December 2010
68 posts
“Cupcake breasts (a look that even Charlize Theron, left, couldn’t pull off).”
– (via 10 Looks We Never Want to See Again) It’s a damn shame these NYT Slide Shows are so un-linkable, because this is so good.
“It’s a damn shame that most people limit their champagne intake to the...”
– — Another fine resolution reminder for 2011: one bottle a week. A Man’s Guide to Holiday Entertaining reminds us why it should be so easy…
The $100 New York City Weekend →
I wonder how many living-in-NYCers are reading this article and making notes…
Design for networked cities and citizens →
bobulate:
Adam Greenfield launches Urbanscale:
As we see it, though, there are critical gaps in the disciplines that cities and citizens might naturally call upon to help them grasp this opportunity. As a profession, interaction design has tended to have problems thinking beyond the screen; it lacks any account of large-scale physical, spatial or social environments. Meanwhile, the fields that...
Epic Brilliance.
washingtonpoststyle:
Oh look, it is the response we dream of composing to every single annoying email ever.
(via Deadspin)
In 1974, a Cleveland resident penned a litigation-threatening letter to the owner of the Browns:
The team’s attorney responded with this:
Cleveland. Can’t go out of 2010 without remembering they always respond so well, in writing.
“I think the media story of the year in 2010 was the New York Times’s discovery...”
– NBC Nightly News anchor BRIAN WILLIAMS, snarking on the New York Times during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Too brilliant to not transcribe.
(via Washingtonpoststyle)
Seriously, can’t love Brian Williams more.
Watchclarajudgypants:
A touching interview with Michelle Williams on Nightline.
Some very intense touchpoints about grief in here, wish this had been longer…
There are still reasons to heart NY:
and one of them is, in all this SnOMG-ness, last night was trash night. Of course we put things out thinking it was foolish. Craziness! Idiocy! They’re not going to pick any of this up. But we chucked it up onto the top of the five-foot snow wall between our sidewalk and the street, a few bags, some cardboard recycling (some! a lot), and, in my eternal, wacky optimism, an old garment...
“While major thoroughfares seemed at least passable, especially in Manhattan,...”
– — No one’s saying what needs to be said: people, you do not need a car parked in front of your house in NYC. This is coming from the girl who loves her a car. But really. (via Blizzard Impact Chastens Bloomberg as New York Struggles)
“Take that, Mayor Bloomberg, with your 311 number and your moderately successful...”
– — Today feels like NYC being its perfect self, even/especially with the grumbling. Listening to KCRW people complain about the PCH not opening is even better. Thank you as ever for this, Daily Intel.
“Like 2009’s removal of the HIV ban, which was as painstakingly slow but...”
– — adding some emphasis on “and then we pulled behind this president…” because really, everyone, THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS: pull together. (via Obama’s Long Game: 65 - 31)
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I give you private information on corporations for free and I’m a villain. Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations, for money, and he’s Man of the Year.
Thanks to Wikileaks, you can see how corrupt governments operate in the shadows, and then lie to those who elect them. Thanks to Facebook, you can finally figure out what Sex and the City character you are....
“Time magazine! Did no one tell you that you’re in a struggle to stay...”
– /via Time Magazine’s Person of the Year Is Not Julian Assange
“We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy,...”
– — Ezra Klein’s Estate Tax Primer is personally interesting (duh, anxiety) but also illuminates the corners of this debate we never seem to get to — there’s so much about these taxes that isn’t well-understood, including how much of a break they ALREADY INCLUDE: one person gets...
How To Talk To Girls At Parties: Esquire Stays... →
howtotalktogirlsatparties:
Word just broke that Josh Peskowitz has jumped ship from Esquire and has joined the already impressive staff over at Gilt Manual. He joins Andy Comer, formerly of GQ, and Jared Flint, formerly of Antenna, as the newest members of Editorial Director Tyler Thoreson’s dream team. With each passing…
Reblogging to remind self to come back to this later, have deep...
“…more importantly, virtually every university has a public mission and...”
– — I love the people at Scatterplot. That is all. /via who are our customers?
Weekend End
nogreatillusion:
So, I wrapped for like four hours and didn’t even start the Christmas cards. I sat on the floor and ate pizza and drank wine and enjoyed the luxury of having my own apartment, where no one can judge me for doing weird dances with unwashed hair and no pants.
The night ended with a sore back, a floor covered in glitter, and me doing google image searches for “young Chevy Chase,”...
“About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American mind began...”
– So begins Steven Thrasher’s riotous take on the white brain, which, the New York-based freelance writer observes on the cover of the September 29 Village Voice, has finally gone “haywire in spectacular fashion.” (via utnereader)
» Daily laugh.
“When these progressives refer to themselves as Mr. Obama’s base, all they see is...”
– —/via What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama
Watch“It’s not politically correct, it’s correct correct!”
“This nation has a record breaking, $13.8 trillion national debt at the same time...”
– Senator BERNIE SANDERS (I - VT), during his more than eight-hour-long speech railing against the tax break package fought for by Republicans and agreed to by President Obama.
We hope the right folks listened.
(via the New York Times)
Reblogging almost just for posterity: someone really, truly,...
“And they’ve got a nice courtyard, so you can sit outside under the heat...”
– — Quite possible a truer phrase hasn’t been spoken. Loving this guy already. /via Bon Appétit EIC Adam Rapoport Is Very Picky About His Sandwiches, Thinks He Says ‘Tasty’ Too Often
Oprah sang part of "The Gambler" on TV last night.
I missed this, of course, but god love you, ABC iPad app, I can watch it anytime now! (For probably a day, right? Whatevs. I’ll get it done.)
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help women.”
– Madeleine Albright speaking to an auditorium full of women at TEDWomen in Washington on Wednesday. You go, former Secretary of State. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“If he is going to position himself as Washington’s last adult standing, he will...”
– — Heilemann kicks it again.