January 2012
19 posts
The Way It Was →
“A society that does not accept the facts is a childish society, and a society that makes abortion illegal—and I believe that the PBAB is a calculated step in exactly that direction—is a cruel and backward society that makes being female a crime. It works in partnership with the illegal abortionist. It puts him in business, sends him his customers, and employs him to dispense crude, dirty,...
The Rise of the New Groupthink →
“But it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it’s another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted. They’re also more likely to suffer...
“GE fish technology is just like patented seeds of Roundup Ready grains and other...”
– Fear the Frankenfish: Beneath the Gills of the Genetically Engineered Salmon
7 Foods You Should Never Eat →
Basically:
Canned Tomatoes / Corn-Fed Beef / Microwave Popcorn / Nonorganic Potatoes / Farmed Salmon / Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones / Conventional Apples
Thanks in Advance →
Watchcracked:
Parks and Recreation and Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon performing “We’re Not Gonna Take It” will probably improve your day for days.
December 2011
9 posts
“People are using Apple as a prime example of design being of vital importance to...”
– Design Is Horseshit
WatchPost-It Note Diaries
WatchFinding Oregon
Hero →
cameronmoll:
This is a really fantastic, well-shot piece. And the resulting portrait definitely wasn’t what I was anticipating.
Update: The process of creating art with small dots is called stippling. Had no idea. (Thanks @signalnoise.)
/via @jontangerine
November 2011
17 posts
I judged a child beauty pageant →
Full of gems like this:
“There were four Marilyn Monroes, two Audrey Hepburns (one Breakfast at Tiffany’s Audrey, one My Fair Lady Audrey), two Sandys from Grease (Lakyn swiveled her hips at the “We made out under the dock” line in “Summer Nights”), two Janet Jacksons (both of the “Rhythm Nation 1814” all back everything era, though only one had a...
e. e. cattings →
This is the best thing ever.
“e. e. cattings is a cat poet who sleeps 12-16 hours a day. he writes on a typewriter and always writes in lowercase, because he can’t manage to hold the shift button with his paw and type at the same time.
recently, we started to find poems around the house –under our bunk bed and in our toy closet, behind the stuffed lion. so, we decided to start this...
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? →
““Good decision making is not a trait of the person, in the sense that it’s always there,” Baumeister says. “It’s a state that fluctuates.” His studies show that people with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. They don’t schedule endless back-to-back meetings. They avoid temptations like all-you-can-eat buffets, and they establish habits...
Letter from 'Manhattan' →
Joan Didion rips apart Woody Allen’s ‘Manhattan’ and ‘Annie Hall’ and just Woody Allen in general.
“Woody Allen often tells interviewers that his original title for Annie Hall was “Anhedonia,” which is a psychoanalytic term meaning the inability to experience pleasure. Wanting to call a picture “Anhedonia” is “cute,” and implies that the auteur and his audience...
“A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most...”
– “Cookie Monster” Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street
October 2011
8 posts
WatchVisualizing How a Population Grows to 7 Billion
