http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/04/26.html#a2139 Talking about the class system etc. I can’t agree with many of the conclusions or the underlying models, but I’m absolutely sure that some of the observations mentioned are pure gold.
Read more →“The Indian girls who tried out so far were so beautiful and so good, they were practically better than us,” said Sharica Brown, 27, a Redskins cheerleader from Baltimore, as she snacked on a plate of nachos before the game at Bangalore’s Hard Rock Cafe. Nearby, Indians in heavy-metal T-shirts downed cheeseburgers and jostled to [...]
Read more →The Times successfully sued the Defense Department to gain access to 8,000 pages of e-mail messages, transcripts and records describing years of private briefings, trips to Iraq and Guantánamo and an extensive Pentagon talking points operation. These records reveal a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated. Internal [...]
Read more →http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/12/121906.html Talking about “baseline” – taking one’s emotional temperature for the day. Quite good.
Read more →Komar & Melamid design music and art based on statistical survey results. And then commit aesthetic atrocities, carefully calculated to offend everyone. Quite well done. http://www.metafilter.com/67478/Maybe-she-likes-Wittgenstein
Read more →To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths [...]
Read more →http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10960 A cereal comic in which all the brand characters from US breakfast cereals (tony the tiger, etc.) live together in a wonderland, menaced by Count Chocula. It’s kind of astonishingly well done. Two books online, more coming, total labor of love.
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Read more →http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy Said to be the first computer attack to cause physical harm. That can’t be right.
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