February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
this isn't happiness.: The Most Hated Buzzword →
nevver:
think outside the box (16%)
circle back (15%)
synergy (14%)
it is what it is (13%)
touch base (13%)
at the end of the day (13%)
let’s take this offline (12%)
low-hanging fruit (11%)
value-added (11%)
proactive (10%)
paradigm shift (9%)
best practices (9%)
going forward…
Easiest blackout bingo card ever.
Wherein Michele Bachmann is confronted by an...
desertmar:
cognitivedissonance:
And it’s just as fantastic as it sounds:
Watch the video:
The look of shock on her face is incredible. Elijah is brave little man, and I commend him.
Wow, bravo little dude, bravo.
god, that blank face.
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
15 posts
“In Generation X, one of the protagonists, Andy, reflects that “we live small...”
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Generation Catalano: The generation stuck between Gen X and the Millennials.
Doree wrote a great piece for Slate about this weird generational no man’s land. It’s nice to read this, cos I totally identify with this angst! I think I mostly prefer Millennials, but if I’m in a bad mood, it’s Gen X...
Toby Ziegler Yelling at People
mentalflossr:
Watch some clips.
What a weird thing. Like, they’re painting Toby Ziegler as a kind of American forebear to Malcom Tucker? Hm.
For “The Phantom Tollbooth” is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto for the liberal arts, for a liberal education, and even for the liberal-arts college. What Milo discovers is that math and literature, Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, should assume their places not under the pentagon of Purpose and Power but under the presidency of Rhyme and Reason. Learning isn’t a set of things...
4 tags
September 2011
10 posts
“When confronted with numbers like these, you have to start to ask a few...”
– Nate Silver calculates the odds of last night happening at 1 in 278 million. (via spiegelman)
1 tag
Top 10 misused English words
10. Refute 9. Instant 8. Enormity 7. Less 6. Chronic 5. Literally 4. Panacea 3. Disinterested 2. Decimate and 1. Ultimate
When a beautiful actress is cast in a movie, executives rack their brains to find some kind of flaw in the character she plays that will still allow her to be palatable. She can’t be overweight or not perfect-looking, because who would pay to see that? A female who is not one hundred per cent perfect-looking in every way? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two...
Why did Rick Perry wait six years to clean up the...
Texas’ Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice, Don Clemmer, later testified that his office didn’t have the resources to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at a TYC facility in Ward County because at the time the local agent was busy investigating charges of voter fraud by a 68-year-old Hispanic woman.
Your morning must-read: Why did Rick Perry wait six years to clean up the...
1 tag
“I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says,...”
– Aaron Sorkin
And that’s because a large part of the NFL’s... →
August 2011
14 posts
Chuck Klosterman’s “23 Questions I Ask Everybody I...
1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks—he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he can’t learn any more; he can only do these five. HOWEVER, it turns out he’s doing these five tricks with real magic....
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via libraryland)
Hm.
Upon accepting Dawson and Downey’s case, Lt Kaffee orders Jo to pick up “a carton of legal pads, a half a dozen boxes of red pens, a half a dozen boxes of black pens…?” If the average box has 12 pens, Lt Kaffee believes that he needs roughly 144 pens to handle this case. I am not an attorney, but I have been using the same pen at work for about two months. Why did Kaffee...
Rick Perry saying something that combines poorly... →
Why Van Halen demanded "no brown M&Ms" →
This is pretty interesting. (via vanmega)
“In many countries men’s and women’s bare buttocks are not legal in public area. However, while women’s bare buttocks are considered sexually obscene, men’s bare buttocks are merely considered rude.”
— Wikipedia
