January 2010
25 posts
Christine's Aughties Superlatives List
Most Popular: #44!
Cutest Couple:
Best Mom: Mommy
Best Dad: Daddy
Best Brother: Steven Best Sister: Alice
Most Likely to Succeed: The Zuck
Best Accessory: le stamp de tramp
Worst Fashion Trend: Harem pants
Best Fashion Trend: Shiny leggings
Best Website: iseverythinggoingtobeokay.com
Favorite Internet Celebrity: Merlin Mann
Awesomest South American country: Brazil
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December 2009
42 posts
This is a song for anyone -
“Allesina and Pascual borrowed Google’s PageRank algorithm and modified it to...”
– NYT offers some great food for thought in their annual list of ideas. This is one of my faves - applying the Google algorithm to the animal kingdom. Life is getting weird, isn’t it? The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com
Where you thinkin’ that you gotta run to now...
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A short course on surviving the web (more...
soupsoup:
by Merlin Mann
Thing is: the internet’s made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It’s what’s there. That’s the basic equipment.
Everything’s amplified. Except subtlety.
Say things you believe are true.
No one understands; no one cares.
Never explain yourself.
Apologize less; think more.
Avatars aren’t people; people aren’t avatars; “friends” aren’t friends.
Everyone thinks...
Heh!... Heh. :/
ninety9:
What do you call it when you base an entire thesis on a single source? Oh, a blog post.
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a project, please help!
I’ll be conducting interviews with travelers at airports, train stations, and bus terminals this holiday season… what do you think are some interesting questions to ask?
“…American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information...”
– via wikipedia: zetta (symbol Z) is an SI prefix in the SI (system of units) denoting 1021 or 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000.
also of note: 1021 is the smallest four-digit prime whose sum of digits is equal to its length (via Number Gossip, my favorite thing on the...
“Salman Rushdie has called her “a weird woman who seems to feel the need to...”
– I’m not a huge fan of Kakutani’s opinions, but it’s always fun to see how much gender and ethnicity make their way into the disparaging of public intellects. that are not white and male, of course.
gotta love Norman Mailer.
Michiko Kakutani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“I guess the sort-of-crass term for what women are doing — well, what I am doing,...”
– interesting post by emily gould re: post-/feminism, domesticity and the inescapable politicizing of romance… i’ve always carried this weird shame with me about not being a good cook. it’s gotten so bad that i can’t even read food sites or foodie blogs because they make me...
“Jim and Pam getting married did more than give Michael and excuse to hook up...”
– <3 this, Meghan! So sad, so true.
Meghan Keane: ‘The Office’ is the Most Depressing Show on Television | The Awl
Trend Piece Reveals Nice, Nerdy Local Bloggers May... →
Ever wish you lived in NYC? Don’t.
“Surprised to find what philistines New Yorker readers are! The Lives of Others?...”
– New Yorker comment threads. Whole ‘nother ball game.
You tell those philistines, antibes! FLAME ON
Best of the Decade: The Front Row : The New Yorker
Sidenote: this has to the most bizarre “best of” list I’ve ever seen. The Other Half next to Knocked Up? Is this guy...
“Fastest Falling (Global)
1. beijing 2008
2. euro 2008
3. heath...”
– … Awww. bye bye, bebo.
Google: Zeitgeist 2009
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