March 2010
55 posts
A Conversation With Mark Coatney, the Man Behind... →
Every platform has different advantages and different audiences. I think Twitter is really interesting, but in some ways Twitter is almost more familiar to big media companies because at its basic level it’s a broadcast model, I mean you tweet something out and a million people receive it and they may do something with it but you’ve kind of done your thing.
So I think Twitter is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Morrissey (36)
Prince (11)
Seth Pardick (11)
Title Tracks (8)
Prince & The New Power Generation (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Using such biasing phrases, and giving respondents no alternative premises to...”
– Obama Is Not the Antichrist—And Nobody Really Thinks He Is - The Gaggle Blog - Newsweek.com
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Scientists need the guts to say: I don't know... →
Good video! Good article!
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““Drinkability” had been in fine print on Budweiser’s label...”
– A-B’s Big Blunder: Letting Consultants Run Away With Brand - Advertising Age
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Kind of Like Spitting (18)
Q and Not U (12)
Beach House (12)
The Soft Pack (11)
Beck (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Turn Off Your Radio →
Seth’s new album is done and out!
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For historic vote on heathcare reform, Pelosi... →
This article is all over the place, and I love it.
It also seems a strange emblem for the sausagemaking of the legislative process, if one considers its Masonic symbolism. If the Masons of Potomac Lodge No. 5 aren’t otherwise using it — and that’s fairly rare these days — the gavel that George Washington is said to have used during the Capitol’s cornerstone-laying...
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“People saying they’re going to spit on you and all this. That’s just not fun.”
– Stupak: It’s been ‘a living hell’ - TheHill.com
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List of people who were beheaded →
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“The project began on Twitter, where Dark Horse and Burton began following each...”
– Dark Horse Announces Comic With Levar Burton - ComicsAlliance
Don’t ever let anyone say Twitter can’t lead to new business opportunities if you’re Levar Burton.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Appendix Out (36)
Sparklehorse (17)
Mindless Self Indulgence (16)
Destroyer (15)
The New Pornographers (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Seth and I finished up recording the last few...
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I thought about it for awhile. The five best albums — unordered
Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
John Vanderslice - Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
Usher - Confessions
I agree that LTB is a copout.
But anyway.
“The book stands accused of being a towering monument to self-denial of what are...”
– Liberal Americans choke on their pretzels as Karl Rove rewrites history | The Observer
Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs →
Meaning
Don’t offer advice to someone who has more experience than oneself.
Origin
These days this proverbial saying has little impact as few people have any direct experience of sucking eggs - grandmothers included. It is quite an old phrase and is included in John Stevens’ translation of Quevedo’s Comical Works, 1707:
“You would have me teach my Grandame to suck...
“Mr. Massa referred to Mr. Emanuel as the “son of the devil’s...”
– White House laughs off Emanuel’s naked lobbying - Washington Times
This Massa story! It refuses to stop getting better.
But here’s my favorite part so far:
“[The shower in Congress’ private gym is] the only place where you get to see a member in a different light,”...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
The Hood Internet (13)
Butch Walker (12)
Passion Pit (12)
Beach House (11)
Tapes ‘n Tapes (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Gregory Rabassa said that when he was working on “One Hundred Years of...”
– The other author of ‘Don Quixote’ - The Boston Globe
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So I was a radio DJ for awhile and it always...
Anonymous asked: if you could be one animal, which one would it be and why?
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Three Statistics Things I Read Recently
One thing I wish I understood a lot better is statistics. I think a weak understanding of statistics is the source of a lot of silly beliefs many people hold. I like to think I have a pretty skeptical outlook on data, especially covering medical news for so long (hint: many groundbreaking studies aren’t), but it’s something I want to hone.
The links!
Think like a statistician –...
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Evolution Yakety Sax
stevencloud:
In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru. Now, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary...
