February 2012
21 posts
“I am happy to announce that my first race after winning the U.S. Olympic...”
– 2012 NYC Half Announces Elite Athletes: Ritz, Meb, Goucher, Desi & more
I wish the course was 2 laps of the park instead of 1 so I could experience the thrill of getting lapped by world class elite runners.
“He became the most interesting of the great footballers. Pele is a performing...”
– Johan Cruijff saga continues
“This is likely to be an odd battle – fascinating tactically by virtue of the...”
– Milan v Arsenal should be an interesting battle of very different formations and styles
“The sport as it stands requires fifty men on a side just to be able to field a...”
– Football and the Concussion Crisis
“That stuff about people connecting with your brand on the Internet, we were just...”
– @ftrain
COMPELLING BENEFITS
“We make our gravy rich and creamy so when served with hot and fluffy biscuits, after one bite, you’ll know why some traditions should never change.”
“The Knicks shot just 25 percent in the first quarter and trailed 23-17. Lin missed all three shots he attempted, and moments after the third, he was called for his second foul — a block against Wall — and sustained a gash and left the game with 4:06 to play.”
New York Knicks vs. Washington Wizards
I watched up until this point, then got bored. It is real actual work...
“He taps into the passions of Harvard alumni, Ivy Leaguers, New Yorkers and...”
– Jeremy Lin Has Burst From N.B.A. Novelty Act to Knicks Star
His parents are engineers, he grew up in Palo Alto, he went to Harvard, he lives in New York City. He’s an underdog!
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“The Super Bowl halftime show is the Branson, Missouri of rock ‘n’...”
– Madonna wins the Super Bowl | MetaFilter
“This is the one time of the year people like to talk about advertising”
– Some Super Bowl Ads Being Seen Long Before the Game
I’m sorry, what?
“This course examines the history, theory, and practice of digital humanities,...”
– LIS 697 Digital Humanities | Chris Alen Sula
Oh, look at that. Now my grad program has a Digital Humanities course.
1. Do you have an image in your head of someone with an undergraduate psychology degree? I sure do.
2. Pics of women! Don’t mind that “In a relationship” checkbox I clicked. Wink, wink, ha ha AMIRITE?! DATA!
3. Some kind of picture of a mad vampire lady as an AD FOR ANOTHER AD for Audi.
4. Meatvideo.com. Whatever. Moving on.
5. AD FOR ANOTHER AD for Heineken.
6. AD FOR...
January 2012
44 posts
“America’s prison system is a moral catastrophe.”
– n 1: Raise the Crime Rate
“Well, we’ve got horses and we’ve got roller skates — I think...”
– QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of Advertising
“These wankers spent most of their adult lives drawing Venn diagrams of designer...”
– @counternotions
“It’s a reflection of Taco Bell’s core customers — the 18-...”
– Taco Bell starts serving breakfast in almost 800 locations
Imagine, if you will, a 20 year old dude who sleeps until 10 a.m. “evangelizing” to you the value proposition of a Taco Bell “breakfast burrito”.
“The Rams are owned by Stan Kroenke, who is also the majority shareholder in the...”
– St. Louis Rams to play London games for next 3 years - ESPN
This is all in the realm of “no chance in hell” but here’s the plan:
1. Buy NFL team with little to no historical roots in a mid-market town.
2. Wait for team to get bad enough that the season ticket holders you do have...
“Digital Humanities Now aggregates and selects material from our Compendium of...”
– About : Digital Humanities Now
What Is Digital humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?
“The digital humanities is an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned...”
– Digital humanities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Counter-historical
A couple times a year I re-realize Stanley Fish has a blog at the NY Times.
He seems big on talking about “the digital humanities” lately.
I don’t know much about Stanley other than that big blue “Is there a text in this class?” book and a story one of my undergrad professors who went to Duke in the 80’s when Fish was a big fish told but I mostly forgot about...
“I think it is wonderful to integrate the different cultures, the different...”
– Q. and A. With Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson - NYTimes.com
Oh, Siralex. A bundle a Hubba-Bubba chewin’ contradictions, yeh?
“I’d like to see the country, instead of being in just a deep funk about...”
– Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On - Esquire
“which are manifold” — nice turn of phrase there, William J.
I like #42. He’s smart and thoughtful, almost in spite of the fact that he’s so self-aware of how good a politician he is. You read stuff like this and you...
“As for the American Diabetes Association: its disinterest in promoting diet and...”
– Food Politics » Weighing in on Paula Deen
Oops!
America: symptoms, problems, etc, etc, etc.
“Alcoholic drinks are part of the Fifa World Cup, so we’re going to have...”
– BBC News - Beer ‘must be sold’ at Brazil World Cup, says Fifa
You’ll have a choice between Budweiser, Budweiser, or Budweiser.
Which is not very good, but why not go all the way? Can we get Sepp to roll out before kick off with the Clydesdales?
“Neighslayer is the premiere brony metal band. With every Element covered in this...”
– NeighSlayer
Just fyi, MLP stands for “My Little Pony”.
“This year is set to be even worse.”
– Many Americans gave up hope last year – 2012 will be worse
Heh.
Doomblogging, man.
“The idea of Gingrich running a useless attack campaign sponsored by a wacky...”
– The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012
