June 2010
30 posts
“Say what you want about America, but 13 bucks still gets you a hell of a lot of...”
– George Michael Bluth, on Arrested Development
“Guess what? Our future self is pretty unreliable, too. He/she doesn’t...”
– From this blog post. (A friend in college introduced me to the concept of “being nice to your future self.” I think I have an unhealthy relationship with my future self.)
“With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a...”
– From the New York Times profile of Jon Gnarr — the newly-elected mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland.
“The past 2 months I’ve been on tour and haven’t followed the news. What’s with...”
– Conan O’Brien, via his Twitter
“Being bored is a precious thing, a state of mind we should pursue. Once boredom...”
– From “Why I Returned My iPad” by Peter Bregman
“This is just one act in an ongoing dramatic production, one small part of a...”
– Anthony Bourdain, “My War on Fast Food” (Via)
“Safety is our primary concern. Well, profits, then safety. Oh, no- profits,...”
– From the very funny BPGlobalPR Twitter feed
“Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do...”
– Paul Buchheit of Gmail fame on What to do with your millions.
This is what happens when people stop being... →
From Kottke: In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach took three patients who believed they were Jesus Christ and made them live with each other for two years.
The early meetings were stormy. “You oughta worship me, I’ll tell you that!” one of the Christs yelled. “I will not worship you! You’re a creature! You better live your own life and wake up to the...
Introverts on the Interwebs
From Kottke: “Fellow introvert Joanne McNeil on Jonathan Rauch’s classic article on introverts and what introversion might mean on the internet.”
Social media drains me like a large party might. I just deactivated Facebook. And I don’t @ much on Twitter. Too often it feels like the “fog of [an extrovert’s] 98-percent-content-free talk,” as Rauch put...
“Here’s a fact, this is an honest to God fact. Last year there were more corpses...”
– David Simon, during a rant about the narcissism of New Yorkers (via Luke’s)