February 2012
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“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
– John Maynard Keynes
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“I had thought out this sentence, at first it had been a small part of myself....”
– Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
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History of the browser user-agent string →
Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla
I had thus far been unable to explain to clients why all user-agent strings began with Mozilla, and that is no more! No longer will the marketing analysts be confused by things they shouldn’t worry about anyway.
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lacey replied to your quote: The term “second-party” developer is a common…
BOOOO!!! TEAM KEVIN!!!!!
Traitor! What happened to the solidarity that was Team Alien!?
“The term “second-party” developer is a common misnomer used...”
– Video Game Development Party, Wikipedia Why yes my proving that there could be no second party required looking this up and a twenty minute discussion alienating all others at the party.
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“In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York...”
– n+1: Raise the Crime Rate
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January 2012
24 posts
WatchGolden Boys
“Remember, nobody ever made a living mugging. There’s no minimum wage in violent...”
– The Caging of America
thatfrenchman asked: But have you seen Hugo? Can you really say The Artist is better than everything when you haven't seen everything?
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“We bought that son of a bitch and then he didn’t stay bought.”
– Henry Clay Frick, Steel Baron, on Theodore’s Roosevelt’s signing the Tillman Act of 1907 into law. The Tillman Act prohibits corporations from giving money directly to federal candidates for office.
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Midnight in Paris - Really?
littledidiknow:
The following should be noted before continuing: I love Woody Allen. I love that he made a movie in Paris. I liked all the cameos in the movie. I wanted to like it so much, I saw it in the theater twice.
Watching Midnight in Paris the second time through was painful. All of the cameo scenes are fun to watch (Adrian Brody was incredible!), but I thought the two main...
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On Elites. . .
“Newt Gingrich, whose campaign was twice left for dead and came back to win a landslide victory in South Carolina, used his victory speech Saturday night before a raucous crowd of hundreds to attack the “elites in New York and Washington,” whom he identified as President Obama and the news media.”
-Gingrich Has Kind Words for Rivals and Venom for ‘Elites’, Nate Silver- NY Times
If...
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golden echos: In an Elaborate Spoof, Nabokov Takes... →
smith-hada:
PALE FIRE. By Vladimir Nabokov.
Vladimir Nabokov is an obsessive. He arrived in the United States some twenty-two years ago, bringing with him intellectual baggage as firmly limited in weight as the forty pounds of the air traveler’s suitcase. There is nothing the matter with that. To be…
Pale Fire is one of the most creative books I’ve ever read. Nabokov’s...
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“I’ve always assumed I would go to the moon.”
– Rae
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leighannzig replied to your photo: 2011 | Books Read Infinite Jest really slowed me…
started infinite jest but then starting grad school and apartment hunting in new york is a bad idea. sadly shelved for a while. …will you be reading freedom (franzen) this year?
I read Freedom shortly after it was released in 2010, and very much so enjoyed it. Both Freedom and The Corrections have made...
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“It would be a mistake, though, to believe that, long after Iowa, once the horse...”
– Comment: Un-American Activities : The New Yorker
Another resounding Romney endorsement.
December 2011
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zachmcnair replied to your photo: Farewell Emos
is emos shutting down?!
Yes, this is very old news. They have opened Emos East on East Riverside which is a much larger and nicer modern venue. The large stage is already closed, and the Johnny Cash stool has already been removed from the inside bar. Emos Inside will have its last show tomorrow night with Killdozer. I will be there tonight to see...
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