August 2011
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"He told police he had used meth earlier in the... →
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Watch“Bookstores employ a very special class of condescending nerd. These are the types of people who used to work in video stores before they went under.”
“Where were they before that?”
“Record stores, obviously. It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, John, America will be inundated with a wandering snarky underclass of...
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that...”
– Joan Didion in a commencement address at the University of California, Riverside, 1975 (via bradelterman)
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AT&T's New Text Plan Overcharges You by 10,000,000... →
charlietodd:
Paying for text messages is one of the biggest scams going these days. This article breaks it down nicely.
This is the kind of thing that makes fight clubs happen.
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“Whenever I get back from a long trip, my wife and I have this ritual. It sort of...”
– Benjamin Lowy, photojournalist and war photographer
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“This abstracting of foes and threats from their context—this ease with which we...”
– Tony Judt nailing it
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"What We've Learned, If Anything" by Tony Judt →
(via tetw)
Until the last decades of the twentieth century most people in the world had limited access to information; but—thanks to national education, state-controlled radio and television, and a common print culture—within any one state or nation or community people were all likely to know many of the same things. Today, the opposite applies. Most people in the world outside of sub-Saharan...
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“A lot of what I do is just the mental illness of persistence.”
– David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker (profile by Nicholson Baker)
Visa Exposed As Massive Credit Card Scam →
According to indictments filed in U.S. District Court, Visa posed as a reputable lender, working through banks to peddle a variety of convincing-looking credit cards carefully designed to dupe consumers into spending far more money than they had. The criminal group would then impose a succession of escalating fees on unpaid balances, allegedly bilking some $300 billion from victims in the past...
