From the LA Times (via Terry Heaton):
Stories have never arrived to the world fully formed or vetted. Journalists have generally had hours — not minutes or seconds — to craft a story from the blast wave of facts and factoids that comes in the wake of a bombshell.
What people are seeing now is an old-fashioned […]
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(I’d love to know how many people are skipping this post.) You’ll probably find these charts and schematics based on popular rap songs as hilarious as I did. Whoever came up with these is my kind of genius.
Make sure you scroll down for Rick Ross’s 2007 schedule and to see people trying to parse the […]
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Three notes on 5chw4r7z’s post about our spur-of-the-moment, delightful outing at Olives in Clifton:
1) I ordered a slice of pumpkin torte, not carrot cake (though it looked and tasted a lot like carrot cake).
2) I write for a food blog, hence my response to the waiter that yes, we were food critics “of a sort”. […]
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Wow, this is fantastic news for Automattic, and includes a strategic investment from The New York Times Company. Our bud Om Malik has all the details.
Matt is one of the most genuine, affable, clever people I have had the privilege to meet in Silicon Valley - not to mention one of the cutest! That […]
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I absolutely love the shadows he created on the walls and ceiling in this shot of me in Paris on Thursday night.
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Lots of people really do use that kind of logic, though!
via Adriana
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Not if this is anything to go by:
Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in S.C.
via PdeH
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NANCY: Hold on, I need to put the phone down and button my pants.
JACKIE: […]
NANCY: And yes, you may blog that.
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Complaining about my father’s vagaries would be like complaining that Yogi Berra doesn’t make sense when he talks. When someone’s flaws are also their defining and most seductive characteristics, you just have to accept the consequences.
-Hillary Johnson, my beauty blog co-editor and friend, in a classic Inc magazine piece she wrote a few years back. […]
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I’m sure I’m not the only one of her friends who read this story and wished she was here to comment on it.
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5chw4r7z and I have teamed up to bring you a streetstyle blog, StyleSensor. This was inspired in part by my trip to Paris, where a few of the girls along for the ride have their own fabulous streetstyle blogs. It also gives us a legitimate excuse to ask to take people’s pictures.
We hatched the […]
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A Brit - er, English person - writes:
This ability to believe in the fantastical is both the source of our creative genius and our downfall. As I’ve said too many times, the truth is that no amount of bottle-top recycling, artisan cheese-making, fabulous chi-chi interiors or fancy new buildings that look like dildos, or armadillos […]
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After a holiday hiatus, we’re back in full swing this month with local journalist and Literacy Center West program manager Stephanie Dunlap speaking. Details here.
This one is quite close to my heart, as I recently started volunteering as a GED tutor at Literacy Center West* and am rather passionate about the predicament faced by the […]
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These all come from the comments on a rather splendid post:
I find [”Fair Trade”] inherently unfair and redolent of neocolonialism: they won’t arbitrarily pay higher prices for just any third-world coffee; they’ll only pay the higher price if the third-worlders adhere to some arbitrary conditions imposed by the first-worlders.
The “Fair Trade” group is no different […]
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