January 2010
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Crystal Stilts - “Love is a Wave”
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The Minutemen - “Corona”
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Luscious Jackson - “Naked Eye”
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The Selfish Replicators - “Strands”
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Every Day I'm Tweeting →
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Candy Claws - “Catamaran”
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Hot Chip - “Boy From School”...
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“While our client does appreciate the irony of the suggestion in your letter that...”
– This is like rain on your wedding day. ProtectMarriage.com issues Cease and Desist for Prop 8 Trial Tracker logo depicting family of two mothers with two kids for being “indistinguishable” from their logo depicting a “traditional” family.
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Cat Power - “What Would The Community...
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“The DNC and the DSCC did everything they were asked and have been involved in...”
– - “Senior Democratic Party official”
Inept candidate blames party, inept party blames candidate. When it’s essential that you retain a seat in the most Democratic-friendly state in the country, perhaps you should do more than what you are “asked” by a political novice...
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The average amount of time the ball is in play on... →
People watch three hours of football to witness 11 minutes of actual play. This is why American football is boring and why basketball and soccer are the greatest sports in the world.
11 minutes of actual play
12 minutes of shots of the head coaches and referees
17 minutes of replays
60 minutes of commercials
75 minutes of shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just...
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Ganglians - “Blood On The Sand”
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Jay Reatard - “Frances Farmer Will Have Her...
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From the oral argument transcript in Briscoe v....
MR. FRIEDMAN: I think that issue is entirely orthogonal to the issue here because the Commonwealth is acknowledging -
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: I’m sorry. Entirely what?
MR. FRIEDMAN: Orthogonal. Right angle. Unrelated. Irrelevant.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Oh.
JUSTICE SCALIA: What was that adjective? I liked that.
MR. FRIEDMAN: Orthogonal.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Orthogonal.
MR. FRIEDMAN: Right, right.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Orthogonal, ooh.
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE KENNEDY: I knew this case presented us a problem.
(Laughter.)
MR. FRIEDMAN: I should have — I probably should have said -
JUSTICE SCALIA: I think we should use that in the opinion.
(Laughter.)
MR. FRIEDMAN: I thought — I thought I had seen it before.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Or the dissent.
(Laughter.)
MR. FRIEDMAN: That is a bit of professorship creeping in, I suppose.
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MNDR - “Fade to Black”
If you were...
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British Sea Power - “Remember Me”
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On Curation Culture
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I think I found the tables fascinating because they presented these objects, some of which weren’t even Orozco’s works, with such care and intent. Crafted, selected, arranged, fetishized, the pieces tell me something about the way Orozco functions as an artist, but also something about the act of creating an artistic world to inhabit, of making a universe in miniature, of picking out the...
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Sunshine Anderson - “Heard It All...
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The Netflix Map and Class →
“Mad Men makes the list of top 50 rentals in very few zip codes, but it’s heavily rented in sophisticated urban areas, like Manhattan and especially western Brooklyn. In fact, it’s interesting to note that western Brooklyn, where Mad Men is in the top 10, has stronger preference for Mad Men than Manhattan.
Last Chance Harvey is a movie that’s only enjoyed in wealthy suburbs like Scarsdale...
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Glass Candy - “Digital Versicolor”
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