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animal instincts
adult swim
(sprung) i noticed in the park earthworm mounds. on the radio (npr) they mentioned that its time for the earthworms to start moving around and that the robins would soon respond (looking for food). any crocus sightings yet ?
'the [New York Times] paper's policy on "Ethical Journalism" states: "Staff members may not accept gifts, tickets, discounts, reimbursements or other inducements from any individuals or organizations covered by The Times or likely to be covered by The Times. (Exceptions may be made for trinkets of nominal value, say, $25 or less, such as a mug or a cap with a company logo.) Gifts should be returned with a polite explanation."
Most reporters at the Times make between $60,000 and $80,000.'
I am still feeling out this blog medium, and I think I ran into a personal boundary recently. I created an art criticism monster thread and the experience is nagging at me. At first I loved it that so many people got involved, but in the end it was unweildy and for some reason, that I can't pin down yet, disatisfying. Partly, the heavy, abstracted subject matter just got to be too much. Maybe I should have moderated more? Or maybe its a technical thing. I changed it from flat comments to threaded comments part way through, thinking it would help to lend clarity, but I think it actually broke up any coherent trains of thought that had been developing and made the whole exercise feel more futile. I'm trying to figure out just what I am getting/want to be getting out of this project, and having tons and tons of people post to a thread no longer seems like a big goal. Any thoughts or past experiences from Tree-ers would be much appreciated.
Have you people heard about Howard Stern being taken off the air in six different cities? The reason seems to be because he was talking about how much Bush sucks.
dont have a cow, man.
DLC approved: Kerry's hair.
i think this is an ad
am i the only one still watching debates?
Before I suffered brain damage and stopped reading anything that didn't have the word 'manual' in the title, I would have loved this: Grey Lodge Occult Review. Issue number 10 just went online, with pieces by Korzybski, Artaud, Burroughs, Dick, Baudrillard, Huxley, Battaille, etc....
The NY Post’s Sean Delonas has produced some powerful political cartoons, mostly on the basis of sheer grotesquery rather than wit, like his famous image of Cuomo and Giuliani literally “in bed” together. But I thought this one was actually a good pun.
Nice. Preview is the top link right now on memepool.
Can you see your hits over there Joester? Does that drive much traffic?
bird sighting
Wish I could post a picture, but I was going 65 mph at the time. I saw a pair of hawks (?) perched on a light pole in the middle of the US 101/ I-880 interchange. Very cool. Nice to know that some predators can coexist with us.
the slot: a spot for copy editors
Wow. 500+ hits from August J. Pollack's link to "closed captioned war president".
architecture: from bad to worse
if theyre going to call it moynihan station, i might be just as happy if it doesnt happen.
So, how bad is the O'Reilly thing?
In an otherwise dry investment research report, someone cracks wise. Emphasis added.
With HDTV – where an upgrade to an HD signal would be required even if one were to remain with their existing service provider – the significance of that trigger is only amplified. Once a consumer decides to make the substantial investment in a new HD television set, they become acutely conscious of what they can display on it. (And highly aware that if they tell their wife they spent thousands on an HDTV set without having HD programming, they’ll be exposed as an idiot). It seems reasonable to expect that consumers will be disproportionately willing to switch providers to get best High Definition service for their new High Definition set.
no homing pigeons without roads?
move over old skull / LI'L GN'R
Jimmy Carter weblog.
is that 99000 unique users?
"It should be clear to all by now that what we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues. This group believes that what matters in politics and economics are conviction and will — not facts, social science or history.
Personally, I don't believe the Bush team will pay a long-term political price for its faith-based intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Too many Americans, including me, believe in their guts that removing Saddam was the right thing to do, even if the W.M.D. intel was wrong."
I agree with Friedman's point here.
That is, that the supporting intelegence wasnt there and we (too many Americans including Friedman) dont fucking care. The challenge is to get across why we and he should care.