February 2011
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"18-foot waves on Lake Michigan" →
Surf’s up, Chicago!
January 2011
The internal split within the Egyptian opposition
WikiLeaks cable 10CAIRO237, El Baradei Returns to Cairo:
Despite his reluctance to declare himself a candidate, [El Baradei] appears, for now, to have captured the imagination of some section of the secular elite that wants democracy but is wary of the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mainstream opposition parties which regularly meet as what is known in Egypt as the “opposition...
Largest Egyptian protest group wants to dissolve...
BBC News, 3/26/2009:
In Cairo, the 30th anniversary of the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt is seen by many as a moment for regret, not celebration.
“It’s a celebration for Israel - not for Egypt, not for the Arabs, not for the Palestinians,” says Issam al-Aryan of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist opposition movement which is officially banned in...
WikiLeaks cable 08CAIRO2543, Scenesetter for General Petraeus’s visit to Egypt:
To date, the U.S. investment in the Egyptian Armed Forces (over $36 billion since 1980) through the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program has supported peace between Egypt and Israel and assured Egyptian support for extending peace to the rest of the Arab world.
Mubarak and military leaders view the FMF...
Revolution Porn
I get a sense that there’s a lot of rah-rah revolution going on by American observers of the Egyptian protests and the Tunisian overthrow, with a lot of knee-jerk criticism of the United States for supporting the “wrong” side in the conflict. It all seems very Tea Partyesque to me, salivating over the spectacle of radical change without any real thought whether the actual...
“During the 1920s and 1930s, about one-third of professional fighters were...”
– New York Observer
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This is as close as you get to one group of judges...
Choice bits, from the Illinois Supreme Court:
The candidate [Rahm Emanuel] was born in Chicago and, in December 1998, purchased a Chicago home (the Hermitage House), which he still owns. At all relevant times, including the time he was in Washington, D.C., the candidate continued to pay property taxes for the Hermitage House, continued to hold an Illinois driver’s license listing the Hermitage...
Hummingbird Nest Livestream →
Like little winged shiba inu puppies.
Here's an entire Flickr group dedicated to bodega... →
(via)
stephenfalk:
If you want to geek out, check this
One day, the robots will beat us at karaoke, like they beat us at Jeopardy.
Apparently something I made was discussed on WNYC? →
My Obama video from 2009 is now SCIENCE.
A tumblr mystery.
So there’s a weird thing happening on Tumblr now, it’s been going on a while. I keep getting reblogged by seemingly random users whose names all use the same convention of firstname dash lastname (sometimes a number) dot tumblr dot com. Examples include:
stasia-nozick1.tumblr.com tony-selser.tumblr.com leigh-fventes1.tumblr.com kelli-palk.tumblr.com lessie-eliszewski.tumblr.com...
California wins at Foursquare →
New York: fourth place. Ouch! You guys are losing to Minnesota. Better step it up! Tom & Jerry’s ain’t gonna save you by itself.
(Do people still check in to Tom & Jerry’s?)
UPDATE: Oh, that’s just gym checkins. Fatties.
WatchOh just a creepy ktown puppet show. Why, what are you doing tonight?
BHPD super relieved that this one was, like, real... →
Since their last murder investigation was maybe 20 years ago. Let’s just say there’s no CSI franchise in their future. Unless jaywalking suddenly captures the nation’s imagination.
Eric Becomes A Man
stephenfalk:
Me (on Twitter): If I had to pick the single most momentous moment of my life it would probably be when I learned what “She Bop” was about. Eric (email): What’s she bop about? Me: Masturbating. Eric: nuh-uh Me: (I email him the lyrics) Eric: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT DANCING
LIKE A SOCK HOP
purns:mattbraunger:chamberlain:The Commodores -...
cajunboy:
“I’m going to get 10 burgers [after Monday’s game]. I love In-N-Out. It’s addicting. It’s the only reason I’m here in L.A. If it wasn’t for In-N-Out Burger, I probably would’ve gone to Memphis or something.”
Ron Artest loves In-N-Out burgers.
He could just get one burger with ten patties. Somebody tell Artest about the secret menu, please.
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The Gigabytes
“It’s all about the gigabytes, son!” The guy yelling this is a terrifying human being. I don’t know his name. He has a chest the size of a tractor tire and fire tattoos up and down his arms. A tattoo of the Warner Brothers logo covers his entire back.
Nobody knows what he’s talking about. “What is that, a candybar?” asks Macka. Macka’s never seen a computer in his life.
“Sounds like one,” says...
There's no way I can call him anything but Prince... →
Hopefully he’ll be puzzling!
Trendwatch: Retrending
1) Putting two spaces after a period is grammatical genocide.
2) The zodiac expired, like, a thousand years ago.
3) Guns don’t kill people, gun metaphors kill people.
So far, 2011 has been characterized by putting old stuff in new packages.
Experts admit they don't actually understand... →
By This Time in the Last Presidential Cycle, 14... →
WatchYup.
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So I tweeted this.
And then this happened.
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Only people on the eastside of Los Angeles use... →
Most checked-into restaurants in Los Angeles, in order:
- Malo - Red Lion - Wurstküche - Home (Hillhurst) - Bottega Louie - Langer’s - Tahoe Galbi - Yard House - Kogi - Cole’s - Phillippe’s - The Must (all fake checkins, obviously) - The Nickel - Edendale - The Pantry - Home (Fletcher) - Lazy Ox - Taix - Qdoba
Only one of these places is west of Vermont, and that one’s in...
“Blood libel refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities,...”
– Wikipedia.
Congrats, lamestream media! You’re the new Hitler!
