstation use and what directories does it put your downloaded games in? The correct answer is: “Who gives a shit?”
—Coyote Tracks – Geek Luddites
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
—Michael Caine
You Fix the Budget →
nytimes.com
The NYTimes interactive deficit project is great. With just some cuts on spending and a few tax increases (carbon), and some major changes to medicare (though I don’t know enough about that, maybe I shouldn’t have capped Medicare in 2013?), I fixed the budget! Easy enough, right?
“I’m sure AT&T’s “standard agreement” with their phone vendors includes something like, “thou shalt prominently display the AT&T logo on thy device, no smaller than one quarter of a handbreadth.” And I’m sure that when Apple first negotiated with AT&T about carrying the iPhone, Steve Jobs lol’ed and told them to gtfo. That’s what he gets paid to do.”
—Neven Mrgan’s tumbl: Sticking it to the stickers
