May 2012
You know what the internet needs more of?
ninety9:
Journalists telling us how ‘proud’ they are of their work.
By way of retweeting anytime someone says, “Great article by [AUTHOR]! http://t.co/dumtw@t”
Why a Good Bar Is Essential to Sustainable... →
peterfeld:
titivil:
Please no one tell Hizzoner that the obese children might endrun this ban by, get this, ordering more than one bottle of soda pop.
Don’t kid yourself, this absolutely will reduce consumption, as happens any time you introduce a barrier. The beverage industry knows that.
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You know what? Fuck your extra large sugary drinks.
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[FACE EATING JOKE]
A couple of observations while my fever causes scorching on my clothes:
Taking a “sick day” when you’re fully employed, with benefits, feels like the realization of a deserved but unexpected entitlement, and thus provides a small thrill of victory. Granted, it comes with whatever feeling of malaise that the illness impacts, but that moment when you decide to call your boss and...
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Chris Mohney: Amsterdam Has Too Many Bicycles →
juliefredrickson:
chrismohney:
And before you think this is Brian Van Fantasy Camp, you should know that these bicycles are everywhere. They’re in the bike lane, the street, the sidewalks, going up the sides of buildings and levitating across the canals. I woke up with one next to my bed in the hotel, and it wasn’t there when I…
I want to go to Brian Van Fantasy Camp
Slogan: “arrive...
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3 Years After Taxpayer Bailout, Bank of America... →
americawakiewakie:
Bank of America, which last fall announced plans to lay off 30,000 workers, is about to go on a hiring spree—overseas.
(Photo Credit: Katie Drisc/Flickr)
America’s second-largest bank is relocating its business-support operations to the Philippines, according to a high-ranking Filipino government official recently quoted in the Filipino press. The move, which includes a...
artyucko:
“Gooby Pls” - Hitler’s literal last words before our national hero Ronald Reagan smote him with his .45 pistol-grip
And then he took Matt Damon home on his shoulder and everything was great until the 1960’s
artyucko:
LOL @ Stalin shitting on more of “his own” than the entire casualty count of the rest of WWII combined, and YET STILL NO1CURR
“Amercia” has some terrible history books in its schools. It’s like reading “The History of Personal Computing” by Microsoft. But worse! I think some of these books actually include a chapter about George Washington and the cherry...
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ninety9 replied to your post: One person says the phrase “Polish death camp”, a…
Calm down dude. Obama is up like 17 points in CA. Impinging design firms that can’t get NEW PARADIGM BIDNESS to approve the importance of a proofreader? Something something unionized teachers in Delaware rune-ing language.
There are a lot of people in New Jersey that still think that Chris Christie is an angel...
polarispot:
Soup: brianvan: One person says the phrase “Polish death camp”, a phrase…
This really, really, really offends me. My Jewish friend tried to tell me that Poland was just as much responsible and evil to the Jews as the Germans were (which in itself is incorrect as many of the Germans were not into all that anyway). The Polish people were persecuted by the Nazis as well - up...
One person says the phrase “Polish death camp”, a phrase referring to an unfortunate event that is geographically correct. It offends everyone in Poland. Another person spells continental name of our country wrong in a promotional product - except it really wasn’t him, it was clearly the work of some design firm that doesn’t check their work enough.
One is much worse than...
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Salesforce.com Set to Buy Buddy Media for More... →
juliefredrickson:
caterpillarcowboy:
Holy shitballs.
HOLY SHIT
YEAH BUDDY
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Internet, you are giving me a LOT to take in today.
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Commercials That Should Be Loathed
“I invented Instagram.”
Terrible. How am I supposed to feel about this guy? If you’re selling vacations where you visit obnoxious rich people, take their bank info at gunpoint and push them off a cliff afterward, then I’m sold!
Oh, wait, it’s a Best Buy commercial. Best Buy doesn’t sell mobile apps. I don’t know why I should think that Best Buy is the...
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19-Year-Old Lives In AOL Offices For 2 Months, No... →
kenyatta:
soupsoup:
For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.
I was just talking about putting together a squatter’s guide to midtown office buildings. It was either going to be called Foursquat or Office Hobo.
Weasel Word Dictionary at Vulture.com →
More vague, manufactured drama than a Real Housewives of New Jersey recap written on a triple dose of Adderall
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Here’s how NOT to interview:
So, why do you think the show has generated so much rage and discussion?
