February 2010
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice →
givemesomethingtoread:
The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students’ grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.
Oh god! I hated being told I used the passive voice too often.
Cornell University: The Most Bizarre Ivy Of Them... →
jennabee:
Things (miraculously) left out — and this shit isn’t tour guide lore (like that “virgins crossing the quad at midnight” thing, which we used to tell tour guests to fill some awky space while crossing the quad); it’s legitimate:
The swim test. Ugh, the fucking swim test. As a freshman, you leave your parents in your dorm to continue the unpacking process while you go swim a few laps in...
“Men don’t like appliances. We want things that can do lots of different things,...”
– Ultimi Barbarorum on the iPad (via 37signals)
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Things to Know About Coffee →
(via nothingtothetable)
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January 2010
meaghano:
“You go to a dance where a new pop song is playing, and for the rest of your life hearing that song triggers the same emotion. It comes on the radio, and you think, That’s when things were truly fine. You want to hear it again and again. You have become addicted.Youth culture acquires its poignancy through time, and so thoroughly that you can barely see what it is in itself. It’s just,...
you know the trick to those 400 calorie meals on magazine covers? less food.
“For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for...”
– Fraser Speirs: Future Shock. Read it. It’s awesome. (via marco)
“For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for...”
– Fraser Speirs: Future Shock. Read it. It’s awesome. (via marco)
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The Unhappy Hipsters. →
devincastro:
I’m in love with this little blog. It’s definitely my new favorite.
“The engineers and I handle customer support. When I tell people that, they look...”
– The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak (via soxiam) (via caterpillarcowboy)
“I’ve just been told something I didn’t know; that eating pork improves your sex...”
– Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez on a little known side benefit of the other white meat. As a lover of swine, particularly the slow cooked and pulled variety that my home state of North Carolina does so very well, I encourage this bit of rather non-scientific folklore. (via saltandfat)
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them....”
– Steve Jobs (via azspot)
Verona Approves Wisconsin's first Chinese Language... →
lefan:
On a split vote Monday, the Verona Area school board approved a controversial proposal to launch the state’s first Chinese-language charter school. The Verona Area International School will be located within Stoner Prairie Elementary School in Fitchburg for at least two years. It will open with one mixed-age class of 22 kids in kindergarten and first grade, with organizers hoping to add...
“Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight...”
– Gates: $10B vaccine program could save 8.7M lives - CNN.com
Sometimes all the zeros blur together and I miss stories like this on the first read through. So Bill Gates gave away some money. Big deal.
No. Bill gates plan to invest $10 billion dollars. $10,000,000,000. And it could save nine million...
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important update: thongs are out; boy shorts are in
Anna. →
I want so many of these outfits.
honey. →
Sugar. Beautiful. Darling. Sexy. Sweetheart. Babe.
There’s something about pet names for significant others. I can’t quite put my finger on it. For some inexplicable reason, I love them. But I…
J.D. Salinger dead at 91 →
fascinated by the bird in the Detroit airport
manliness. →
Well, back to one of the recurring topics on my blog – men and women and their interactions. The Art of Manliness (which I highly recommend) posted What Can Manly Men Expect of Women?…
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– Saul Bass (via davidkaneda) (via marco)
Hello Seattle - Owl City
“Our kitchens and other eating places more and more resemble filling stations, as...”
– Wendell Berry (via azspot)
“In a naturalistic study, we investigated the influence of gender, group size and...”
– What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions
Ladies: If you want to lose weight, don’t go out to dinner with other females.
Just sayin’ is all.
(via josephweisenthal) (via caterpillarcowboy)
splitting an 8 hour shift into two 4 hour shifts does not make it seem shorter
The Things He Carried →
givemesomethingtoread:
Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.
“We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too.”
– Nick Bilton, “‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web” (via brynnshepherd) (via alexainslie)
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The Five Stages of Lady Gaga →
jessicachu:
1. Confusion
The first thing you tend to ask when you are confronted with the artist born Stefani Germanotta is who or what is a Lady Gaga?
It’s a lot to take at first, and anyone who sees the native New Yorker wearing an outfit made of bubbles or dressed head to toe — literally, head to toe — in red lace might simply shake their head in bewilderment. Her look is confrontational,...