December 2010
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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nprfreshair: The good folks at Gothamist alert us to this short film, shot by filmmaker Jamie Stuart during the New York blizzard. Titled “Idiot With a Tripod,” this gorgeous piece of film is an homage to the 1929 short “Man With a Movie Camera.” The best part? Stuart sent it to Roger Ebert, who is saying it deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject.  (You can see “Man...
Dec 30th
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Dec 27th
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“I didn’t hate the movie. I kind of liked it. But I think it’s a very glib and...”
–  David Edelstein, explaining why The Social Network didn’t make his top films list for 2010. (via nprfreshair) I’d also add that Sorkin’s characters always sound like Sorkin, which drives me nuts.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Cat just jumped on Nwk Tumblr keyboard; typed...
My God, that cat has a super advanced grasp of Nwk style
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Still Available: brianmoynihansucks.me →
The pre-emptive domain name registry thing to me seems a little like fighting the last war, but it’s certainly good for a chuckle…
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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"One time I peed on the floor of the DMV because a... →
OK, you kinda have to read this.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Today in Gifts
Thanks to Cappi and Alexa from the New Yorker for this most excellent desk diary. 
Dec 21st
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Researchers say they've found a (real) cure for... →
theweekmagazine: A researcher in Germany says he’s discovered a fool-proof method for treating baldness! It could be available for humans within five years, offering relief to 80 percent of people who suffer from hair loss. Here’s how it works You’re not fooling me with this; I saw what happened to Giamatti…
Dec 21st
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Researchers say they've found a (real) cure for... →
theweekmagazine: A researcher in Germany says he’s discovered a fool-proof method for treating baldness! It could be available for humans within five years, offering relief to 80 percent of people who suffer from hair loss. Here’s how it works You’re not fooling me with this; I saw what happened to Giamatti…
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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stphn asked: Wait.. Does this mean that random posts tagged #News won't show up unless it's curated by those 4 editors? If so, can we get a curated and a non-curated news page?
Dec 20th
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Tenth severed human foot found on Pacific... →
thevancouversun: The remains of a human foot still encased in a shoe was found washed ashore near Tacoma about a week ago, raising to 10 the tally of feet found on Pacific Northwest beaches since 2007.  Today in mysteries we all want the answers to. 
Dec 20th
stphn asked: Wait.. Does this mean that random posts tagged #News won't show up unless it's curated by those 4 editors? If so, can we get a curated and a non-curated news page?
Dec 20th
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“But here’s the secret. The smartest people on the radio are dumb. Or not dumb...”
–  Give In To Your Inner Dummy: Jonathan Menjivar, who used to work here at Fresh Air and now works as a producer at This American Life, explaining one of public radio’s deepest, darkest secrets. (via nprfreshair) This is one of the hardest things to do in journalism, but to me it’s by far...
Dec 20th
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Tumbl, and You Shall Find
One of the big challenges on Tumblr right now is the problem of discovery: How can we come up with better ways to help Tumblr users find great new, interesting things outside of the circle of the people they follow? One step toward solving this is our new curated tag pages. Right now, with the help of several smart members of the Tumblr community, we’ve launched three pages that are...
Dec 20th
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Today in Excellent Investigative Reporting
This, from Washpost’s Dana Priest and William Arkin on the U.S. government’s increasingly vast monitoring of its citizens, is pretty great. The toplevel bullet points: * Technologies and techniques honed for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have migrated into the hands of law enforcement agencies in America. * The FBI is building a database with the names and certain...
Dec 20th
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npr: Trying this as an experiment - embedding a storify about Belarus post-election violence into a Tumblr post. My apologies if it blows up your Tumblr stream. Interesting. Doesn’t render on the dashboard so much, but good on the forward facing blog…
Dec 20th
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“Militarized aid is ineffective as an ongoing strategy for four reasons: the...”
– Michael Young explains why civilians must reclaim stabilization aid in his new Snapshot. (via foreignaffairsmagazine)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Tumblr Staff: Getting ready for 2011 →
Today in Communications.
Dec 17th
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First of All, I'd Have a Much Higher Regard for...
ninety9: markcoatney: Tina Brown’s New Web Strategy Is a Total Game-Changer | VF Daily | Vanity Fair Today in things we love, via Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner and Sarah Ball Mark — when was dailybeast.tumblr.com registered? Since Tumblr launched before The Daily Beast, isn’t it possible the current owner registered first? I know everyone admires Brown as The Only Talented Editor Ever, but it’s...
Dec 17th
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70-Year-Old Woman Robs Bank; Feared Losing... →
nightline: Elderly Woman Duped Friend Into Being Getaway Driver Today in Housing Crisis news
Dec 17th
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Tina Brown’s New Web Strategy Is a Total... →
Today in things we love, via Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner and Sarah Ball
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“I used to go mad hard for crack; now I go mad hard for Christ! And you know why?...”
–  — Excerpted from a surprisingly tech-heavy and (comparatively) semi-coherent rant I received from a proselytizer on the uptown A train this morning. -Julianne (via cnnmoneytech) Also, this.
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“And that’s where the escalator watchers come in. This is a corps of uniformed...”
– file under: things we can learn from Moscow (via meredithbklyn) Funny. I used to have an editor like that….
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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john: Something like 10 degrees in NYC today.  Mark and I trying to hail a cab at 4pm, worst possible time. No luck so we bribe a car service driver.  Just as we’re getting in the 87-year-old woman yells out, “Hey! I got a dentist emergency can I share that car?” What followed next was one of those special New York experiences. We learned a ton in 15 minutes.  Thanks for the life lesson,...
Dec 14th
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