February 2012
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Feb 8th
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A prison is a trap for catching time.
This New Yorker piece. It’s about jail in the U.S., and it’s so smartly put together and well written. “A prison is a trap for catching time.” “What prisoners try to convey to the free is how the presence of time as something being done to you, instead of something you do things with, alters the mind at every moment.” “The normalization of prison...
Feb 1st
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Icing The Bridge
I want to introduce the phrase “ice the bridge” into the Corporate Jargon World (CJW), as in “let’s ice the bridge on the competition,” or, “be sure not to ice the bridge in our users.” One variation: “I think you’re icing the bridge a little bit on this one.” Here’s some other phrases or labels possibly worth jargonizing in the...
Feb 1st
January 2012
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the voicemail I just left for Holiday
Holiday! I was going to come up with something clever to say, something I’d never said before, a poem, maybe the opening line of a great novel, or a mediocre novel, or a crappy novel, could be a short story or just a three-graf blurb, who knows who knows who knows….
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Without the internet we wouldn't get slices of...
Hockey player dude in 2010 Same hockey player dude in 2011:
Jan 5th
December 2011
5 posts
Dec 28th
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Tim Tebow, so earnest.
From the after-game interview with reporters the day before Christmas. Q:What do you think went so wrong in the second half there for you? A:Good question. First and foremost I just want to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Isn’t it great no matter what, win or lose, we can still have a chance to celebrate my savior’s birth tomorrow, that’s pretty cool. I’m very...
Dec 27th
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Dec 23rd
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I'm pretty disappointed Albuquerque's KRQE News no...
Because I’d link to it. But, since I can’t link to it on their site, I’m posting it here. This news is from September 2006. Witness: Man brings sword to gunfight Source: KRQE News 13 ALBUQUERQUE — A shooting victim is in critical condition this morning after being shot in a supermarket parking lot. Witnesses told KRQE News 13 the fight broke out Monday night between a...
Dec 22nd
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From the Denver Post's catch-all inbox:
WE WANT OBAMA AND TEBOW TO UNITE IN A BIPARTISAN WHITE HOUSE PRAYER SUMMIT FOR JOBS. WE BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE TEBOW IS HONORING GOD THAT THE TEAM MAY BE BLESSED WITH A SUPER BOWL VICTORY. IN THE PAST, WE HAVE HELD VIGILS AND E-MAILED THE WHITE HOUSE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PREISDENT HOLDING SUCH A VIGIL THAT COULD TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND. WHEN WILL THEY WAKE UP AND USE TEBOW’S METHOD OF...
Dec 5th
November 2011
2 posts
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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October 2011
1 post
“An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the...”
– R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 - Salon.com (via rafer)
Oct 16th
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September 2011
2 posts
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Sep 19th
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Sep 13th
August 2011
4 posts
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Aug 12th
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Aug 9th
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Aug 6th
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Aug 6th
July 2011
6 posts
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
Jul 6th
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June 2011
1 post
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Jun 29th
May 2011
7 posts
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May 29th
May 8th
The Denver Post: 1961: "U.S. Puts Man Into Space" →
denverpost: This was the headline on the front page of the Friday, May 5, 1961, Denver Post. A sample of the story: 15-Minute Ride Ends Perfectly Steel-nerved Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. rode a rocket into space Friday, exclaimed “what a beautiful sight” as he looked down on the earth, and then…
May 5th
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On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging
I clicked through to one of those link-bait junk-brained posts Mashable wrote Sunday night, and I felt like I had been duped. This post explains the thought that went into Mashable’s strategy… parislemon: The information in the image above is not surprising at all. But still pathetic. Imagine that, you write 35 200-word posts featuring the words “Bin Laden” in the headline and...
May 5th
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“This is the trouble with age. Nobody tells you that you are too old to do...”
– On age
May 4th
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From the news tips inbox at the Denver Post:
“Osama bin Laden has been dead for three years! He WAS in those caves. This is just a cover up by the Illuminati to keep Americans happy. The USA needed to stay in their country to keep taking THEIR oil, so how else could they do IT? LIE and say Osama bin Laden is still alive to buy time. SOME ONE NEED TO INVESTIGATE AND STOP BELIEVING EVERYTHING THATS TOLD TO YOU!”
May 4th
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May 3rd
April 2011
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“I have read, understood and agree to the following: Social Project Terms of Use,...”
– What you agree to when you sign up for comedy center’s site.
Apr 25th
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Apr 23rd
Straight to Audio: Highlights of SXSW 2011: A Mix →
straighttoaudio: Over the past (almost) decade, I have been putting together mixes to give out to friends of music that I’m currently enjoying. In the last couple of years I have really been slacking and only doing one or two a year. I am going to change that recent trend of mine and start to compile more…
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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“I’m particularly excited for My Beautiful, Dark,... →
Apr 4th
March 2011
2 posts
Mar 6th
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Mar 1st
February 2011
6 posts
This photo series is by far the most excellent... →
Feb 14th
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What's the best headline you can come up with...
Air asks Aspen bag beaten black-face Brigade Carson case Colorado Combat cops CU douche Fort free headed held in is likely man of or pair Pakistan Pols pushes racism school sparks spirit spiritual Springs stick suspect ties to U.S. war with words
Feb 5th
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What's the best headline you can come up with...
battling Boulder Broomfield busted change chaos Cherry climate cops courier Creek Eagle ends fears for he high if instruction investment Mubarak now on peacefully quits researchers return says schools standoff sticky-fingered theft Wolverines yield
Feb 3rd
Feb 3rd
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Today's Denver Post headline mashup (it's like an...
5 as asking assistant at charcoal Chemical County current Depot Don’t double dry during engine FasTracks finish Giants January joins leaking lit Lou mayors Metro Piniella project Pueblo recommend sealed shells snowpack sooner special state’s suffers Summit tax the tip to voters warm with
Feb 3rd
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Today's Denver Post headline mashup (it's like an...
2010 aboard! All announce approve Armed bank campaign Carson court-martial declines Denver despite diet drug faces FDA finances Fort Fountain Gabor hopefuls Husband ill in issues knocks lands locomotive mayoral mental-health Monster off Orexigen Plume robber says Silver slaying soldier to very Zsa Zsa
Feb 2nd
January 2011
2 posts
“MOGOSOIA, Romania—Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about...”
– Curses! Romania’s witches forced to pay income tax
Jan 6th
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Facebook privacy info:
As of today, a new privacy setting called “Instant Personalization” is being rolled out which shares data with non-facebook websites and it is (for some folk) automatically set to “Enable.” Go to Account>Privacy Settings> Applications and Websites>Instant Personalization> Edit Settings, and un-check “Enable”. Update: Hey, turns out that Instant...
Jan 4th