January 2012
“We’ve become the victims of our own success” →
Developers in the last half-century called it progress when they built homes and shopping malls far from city centers throughout the country, sounding the death knell for many downtowns. But now an alarmed cadre of public health experts say these expanded metropolitan areas have had a far more serious impact on the people who live there by creating vehicle-dependent environments that foster...
“Bob Dylan” is not his real name. The “Ramones” were not...”
– Don’t even need to read the rest of SPIN’s review.
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Best out of context photo with caption?
“Fred Melchiore, 25, gives pep talks on sex performance.” (via andymboyle)
Andy, I think this needed a screenshot including the NYT logo for full effect.
“The thing is, people think there’s some set of ideal conditions out there,...”
– Hugh MacLeod, “Creativity Comes After The Fact”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Season 99 →
Dan Kennedy is a treasure.
In the first episode of season 99, Kybor is sitting out near the pool eating black market baby adrenal glands and burning art. She talks to the camera about her day and we learn that she killed a bum then fed her sister Mogat the man’s eye, apparently expressly for the purpose of once again humiliating Mogat in what has become the one motif of the ninety-ninth season of...
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The Anti-Lady Laws of 2012, by Sady Doyle →
rivertrash:
Sady Doyle takes a look at some truly fucking terrifying model anti-choice legislation.
The phrase “unborn child” is a semantic nightmare. It sounds like they take a newborn and shove it right back in there.
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Time Traveler From The Year 1998 Warns Nation Not... →
bestrooftalkever:
Seriously though.
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“Technology lets us do things faster and more efficiently; why would we use that...”
– Brian Lam: “Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic”
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WatchWhite Rabbits - “Heavy Metal” (off the forthcoming Milk Famous, out 3/6, via NPR)
Video is like watching a live-action Urban Outfitters catalog, but the song is good. Glad to see these guys are still around. Also, please note: not heavy metal at all.
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Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" →
Ad man David Ogilvy shares what might loosely be called his writing routine. I’m hanging on to this for the day the publishing industry goes under (Monday, is it?) and we’ve got nowhere else to run but advertising.
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“Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you’re a pimple and try to keep a lively...”
– Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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The Looming Threat of a Solar Superstorm - PopMech →
If you know me, you know there’s hardly anything I love more than a looming apocalyptic threat.
All this may seem like doomsaying, but the historic record suggests otherwise: The Halloween Storm, in fact, pales in comparison to several earlier events. In 1989, ground currents from a less intense geomagnetic storm knocked out a high-voltage transformer at a hydroelectric power plant Quebec,...
Brush up on your stats before tonight's State Of... →
Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs.
The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976.
Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight years Bush was president.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 2.5 million young adults gained health insurance.
For every one job...
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The Food Lab: Guacamole and the Science of... →
J. Kenji López-Alt (the man who deep-fried a pork belly for fun) is going vegan for a month. I don’t think there’s a better food writer out there for the challenge.
“you know how in college you have to make all those drunken terrible mistakes to...”
– karl, on becoming a better designer (via sisternebraska (I am dubiously helpful. Dubiously.))
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Great interview with Hanne Blank on her... →
Going to read the hell out of this book.
I’m quite attached to my identity as a gay man — and, to be honest, I would feel a little troubled having my category taken away from me.
See, that’s the thing, no one is going to take that away from you. No one can take that away from you. The only thing they can take away from you is the illusion that this is not something that is constructed. And...
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