January 2009
58 posts
Chipotle Employee Just Gave Guy In Front Of You... →
notthatkindagay:
Since noticing the rice disparity moments ago, you have considered a number of tactics to rectify the situation, including hesitating slightly before advancing to the beans and meat in order to convey your concern; staring intently at the other burrito in hopes of drawing attention to its incongruent size; and simply asking the Chipotle employee for a little more rice.
A truer...
NYC's 10 Best Dumpling Joints →
winstonwolfe:
(via thephenthouse)
Dumplings equal an auto-reblog.
Hmmm. I still think Shanghai Cuisine has the best soup dumplings in NYC. Hand’s down, way better than Joe Shanghai.
I finally washed my jeans!
boredintheburbs:
Last January, I bought a pair of Nudie jeans. I got the raw denim kind, which they tell you not to wash until six months of wear. I waited a year because, well, I don’t wear them all the time. And I just washed them, and now I’m wearing them and they’re wet. You’re not supposed to dry them, but instead, wear them so they form back to your body or some shit, and then hang them...
SUICIDE - FAIL →
I know suicide is no laughing matter, but this just irritates me. The price of the ferries, the choppers, the ambulance, the city workers, and all other expenditures should be totaled and the unfortunate person should be invoiced for the amount. Suicide is selfish. Suicide on public property requiring the intervention of others is even worse.
/rant
SUICIDE - FAIL →
I know suicide is no laughing matter, but this just irritates me. The price of the ferries, the choppers, the ambulance, the city workers, and all other expenditures should be totaled and the unfortunate person should be invoiced for the amount. Suicide is selfish. Suicide on public property requiring the intervention of others is even worse.
</rant>
Yet another reason to hate Citi Habitats. →
The documents belonged to the local office of Citi Habitats, one of New York’s best-known real estate firms. Their clients, whose personal information we found amid the trash, were appalled.
“Just all kinds of information. Things that you never want anyone to know about yourself,” she said. “It was four blocks worth of personal information and it was identity theft waiting...
“Nationalization in other countries means that the government has control over...”
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David Sirota, talking with Thomas Frank and Bill Moyers. As the ITT List puts it, ‘If you’re going to do nationalization, do nationalization’ (via southpol)
Reading this makes me sooo angry! Full reader-friendly transcript, here. Caution, this will make you really REALLY hate our government...
“Just imagine that you’ll be watching it as if you were sitting beside the...”
– 3D porn to revolutionise industry
This is the oddest creepiest choice of words to describe this new technology.
“The most powerful politician in the world is black. The best golfer in the world...”
– Popbitch (via funtime)
Bullet Ice Cube Tray
WANT
Early candidate for 2009 person of the year -... →
Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader, was so completely certain that he would be assassinated that he prepared an editorial to be published after his death. When you have time, it is definitely worth a full read: Lasantha’s Final Editorial - 13 Jan 2009
If you remember nothing else, let it be this: the Leader is there for you, be you Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, low-caste,...
“If Obama steps over the bounds, I will tell him… I do not work for Barack...”
– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Oh really, Mr. Reid? That’s how you want to play it? Barack’s response: BRING IT.
Money Manager that owes $50mm goes missing... foul... →
Around the same time he mysteriously vanished, hedge fund manager Arthur G. Nadel owed a $50 million payout to some of the investors who had entrusted their life savings to him, an accountant said Monday.
Instead, they learned their money was gone — and now they’re left asking if it was all a bad investment, or if they were scammed.
The search for Nadel entered its sixth day Monday...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
langer:
Every website hosts a file that determines those addresses in the domain which can be indexed by search engines and those which are disallowed from being queried against.
The robots.txt file on the newly-updated White House website contains two lines:
User-agent: * Disallow: /includes/
Under the Bush administration, the list of disallowed assets grew to 2,319.
(via YCombinator...
Wow. First an inauguration Tumblr, and now an RSS Feed from the Whitehouse Blog.
“Are there any Asians at the innauguration? They seem to be interviewing...”
inauguration:
If you’re still in transit to the Mall, we suggest you head west of 14th Street. Dress warm - feels like 12 degrees outside with wind chill.
Social Media done right. Short, to the point, and offering information that is actually USEFUL to readers.
WatchI’m calling it now - the pilot will be Time’s Person of the Year 2009. Sidenote, he went to UC Berkeley, woot! GO BEARS!
Torture and Selective Outrage
jeffmiller:
I believe that it is disgraceful that our country has tortured prisoners in conjunction with the “War on Terror.” However, I think we’re a little too selective with our outrage. Consider this:
According to the report, released [in December 2007] by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), “Sexual Victimization in State and Federal Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2007,” 4.5 percent of...
“As much as I am a product of many places, I am a New York girl through and...”
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Gwyneth Paltrow (via joannachristine) (via siddman)
I can’t believe I’m agreeing with anything Gwyneth Paltrow says, but this is spot on. For me, it’s a duality of being California-bred and living in Manhattan since the age of 21. Clearly, both places have greatly influenced...
“Transition officials hope to transform Obama’s vast Web operation and...”
– Do you think there are people in this country that read this and say, “Haha, hey, that name is pretty catchy… Obama 2.0, I get it”.
Because I’m guessing everyone I know, and anyone who’s reading this on tumblr, just rolled their eyes when they saw that phrase…
Let Me Google That For You →
dorothymantooth:
mercurypdx:
THIS is going to be my go-to snark tool for the lazy. Just append the URL with what people want in this format…
?q=keyword+keyword+keyword
… and you too can teach a man to fish.
Not this? I see. A kinder, gentler snark.
Obama wants to delay Digital TV switch
bowlingalleylawyer:
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting, arguing that too many Americans who rely on analog TV sets to pick up over-the-air channels won’t be ready.
um… WHY?!
[I changed the link, because I didn’t want to drive traffic to Foxnews, so here’s a link to the Boston.com...
Text Messages Being Forwarded to Jews By Muslims... →
adamiss:
So apparently this has been going around the last few days - stories of Muslim cab drivers telling people to be careful on Wednesday the 7th.
Sounds like a bit of propaganda to me, but I suppose it’s a reminder to keep your eyes open in our fair city.
As a gentile, I’m curious to know why the messages are only being forwarded to Jews… if it’s dangerous for Jews to...
Well played, Hyundai. Well played. →
A decade ago Hyundai pioneered America’s Best Warranty to show you the faith we have in our cars. Today, in addition to our warranty, we’re introducing Hyundai Assurance, to show you the faith we have in you. Right now, buy any new Hyundai, and if in the next year you lose your income, we’ll let you return it. That’s the Hyundai Assurance.