October 2011
30 posts
Wikipedia: Occupy Wall Street →
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The protests were initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters.[5]
“Canadian activist group.”
“Fourth, there’s that classic scene where it seems like nobody is going to show...”
– I break down all of the sports movie cliches in what is clearly this week’s biggest release, The Mighty Macs
shortformblog:
Maybe we’re not as cynical as Grantland or Buzzfeed, but we don’t understand why Zooey Deschanel got ripped upon for a spare, straightforward rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner that does two interesting things: 1) Gets all the words right and 2) Focuses on subtlety over theatrics. (You know, just like her music with She & Him.) We get it. She’s in full...
In which David Simon—speaking to a class that has...
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Here's a sentence from an email I received about...
For next week, I hope you are as excited as I am for David Simon to be in class!
Yeah. I’m pretty excited.
http://americanexpress.com/us/admin/ →
prestia:
This is really, really bad.
This is why I use Visa. Well, this and also because it’s the Official Card of the Olympic Games, no duh.
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“Hi, this is Steve. I really want my phone back.”
– Former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam shares his reflections (and regrets) on his experience with Steve Jobs. Read more at The Atlantic (via theatlantic)
Amidst the race for everyone to publish all TEN BILLION Steve Jobs commemoration articles they’ve had sitting as drafts for three years (which is...
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Watch
Interview: Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg...
The AV Club: Jesse, you’ve been on a lot of lists of up-and-coming young stars to watch, that sort of thing. What has your experience been, having recently been thrust into the limelight?
Jesse Eisenberg: Well, you’re not supposed to read what they write about you, because it’s just debilitating. And people have written mean things that I’ve read, and they make you feel terrible about yourself and feel like: How could I go be a creative person when people think it’s bad?
Woody Harrelson: Let go of that Harvard Crimson review.
Jesse Eisenberg: Fucking Crimson. A few years ago, somebody wrote something bad in the Harvard Crimson; then we were in Boston yesterday, and I thought the girl who was coming to interview us was the girl, and she never showed up. Smart move. But I have everybody’s name on my bathroom wall, on my stall shower actually, and I just read their names as I soap up and plan on murdering them.
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Some of the questions I've asked my brother over...
doesn’t SF by law have to get all google stuff first?
what side are you on in the rap game now?
does google need short-term masseuses? do i just send my resume to masseuse.google.com? or it is google.com/masseuse? (Response: “yup just email the domain”)
did you buy an engagement ring yet? for thom [Yorke]? because you want to marry him?
what is the dumbest thing someone...
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