December 2008
130 posts
Cat Power - Sea of Love
Just watched the end of...
November 2008
98 posts
Case questions I wish I'd been asked: Part 1
Boring Intro
You’ve been hired by a large craft brewer, HopsCo, who recently went public. Despite impressive revenue growth over the past year, shareholders are demanding higher profits as costs have also risen sharply. As you prepare for your initial meeting with the CEO, what levers would you like to explore to increase HopsCo’s profitability?
Clever(?) followup
One...
Why Comic Sans? →
Written by the man who spawned the beast!
Ohio landmarks and oddities →
I can’t wait to see the Museum of things swallowed, the 2-headed calf, and the replica confederate head over winter break.
“I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision,...”
– Janet Fitch (via ericanicole) (via soupsoup) (via unicornology) (via isthisblood) (via kari-shma) (via amandoline) (via katkim)
“I am thankful for tumblr for taking the meme economy to a place we never thought...”
– THNXGVNG - HRO
Bright Eyes - Pull My Hair
As sexed up as Conor...
One-Sentence Stories →
amandatong:
“One Sentence is an experiment in brevity. Most of the best stories that we tell from our lives have one really, really good part that make the rest of the boring story worth it.
This is about that one line.”
My favorite is Hemingway’s:
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
“By working in small batches, Calagione became an experimental brewer a decade...”
– -Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery (in the New Yorker - A Better Brew)
(via givemesomethingtoread)
The Way We Live Now: The Screening of America →
givemesomethingtoread:
As I watched Jimmy Stewart discover Zuzu’s petals in his pocket for at least the 20th time, I realized that “It’s a Wonderful Life” — like “Casablanca” and “Ben-Hur” and most of Ingmar Bergman and James Bond, among countless others — was a film I had never seen as a film. I’d never seen it projected through a dark room full of strangers onto a big screen.
Daniel Lanois - Sonho Dourado
I can’t get...
The Criterion Collection has revamped their site. →
britticisms:
bg5000:
You can now watch a film online for $5, among other things. Here’s the video explaining all the new features. (via fimoculous)
I can’t wait to film nerd it up so much over Thanksgiving. Really want to go see Desplechin’s Un conte de Noël (maybe with my family?) and whatever crazy stuff Molly’s found in her film classes.
Watching the Times struggle (and what you can... →
givemesomethingtoread:
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” is the heart of the problem. It was never that, of course. It was “All the News That Fits.” The entire mindset of (every) newspaper has been driven by the cost of paper, the finite nature of paper, the cost of delivery and the cycle of a daily paper. You run enough articles to fit as many ads as you can sell.These are artifacts of a...
Challenged ballots in Minnesota: You be the judge →
A short history of the bagel →
givemesomethingtoread:
When my family first moved to Larchmont, N.Y., in 1946, my father had a feeling that the neighbors living behind us were Jewish. In those days, you didn’t broadcast your religion, so he devised a plan that would reveal their cultural background. We would go to the Bronx and bring back some bagels. If our neighbors knew what the rolls were, they were Jewish. If they...
“You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it...”
– Sally Albright, “When Harry Met Sally” (via kathychoi)
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
– H. L. Mencken
You’d think I would be in love by now.
(via collectingraindrops)
Let me google that for you →
So obnoxious, so wonderful.
(via Patrick)
shutupinternet:
caro:
Miles Davis & The...
In Which Harvard Gets Hipster →
alishalisha:
Girl Talk is performing at the Harvard-Yale Game Pep Rally tomorrow night
More Harvard bloggers - hooray
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because...”
– JFK - Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort
“Here’s the thing: Your Tumblr, while clever, will not pay your bills. We want to...”
– TypePad: Journalist Bailout Program (via David Chartier, Bijan)
Translation:
“Here’s the thing: We keep bleeding customers to these other services that, while clever, do not pay our bills. We want to fix that. So we’ve made the TypePad Bailout Program. While we can’t promise that we’ll be any...
WatchNot sure why I didn’t post this when I saw it, but Man On Wire is an absolutely amazing film. It’s an awesome doc about the French tightrope walker who walked (danced!) between the World Trade Centers in 1974.
Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism... →
dailymeh:
(Thanks for the link, Simon — though I don’t agree with this ad hominem.)
Update: N. Ortalo: “I think everyone should give it a read with crowdsurfing in mind.” Absolutely.
What's your record for watching anime in a row? NO... →
WatchHe’s the man.
