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Comic for September 1, 2010

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:13:21 -0400

Comic for September 1, 2010

ryanpeq: Firedad

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:00:21 -0400

ryanpeq: Firedad

Dilbert comic strip for 09/01/2010 from the official Dilbert...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:59:54 -0400

Dilbert comic strip for 09/01/2010 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

Products: These Machines kill Facists

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:54:14 -0400

Products: These Machines kill Facists

Metaphors, Cheap

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:57:50 -0400

Metaphors, Cheap

Thems the breaks

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:06:00 -0400

Thems the breaks

Photo

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:55:40 -0400

Fuck you, the New Yorker.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:03:00 -0400

Fuck you, the New Yorker.

"When the team of technicians presented the camera to Kodak audiences they of course heard a barrage..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:06 -0400

“

When the team of technicians presented the camera to Kodak audiences they of course heard a barrage of curious questions:

Why would anyone ever want to view his or her pictures on a TV? How would you store these images? What does an electronic photo album look like? When would this type of approach be available to the consumer?

And although Mr. Sasson and his team tried to answer some of these questions, he concludes with the statement that the digital camera they created could “substantially impact the way pictures will be taken in the future.”

”

- Bits Pics: Kodak’s 1975 Model Digital Camera - NYTimes.com

I took this. We’re in the process of leaving the Watch...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:15:26 -0400

I took this.

We’re in the process of leaving the Watch Wizard.

We threw out Chris’ filthy mattress when he left for tree planting and ever since he got back he has slept on the living room couch as any mattresses purchased before the big move will become sullied by bed bugs.

Chris always, always falls asleep reading a book. I came home one night and found him like this.

"In those early meetings at Fort Benning, those original eight interviews, the Rangers all told me..."

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:35:45 -0400

“

In those early meetings at Fort Benning, those original eight interviews, the Rangers all told me these fantastic stories, but what I didn’t know at the time was that the raid that is the center of the story of “Black Hawk Down” was a Delta Force raid, a special ops raid — a unit that the Army would not even acknowledge existed. It was totally a black ops unit, and so the Rangers whose job it was to set up a perimeter around the block where the Delta guys were doing their work were not allowed to mention the name of Delta Force. So they would try and tell me their stories, and they kept getting stuck. They would go out in the hall, and there would be a representative there from public affairs, and they’d huddle and confer. The soldier would come back in and say, “And then a soldier from another unit would did thus and so.” And I would say, “What other unit?” “I’m not at liberty to discuss that, sir,” he’d say.

(…)

When I interview people for a story, the last question I always ask is “Who else should I talk to?” And of course each of these Rangers that day had lists of their buddies who had fought with them, and many of them had, in the years since this battle, left the Army. You would be amazed at how much more a guy will tell you with a beer in his hand in his basement in Cleveland, than a Ranger sitting next to a public affairs officer at Fort Benning.

”

- Mark Bowden on discovering narrative and the value of beginner’s mind: “only if you are truly ignorant can you ask the truly ignorant question” – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Falero’s The Departure of the Witches - Boing Boing

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:33:46 -0400

Falero’s The Departure of the Witches - Boing Boing

"Most of Toronto’s jumpers attempt to kill themselves in the daytime, between the hours of 8 a.m. and..."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:33:35 -0400

“

Most of Toronto’s jumpers attempt to kill themselves in the daytime, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., and particularly during the lunch hour. The highest concentration of deaths is on the Yonge line, between Bloor and Sheppard, the lowest on the Spadina section between St. George and Downsview.

(…)

In some notable ways, people who choose to commit suicide in the subway are a breed apart. The subway is one of the only violent means of suicide that women are as apt to use as men. (Suicidal women tend to prefer pills and cutting themselves, while men prefer more deadly means, such as guns.) Paul Links, a professor of psychiatry and the chair of suicide studies at the University of Toronto, has studied suicidal behaviour on subway systems around the world and proposes that subways are a draw to people who impulsively commit suicide, for the simple reason that they are convenient. His theory is backed up by a Montreal study that found most people attempt suicides at the subway station closest to home. “A characteristic of a suicidal state of mind is that planning is affected,” Links says. “A suicidal person isn’t thinking, ‘Well, I have six options, so if this doesn’t work, I’ll try another method.’ ” If you can prevent a person committing suicide by one method, he says, the crisis may pass, and so may the desire to die.

”

- Priority One: suicides on the subway tracks—how many, how often and how to stop them | From the Print Edition | torontolife.com

"You’re a 39 year old American citizen born in New Mexico. Though it has convicted you of no..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:35:59 -0400

“You’re a 39 year old American citizen born in New Mexico. Though it has convicted you of no crime, the US government is trying to kill you. Your father retained the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights to seek a federal court order restraining the killing. Two weeks later, the Treasury Department labeled you a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”. This makes it a criminal offense for the ACLU or CCR to provide you with legal representation.”

- Saving Anwar | MetaFilter

Photo

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:33:51 -0400

The Longest Photographic Exposures in History - The Latest -...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:33:44 -0400

The Longest Photographic Exposures in History - The Latest - itchy i

I love the lines the sun made in the foreground throughout the year.

via Columbia (name). Columbia (pronounced /kɵˈlʌmbiə/) is a...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:32:54 -0400

via Columbia (name).

Columbia (pronounced /kɵˈlʌmbiə/) is a poetic name for the Americas and the feminine personification of the United States of America. It has inspired the names of many persons, places, objects, institutions, and companies in the Western Hemisphere and beyond.

Look at that sassy America!

Dancing Pigeons - Ritalin (by Blink)

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:32:45 -0400

Dancing Pigeons - Ritalin (by Blink)

Ali as St. Sebastian Remember when magazine covers used to be...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:38:26 -0400

Ali as St. Sebastian

Remember when magazine covers used to be ballsy and culturally relevant?

Nowadays they just do shameless shit like this remake from a few years ago.

"No,” said my dad, shaking his head sadly. “No, because print will run out of money, and you’ll be..."

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:25:10 -0400

““No,” said my dad, shaking his head sadly. “No, because print will run out of money, and you’ll be telling your kids, ‘Oh, when I was little, we used to buy information that we read while we had coffee in the morning. A person delivered it every day to my door and it was sort of uncomfortably dry, the paper and the ink used to print it, but everyone who contributed to it got paid and had health insurance. And now we all sit at home and look at the computer.’””

- Wipe Your Feet | The Print Is Not Dead, It Is Not Even Print