January 2011
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newsflick asked: Hi Mark,
Just wanted to thank you personally for all the great work that you and the Tumblr team are doing with regards to the Mid-East events. I am glad you understand the importance of your platform for facilitating information and I am sure everyone is grateful.
I am really and truly honoured to be part of this great community you have created.
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Just wanted to thank you personally for all the great work that you and the Tumblr team are doing with regards to the Mid-East events. I am glad you understand the importance of your platform for facilitating information and I am sure everyone is grateful.
I am really and truly honoured to be part of this great community you have created.
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“More boxes surrounded them, and from these the men extracted, one by one, what...”
– The Economist, The battle of Cairo is over, or is it? (via soupsoup)
This is a really nice read—well reported, and a good, tight analysis of the situation.
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The Female Student Psych Crisis →
The latest Daily Beast dispatch, from my lovely&talented wife
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“As the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez roiled with anti-regime protests on...”
– Egypt: Mubarak’s Defiance Makes Life Harder for Obama - TIME (via mikehudack)
This, from my pal Tony Karon, is a really smart, classic Time-style analysis; a definite read.
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Tumblr, Egypt & The Guardian
streamsofwikileaks:
Way to go tumblr. The Guardian has linked to the #Egypt tag on tumblr.
10pm GMT: If constant Twitter updates aren’t enough for you, there’s a whole lot of content on events in Egypt over on Tumblr.
Let’s see how the tumblr servers cope naow!
Nice!
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“Mubarak’s best option is to offer Egypt a safe landing. He should lift the...”
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Mubarak should prepare to leave - CNN.com (via mikehudack)
“He should lift the 30-year state of emergency“—how does this happen, that a country can be under a “state of emergency” that justifies all sorts of abuses for 30 years?
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“The days of reporters drinking and brawling... →
braiker:
timeoutnewyork:
capitalnewyork:
Um, we disagree.
Yeah, some of our best drinking buddies are our coworkers.
I don’t know. Rings fairly true. I mean, I’ve done some solid carousing with colleagues. Newsweekers can draaank. The ABC kids can tie one on when they want to — once in a great while. Rolling Stoners? Shockingly lame.
But something tells me this all pales compared to the...
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“But we were not going to any old street-food joint, we were to sample the...”
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Alastair Leithead does a witty travel piece as only a British journalist can (via joshuanguyen)
Forget the cars—what’s in this $35 pho?
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What We Mean When We Say New York, New York
You want to know what Manhattan is? Manhattan is a infinite series of small, toxic slushy lakes, crisscrossed by impassable snow mountains. A distinguishing feature of these lakes is that they look exactly like solid asphalt pavement.
They are not.
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Technical Details On How Egypt Has Shut Down Every... →
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To cut costs and increase revenue, a dozen Girl... →
thebronzemedal:
I knew the economy was terrible, but this is a disaster. Major banking institutions on the verge of collapse is one thing, but if Thin Mints ever disappear, there might be riots in the street.
Oh, Thin Mints will make the cut. Those Samoas, though….
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“Here’s where I really am on this issue. I think that probably, if I were...”
– This GQ Ted Haggard piece is pretty great.
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Tumblr adopted Tumbeasts, prompting a fun story!
cnnmoneytech:
We’ve joked in the past about how often Tumblr has served us up a big ol’ slice of error page (we jest in love! and just because we miss y’all so much when we can’t get to you!).
Matthew Inman, author/illustrator of webcomic The Oatmeal, did us one better: He created a new error page, featuring green mutant critters chomping on servers. We reblogged it, as did many Tumblrites....
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WatchExit Through the Gift Shop, now on Hulu
(thanks @sheigh)
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“The urine produced by 1,000 cows could generate 40 to 50 kilowatts of power …”
– The latest from the laboratory of Mr. Wizzard: the untapped energy of urine. (via utnereader)
I always knew the Coatney family ranch would be the site of the next OPEC…
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Jesse Ventura sues TSA for 'unlawful sexual... →
minnpost:
No one pats down the Body, unless the Body wants to be patted down.
One thing that’s weird about this: Is there such thing as “lawful sexual assault”?
Besides Gitmo, I mean?
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“First off, a pro is necessarily getting paid to do what he does, and that’s a...”
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Chris Jones, of Esquire, dropping some science on a young writer. (via capitalnewyork)
This so, so crucial, and not just for journalists, but for any job. To be a pro is to be able to do the work, even when it’s not fun, even when you don’t feel like it, and do it well. The highest...
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“By 2013, the FAA expects to have formulated new rules that would allow police...”
– Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate via @washingtonpost (via amzam)
Well, when Skynet takes over, we now know what it will use…
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Quiz: White House Pool Report or Don DeLillo’s...
vanityfair:
Today’s White House pool report about Obama’s visit to a General Electric plant, is—not to oversell it—a work of heart-wrenching and haunting postmodern genius. See if you can tell the difference between today’s pool report, by Kathleen Moore of the Daily Gazette, and lines from Don DeLillo’s National Book Award–winning novel, White Noise. A. “A great echoing din, as of the...
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BREAKING NEWS: Rudy Giuliani says he's 'more...
brooklynmutt:
@PiersMorgan
Oh, please. Oh, please.
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“Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be...”
– —Peter Thiel, in National Review.
I was just thinking about this the other day, actually, when I was home in Kansas and remembered that 20 years ago the University of Kansas charged me $700/semester for in-state tuition. Today? Almost $4000.
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BlackBook: Imaginary Lines from Sex and the City... →
bbook:
“Meanwhile uptown, Samantha was having a few explosions of her own.”
“It was at that moment Charlotte resolved that if her fellow countrymen were brave enough to revolt against knife-wielding hijackers, the least she could do was take off her bra during sex.”
“Ooooh! Oooh! New Blahniks! AL…
Honestly, I had no idea Sex and the City was this good.
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Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994) →
longreads:
PLAYBOY: What else is Microsoft involved in? We’ve heard about software that can control washing machines, for instance.
GATES: [Laughs] The washing machine example is extreme, but people do sometimes kid us that we see an opportunity to sell our software in broad areas. We are involved in a new generation of fax machines that we think will be better and easier to use. And a...
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