February 2012
1 post
July 2011
2 posts
"Semantic Infiltration" →
claytoncubitt:
“But what do we cut when we cut government, or public, spending? We don’t just cut the disbursement of funds. We cut what those funds purchase. And what do they purchase? They purchase goods and services. National parks. The U.S. Navy. Some slight assurance that our air, food, and pharmaceuticals won’t poison us. Public safety (not “government safety”). Education. Highways. Air...
“Man is a ship on woman’s ocean.”
– Twitter / Clayton Cubitt (via claytoncubitt)
April 2011
4 posts
“O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be...”
– Lanstong Hughes, via today’s dose of misappropriated literature.
"This very way of recording our world, this... →
“There are 15 to 20 dead I think. I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s like...”
– A Brazilian rescue worker, after surveying the carnage from Rio de Janeiro’s worst-ever school shooting yesterday for The Guardian. (via motherjones)
March 2011
3 posts
For fuck's sake, Nashville →
Finally, as he was about to be sentenced, the... →
The rhetoric of an “age of austerity” is being... →
February 2011
2 posts
but you can feel the hole left in the exhibit by... →
January 2011
2 posts
This is the Big Society, you see. It must be big,... →
“If you use the word, “Administrate”
Your grammar I won’t admirate
If your...”
– William Lindley
December 2010
6 posts
And therein lies a big problem for American... →
Read: Consumer Products by Stephen Marche →
France’s Louis XIV was the first modern-era king to recognize that image mattered more than actual accomplishment. Battlefield triumphs were each depicted immediately on engravings, which could be quickly and cheaply duplicated and disseminated. He built Versailles, which served as the model for all the other courts of Europe, and insisted that Israel Silvestre, designer and engraver to the king,...
Why aren't we supporting the students? Maybe we've... →
“We agreed you to have ask the big questions about what kind of society you want to live in. And we live in one in which we are told there is no more money while we see it washing around the upper echelons.”
Britain’s children’s crusade has not been cowed by... →
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
3 posts
Economically speaking, the richest nation on earth... →
August 2010
5 posts
The ten greatest severed penis scenes in science... →
Defining Prosperity Down →
claytoncubitt:
“We’re told that we can’t afford to help the unemployed — that we must get budget deficits down immediately or the “bond vigilantes” will send U.S. borrowing costs sky-high. Some of us have tried to point out that those bond vigilantes are, as far as anyone can tell, figments of the deficit hawks’ imagination — far from fleeing U.S. debt, investors have been buying it eagerly,...
July 2010
3 posts
“On its present course, I think the future looks less like central London, and...”
– Clayton Cubitt
This kind of odd compromise is hardly... →
[Wired Magazine — Analysis: Google and China Agree on a Fiction]
June 2010
4 posts
"Login is (not) a verb" →
Idiocy angers me. The only thing that angers me more is idiocy dressed up as self-righteous pseudo-intellectualism written by people with poor language skills.
To wit: ‘login’ is a verb. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that following the Germanic tradition (English being a Germanic languge) of that (super annoying, but quite useful) thing known as a ‘seperable...
These men ... qualify as model citizens and family... →
May 2010
11 posts
BP, Coast Guard Officers Block Journalists From... →
defendneworleans:
Emerging reports are raising the question of just how much of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill journalists are able to document.
When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.
“This is BP’s rules, it’s not ours,” someone aboard the boat said....
Typically more efficient than those around them,... →
Somewhere in Beaconsfield, GK Chesterton is giggling in his grave. [“Cat Among the Radicals” — Sydney Morning Herald]
The Redneck Manifesto →
“The cultural grease drippings of the 1960s will no longer be applicable in the twenty-first century. But class politics will. Anti-industrialism will. Redneck rural individualism, once thought to be a sure sign of mental retardation, will seem wise in the face of seething overpopulation. There are a lot of first-class philosophers hiding in the hills, too smart ever to come down into the city....
Law and Order cancelled →
Booooo.
I often hear people talking about Facebook as... →
[Gizmodo — “Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook”]
The complete Calvin & Hobbes, online, searchable... →
“I think the most important thing we can do is to treat Americans as citizent and...”
– Bill Moyers
April 2010
11 posts
BP oil spill ruins their livelihoods, Gulf... →
claytoncubitt:
“Either the seafood industry or the oil industry — that’s the only jobs down here, so I guess I’m trying to move from seafood to oil today,” said Bernel Prout, 55, a fisherman and Venice native.” (via defendneworleans)
See also: BP CEO earns $3k/hour last year, workers are being offered $10/hour to clean up BP spill
Also also: I guess BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” rebranding should...
The cyberwar rhetoric is dangerous. Its... →
Interesting when you put it side by side with the NPR interview. Dare I say it’s Clarke who comes across as the out-of-touch fearmonger?
See also: Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
(Also, people, ‘cyber’? What is this, 1991? The very use of the prefix makes you sound irrelevant.)