2008

Aug

i like this bunny; he was on the cuteoverload.

I have also always loved Paul Simon.

Is This Music?: 29 terrific instrumentals by...

bartlebysunite: My boss has just asked me how to send a fax. A fax. i always have to ask somebody...

“I would love someone, given the fact I’ve never really read...”
— (via distorte) American...

sarahb: This was my ringtone for years. THAT BOY NEEDS THERAPY!

a commenter on Fark said something I liked a lot. Purely from my own completely unscientific...

Black Sabbath with Dio singing (AKA heaven and hell) perform The Mob Rules.

it’s monday at 11am, and it’s raining prehistorically outside, blocking the view,...

is it a holiday? all my trains were empty this morning.

anyway, the first show of the METAL MASTERS tour was last...

sudanese lost boy, newly an american citizen,...

i found the email i sent at the time. i’m an idiot. PDFs, what a crock of shit. Dear...

exactly. (via garfieldminusgarfield)

a new paper of mine came out today. (i don’t actually...

chinese olympics

i work near, around, and with a lot of chinese people. they are intensely proud of the olympics...

“the coming debate between john mccain and john mccain.” (via politico.)

maureen dowd says mccain is jealous of obama. andrew sullivan weighs in.

distorte: What do youse guys think about creative writing groups? Would it be...

i have always thought the well-known videos from this...

kfan: Blue Murder - Valley Of The Kings So epic. John Sykes, in another era you would have received...

I read this article on Dobbs Code Talk about why there aren’t more women in technical...

new jersey attorney general anne milgram gets...

(bartoons by harrod.)

Why Obama's Tire Gauge Is No Joke

ganderthoughts: Today, McCain had a field day making fun of Obama for suggesting that properly...

christopher hitchens on Alexander...

when i read the new york times story on trolls today, it didn’t make me appreciate the human...

Jul

(from fark.) Original REM drummer Bill Berry turns 50 today. Here’s the band 25 years ago...

(from slateV.) should journalists have political views, should every young man experience war?

Why so much focus on LA?

biteofpythias: I feel like Tumblr is too dominated by talk about Los Angeles and California today....

puppy on a camping trip, entirely too cute. (from rich gersh).

black sabbath, die young.

(from slate V) i think i miss driving. would it be acceptable just to have my car drive itself,...

harrod, when i can’t look at the rest of the internet,...

kfan: Also, if I read a book and recommend it, and 6 months later you read it and also enjoy it, it...

“Why fake a humble background? Partly out of vanity: It makes...”
— michael kinsley on bill...

my favorite joke. (bartoons by harrod.)

it’s intesting to see into other people’s heads isn’t it?: Au Revoir, New York...

it’s titled “derek and danielle” this photo i have on flickr gets a lot of...

bunny opens mail. (cuteoverload, conejitobonitisimo)

*—fireworks—*

(via garfieldminusgarfield)

slateV on the nyc law requiring chain restaurants to post calories. so far, it has taught me two...

machines will eat you

i shouldn’t have written about elevators yesterday, because right after that i waved my arm in...

christopher hitchens is waterboarded for his article in...

CLOSE DOOR

the door close buttons in my building’s elevators work. their deployment is helpful in some...

kfan just posted the 2008 dancing video by matt harding, where he dances with groups of people all...

“Maybe instead of refighting the Vietnam War while we’re...”
— and maureen dowd, in the new...

“Life, the Army man might have been thinking, just...”
— fred kaplan in slate, on the...

mac should make a laptop that looks different and is sold...

this is like ten seconds from today’s bloggingheads, which i sumit as justification for why i...

Jun

i’ve been fascinated by a picture of isabel and ruben...

i don’t trust people wearing an unknown pleasures...

at bloggingheads, jane hamsher talks to bob barr. (is bob barr gonna start...

chopper, sic balls

you ever get that thing where your teeth don’t set right, all of a sudden one day? i have...

for contrast, this is the wordle cloud for the text of the...

wordle cloud for osmium. i’m in the center, of...

the largest article i wrote from my dissertation was...

(bartoons, by harrod.)

“Actually, that sounds more like W.”
— maureen dowd on whether or not...

seattle police ticketing people going slow in the left...

The Only 8-Minute Plus Songs I Ever Want...

sarahb: Kashmir, Led Zeppelin Bad, U2 Girl From the North Country, Secret Machines ...

Focus from mia’s flickr page, what i think of, etc.

today i walked to the record store after i ate lunch, and in...

(from bloggingheads.) this makes me feel great! (D-)

osmium post, george carlin

kfan: I love this meme. You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:1. One weapon.2. One...

today i was in the rain and i saw a guy with a shirt that...

