January 2010
“should old acquaintance be forgot…”
how to run a meeting →
“If you want to understand the future, don’t pay attention to how technology is...”
– Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: An insight from Oslo
50 Merciful Ways to Dump Someone →
49. Have him find some pro-Hitler material in your purse
46. “Sometimes I wish you were half-Asian” if that doesn’t work, up the percentage of Asian
6. When appropriate: “I don’t like Dispatch as much as I may have pretended I did”
It's Twenty-Ten not Two-thousand and Ten →
get it right.
popurls. →
this will now be the ultimate time waster
December 2009
The 14 Worst Words For A Designer To Hear
clientsfromhell:
“I’m not sure what I want, but I’ll know it when I see it.”
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization →
inky:
“So… this is a hipster party?” I ask the girl sitting next to me. She’s wearing big dangling earrings, an American Apparel V-neck tee, non-prescription eyeglasses and an inappropriately warm wool coat.
“Yeah, just look around you, 99 percent of the people here are total hipsters!”
“Are you a hipster?”
“Fuck no,” she says, laughing back the last of her glass before she hops off to...
The 9th Annual Year in Ideas →
(via frequency)
home again, home again.
Ask me anything! →
Yes, I jumped on the bandwagon. But do it. Ask me.
I have a rant
needtherapy:
WHY is the entire lingerie industry designed around people who don’t even need to wear it? It is SO difficult to find bras in cup sizes bigger than C. And why must bigger bras ALWAYS be so ugly? Do the bra manufacturers think that girls with big breasts don’t like pretty colors, or pretty fabrics? Why must every bra over a D cup be a minimizer bra? I LIKE my rack, and I do NOT...
“It is often pointed out that the blog Stuff White People Like is really about a...”
– White Noise (via anthropophagous) (via tristn)
WatchBottom of the River
twenty-four. →
I never had a problem having a birthday around the holidays. In fact, I prefer it. It means I’ve always been home with my entire family. Plus, there’s still the holiday spirit in the air. It’s…
“An important side note here is the time at which you choose to eat. You’ll want...”
– The All-Inclusive All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Guide (via azspot)
Avatar is a bad film... →
“And now millions of Americans get to go home and take comfort in the fact that while our empire may have its flaws and our military may be regularly dispatched to conquer “savages” who made the tragic mistake of establishing their homeland on top of massive deposits of natural resource, well, hey, at least we’ve never blown up a bunch of adorable purple aliens.”
“This is a time to roar back and assert and celebrate the beauty of the printed...”
– Dave Eggers’ wonderful message on PRINT.
(via jaredgeller and meaghano)
(via langer)
Things you need to stop doing right now:
“Praising Michael Cera for acting. You could swap the guy with a house cat in any of his films and I guarantee you will get the same performance but with less fake, “Oh, I-I guess this thought is, ah, j-just coming to me” stuttering.”
“High-tech chief executives who don’t play Settlers [of Catan] say they feel left...”
– An Old-School Board Game Goes Viral Among Silicon Valley’s Techie Crowd - WSJ.com (via ericapolis)
Faux Friendship →
“Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition. Exchanging stories is like making love: probing, questing, questioning, caressing. It is mutual. It is intimate. It takes patience, devotion, sensitivity, subtlety, skill—and it teaches them all, too.”
“Isn’t it interesting that Tumblr and FourSquare are NYC’s major contributions to...”
– Rex Sorgatz - Mediaite Interview (via msg) (via caterpillarcowboy)
all is love.
jessicachu:
Chairlift - Bruises
A bone to pick with This American Life
ericapolis:
In their recent piece on the #1 party school in America (Penn State), This American Life listed the bad things that too much alcohol consumption can lead to, among which was “unwanted sex.” Why the euphemism, Ira Glass? Would you call murder “unwanted death”? Just say it: rape.
how to ask someone out →
(Either Romantically or Platonically, It’s The Same Thing, But One Requires More Flirting)
“On the stress level, I’ve heard that losing your job is like a death in the...”
– NYTimes
(via meredithnyc)
This is slightly DRAMATIC, no?
(via jennabee)
Feaverish Photography →
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