December 2011
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Do you need a dead rat sent to your enemy? →
We are a company committed to the spiteful and timely dissemination of dead rats to our customers mortal enemies. We, the Company, basically want to offer a community of dead rats to the consumer economy at large. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely until you start mailing people dead rats for twenty-five dollars a rat, pro-rata. The good Lord once said, Vengeance is mine, but...
Scripting News: How to move a domain from GoDaddy... →
“The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained...”
– A Literary History of Word Processing - NYTimes.com (via thisistheverge)
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Bourbon’s All-American Roar →
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Something About Occupy: (With a Primer)
There are few answers to be found here. For a while now, I’ve been setting out to write about the much discussed Occupy Wall St. movement. I have written here and there little bits, no more than notes, about my impressions of it at any given moment. I have cautiously spied local iterations of the group, half-heartily observing it from a block or so away — not interested in engaging with it here...
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“But I think that we don’t entirely do our favorite artists, or works of art, a...”
– The Awl on Louis C.K.
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“But what Christopher showed me—and I keep it in mind now wherever I...”
– Daniel C. Dennett
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“I don’t even know what I want to look at most days ending and beginning the day...”
– The Condition: The Eye That Never Blinks | The Awl (via thisistheverge)
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Forensic Examiner Found No Match of Cables on... →
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Why apps are not the future →
Dave Winer speaks truth.
He may have coined the term “natural born blogger” but it applies to him more than just about anyone.
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On the Passing of Christopher Hitchens
In one of his later essays, ‘Unspoken Truths’, Hitchens wrote:
The most satisfying compliment a reader can pay is to tell me that he or she feels personally addressed.
If it was Hitchens’ biting arguments and effortless writing that drew me to him, then it was the sense that he writing to me that fiercely held my attention. His writing placed that weird curse we sometimes...
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“It does concentrate the mind, of course, to realise that your life is more...”
– Hitchens
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“Editing Christopher Hitchens, who died Thursday at the age of 62, was the...”
– June Thomas on editing Hitchens at Slate
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WatchThe Immortal Rejoinders of Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011: In Memoriam →
Christopher was the beau ideal of the public intellectual. You felt as though he was writing to you and to you alone.
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“Here’s what I learned from Christopher Hitchens in the 25 years I knew him....”
– Christopher Hitchens’ death: His generosity to young people was amazing. - Slate Magazine
@jacobwe nails Hitch’s awe-inspiring integrity
(via felixsalmon)
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“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nevver)
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“My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of...”
– The great Christopher Hitchens in his essay “Unspoken Truths”
That is a man I will miss very much.
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“It’s not really their Germanic features and grooming that interest the...”
– Angela Merkel and the Euro Crisis - NewsWeek / Daily Beast
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The Verge: Louis C.K. sells his latest live show... →
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Inside Romania's secret CIA prison →
Unlike the CIA’s facility in Lithuania’s countryside or the one hidden in a Polish military installation, the CIA’s prison in Romania was not in a remote location. It was hidden in plain sight, a couple blocks off a major boulevard on a street lined with trees and homes, along busy train tracks.
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My favorite podcast: Roderick on the Line →
“You know what they say: Go Beat or go home.”
– They is actually me.
Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters →
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire…
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“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald from his essay “The Crack-Up”
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Larry David's Rough Night Out With The Aging... →
It had been thirty hard years since Yates had written what he considered his best book. At least Larry David still treated him as an imposing figure.
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