January 2012
71 posts
Watchmashable:
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
“…this is not an...
“This is not class warfare. It’s math.”
– Obama (via aatombomb)
This kind of sums up 2011 in America for me.
(via soupsoup)
“Always use the word ‘Sand’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Whispers’ in your title. Subtitles...”
– How to Write about the Middle East is such a brilliant, hilarious read that it passes off a good, fine beating-of-the-ass for “opinion makers” like Thomas Friedman and Co. This part is even better:
In your text, treat the Middle East as if it were one country, and constantly refer to it as...
The written Word →
The complete series of The Written World is available to download as a podcast until Monday morning, after that you will still be able to listen online but the downloads won’t be available…
“The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one...”
– Wilfrid Sheed (via inky)
New 50p coin aimed at explaining offside law 'gets... →
“The Royal Mint says the coin was designed “to provoke discussion”“
Best … excuse … ever.
