January 2010
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Dec 30th
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ICSNYCFMH: AIG: We’re cocky SOBs, not criminals. →
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: …The Washington Post has published select emails sent between AIG executives during the summer and fall of 2007, showing internal anxiety and skepticism over the viability of AIG’s Financial Products unit… AIG even fails at failing. Here’s how you embarrass yourself with leaked emails.
Dec 30th
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“When people have made up their minds about something, it’s almost...”
– Robert Samuelson (Washington Post), discussing the limitations of reportage’s capacity to persuade, during a panel: Has The Financial Crisis Changed the Nature of Economic News?
Dec 29th
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Get A Golfcart On Uncle Sam
Just saw a tweet about a loophole in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 letting the Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicle Credit be applied to golf carts. Since the credit scales up with battery quality to the lesser of $7500 or the purchase price (for vehicles under 10k lbs), you can feel the mild cul-de-sac breeze in your hair for as little as $0.00, plus shipping. (The jig is up New...
Dec 28th
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Dec 22nd
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“[T]he defining characteristic of hipsterism isn’t about what they like, it’s...”
– Regina, having a go at aesthetics & ethics.
Dec 22nd
ListenWu-Tang Clan, “I Can’t Go To Sleep,” from The W...
Dec 21st
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“For the record…I realize that no real people are actually architects, and...”
– Mindy Kaling, qualifying the description her imagined “dark-haired agnostic architect husband named Alex who liked ethnic food and zombie movies” in Scripting a Fantasy of a Family.
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“I’m getting a little more excited to find a wife lately…”
– Ladies, may I present Marc Frydman; handsome, published, likes his day job, respects his momma, wants kids, is vaccinated. Limited availability. Call now!
Dec 18th
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Dec 8th
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12 Things You Don't Know About Women [Dana Delany]
I recalled this gem (specifically #6) from Esquire’s Things You Don’t Know About Women series while drafting a tongue-in-cheek response to an old JGH post on evo psych justifications for male attraction to younger females. However, since Dana Delany’s list endures intact only as a Google cache, I’ve decided to reproduce it here for posterity. A private plane will not make...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“When a political leader uses the word ‘folks,’ you know you’re...”
– Noam Chomsky, on Obama answering “I tend not to use labels for folks,” when the BBC asked him “Do you regard President Mubarak as an authoritarian ruler?” [Introduced around 58:30 in the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of...
Dec 5th
Dec 5th
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WatchWatch
SNL: University of Westfield Online. How else am I supposed to get a master’s degree at reasonable rates and while working unpredictable shifts? ::sigh:: Looks like University of Mansencet’baylib for me.
Dec 4th
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Monster Rat Gets 3 Years Probation
peterfeld: State Sen. Hiram Monserrate (a.k.a. MonsterRat), who betrayed Democrats and temporarily cost the party control of the New York state Senate by switching to the Republican caucus last summer, and who two days ago betrayed all New York by voting with the bigots and haters to kill same-sex marriage rights, AND who just defriended me on Facebook for some strange reason (heh), has just...
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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There's money to be made in December
mikehudack of bliptv: Blip is serving more major advertising campaigns in December than ever before. If you’re a show creator on blip you should opt in to advertising now. If you’re a show creator who’s not on blip you should move over. A show with 100,000 views per month (mostly in the Flash player and in the US) should earn $1,000 or more per month if opted in. Revenue scales up and down...
Dec 2nd
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“President George W. Bush expanded that effort, a strategy Mr. Obama has...”
– The NY Times said this, regarding Obama’s plan for __________? [Click for answer] I was bemused pondering the sufficient number of Bush/Obama carry-overs (or, usually, carry-over-and-tweaks) to render the context indeterminable at a glance.
Dec 1st
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