December 2009
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#1: Sarah Palin
american-apologies:
Sorry. =/
#5: Capitalism
american-apologies:
All good things must come to an end, and we as Americans cannot escape this fact. In the meantime, we’re sorry about all the corporate greed, inequalities in distribution of wealth, and exploitation of workforce, but this behemoth is a little too big to control anymore. With globalization spreading capitalism worldwide, everyone on this planet will eventually find out all...
“What my research tells me: there are very few artists making their entire living...”
– The Technium: The Case Against 1000 True Fans
“Like Whitney and Andrew, I think there is something important and liberating in...”
– The Technium: The Case Against 1000 True Fans
“The usual alternative to making a living based on True Fans is poverty. A study...”
– The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
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“New models of support include micro-patronage. Another model is pre-financing...”
– The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
“Using the logic of a street performer, the author goes directly to the readers...”
– The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
“A more important caution: Not every artist is cut out, or willing, to be a...”
– The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
“But the point of this strategy is to say that you don’t need a hit to...”
– The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer,...”
– The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
“To slip through the only check against the no-fly list, the terrorist uses a...”
– The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
“Schneier and I walked to the security checkpoint. “Counterterrorism in the...”
– The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
“During one secondary inspection, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, I...”
– The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
“I wanted to see whether my fellow passengers would report me to the TSA for...”
– The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
“He had made these boarding passes in his sophisticated underground forgery...”
– The Atlantic Online | November 2008 | The Things He Carried | Jeffrey Goldberg
#6: These Idiots
american-apologies:
Freedom of speech is one of our greatest rights, and always a steady source of embarrassment when in the the hands of mongoloids like these.
“These restrictions are good through the end of this month, but there’s...”
– TSA’s New Flight Restrictions: Welcome to the 20th Century | Technomix | Fast Company
“Cascades require word-of-mouth effects, so you need to build a six-degrees...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 6 | Fast Company
“Watts and Peretti included technology called ForwardTrack, which displays the...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 6 | Fast Company
“Peretti partly disagrees with Watts about the randomness of trends; he thinks...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 6 | Fast Company
“Watts wanted to find out whether the success of a hot trend was reproducible....”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 5 | Fast Company
“But the Internet has cranked up the pressure to show a return on advertising...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 5 | Fast Company
“As Watts points out, viral thinkers analyze trends after they’ve broken...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 4 | Fast Company
“Watts does agree that some people are more instrumental than others. He simply...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 4 | Fast Company
“Why didn’t the Influentials wield more power? With 40 times the reach of a...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 3 | Fast Company
“Why did Milgram get it wrong? Watts thinks it’s simply because his sample...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Page 2 | Fast Company
“In the past few years, Watts—a network-theory scientist who recently took...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Fast Company
“It’s sad. Several generations of college students learned their grammar...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The copy editor’s old bugaboo about not using “which” to...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Is the intelligent student supposed to believe that Stoker, Wilde, and...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
#8: War on Terror
american-apologies:
During the first few years after 9/11, the Republican Party was a bit like U2 in that they could sell pretty much anything to the public. In this case, that included a global war against a vague concept which apparently meant invading Afghanistan (reasonable) and Iraq (stupid) for an indefinite period of time. The quick passing of the Patriot act even gave them free reign...
“What concerns me is that the bias against the passive is being retailed by a...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“We are told that the active clause “I will always remember my first trip...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“But despite the “Style” in the title, much in the book relates to...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“This was most unfortunate for the field of English grammar, because both authors...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
#14: Lady Gaga
american-apologies:
Some call her a postmodern genius, while others call her a postmodern twat. But when it comes down to it, she’s simply just another superficial studio-produced pop star, capitalizing on being “weird” because Madonna got too wrinkly. For those of you claiming that this 3rd-generation diva-synth-pop is “daring”, “experimental”, or “groundbreaking”, you need to realize that...
#15: School Shootings
american-apologies:
We may not have invented school shootings, but we sure as hell made them fashionable. Hm, I wonder why “average” middle-class and educated teenagers living in this country could do such horrible and violent things. Could it be the dangerous music or video games that the kids are into these days? Or is it the work of the interweb? Who can we blame for this? Well, think about...
#16: Abercrombie & Fitch
american-apologies:
Clothing corporations love to turn our culture anemic for their own economic gain, and do so by homogenizing clothing so that everyone looks (or wants to look) the same way. Tan sandals, torn jeans, cargo shorts, polo shirts, and obnoxious sunglasses are all effects of the Hollisterization of the American man. The company that is most responsible for this White...
“In many cases, social democratic parties are the dominant (India, United...”
– Social democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
#16: Abercrombie & Fitch
american-apologies:
Clothing corporations love to turn our culture anemic for their own economic gain, and do so by homogenizing clothing so that everyone looks (or wants to look) the same way. Tan sandals, torn jeans, cargo shorts, polo shirts, and obnoxious sunglasses are all effects of the Hollisterization of the American man. The company that is most responsible for this White...
#26: P.C. Holidays
american-apologies:
December is generally the month of holidays, snow sports, gift-giving, and a break from responsibilities. But in recent years, some have tried to turn it into an ideological battleground over religion and politics. Whether it’s those that say Christmas is too commercial, Christmas is being killed, or that the holidays aren’t sensitive enough, it’s obvious that these...