September 2011
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“No country has more completely outsourced immigration enforcement, with more...”
– Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit - NYTimes.com
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“The following is not mathematically rigorous, since the events of yesterday...”
– NATE SILVER, The New York Times, “Bill Buckner Strikes Again” (via inothernews)
God is a Rays fan, clearly.
Follow this Tumblr: "We Are the 99 Percent." →
Done.
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Inside Breaking News: How to fast-track tweets to... →
breakingblog:
Since we started experimenting with a way for publishers to tip our editors at BreakingNews.com and @breakingnews, we’ve published hundreds of links from news organizations large and small. We now have 160 news organizations participating, spanning newspaper sites (Washington Post), wire…
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Government Good: GPS
governmentgood:
In late 1983 the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Airlines 747 over the North Pacific Ocean. Through a series of errors both human and machine, compounding one another, commercial jetliner had strayed off its course while flying from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, South Korea. This was at the height of the cold war, and the Soviet Union shot down the jet, claiming that the jet, so...
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via jacobjoaquin)
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Government Good: Government Good →
governmentgood:
I am undertaking a new project called Government Good. It’s my naked effort at a Tumblr book deal. Here’s the gist:
I believe that the government can do some good from time to time. I believe that the public conversation has lost this. I believe that so many people believe the government is…
If anything deserves a Tumblr book deal, it’s this. Follow, and...
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“The BBC has unveiled a new beta version of its home page today and although we...”
– Has the BBC borrowed a Tumblr theme for its new beta home page? : Shiny Shiny
More flattery for David, Peter and Jacob…
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Making Life Easier: The Weekender
nycdigital:
Frustrated when your subway line is down for work on the weekend? Now you can find out ahead of time on MTA Subway Diagram the Weekender. Use the website’s map to navigate each line, stations under construction will blink.
Nice.
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“To help build up the 90-year-old brand, the company has been using Tumblr as a...”
– Time.com Ad, Traffic Strategy Focuses More Heavily On Verticals | paidContent
Their two Tumblrs, by the way, are excellent.
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“I’ve only read a few baseball novels in the past twenty years, and those didn’t...”
– Paris Review – Chad Harbach on ‘The Art of Fielding’
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Mr Schou said the only reliable demand for sperm... →
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“Finally, Axl, I think we might have had a misunderstanding regarding my previous...”
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McSweeney’s: Notes on “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor.
This, though very funny, kinda ruined GnR for me when the wedding band played this on Saturday.
WatchThe Discovery Channel has the BEST lobby art
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Due to increasing requests, I have started an... →
anniewerner:
For advice, general questions, lessons in etiquette, and much, much more.
That’s right, you’re not from Texas. But Annie wants to talk to you anyway.
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“I like to think of what we do as sort of a soft approach to more serious news....”
– ShortFormBlog’s Ernie Smith, in a really nice RRW piece on how his Tumblr blog is changing journalism.
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Photographers: Know Your Rights →
futurejournalismproject:
The ACLU’s published a photographer’s cheat sheet on their rights when shooting in the field (US only):
When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view.
When you are on private property, the property owner may set rules about the taking of photographs.
Police officers may not generally confiscate or...
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W. W. Norton: Faulkner? Never heard of him. →
wwnorton:
It is said that Faulkner wrote his second novel, Mosquitoes, “for the sake of writing because it was fun.” Read this passage from the book, proof he was feeling playful, wherein Faulkner has his characters talk about…well, Faulkner. It seems he didn’t leave much of an impression on them:
“He was a white man, except he was awful sunburned and kind of shabby dressed—no necktie and hat....