février 2011
82 billets
Another link to a massive panorama →
janvier 2011
83 billets
America's narcissism taints Egypt coverage →
The question we can’t stop asking ourselves: What do the demonstrations mean for America?
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
hitrecordjoe:
We Americans are giving the Egyptian government shit for trying to block information. Meanwhile, American cable companies refuse to offer this world-renowned news source, which would be the best place on TV for us to see what’s going on over there.
Same picture as the last one: Current Day →
Damn picture file’s too big to upload.
Thus begins THE SEATTLE SERIES
The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You... →
“Kansas is a state of the Union, but it is also a state of mind, a neurotic...”
– William Allen White - Happy 150th (tomorrow), Kansas!
“The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window every two minutes the...”
– Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, In the Shadow of the Moon
“I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox.”
– Sargent Shriver (1915-2011)
hitRECordJoe: The Social Network & My Generationan... →
hitrecordjoe:
The Social Network & My Generation an open letter to my friend Peter Travers Peter, Hey man! So, I finally watched The Social Network the other night, and today I read your review of it, curious about your claim that this film defines my generation. First let me say, I agree that…
“It [JFK’s goal for the fledgling NASA] was beautiful in its simplicity. Do...”
– Mike Collins, Apollo 11, In the Shadow of the Moon
“Note to critics of my twitstream: Life is not a banquet you catered. Here’s what...”
– Roger Ebert. Best tweet ever. (via thatfizzsound)
Maxistentialism: The College Bubble →
maxistentialist:
Peter Thiel, in the National Review:
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it. Housing was a classic bubble, as were tech stocks in the ’90s, because they were both very overvalued, but there was an…
“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”
– Christopher Hitchens (I kind of think he’s a snob but he uses words well and I appreciate that)
In B Flat →
This. Rules.
“When I asked one of Wall Street’s most successful investment-bank CEOs if...”
– The Atlantic, “The Rise of the New Global Elite”, January 2011
“Clearly Mika [Brzezinski] is experiencing what journo-psychologists call...”
– Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report 1/18/11
Report: First Two Years of College Show Small... →
474. If you choose not to own a TV, keep it to...
474. If you choose not to own a TV, keep it to...
