October 2008
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“With only a week to go before the election, pollsters are busier than ever. But...”
– [ What would happen if we banned polling during election season?, from Slate Magazine ]
In my “though experiments” about utopian politics, marketing is not allowed. Candidates solemnly publish white papers listing their platforms, and there’s a couple of debates to get a sense of...
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“It seems that it is easier to find cool American stuff in Japan than in the U.S....”
– [ via A Continuous Lean ]
WHAT?!?!?
(I should add I’ve been having a weird clothing love affair with the North Face lately, although I thought their clothes were incredibly dull for years.)
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“From where women are standing, jeans define a man more than his watch, car,...”
– [ A Woman’s Guide to Men’s Jeans, in More Intelligent Life ]
Part of me (the better part) wants to disregard this article entirely and say, “Oh no! Things like jeans don’t matter a bit!”
But I do notice jeans. Everything about them. Almost immediately. It’s a...
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Musical PSA: Don’t listen to Holy...
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“to: Admin - If You want to delete your site from my spam list, please visit...”
– [ from a spam comment on my blog ]
*eyebrow raise*
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“His healthcare plan scares me. You know, I don’t like people going without...”
– [ Joe Wurzelbacher (aka “Joe the Plumber”), in Exclusive: Obama – ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ Reveals Socialist Plan for America, from Family Security Matters ]
This is a very nice example of an attitude that I saw constantly in the Midwest, and one that mystifies me to this day: a...
“Litmus Test? | 10:12 p.m. Could you ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court...”
– [ Live Blog: The Last Tangle, from The Caucus Blog in the New York Times ]
That’s what I thought McCain said, but the way he put it was so convoluted I wasn’t sure I’d missed something. I’m guessing he’ll be trying to explain that statement away in the next few...
“10:35 p.m. Mr. McCain says these are difficult times and then tries to co-opt...”
– [ Live Blog: The Last Tangle, from The Caucus Blog in the New York Times ]
“sophophobia: a fear of learning”
– [ dictionary.com ]
I just learned what sophophobia meant, and I liked it!
“Psychologist George Miller long ago said something so important that I call it...”
– [ Suzette Haden Elgin, PhD, in How Verbal Self-Defense Works, from HowStuffWorks ]
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On the Atlantic Rebranding
New Work: The Atlantic, from Pentagram
My coworkers and I spent some time yesterday talking about this redesign. Nobody liked it, and even though I’m often underwhelmed by Pentagram’s rebrandings, the ketchup-and-mustard sample cover was so scattered and cluttered as to be a Wolff Olins-sized disaster. What, I wondered, was Pentagram thinking? They have some of the top designers in...
“With responsibility comes harsh things. People look at me, and they say,...”
– [ Gareth Keenan, in The Office ]
“The British love plain food (blame the Anglo-Saxons, who believed that if the...”
– [ A Good Time to Love Cheapskate Cuisine, in More Intelligent Life ]
Who knows to shred them? Not me! Maybe someday.
“My first explanation of why we may be such poor lie catchers is that we are not...”
– [ Why Don’t We Catch Liars?: Truth-Telling, Lying and Self-Deception, by Paul Ekman ]
Hulu would be awesome
marco:
if I could watch it easily on my TV.
Imagine how great it would be if they struck a deal to make Hulu available on the Apple TV, Xbox 360, or PS3.
You’d see a lot more geeks canceling their cable service.
Yup.
“My first neighbor in Arkansas borrowed my Quran and returned it, saying,...”
– [ Spare Me the Sermon On Muslim Women, from the Washington Post ]
I appreciate that Islam is not inherently misogynistic. Communism is not inherently totalitarian, either, but somehow most countries that adopt communism do seem to end up with totalitarian rule.
