June 2012
77 posts
Comparison of other major cities that can fit... →
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plandrea:
Ginormous Los Angeles
Sooo Los Angeles is big… —Daisy
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Is ScarJo the new Marlene Dietrich?
How depressing.
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“When we agree to broadcast all of our relationships publicly, they become...”
– Maxistentialism: “I Deleted My Facebook Account”
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Purposefully Agreeable: Fairfax: There is an... →
purposefully-agreeable:
The management over at Fairfax have announced what has seemed inevitable for some time: sack more people, go tabloid, put up a paywall. The ‘inevitable’ factor in this isn’t due to that being the only path available, but because that’s the only course of action within the imagination of the…
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“How could any rational person expect their government to spend a full decade...”
– Glenn Greenwald, What Might Cause Another 9/11?
When the federal judge who sentenced Shahzad asked with disgust how he could try to detonate bombs knowing that innocent children would die, he replied: “Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don’t see children, they don’t see anybody....
“I’m a film geek; I was raised on movies. And there come these times in life...”
– Paul Thomas Anderson. From “Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson.” Magnolia: The Shooting Script. New York: Newmarket Press, 2000. 205. (via stayforthecredits)
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stay for the credits: One of my favorite Bottle... →
stayforthecredits:
One of my favorite Bottle Rocket stories, also told in the Criterion collection of the DVD by Wes Anderson:
“I feel like I was never more confident in my life than when we made that film and never less confident than when we screened it. The first time we screened it was part two of my…
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads”
– Early Facebook employee Jeff Hammerbacher, BusinessWeek (via nextness)
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