December 2011
“A new subreddit opened named “Operation Pull Ryan.” Redditor “joshawesome”...”
– Reddit Users Set Their Sights on Pro-SOPA Candidates
I’ve been mentioned on Mashable. Crazy.
The Mess I'm In →
infinitegestures:
Jonathan Ames rationalizes book hoarding marvelously.
There’s nothing wrong with book hoarding. Nothing at all.
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Bigger list of companies/businesses/groups that... →
List of SOPA Supporters and Sponsors -... →
Zippo headquarters is ~20 minutes from me. I’ll stand outside with a poster if I have to.
User talk:Jimbo Wales - Wikipedia, the free... →
Wikipedia is moving their domains off of GoDaddy. Awesome news. They are getting $5 from me if they go through with it.
Reddit thread
“Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third...”
– http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=378&isc=smtwsup
After Redditors and other Internet folk decided to boycott GoDaddy for their support of SOPA, GoDaddy finally reverses its stance.
I don’t think this will stop the boycott.
“It had never dawned on me to listen to “Luna” as a song of unrequited love. The...”
– Matthew Perpetua shares his thoughts on recently finding out that “Luna” by Smashing Pumpkins is a song of unrequited love.
Fluxblog
Christopher Hitchens | Special Reports | The... →
The Browser has collected some of Christopher Hitchens’ best essays.
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
schenkenberg:
At NewYorker.com, Christopher Buckley writes about his 30-year friendship with the now late Christopher Hitchens, a writer of sharp teeth and Herculean productivity:
Lunch—dinner, drinks, any occasion—with Christopher always was. One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick’s Café of Washington, began at 1 P.M., and ended at 11:30 P.M. At about nine o’clock (though my memory...
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Books I've read in 2011
Here is the complete (or almost complete, once 2011 is officially over) list of books I’ve read in 2011. I’ve not included literary magazines since that’s mostly PANK and The Paris Review anyway. I haven’t linked to any of the reviews I’ve written, but I will be using this as a guide to post my favorite books of 2011 and my favorite books read in 2011.
The below list...
Louis C.K.'s Downloadable Comedy Special Earning... →
popculturebrain:
He took to his website to write,
“12 hours [after the special’s noon launch on Dec. 10], we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is...
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predatorywaspobserver said: How is Between Parentheses? I’ve been meaning to buy it but I’ve put it off for whatever reason.
I just started reading it but I will let you know what I think when I’m finished. I know that a few of my friends have read it and loved reading his essays. I’m a Bolaño fan-boy so I don’t think I’ll be able to give an unbiased opinion.
“Listen: I don’t have anything against autobiographies, so long as the...”
– From Between Parentheses by Roberto Bolaño
The diagnosis →
Xeni Jardin, one of my favorite writers at Boing Boing, writes about her recent breast cancer diagnosis.
The thing about this thing, or, at least, this first week of this thing, is how it takes you out there to the cold planet again and again and again, when you aren’t expecting it. Long, undulating waves of fear pull you out to where you are alone and unreachable, even by words sent from...
Guantánamo for US citizens? Senate bill raises... →
via CS Monitor:
National Defense Authorization Act covering $662 billion in defense spending for the next fiscal year includes a provision requiring military custody of a terror suspect believed to be a member of Al Qaeda or its affiliates and involved in attacks on the United States.
A last minute amendment allows the president to waive the authority based on national security and to hold a...
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The Classical →
The Classical has launched (over the weekend I guess). Here are some things:
The site design is horrible. It isn’t very readable. Did someone find a theme and say “let’s just change the colors?” The logo is awesome, the content is awesome. Gray and Orange are awesome colors. The website sucks. When visiting the site, my eyes should go to the articles. Instead, I’m...
“When the right attacks OWS as a bunch of countercultural slackers and as the...”
– Fear of a Slacker Revolution | Possible Futures
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