May 2012
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Michelle Dean: Last night →
michelledean:
I was trundling along through the internet, following metafilter threads down into the deep while I waited for my brain to calm down. (I blame the margarita I had at dinner; my neurons always interpret tequila as license to party.) Nights like that are always the same: I start off reading…
rendit replied to your photo: Further to Username Rendit.
I have a set of Iron Maiden shot glasses. Or, I did. Not sure where they are :/
I may spend the day window-shopping for shot glasses.
“I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of...”
– Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin on renouncing his American citizenship (via soupsoup)
I’m sure if Joe the Plumber could afford to move to Singapore to avoid taxes, he would too.
attention industry: Words Destroyed by My... →
attentionindustry:
Awesome (did not used to mean ‘cool’)
Genius (did not used to mean ‘smart’)
Brilliant (did not used to mean ‘bright’)
Authentic (did not used to mean ‘cool without seeming to have applied effort’)
Revolutionary (did not used to mean ‘new’)
Innovative (did not used to mean ‘new’, either)
…
Now I am become Death, destroyer of words.
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“Make no mistake: all this Ayn Rand libertarian...”
– Sara Robinson (via azspot)
That’s the least mean refutation of dingbat Objectivists I’ve read all week.
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“What happens when a foulmouthed satellite radio DJ - played by the...”
– I fling myself out the window? (via maura)
We’re gonna need a bigger window.
Leaving the Colleen O’Donnell Memorial Golf Tournament, clustered in the parking lot, I lean into the truck of one of the organizers, and tell her kids, “Goodbye, children,” and the oldest, who I’d been tormenting over eating candy (“You know, if you go into the club house they’ll give you the sugar packets they use for coffee./Really?/No. I’m teasing...
