March 2009
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Mythbusting the MTA Fare Hike →
via marco: “Great overview of the issues facing the New York City MTA. Basically, the fare hike and service cuts are completely necessary because they have a massive budget problem. And the reason they have a massive budget problem is more because New York State won’t give them anywhere near the funding that most cities’ mass-transit departments get from their respective states.
New York...
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“Summers was known in debate circles for two qualities. The first was his unusual...”
– Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
The last sentence is tragi-comic because the world still manages to both operate and not operate on this principle at the same time.
Sufjan Stevens / Outkast - Dumb I Sound / ATLiens...
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The Unfinished →
by D.T. Max in the New Yorker
An epic read on David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel and his struggle to be a decent human being, fight depression, and elevate that into art rather than succumb to the “basically vapid urge to be avant-garde … and linguistically calisthenic.”
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“Jurors are not supposed to seek information outside of the courtroom. They are...”
– John Schwartz, As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up
How this effects legal process will end up being tremendously interesting. I hope that having jury duty in the future doesn’t mean being placed in solitary confinement with no networked devices.
Many people might take the...
“Think briefly about the platonic ideal of an activity stream, the increasingly...”
– Kellan, Streams, affordances, Facebook, and rounding errors
Neil Young - Birds, After the Goldrush
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“I said the sources would take over the news. Not enough reporters covering the...”
– Dave Winer
Billy Bragg - Saturday Boy (live)
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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Nashville...
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Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 →
“That a recovering industrial farmer can’t get respect from the alternative food crowd may seem trivial, but Fleming’s experience cuts to the very heart of the debate over how to fix our food system. Nearly everyone agrees that we need new methods that produce more higher-quality calories using fewer resources, such as water or energy, and accruing fewer “externals,”...
Not going to SxSW? Here's how to make twitter not... →
Sunlight Labs continues to perpetuate goodness.
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Bret: Rosemary’s Baby is wild. Fuckin freakin me out. 8:49 PM
I’d totally impregnate 1960s Mia Farrow. 9:15 PM cm: The woman with me says she would too. Bret: Just kicked out of May’s for tackling a kid who said “print is dead.” 3:26 AM
Bret is an aspiring author; I love Bret.
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Billy Bragg - The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
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Wall St. on the Tundra, Vanity Fair →
by Michael Lewis
“When, in 2003, they sat down at the same table with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, they had only the roughest idea of what an investment banker did and how he behaved—most of it gleaned from young Icelanders’ experiences at various American business schools. And so what they did with money probably says as much about the American soul, circa 2003, as it does about...
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In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police →
by David Simon, creator of The Wire
“The commissioner was allowed to stand on half-truths. Why? Because the Baltimore Sun’s cadre of police reporters — the crime beat used to carry four and five different bylines — has been thinned to the point where no one was checking Bealefeld’s statements or those of his surrogates…
Well, sorry, but I didn’t trip...
“The way to make a program faster is to never let it get slower.”
– The WebKit Team
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“About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision...”
– Paul Graham, Why TV Lost
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“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
– Banksy (via totes)
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“Though Berkshire’s credit rating is pristine—we are one of only seven AAA...”
– Warren Buffet, 2008 Berkshire Shareholder Letter
Devendra Banhart - Shabop Shalom
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Belle and Sebastian - Laze Line Painter Jane
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