March 2012
February 2012
H.R. 347: Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds... →
The House passed a bill (above) that would make it illegal to protest at buildings or events where Secret Service is protecting someone.
Here is the petition at WhiteHouse.gov to encourage the President to veto this.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of...
Get My FBI File →
You can request a copy of the file the FBI has on you (if one exists) if you so choose (or any other Alphabet agency).
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“The Oatmeal’s awesome comic illustrates the problem well: demand is rapidly...”
– Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org
Marco Arment on The Oatmeal comic about pirating the first season of Game of Thrones (or pirating anything).
Most people that pirate, or most of the people I know that pirate, don’t want to pirate. They (we) would really rather pay legally for content that...
Well
This might be a bit TMI—I certainly don’t want to know this—but I know for a fact that it wasn’t all the porn he owned. He let my dad borrowed about a 1/4 of his collection. It’s kind of weird that he shares porn with my dad, or a lot weird.
I don’t care about people’s porn collection but he’s dating my little sister and I don’t need to...
Awkward
I helped my sister and her boyfriend move into their new place. I picked up a box from the trunk of my car and walked inside. I tripped over the last stair into the kitchen and the box went flying. Contents spill out. Contents: All the porn her boyfriend owns.
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Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies →
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88.
Berenstain, a longtime resident of Solebury in southeastern Pennsylvania, suffered a severe stroke on Thursday and died Friday without regaining consciousness, her son Mike Berenstain said.
The...
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Dear Classical,
We need to have a talk. It’s not that serious, but it is serious enough that I’m taking screenshots and writing this letter to you. It’s refreshing to see the quality sports writing I see on your site. Aside from Grantland and Deadspin, there isn’t another site that I can think of that produces the insightful, quality sports writing that you guys produce. I love the writing...
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“Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...”
– New From Junot Díaz - NYTimes.com
Nice!
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NYC Bookstore Tour
If one were planning a book shopping trip to NYC, which bookstores would one go to? I know about Strand, McNally, Housing Works, WORD, St. Mark’s, and Book Court. What are some other ones? It doesn’t matter where they are, we’re mainly hitting up Manhattan and Brooklyn, but we could definitely go to other areas.
Also, if you’d like to meet up while I’m there (for...
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Upcoming
Washington DC - March 11th to 13th
NYC - March 15th to 17th
SLC - April 3rd to 7th (or 8th)
Risk as feelings thesis →
bobulate:
Stanford economist George Loewenstein on how the brain makes decisions and something called the Risk as Feelings thesis:
He argued we overreact emotionally to new risks (which are often low-probability events), and underreact to those risks that are familiar (although these events are more likely to occur). So, as Loewenstein explains, “this is why people seemed to initially overreact...
Hardcover Fiction Magazines?
Are there any that exist aside from McSweeney’s?
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“In an instance of arrogant game recognizing arrogant game, The Weinstein Company...”
– Netflix will stream The Artist and other Weinstein Company films before they appear on cable | Film | Newswire | The A.V. Club
David Foster Wallace and the Fun in Working
dorkismo:
This post is so insanely beautiful. READ IT.
I first ran across Max Kennerly when I was researching a piece on Aaron Swartz last year; he had written by far the best analysis of the legal issues surrounding that crazy indictment. I might have known that Kennerly, Esq. would be equally insightful about a lot of other things.
Not on Geoff Dyer Day!
booksmatter:
In honor of the U.S. publication of Geoff Dyer’s latest book, Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, enjoy these Dyer-centric reads:
“Like a tired person trying to get to sleep who is kept awake by sounds from the street that he or she has for years scarcely noticed, I found that the word had become suddenly unignorable.” Dyer on the intrusiveness of the adjective...
“We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet. This is what makes us...”
– We, the Web Kids - Pastebin.com