January 2012
2 posts
1 tag
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? - NYTimes.com →
(via Instapaper)
December 2011
1 post
Watch(via The iPhone Is ‘The Snapshot Camera Of Today’ - Business Insider)
November 2011
1 post
'X' marks the spot →
October 2011
3 posts
How a freelance journalist got pwned and got paid... →
Top response from ‘Speakerninny’ (in comments):
[…] BTW, journalist to journalist.
Avoid use words like “postmodern” unless you are serious in describing your email account as “one of your “chief platforms of interaction with the world”. In which case this pompous word is appropriate.
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Next pitch to editors: “How I stuck my fingers in a power socket and ended...
September 2011
6 posts
NYC June 2011 →
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“the next [iPhone] will have to bring dramatic improvements in performance to...”
– Yup, Apple is quaking in its boots at the competition, after having doubled market share in 2011Q2 to take the lead in smartphone sales with its ancient iPhone 4.
Moronic hack-journalism from the Guardian.
Apple staffer loses test iPhone in bar – again | Technology | guardian.co.uk
August 2011
16 posts
25k Sunday ride →
Word of the day: Vexillology →
Most likely to hear: “The 1951 Libyan flag has a high likelihood of being re-adopted, according to a leading vexillologist”; least likely to hear: “my personal vexillologist upped the number of reps on my squats”
20k high cadence →
Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone... →
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WatchAudioboo / Leana Hosea speaks to Croydon looters on @bbcworldservice) #londonriots
Theresa May: We can cut police budget without... →
“The British public don’t simply resort to violent unrest in the face of challenging economic circumstances.” - British home secretary, Theresa May.
How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win... →
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July 2011
4 posts
Apple Now Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government →
Another ‘bizarro’ outcome from the actions of the ‘right-wing nutters’ in the US Congress.
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
14 posts
“[Sony] has designed innovative tablet computers that could compete with Apple’s...”
– Tech-reporting like it’s 1999.
The Economist is notable for many things - unalloyed sycophancy toward money and power, par exemple - but technology has never been its forte.
Sony and its boss: Stringer theory | The Economist
Venice →
Laila Lalami Defends Dominique Strauss-Kahn's... →
Superb parody of the recent borderline misogynistic piece by Bernard-Henri Lévy defending his friend DSK. Thanks to my friend Andrea for bringing this to my attention, as I have little desire myself for wading through the squalid media cesspool that has been generated by this tragic event.
“Ainvayi Ainvayi” - Salim Merchant...
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“When the Coen Brothers made “True Grit” the media smelled a trend....”
– David Thomson writing in Esquire. Came across this unexpectedly erudite essay on the death of film, as I indulge my guilty pleasure of reading lads mags while at the hairdresser. Kudos to Google Docs OCR for the transcription.
“a weak, midget-kicking phony tough guy”
– Bill Keller as described by Taki
High Life | The Spectator
Today's #AV vote
Voting systems are an attempt to reduce the complexity of intent in a population to a single dimension. Inevitably, this entails some compromise. No voting system is perfect, and all entail degrees of imperfection.
The UK recently dropped to a dismal 28/65th OECD countries for school maths performance, so it’s not surprising that the public debate on AV has tended to shun careful analysis...
April 2011
15 posts
