January 2010
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December 2009
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Listensomesongsconsidered: “One More Time” – Daft Punk...
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Don’t be Stupid About Christmas →
azspot: 1)  The X in X-mas is not a serious issue, if it is for you, it may merely reveal an ignorance of Church History. 2)  Jesus was not born on December 25. Seriously, He wasn’t. 3)  The wise men did not show up at the manger scene. More than likely they showed up years later. They also did not smell like smoke, even though they “came from a fire.’” 4)  Contrary to the scene on your...
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
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Hand me a PEN so I can make a note of this, am I...
nostrich: Here’s something: Penne. I cooked a dinner of pasta with pepperoni, peppers, tomato, paprika, and parsley last night. It was incredible. Even Heather liked it, and you know women are when men cook. But we had a brief disagreement about the pronunciation of “Penne” and it turns out we were both wrong. She pronounces it PEN-ay (/ˈpɛneɪ/), the American way, and I’ve always pronounced it...
Dec 24th
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ListenSigur Rós - Christmas Song (or ég fæ...
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“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you...”
– Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) Schmidt got a pounding from the web for saying this, mostly because he’s being hypocritical. I’m hoping that what he really meant is that you shouldn’t be “posting it or searching for it” in the public internet, because that’s like...
Dec 11th
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Poked and Prodded
rach: The generally fantastic William Deresiewicz has written an essay in this month’s Chronicle of Higher Education weighing in on the historical perception of friendship over time, and how it has evolved from the romantic ideal of the Keats era into facebook updates and twitter followers. It’s a little bit curmudgeonly and grandfatherish, but for the most part he writes beautifully, and about...
Dec 10th
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merlin: weselec: Granted, having a public following can be meaningful for more than social reasons, which a relatively public figure may have, but if you’re there to be social, and that’s largely the way you use the network, what’s the point of leaving the gate open at all? Is the issue simply that the signal-to-noise when you already reach a large audience is too low to ever be worth wading...
Dec 9th
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List of Lists
Kottke has the Noughtie List, a one person curation thing. Rex on the other hand has a crowdsourced aggregate thing going.
Dec 8th
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“Sometimes the experience of the voices was ecstatic, sometimes so much so that...”
– From a David Foster Wallace short story.
Dec 7th
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WatchWatch
SNL finally did a parody of “Juggalo” concerts.
Dec 6th