May 2011
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“(f) Nomenclature. (1) The name of the food is “ice cream”; except...”
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This and other FDA regulations govern overrun (as opposed to quiescent) frozen treats.
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“There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of....”
– Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. - NYTimes.com
The title is misleading because it’s not quite about technology in the end. But anyway, I am letting this Franzen op-ed sink in a bit. It resonates with me as I think about real people, semi-real people of the internet, cycling, food,...
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““We want to thank the Navy SEALs for their efforts,” says Brian...”
– Fleshlight Thanks Navy SEALS by Giving them Jerk-off Sex Toys - Los Angeles Sex, LA After Dark
USA! USA! WTF?
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““If we destroy the original text by scrambling all the words, we are preserving...”
– Entropy Is Universal Rule of Language | Wired Science | Wired.com
I wonder if this study of linguistic entropy will seep into different areas such as rehabilitation of brain injury or stroke victims whose language centers were harmed, or decoding outbursts by psychotics and schizophrenics?
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Mississippi River floods: Obama drops his... →
If you’re the Leader of the Free World™, it’s a headline when you drop your BlackBerry. And the G Men try to pick it up for you. Click thru for photo play-by-play of this amazing, game-changing event!!
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“And Judd actually has this whole thing they do with side-by-side screenings at...”
– Paul Feig | Film | Interview | The A.V. Club
Feig on doing an A/B testing of sorts in comedy. Kind of surprised he (and Apatow) aren’t “funny is what I say is funny” types who ignore test audiences. Are they gunshy from their Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared experience?
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“Pitchfork is an outlier in this regard. That is, the vast majority of the legion...”
– Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - By Ben Yagoda - Slate Magazine
Ha. This pompous asshole. I’m no Pitchfork fan, but a lot of writers who go through there are most likely English or other liberal arts majors who did have to do some writing, and...
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“But again Mr. Welts paid a price. Two years ago, a 14-year relationship ended...”
– N.B.A. Executive Dares to Leave the Safety of His Shadow Life - NYTimes.com
Rick Welts, president of the Phoenix Suns, recently came out as a gay man. He met with his former and current colleagues personally to tell them. Everyone he talked to was supportive and understanding, but the tension of...
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“Everybody wants to improve the material, so they will comb over it, take out...”
– One-Man Show
Louis CK profile ahead of the second season of Louie starting next month. Being creative in comedy is weird. You can’t do it alone, really. But comedy by committee can be the worst, dodged and burned until sharp edges are all gone.
There’s nothing new in this profile, but...
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“Such natural preferences get wiped out when the woman is on hormonal birth...”
– The Tricky Chemistry of Attraction - WSJ.com
Woa woa woa. This WSJ article on hormones and attraction says women on hormonal birth control aren’t as attracted to masculine men during ovulation. Women taking the pill or other homone-based birth control do not ovulate. That’s how it...
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Man's Twitter followers recover stolen laptop -... →
A laptop security software and 12k followers on Twitter equals a successful ad hoc sting operation to recover a stolen laptop and bag.
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“If you make them laugh, then they’ve come there for a good reason. If you take...”
– Playboy.com - Louis C.K. 20Q - Celebrity Interview with Louis C.K.
Comedy should be like sex in an elevator, in an uncomfortable place and pushing tons of buttons.
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“Since January, ALP been producing and delivering combinations of live bacteria...”
– Love your Swiss cheese? Careful, it could be a knock-off - The Globe and Mail
Emmentaler cheese with engineered bacteria whose DNA will be used to authenticate cheeses. Protecting tradition and rights is important, but high capitalism applies science in the weirdest, most useless ways.
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“Dad kept the photo in the cab of his truck, which always bore his wife’s name on...”
– ‘Mudflap Girl’ Was This Guy’s Mom | Autopia | Wired.com
The title and opening paragraphs of this piece make you believe this guy, Ed Allen, is indeed the confirmed son of the Mudflap Girl. But then, the article unravels to the inconclusiveness of this claim, that Allen’s story could be...
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'Fake' Online Love Affair Becomes Legal Battle -... →
Internet scams are everywhere, but this one started out with a fake person and a real person meeting on a Deadwood message board. The specificity of that brings me so much joy. If you’re bummed Deadwood got cancelled, I guess you’re at a vulnerable and scammable spot in your life.
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My race recap for Giro d’Italia Stage 4, the day after Woulter Weylandt of Leopard-Trek had a fatal crash. My recaps are hardcopies posted in the window at the Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco, so I’m putting it here online.
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“Beautiful” is an oft-used word when describing cycling. It borders on cliché. Stage 4 of Giro d’Italia displayed the beauty of cycling in a way we never...
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“The idea really came from consumers. They kept telling us vibrators, vibrators....”
– Vibrators on a Shelf Near You - NYTimes.com
Supposedly, vibrator sales are up. Have you seen the commercials for vibrators made by condom manufacturers like Trojan and Durex? It’s weird that they don’t use the word “vibrator” and they totally talk around getting off using...
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“South Korean activists floated another cluster of balloons packed with...”
– Balloons vs. Buffoon: Aerial Propaganda Hits Kim Jong Il | Danger Room | Wired.com
Lo-tech high-tech method to get anti-KJI messages into North Korea: on balloons timed to pop or drop the message over specific areas.
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““This is what I would like before leaving for America,” Piaf wrote...”
– Book shows Piaf anguish in love letters to cyclist - latimes.com
Excerpt from Edit Piaf’s love letter to her married lover, Louis Gerardin, a French National Champion and a World Champion in track cycling. Plus his comment on Edit Piaf, which non-cycling people seem to interpret as negative....
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“As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian...”
– Lara Logan of CBS Talks About Her Assault in Egypt - NYTimes.com
CBS journalist Lara Logan opens up about the sexual assault she faced in Egypt during the celebration after Hosni Mubarak’s exit. They estimate there were 2-300 men in the mob that attacked her.
Talking about sexual assault is...
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“Take a woman with a 27-inch waist. In Marc Jacobs’s high-end line, she is...”
– Am I a Size 4? 8? 10? Tackling a Crazy Quilt of Sizing - NYTimes.com
I’ve been ranting against vanity sizing for a while and the NY Times finally takes the mantle, with a confusing infographic about various brands’ size 8. I’m 27 inch waist and my clothing size ranges from 6 to...
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“You can let your guard down — people are sitting down and talking and using...”
– Here Comes Your Starbucks Latte - There Goes Your Laptop - NYTimes.com
Holy crimewave! FOUR bag thefts in 4 full months! Granted this was published before Osama bin Someone getting shot in the face, the NY Times decided to dedicate column inches on coffee shop theft and NYPD decided to put...
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“That cursive-challenged class included Alex Heck, 22, who said she barely...”
– The Case for Cursive - NYTimes.com
The death rattles of cursive? Kids these days can’t read grandma’s diaries, nor do they have a forge-proof signature because they don’t know cursive. What a strange world we live in. Will we soon wonder what it really means to “dot the...
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