April 2012
52 posts
When someone asks me for advice about life after...
whatshouldwecallme:
When I start getting ready to go out
whatshouldwecallme:
Mad Men Power Rankings: Episode 505, 'Signal 30' →
Mark Lisanti:
“I’ve got it, Don,” he says, weakly, holding a fistful of loose Allen wrenches for some reason. “I fixed it last night.”
“Pete,” Don says. “I’ve got this. I grew up with this.”
“But—”
“Shhh.” Now Don peels off his undershirt, sopping wet from the gushing water. “Hold this, too, would...
“DRM is a religion for old-growth media executives. Rational thought could lead...”
– John Gruber
Second-Act Twist →
Tad Friend:
“Your dad has a Nemo flag on his boat, but he’d never talk to you about it,” Julie said.
Stanton frowned and sighed. He’s grown close to his father in recent years, and even sports a similar beard. “To give my parents credit,” he said, “they did instill my love of movies. They took me to everything from ‘Jaws’ to ‘The Tin Drum,’ and it had a huge effect. I’m always trying to get an...
The Villain →
Roger Lowenstein:
The critique from the right is that the continued steps to stimulate the economy are both unnecessary, given that the financial crisis has passed, and inflationary. Allan Meltzer, an economist and historian of the Fed, says Bernanke is trying to do what is beyond his powers. “The current high unemployment is not a monetary problem,” Meltzer says, meaning we are past the point...
Traveling Sicily – Thoughts & Tips →
N.F. Simpson:
Only rent a car, if you are a confident driver or quickly become one. Otherwise you might get a heart-attack on buzzing city roads, other drivers fooling you by either not using turn indicators or using them unexpectedly, cutting in and out not based on what’s allowed, but on what works. In other countries, two solid lines means no overtaking in either direction, here its a...
The Body Counter →
Tina Rosenberg:
In 2007, the Save Darfur Coalition, a human rights advocacy organization, was called out by the London-based European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council, a group aligned with the government of Sudan. Save Darfur had been running full-page ads stating that 400,000 people had been killed in Darfur. The council brought a complaint to Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority...
“The mere process of conquering the extreme environment of space teaches us so...”
– Space Exploration: When there are so many problems here on earth, should so much money be spent on manned space exploration? - Quora
berberich:
This has to become a regular thing.
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Mad Men Power Rankings: Episode 503, "Tea Leaves"-... →
Mark Lisanti:
“Look. ‘Keef.’ I came here with a proposition. A business proposition. You think you’re above it. But you’re not. Art, like everything, has a price. Rock ‘n’ roll and a can of baked beans, at the end of the day, are both products. Products you and I are selling. If you’re not interested in using your product to help sell my product,...
How to Have a One-Night Stand →
Sarah Walker:
Lie back in bed, trying not to move, but attempt to conjure the other person to wake up. It’s basically like you’re Matilda lifting a piece of chalk with your mind, except you’re you, willing a questionable decision from last night to rise. Pretty much the same thing. To clarify: You’re Matilda and the person next to you is a piece of chalk. Curse yourself for purchasing such a...
Luv and War at 30,000 Feet →
S.C. Gwynne:
Southwest, which had approximately three hundred planes and 31,000 employees at the time, could act faster than other airlines. “While other carriers were cutting back on personnel, we hired 1,500 customer service agents,” says Jim Wimberly, who was the chief operating officer at the time. “We knew that given the short-haul nature of our business plan, we had to do everything to get...
Nicki Minaj Masters The Art Of The Diss Video With... →
Mike Barthel:
Nicki Minaj’s “Stupid Hoe” is supposed to be a diss track aimed at Lil Kim, but in the tradition of diss tracks, it’s pretty weak. Something like Jay-Z’s “Takeover” uses specific, personal information about the people involved, going so far as to propose a mathematical equation at one point. Even Lil Kim’s diss of Nicki, “Black...
I Couch-Surfed Across America—and Lived to Tell →
Tim Murphy:
References are the currency by which CouchSurfing transactions are conducted. It’s a system that encourages aspiring travelers to host as many people as they can and treat them like kings. In Iowa one host took us up in a WWII-era plane over the Mississippi River, then bought us dinner. All he asked, he said, was that we write him nice references; he was planning on going to...
Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment? →
Christina D. Romer:
A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it’s better to produce “real things” than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers. And our earnings from exporting architectural plans for a building in Shanghai are as real as those from exporting cars to Canada. The...
How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
Charles Duhigg:
“We have the capacity to send every customer an ad booklet, specifically designed for them, that says, ‘Here’s everything you bought last week and a coupon for it,’ ” one Target executive told me. “We do that for grocery products all the time.” But for pregnant women, Target’s goal was selling them baby items they didn’t even know they needed yet.
“With the pregnancy products,...
Better Pasta →
siracusa:
Cook your pasta in a sufficient amount of boiling, salted water.
How much is a “sufficient” amount? A good rule of thumb is 4-6 quarts of water for each pound of dried pasta. (Most boxes of dried pasta are 1 pound.) You can probably get away with using less, but I think that leads to a pot that feels too crowded.
Fill your pot with cold water from the tap. Hot water is more likely to...
“I couldn’t get a passion project of mine sold. With my track record, I couldn’t...”
– Bill Lawrence | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club
Hipster Logic Problems →
Larry Fleury:
Train A leaves from a platform that you probably never heard of traveling at 60 mph.
The World Inverted →
Elizabeth Gumport:
If you stay awake late enough, eventually you remember everything. All your usual defenses dissolve. Your mind is weary, and there is nothing in your white, silent room to distract it. Your exhausted brain can no longer apply the pressure needed to repress your memories, and they all come back, all of them, every one, and especially the ones that prove you are the worst...
How I enter social circles
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