February 2009
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“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming...”
– Antonio Gramsci (source)
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NEW OFFICE POLICY
janieblue84:
Dress Code:
1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to your salary.
2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we will assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise.
3) If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a raise.
4) If...
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“…intolerant of civilization.”
– The latest New York Times Magazine featured an article highlighting some people’s efforts to lead the whooping crane back to historical nesting grounds, which were originally abandoned due to human intrusion. The subtitle of the article as it appears on the website is as follows:
People are...
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Conan O'Brien gets shafted
The Times has a piece on Conan O’Brien’s impending move to the Tonight Show, currently helmed by Jay Leno and starting at 11:35. This seems the natural progression: The late late nighter puts in his dues (hilarity ensues for 16 years), and then gets promoted to late night.
But there’s a complication: Leno, instead of gracefully exiting the stage, is taking the 10pm slot,...
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George Kalman, hero (and my uncle)
Via the New York Times:
A Pennsylvania filmmaker sued the state on Wednesday for turning down his business’s name, I Choose Hell Productions, because state law prohibits names that “constitute blasphemy, profane cursing or swearing or that profane the Lord’s name.”
The filmmaker, George Kalman, contends his free speech rights were violated, as was his right to freedom against the establishment...
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Listening to Sean Harold
Our good friend and burgeoning master musical explorer Sean Harold has an inventive and eclectic new EP up on his MySpace page.
Listen, enjoy, and be continually surprised.
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Animals As Leaders
I came across this melodically-interesting and highly-listenable DC-based instrumental shred project today. A recent Washington City Paper interview with bandleader Tosin Abasi revealed a common literary influence:
WCP: What does the name come from?
Abasi: It’s loosely derived from this book Ishmael. The author used this telepathic gorilla to kind of critique human culture. It’s like looking...
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Many happy returns
Via the Times of London, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s 85th-birthday-celebration wish list:
2,000 bottles of champagne — Moët & Chandon and ‘61 Bollinger
500 bottles of whisky — Johnny Walker Blue Label, 22-year-old Chivas
8,000 lobsters
100kg king prawns
3,000 ducks
4,000 portions of caviar
8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher
16,000 eggs
3,000 cakes — chocolate and...
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KFC's secret recipe, part deux
A while back I posted a quote from KFC President Roger Eaton:
I don’t want to be the president who loses the recipe. Imagine how terrifying that would be.
This quote was in the context of updates KFC was making to the security protections in place for their secret, original handwritten fried chicken batter recipe. In that post, I pointed out that Roger Eaton presides over a company that causes...
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Low-Carbon = Low-Cruelty
Mike Tidwell has written an article called “The Low-Carbon Diet” for Audubon Magazine, in which he explains that he’s become a vegetarian to cut his carbon footprint. As we’ve documented at HERE.am, the recognition of meat-eating as a significant climate change component is slowly going mainstream.
But a less-encouraging parallel trend is encapsulated in paragraphs 2 and...
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A Visual Tutorial in Formal Logic - The 16... →
danlowlite:
A neat visual depiction of logical relations.
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This Time by Almost There
We played an impromptu...
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