February 2012
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Daphne Guinness and 'The Legend of Lady White... →
womensweardaily:
How Daphne Guinness wound up appearing in “The Legend of Lady White Snake,” the short film that will introduce GK Reid’s Genghis Khan collection, shows just how entwined the fashion world is.
Honestly, everybody knows Lady Whitesnake is Tawny Kitaen
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“My husband can not fucking throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I...”
– Gisele Bundchen, speaking truth.
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nycgov:
Congrats, Giants!
We’re getting ready for tomorrow’s championship celebration at City Hall Plaza. Live in NY, NJ or CT? Click here to enter to win 2 VIP tickets.
Public Service Announcement.
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Is A Reblog The New Byline?
futurejournalismproject:
Interesting idea submitted by Alakananda Mookerjee (blog / Tumblr) — FJP.
My reloaded résumé quotes a quixotic statistic—the number of my original and curated posts. I mention the number of times I have reblogged others, and others, have reblogged me.
No, I am quipping. But, stick around.
As nearly all of us know, today, the profession of news reporting is in a state...
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“Late afternoon of April 25. The window slats casting bars of shadow all over his...”
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Feet In Smoke: A Story About Electrified Near-Death
This is pretty fantastic from John Jeremiah Sullivan, and I suspect the book is even better.
Alex Balk: Weirdest fortune cookie ever. →
alexbalk:
“Years later you will realize that Mike’s crazy girlfriend was a person just like you, and maybe the things that you and your group snickered about and gave Mike shit for were actually signs that she was as damaged as everybody else and had the basic insecurities that we all do, and actually Mike…
Honestly, if Alex Balk wrote fortune cookies I would eat Chinese every day for the...
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O Estado de São Paulo: A surpresa que veio do... →
radiofreeandrew:
NOVA YORK - Não faz nem cinco meses, a rede de blogs Tumblr era apenas uma promissora empresa de internet no vasto universo de startups de tecnologia americanas. Em setembro passado, no entanto, investidores - e concorrentes - passaram a olhar de forma diferente para o site de hospedagem de blogs criado pelo americano David Karp em 2007.
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This picture was taken on...
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January 2012
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Tumblr Tuesday →
motherjones:
We don’t endorse candidates. We do, however, wholeheartedly endorse these Tumblrs:
jspong: Texas Monthly senior editor John Spong, purveyor of old photos of famous people from Texas.
hollybailey: Writes about the 2012 race for Yahoo! News! Follow for instragrams of Mitt Romney looking at…
Seconded
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
I would have also looked for “Days Where Ice Cube Didn’t...
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Nathan Englander is now on Tumblr!
aaknopf:
Worth a follow.
res ipsa loquitur!
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WatchLivestreaming: The State of the Union
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“At Sundance, Weinstein Co.’s Bob Weinstein got a first-hand taste of the...”
– Attention, Wall Street Journal archivists: Please file this anecdote under “Things that probably didn’t happen.”
(—The Web’s Growing Muscle - WSJ.com)
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“Just as having a lot of pens doesn’t make you a great writer, having a lot of...”
– Ezra Klein challenges Newt Gingrich’s identity of an idea man. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and...”
– The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers. (via jimray)
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“Journalists, I find, tend to come quite late to sites like Tumblr and Pinterest....”
– How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon
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“Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option....”
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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
I know what this article is trying to do, but there’s something wrong here if the choice is to either have no manufacturing jobs, or to live under employment conditions that require you to be constantly available to be awakened in...
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“Many in the industry say the legislation began to stir suspicion as early as...”
– Nice piece from Jenna here:
Public Outcry Over Antipiracy Bills Began as Grass-Roots Grumbling - NYTimes.com
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Check it out
scribnerbooks:
Your humble ScribnerBooks tumblr-er has a Tumblr:
http://annadevries.tumblr.com/
More reading, writing, publishing, editing, and miscellany. (Star Wars dogs, for example.)
Same great taste, less commercial filling.
So, so followed.
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Should The Times Be A Truth Vigilante? →
soupsoup:
I hope this is a joke. The New York Times Public Editor wonders aloud if their journalists should be reporting the truth.
Seriously?
Maybe he thinks the NYT should be more like a truth noodge?
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“The whole thing with LiveJournal, WordPress, and Blogspot was oversharing in a...”
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Some Tumblr-on-Tumblr analysis from Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth. (via pitchfork)
“Tumblr: It’s Fucking Spooky” is a genius ad campaign.
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“When I was managing the Tumblr of Newsweek magazine, I had two goals,” ...”
– In which something is lost, but much is gained, through Google Translate.
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