( from tvspotnow.) chemical party, but dude i don’t see osmium anywhere.

biteofpythias: peterwknox: boringloser: Tumblr. - The Documentary. Should be seen. “I wish I had...

i thought this video was really cool. it is an animation of ATPase, the enzyme that releases energy...

Gender and the Tumblr ratio

biteofpythias: After several conversations on the topic, I am really curious about this...

me: good morning, bob.
bob: hello, doctor. how are we this morning? are you pushing back the frontiers of ignorance? are you? well i hope so, that's what you're paid for, get to it already. (exits)

josh marshall reports TPMTV’s first 2008 general election roundup, from talking points memo.

“so, hey, is this an ashtray on your desk here? it is? yeah,...”
— Conversation with my boss (via...

burn in hell hipster scum, by vidiot.

hipster law

i have always thought there should be a hipster law, analogous to godwin’s law. the typical...

ring

all of the undergrads who are working here for the summer, they are on their cell phones at least...

sarahb: Happy Bloomsday! yay. an average day, recounted perfectly. poor stephen dedalus...

iron maiden at madison square garden. i close my eyes and think of home. another city goes...

there was a hell of a lot of fairly violent rain on saturday night. sarah had invited some of us...

“The theater at Jones Beach was evacuated for nearly two...”
— (from newsday.) it was very...

(from TPM.) oh my god, tim russert died. he was 58, and apparently had a heart attack at work...

“Movin me down the highway, Rollin me down the highway, Movin...”
— -from a Jim Croce song. If I...

applebee’s salad bar meltdown wrap fist bump.

bloggingheads

(from bloggingheads) julia kamin interviews the totally awesome eric alterman regarding his...

sarahb: Thank you for never saying “FTW” to me. Fuck The Welsh? why would i say that? some of my...

i’ve been enjoying the new bob pollard record, robert...

Suicide Marketing Update: “Want Windows XP pre-installed? Time’s running...

Drivin' on 9

sarahb: The Breeders show last night was a great time. Distorte, you’ll be happy to know that Josh...

kfan: Certain birds and animals collect shiny things to decorate their nests with in order to...

Jason and the Scorchers will reunite for one...

i woke up late for my sunday run today, but did it anyway. ...

Other Sarah Brown Update

sarahb: Interactive group therapy : integrating interpersonal, action-oriented, and...

jane hamsher and brink lindsey on bloggingheads, discussing bipartisanship. normally i am skeptical...

(from talking points memo.) i listened to all the speeches last night on the radio, but they always...

osmium post on getting the wrong mail.

“The assault started indirectly in [Obama’s] book, The...”
— john dickerson in slate, on...

sarahb: For KFan sarah, i totally interpret this as being...

my new favorite dude. (he was on cuteoverload.)

santa ana winds

i just had reason to look up all the scientific articles published so far in 2007-2008 by anyone...

allgrownsup: Coney Island Footage from 1940-1956.Holy fuck it used to be even cooler! Why don’t...

wire play lowdown and 1 2 x u at the south street seaport in lower manhattan. (posted by...

May

crane collapse at 91st and 1st.

from a story in the chronicle of higher education titled...

“I have received hundreds of e-mail messages calling me an...”
— (NYT op-ed by susan jacoby.) ...

(bartoons by harrod.)

songs repeated in last 1.5 weeks > 25...

relative surplus value by the weakerthans que sera sera by sly and the family stone santa ana winds...

“Mannequin,” apart from its association with the early...”
— from armagideon time, about a...

your brain may change

have you ever felt knowledge just leave? take, for example, whether or not to use the word affect...

john mcwhorter and glenn loury discuss barack obama and race. (from bloggingheads.)

on a scale of 1-10, the new weezer video for pork and beans is a 10. it really is. (numa numa...

(via filialpiety) it’s true and nothing else need be...

today should begin with something happy. how about tom lehrer?—optimism for my soul. (i got...

not only physics, now we are defiling...

i might have to be finished with the book i’m reading. after yesterday’s incorrect...

it’s rainy and cold in new york today. got some black flag for that. i’m about five...

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
— Plato (via sarahb) i saw this...

my sexual relationship with computers...

vista is crap dell is crap linux is super crap mac is cult crap i guess i give up.

(from boingboing.) this KT tunstall video is cool. the best part is that he sings along while...

don't ever use it as a metaphor, it's...

i’m reading a sort of sociology textbook, which i was hoping would be good. you gotta make...

“NYT’s Kristol on Obama losing by 41 in W.V.: “I...”
— (headline quote at fark.) ...

happy joey ramone day. happy birthday, joey.

sarahb: Everybody hurts satan’s head, featured by...