September 2010
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“With Graham toting a Swiffer WetJet in one hand and a Dustbuster in the other, a...”
– Man, 71, fights off intruder with Swiffer WetJet | GoUpstate.com
The most brilliant unintentional guerrilla marketing ever for Swiffer and Dustbuster. If your mind cannot wrap around the amazingness of the above-described event, the old man wielding a Swiffer Wet Jet mop and a Dustbuster...
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“Fareed Zakaria wrote in the Washington Post this week that with ”al Qaeda...”
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How many al Qaeda can you live with ? | Analysis & Opinion |
Incomplete list of phenomena similar to this Al Qaeda situation:
Twilight the movie begetting lesser/parody versions in Taintlight, Vampire Diaries, etc.
The haute fashion it shoe/bag trickling down to Nine West, Steve...
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“My personal concern is that fetishization begins to replace the actual...”
– The Dumpling Effect: The Trouble with Coolhunting your Dinner - The Awl
I wish I wrote this. I still seethe at the idiot “food bloggers” at my table who took 3 minutes to photograph ramen noodles instead of diving right in—immediate consumption is key to enjoying ramen whose...
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“The idea was mine, and all the long form writing, talks, and speeches were me....”
– The First Interview: Meet Josh Simpson, the Man Behind Twitter’s @BPGlobalPR - The Awl
Once again, in funny, you can’t be on all the time. It took 15 people to make @BPGlobalPR a viable comedy show. This is an interesting interview touching on the perils of satirizing a multinational...
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“Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000...”
– Pentagon Plan - Buying Books to Keep Secrets - NYTimes.com
Apparently the book contains approximately 200 passages that include sensitive information. The Army reviewed the galley proof and approved it in January, but the Defense Intelligence Agency didn’t get around to looking at it until...
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Hey, I scooped the NY Times!
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“It’s supposed to be weekly. They eventually want to do it daily, but I don’t....”
– Norm Macdonald Doesn’t Want to Go Back to Work Any More Than You Do - NYTimes.com
Funny is like a fickle pet. It comes to you when it wants to. It’s near impossible to be funny every day. However, Norm Macdonald could possibly do it. His standup is morbid and dark and hilarious. It will...
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“An Iraqi reality television program broadcast during Ramadan has been planting...”
– Punk’d, Iraqi-Style, at a Checkpoint - NYTimes.com
This is simultaneously fucked up and brilliant, a purely American legacy left behind after combat operations are supposedly over. In America, the celebrities actually go to jail, though. And instead of “Put Him in Bucca”...
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“Buffy Martin Tarbox, an environmental campaign coordinator in San Francisco,...”
– Noticed - The Emotions of a Facebook ‘Defriending’ - NYTimes.com
One word comes to mind. FUCKING IDIOT. Okay, two words.
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“Rice cookers are like the Mac OS. Once you learn the basic command, you know how...”
– Roger Ebert Responds to Readers’ Questions - NYTimes.com
There is a bonus Roger Ebert Q&A in the Times dining blog as a postscript to the profile on him. I love this comparison he made between rice cookers and the Mac OS. Cooking is something everyone should be able to do—just like...
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“Because I don’t even know what a computer is. I’ve heard about them a lot, but I...”
– The oldest typewriter repairman in New Haven | Yale Daily News
Old man, that should be: “A computer pwns you.”
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“Again, I think it’s different for men than it is for women. For men, the more...”
– Sex Advice From Young Republicans | Nerve.com
“I’m not saying that it’s right, but that’s just how it is” seems to be a tenet for much of this “tea party” movement. Populism from the ground up is great, but then again, I don’t want this kind of...
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“He came back right on time, slurping from a large McDonald’s soft drink cup —...”
– How panhandlers use free credit cards - thestar.com
A writer lent $50 (Canadian dollars) Visa gift cards to homeless people and told them to buy what they need and return the card. It’s not mentioned in the article, but I think it was inspired by the story of an executive who lent her...
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“Last week Grisafi started receiving tweets from European farmers saying the...”
– Farmers Twitter Lucrative Tips To Commodity Traders - Forbes.com
Twitter is the new crystal ball. The trick is filtering out the signal from the noise, or the wheat from the chaff to use the subject-specific cliche.
But how much of this Twitter information is accurate or correct? Just because you...
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“We haven’t eliminated running,” General Hertling said. “But it’s trying to get...”
– Army Revises Training to Deal With Unfit Recruits - NYTimes.com
Army recruits of today are flabby, out of shape, and have brittle bones from drinking too much soda. Basic training now emphasizes core strength and sprinting instead of long runs and stabbing tires with bayonets.
But isn’t...
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“How can a guy who has no tongue write a recipe?
“It’s all experience, my...”
– Roger Ebert on Food - Still Cooking - NYTimes.com
Roger Ebert can’t taste, can’t eat, can’t swallow. But he still cooks for others and wrote a rice cooker cookbook. The closest I come to Ebert’s experience—which is lightyears and galaxies beyond what I can... 