July 2011
“No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who...”
– The Motion Picture Code, 1934
“For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich
Technology Is The New Smoking →
Alexia Tsotsis:
Have you ever “gone to the bathroom” in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter?
Remember when the critical mass of smokers used to leave the table or meeting in groups to go indulge their habit? I straight up open my laptop at bars and parties, and then feel more guilty...
“After the bomb went off — an explosion I felt in my home over a mile away — and...”
– In Norway, the Past Is a Foreign Country - NYT
Why aren't the oldest living people getting any... →
For Slate:
Robert Young -senior gerontology consultant for the Guinness Book of World Records- calls this the “rectangularization of the mortality curve.” To illustrate it, he points to Japan, which in 1990 had 3,000 people aged 100 and over, with the oldest being 114.
Twenty years later, Japan has an estimated 44,000 people over the age of 100—and the oldest is still 114. ...
Auriga's wheel →
PhysOrg :
One of the strangest types of galaxies are those known as ring galaxies.
These unusual shapes are cause by a galactic collision in which a smaller galaxy plunges nearly straight through the center of a larger galaxy. The gravitational disturbance caused a wave of star formation to ripple out from the center. In most cases, the intruder galaxy is long gone, but a...
Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader - The... →
David J. Linden:
WHEN we think of the qualities we seek in visionary leaders, we think of intelligence, creativity, wisdom and charisma, but also the drive to succeed, a hunger for innovation, a willingness to challenge established ideas and practices.
But in fact, the psychological profile of a compelling leader — think of tech pioneers like Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Steven P. Jobs —...
WatchSexy Fingers (2011)
Jean-Michel Tessier for AIDES, song by Flairs.
Somewhat Not safe for work, and so on.
“I suppose all prisons are waiting rooms. All prisons - all rooms. All rooms are...”
– from the novel Money by Martin Amis (via criminalwisdom)
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of... →
Greenwald on Oslo :
What it says is what we’ve seen repeatedly: that Terrorism has no objective meaning and, at least in American political discourse, has come functionally to mean: violence committed by Muslims whom the West dislikes, no matter the cause or the target. Indeed, in many (though not all) media circles, discussion of the Oslo attack quickly morphed from this is...
“I liked heroes with no problems because it was harder to imagine a human being...”
– Grant Morrison
“The next time someone tells you something is the “least worst option”, tell them...”
– Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples
