March 2012
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Love That Endured Alzheimer's Ends in 2 Deaths -... →
And the saddest headline of the year award goes to…
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Look Everyone I'm On the Internet I Live in New...
Guilty as GPOY’d.
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John Gruber Is Mike Daisey
One of the Gruber’s main points against Daisey is that his deceitful theater has brought an undeserved negative attention on Apple. Other (even more disingenuous, in my estimation) commenters lament Mike Daisey’s lies, saying that his confabulations will take attention away from areas of interest that actually require scrutiny. To all this, I say: Fuck you.
Basically every Apple Blog...
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Highlights From Tumblr's New Terms of Service
I sort of wish there weren’t some weird HTML character errors in it. I guess these guys are lawyers/humorists — not proofreaders.
You have to be at least 13 years old to use Tumblr. We’re serious: it’s a hard rule, based on U.S. federal and state legislation, even if you’re 12.9 years old. If you’re younger than 13, don’t use Tumblr. Ask your parents for...
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Trend Piece Alert: "Pigeon-Chested Dudes"
Advantages:
Easy to accessorize with.
Not threatening.
Inexpensive care and feeding.
Partner wanted a bird tattoo but afraid it might hurt.
Concavity as a sexual fetish.
Disadvantages:
Shit on everything.
“I don’t normally address false reporting in the media but this week I...”
– Gwyneth Paltrow, media watchdog: Shots. Fired. Goop. Do.
“I think women in Africa are doing a pretty badass job of organizing against...”
– The Rejectionist brings bilious, righteous splendor to the issues of the day, and it is good.
There’s also this amazingly quotable sentiment:
I want us to be so loud and so angry and so visible and so terrifying that we cannot be mistaken for anything other than the future.
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To clarify: I do think that The Odd Future Tape... →
The question is what’s left after you start to throw off the critiques, and lose the courage not to care? There are obvious shock lines sprinkled through Vol. 2, like “Riding around town in Seattle/ With the same shotgun that Kurt used to ‘Click-Clack-Boom-Pow.’” But plenty more of the lyrical content to be found—particularly coming from Tyler—tries to parse the decidedly odd...
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My Weekend With Odd Future (Not Literally)
The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2 leaked on Thursday night, and on Friday I pitched my editor at Capital to do a review, which he accepted. I spent the weekend listening to it, being a little underwhelmed, and then listening to the insane ten minute group-encompassing song “Oldie” on one-track repeat for two, three, four, five times in a row. It is the best song on the album.
So, like, I...
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John Gruber Is Out Of Control
Disclaimer: This post makes unsubstantiated claims about and ad hominem attacks on John Gruber personally, but I have tried to construct a facts-based argument against his intellectual position. I’ve searched through four years of Gruber’s industry-leading Apple blog, Daring Fireball. He gives no shits about Chinese workers or Apple’s corporate responsibility. Fact.
John...
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Girlfriends
I was in the kitchen a moment ago. Er, I still am in the kitchen. But a moment ago I was in the kitchen talking to my girlfriend. About Odd Future. Right before this moment she was like this:
But then I mentioned something about Odd Future. And I sort of absentmindedly continued, “I’m a fucking walking paradox. No I’m not. Threesomes with a fucking triceratops” she was...
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"Jesus Joke" by Dave Berman
The Pope arrives in heaven, where St. Peter awaites him. St. Peter asks who he is.
The Pope: "I am the pope."
St. Peter: "Who? There’s no such name in my book."
The Pope: "I’m the representative of God on Earth."
St.Peter: "Does God have a representative? He didn’t tell me..."
The Pope: "But I am the leader of the Catholic Church..."
St. Peter: "The Catholic church ...Never heard of it... Wait, I’ll check with the boss."
St. Peter walks away through Heaven’s Gate to talk with God.
St. Peter: "There’s a some guy standing outside who claims he’s your representative on earth."
God: "I don’t have a representative on earth, not that I know of... Wait, I’ll ask Jesus."
(yells for Jesus)
Jesus: "Yes father, what’s up?"
God and St. Peter explain the situation.
Jesus: "Wait, I’ll go outside and have a little chat with that fellow."
Ten minutes pass and Jesus reenters the room laughing out loud. St. Peter asks Jesus why he’s laughing.
Jesus: "Remember that fishing club I started 2000 years ago? It still exists!"
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Apple, an All-American Success Story
WSJ:
Not surprisingly, Apple will be spending its money on the dividend and buyback using its domestic cash.
About two-thirds of Apple’s [$100,000,000,000, ie one hundred billion dollars] cash sits overseas since that’s where the company’s earns most of its revenue.
Apple pays an international tax rate of under 3%, according to Bernstein Research, so repatriating...
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The Retraction Hammer Comes Down →
parislemon:
So far, this all appears to be unrelated to the separate NYT article that kicked off the “iEconomy” series. But is there any question that Daisey’s initial “reports” at least in part led to these subsequent reports?
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Say what you will about Daisey. I don’t care, he does seem squirrely to me. But using art to call attention to the problem was his whole motherfucking point,...
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Excerpts from 'This American Life' on Mike Daisey:... →
The writer tells Glass that at one point during the fact-checking process, before the original report ran, that he secretly wished the story would be killed by This American Life due to lack of information backing up his claims.
That settles it. Manufacturing Apple products is actually a great, joyful, empowering line of work! And did you hear about that new iPad? Great timing. Go buy two!
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Words For Tomorrow Today: galt
|gôlt|
noun
a member of the youth cohort admiring Ayn Rand’s philosophical Objectivism, typically characterized by libertarian values and personal funding provided by parental units in order to pay for post-secondary education, which became virtually unaffordable to 95% of American citizens after the passage of President Paul’s Student Debt Vengeance Act of 2037.
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