May 2012
49 posts
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year...”
– The Great Gatsby - Wikiquote
This makes sense. A FB branded browser would... →
“Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be...”
– Joan Didion
Fox sues Dish over commercial skipping, claims... →
So many Apple Apps missing from the iPad. WHY?
Clock (including timer, stopwatch, alarm clock, world clock), Calculator, Stocks, Weather.
I don’t get it, Apple. Why am I using shitty third party versions when you could just port the iPhone versions. You’re on iPad 3 and IOS 5 and you haven’t ported Clock, Calculator, Stocks and Weather? I don’t get it.
There’s no reason why I should have to choose between a...
UPS needs to say Morning or Afternoon or Evening...
For Residential Delivery, saying that you’ll be here today is not enough. I need to know Morning or Afternoon. I just spent all morning here waiting, so I guess my package is coming in the afternoon. I now have to leave and will miss my package, no doubt spiraling until I have to drive out to your warehouse and I wonder why you bother claiming you’re a package delivery company when...
Short film make me believe. Pete Rose deserves to... →
Dan Harmon writes about his firing from Community →
danharmon:
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
When The NBA Realized That The Maloofs Were Being... →
The company boasts 901 million regular users and... →
Oakland A's move might be considered →
Hero Dennis Kucinich opts out of Washington state... →
"That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the... →
The Eisenhower family criticized the original... →
With IPO looming, Facebook boosts stock price... →
How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 →
“I would invest in Facebook,” Wozniak said in an... →
On Facebook, deleting an app doesn’t delete your... →
The Alien Mystique: Megan Draper and the Upending... →
SongMeanings | Lyrics | Steely Dan - Gaucho →
Mittens Romney's team starts to look like Bush's →
Biff Tannen Has a Business Card that Answers All... →
What is a hipster? →
The AFP ad, indeed, was riddled with falsehoods... →
Mittens Romney apologizes for high school... →
Romney said the incident involving cutting the hair of John Lauber, whom some students suspected was gay, occurred “a long time ago.”
Monster Mittens Romney apologizes for high school... →
Mittens Romney’s view on same-sex marriage: "some... →
Mittens Romney’s view on same-sex marriage isn’t evolving at all. He told a local reporter here today that domestic partnership benefits — including hospital visitation rights– are “appropriate, but that the others are not.”
How a US soldier finally got his Pastafarian... →
I don’t have any intention of purchasing PC... →
we need to “design for productive failure” →
Light from 'super-Earth' seen for first time -... →
CIA solves CIA plot! Would-be underwear bomber a... →
Big Pharma Gets Cannabis Approved in 10 more... →
Dont Kill Me, Bro: New Study Refutes Claim That... →
Report: Fifteen Percent Of Earth’s Population... →
In short, Pebble is an iPhone for your wrist. And... →
What if realists were in charge of U.S. foreign... →
USA Today renames Pepper spray to Stinging gas →
PEPPER SPRAY sends May Day protesters in Oakland... →
Unexceptionalism: A Primer by E. L. DOCTOROW
Truly incredible recap of the last ten horrible years of American decline:
To achieve unexceptionalism, the political ideal that would render the United States indistinguishable from the impoverished, traditionally undemocratic, brutal or catatonic countries of the world, do the following:
PHASE ONE
If you’re a justice of the Supreme Court, ignore the first sacrament of a democracy and suspend...
“No one we went to as an investor said, ‘Oh, your... →