October 2009
71 posts
Horowitz, Adam. Daily Show heckler a sign that... →
Anna Baltzer tells me that The Daily Show’s staff said last night’s heckler was their first in 11 years on the air. Wow. I thought Dr. Barghouti’s response to the interruption was brilliant:
This severe reaction sometime reflects certain nervousness on the side of people who are afraid of change. And the change is happening, the change is coming. Palestinians like everybody else are entitled to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Kanon Wakeshima (68)
Belle and Sebastian (44)
The Blow (23)
Khaled (14)
Toby Goodshank (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Shankland, Stephen. White House Web site makes... →
Joyce, Christopher. Spider wranglers weave... →
This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk.
Weavers in Madagascar took four years to make it, and the museum says there’s no other like it in the world.
Happy anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt! →
“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”
Blankford, Jeffrey. Whatever happened to the war... →
There’s a logical fallacy here, but the question remains an interesting one.
Happy Mol Day!
Especially to Weird Al Yankovic, who turns 50 today.
OH HEY HAPPY CAPS LOCK DAY EVERYBODY. →
AFP. US bands blast use of music in Guantanamo... →
Visuwords: online graphical dictionary and... →
Neat, Jim. Thanks
Ragan, Sean Michael. Pop-up Lego Zen temple is... →
(via The Worst Horse)
Belmont, Veronica. Pink is the new STFU. →
“It’s amazing when the media is literally distracted by a bright shiny...”
– Liz Weinstead
Pilon, Mary. How a fight over a board game... →
IDF. Latest diabetes figures paint grim global... →
If you haven’t already, check out the video I posted a couple days ago.
NASA. Ares I-X secured at the launch pad. →
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via bbones)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
Autechre (21)
Thomas Bangalter (3)
Junior Byles (1)
Justin Timberlake (1)
The Consort of Musicke (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Hah, this was the Car Talk puzzler a couple months...
bbones:
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications’
…incomprehensibleness
Alcorn, Chauncey. Woman sues Toyota over... →
wtf, over.
lookmom:
thirdannual:
Voicemail from Neighbor of...
Björk. Wanderlust. →
Posting this so I remember to look at it after work.
Carroll, Sean. Spooky signals from the future... →
John Daido Loori, Roshi (1931-2009) →
Yoder, Sean-Michael. Vinyl solution. →
“Instead of making and performing music on a laptop, New York’s Vinyl Life are looking to the past to inspire their own brand of futuristic dance music.”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11) →
anthony braxton, taylor ho bynum (6)
Semiautomatic Ground Environment (2)
The Knife (1)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (1)
Nine Inch Nails (1)
Imported from Last.fm…
White, Michael. Sunday Science Book Club. →
Review of The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, by Graham Farmelo.
Alleyne, Richard. God is not the Creator, claims... →
“Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis — ‘In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth’ — is not a true translation of the Hebrew.”
Oversimple headline, so read on.
(via nickdouglas)
“Cleary Glenn Beck is as sincere in what he says and does as I am… And...”
– Stephen Colbert
Jarnow, Jesse. On the Abandon Ship Label and Its... →