December 2010
19 posts
My new internet project →
in which my friends and I take photos and draw googly eyes on things. My friend Jen is really holding down the fort with the most and best photos, but the fun is really in having a group project. I highly recommend using ones free time for such an endeavor.
NPR, quit being so self-congratulatory →
I love Dan Schorr as much as anyone else, but “Nixon-Era Probe of Dan Schorr Uncovered A Great Reporter, FBI Files Show” on NPR’s Two-Way news blog struck me as a little obnoxious.
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My future just got a little brighter
It pleases me to no end that the xanga account that chronicled my teen angst circa 2002-2005 no longer exists. Politics*, here I come!
*I kid, I kid.
Novelty Industry Grapples With 2011 →
I live for this stuff.
Pablo says
Paul: Was this headline written for me? http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/21/can_the_spirit_of_christmas_defeat_kim_jong_il
“love jumped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley, leaping out of...”
– “master and margarita,” mikhail bulgakov
(thanks for having good taste, Evan Alterman)
Charitable Web Browsing →
Google is doing a promotion called “Chrome for a Cause” where they will donate money to certain charities (The Nature Conservancy, Charity: water, Doctors without Borders, Room to Read, etc) based on how many tabs you use in Google Chrome. Install the extension (in Chrome, of course) with the link above.
How far in advance do newspapers write obituaries? →
When I interned at NPR, way back in the summer of 2008, George Carlin passed away and it was my job to dig his obituary out of the shared drive. Most of them were for living people, and I even found one for Britney Spears.
quelquefois:
News organizations prepare so-called “advancers” in one of three situations: The subject is so famous that the paper would be embarrassed not to have an...
“Dear Santa,
For Christmas, all I want is for Mariah Carey’s pregnant womb...”
– Email from Pablohoney
