September 2008
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Couric Interview: Palin Repeats Age Swipe At Biden →
This would be hilarious if she weren’t so stupid.
Katie Couric: You made a funny comment, you’ve said you have been listening to Joe Biden’s speeches since you were in second grade.
Gov. Palin: It’s been since like ‘72, yah.
Katie Couric: You have a 72-year-old running mate, is that kind of a risky thing to say, insinuating that Joe Biden’s been...
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WatchSNL: Sarah Palin & Katie Couric
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Michael Lewis' Mansion →
Michael Lewis rents a ridiculous mansion in New Orleans for $13,000 / month (roughly the cost of a two-bedroom apartment here in New York).
Utilities were $2,700. That turned out not to include water, which was another $1,000. Think of it: $1,000 a month for water you don’t drink. (The drinking water came in truckloads from a spring-water company.)
Later:
It’s no good pretending that...
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What the 21st Century Will Taste Like (by David... →
The cost of food—of producing and procuring it—is soaring. In the restaurant world, it’s all anyone can talk about. And the thing is, this is no temporary spike; it’s actually a massive correction.
… But guess what? The machinery that’s pumped so much meat into our lives over the last half century was never built to last, and now it’s breaking down...
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How they came up with that number →
In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
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What makes people vote Republican? →
[W]e long ago reported that strict parenting and a variety of personal insecurities work together to turn people against liberalism, diversity, and progress. But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond...
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Lawrence Lessig: Palin's Experience in 12 minutes... →
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Google Maps adds NYC transit directions →
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Defending Elitism →
“Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child’s brain?”
“Of course, Charlie. I have several boys of my own, and I’m an avid hunter.”
“But governor, this is neurosurgery, and you have no training as a surgeon of any kind.”
“That’s just the point, Charlie. The American people want change in...
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Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That... →
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Astounding that we’re not hearing more about this.
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Meet Sarah Palin's Hacker →
(See also: More backstory)
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Walkstations: I Put in 5 Miles at the Office →
WANT
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Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Account Hacked? →
Uncofirmed, but it looks like they just took a couple of screenshots of harmless mails, then changed the password. (via reddit)
Update: A good summary of the whole ordeal (via waxy)
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I have nothing to lose →
I quit my programming job and started working 3 months a year doing manual labor and saving my money. I spend the other 9 in south america, not working.
… Bring on the pain. Let it all burn. I have nothing to lose. Hot damn, it’s not like I even need money to live where I live in south america; my expenses are under $100 per month, but most of that’s food, and I can live...
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Humans: Born To Run →
Unlike many mammals, not to mention primates, people are astonishingly successful endurance runners… not only can humans outlast horses, but over long distances and under the right conditions, they can also outrun just about any other animal on the planet—including dogs, wolves, hyenas, and antelope, the other great endurance runners. From our abundant sweat glands to our Achilles...
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What a Community Organizer Does →
So here is what Giuliani and Palin didn’t know: Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed on the south side of Chicago. They hired Obama to help those stunned people recover and get the services they needed—job training, help with housing and so forth—from the local...
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Friedman: Making America Stupid →
Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M....
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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL →
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WatchDownhill skateboarding. Fast forward to 2:30. (via kottke)
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WatchFreestyle rap battle, translated. See original. (via waxy)
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Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed... →
The chart below shows the sample release years in more detail, telling another story. Here, we can see how heavily Gregg uses samples from the last three years, and strongly avoids samples for the previous three-year period from 2001 to 2004. (Too old to be cool, but not old enough to be retro?)
Lots more geekiness around the samples used in Girl Talk’s new album.
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Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics →
Gotta love a mainstream article that starts with:
Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human being because she isn’t a journalist and never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey.
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Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident....
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Play With Spider →
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WatchLast night’s Daily Show was brilliant. The entire episode is worth watching.
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Trig Palin Conspiracy Timeline
juliakaganskiy:
Phew! I was having a bit of a tough time following all the drama on the Bristol/Levi/Sarah/Trig drama front. Thanks to VF.com for this handy timeline to break it down for me. (via VanityFair.com)
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How to Cheat at Everything: Tips from a Con Man →
It requires avid study of psychology and body language. It’s an amazing paradox—a con man has incredible emotional insight, but without the burden of compassion. He must take an intense interest in other people, complete strangers, and work to understand them, yet remain detached and uninvested. That the plan is to cheat these people and ultimately confirm many of their fears cannot...
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