I don’t know much about that.
You’re being serious?
I’m being very serious.
Have you read a lot about the show?
Nothing.
How come?
I like to keep things very separate; I don’t like being tied in on that level.
Girls is one of the most polarizing shows that has aired in a while.
I...
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maura replied to your post: Now this is how you pull off an interview.
DUDES IN A ROOM UNTIL THE END OF TIME
BECHDEL TEST? WHAT BECHDEL TEST?
Now this is how you pull off an interview.
felixsalmon:
“One of the big questions from readers, Hardiman said: “What can you do to get me to my favorite content types as quickly and efficiently as possibly?””
First clue that you’re not dealing with a representative NYT reader: that they use a term like “content types” to refer to journalism.
NY Times updates iPhone/iPad apps for customized reading » Nieman...
Here’s another calamitous trap for the reckless entertainment writer: The “I think SNL is bad” article. We don’t have enough time in the universe to go over all the ways in which one can run aground in these treacherous waters, so let’s just give you a checklist in advance that you must meet with your arguments before you even think of telling your editor (or your...
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“It once housed drunkards, lunatics and louts. And that was before the reporters showed up.”
Guess who? At least I tell those jokes ironically.
So, here’s something that I really dislike to see:
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Interviewer: So, given [ARTISTIC WORK WITH AMBIGUOUS THEME], did you actually have in your mind [DEFINITE RESOLUTION TO AMBIGUOUS THEME]?
Subject: No, I purposely made [AMBIGUOUS THEME] to [HAVE AMBIGUITY].
Interviewer: But you didn’t really [RESOLVE THE AMBIGUITY]?
Subject: [THIRTY WORDS MEANING “NO”].
...
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backleftlitz replied to your post: emlueders replied to your post: Actual slogan I…
will be a delaware grad in about twenty-four hours
Congratulations! If you need any resources for graduate work, click here!
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emlueders replied to your post: Actual slogan I once came up with that I am now…
Let me guess…the outcome of UD football games, you screaming this at grottos!
You’re on the right track, in the sense that only a Blue Hen would follow the line of thinking that such a concept is catchy and clever in any dimension. In hindsight, it’s painfully witless.
So, to anyone who’s...
Also of note:
One URL name of a site I created is actually “403forbidden”
Another URL I own only serves the text, “The cops have already been called.”
I’m such a good host.
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Actual slogan I once came up with that I am now forced to recall:
“YOU WIN, YOU DRINK. YOU LOSE, YOU DRINK.”
‘SNL’s Taran Killam Joins Brad Pitt and Michael... →
lizdexia:
bbook:
popculturebrain:
That’s going to be an awkward day on set. “So, uh, KIllam, why don’t you show everyone that impression you do of me.”
Weird.
“Killam will play a traveling showman who abducts a free black man (Ejiofor) and brings him South where he is sold into slavery and endures a brutal 12 years.”
Dude. I am sold.
So, all he has to do is channel his Bruce Jenner...
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Named a Bug After You Because I Love You | The... →
justsayjolie:
I really would like to get this as a Valentine’s Day present, actually. (And maybe the cork bracelets too, just so I’d have something to tell my mom about? Only because I HATE it when she gets into “How are you my daughter??” mode, and this would assuredly send her off on a “If I wasn’t there in the delivery room I’d swear you weren’t mine” jag.)
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“Liked 19,807 posts”
So, according to Malcolm Gladwell, I’m more than an expert
If you’re a social media entrepreneur and if even journalists like Soup (as well as social media “journalists”) are openly questioning your strategy without any sugarcoating or benefit-of-the-doubt, then maybe you’re doing it wrong.
Then again, why do we expect men under the age of 30 - especially the ones who were too impatient to finish college - to manage money...
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Vaya con dios, literally
Vaya con dios, literally
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lifeaquatic:
jaimeleigh:
ninety9:
And all this time I was thinking one great advantage to being a woman is no one ever expected you to take an interest in hockey.
No expectations that are rooted in your gender can be considered any kind of advantage, just to be clear.
But what does Brian Van think?
I think men are expected to come afterward, not beforehand. That’s the...
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You know, while we’re here, maybe we should also single out heterosexuals for living life on “easy” mode. I’m so glad they made the right “choice”, eh? Oh, wait, that doesn’t sound right.
