August 2009
60 posts
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The Low Anthem - To Ohio
I’m falling in...
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Get me some text link advertising and some waffle...
Google just offered me $100 of free advertising. It’s clearly an incredible opportunity for me to expand the reach of 2arrs2ells… but what search terms should I bid on?
Some of the search terms that have already sent me traffic include:
“paul rudd is a douchebag”
who mails a bobcat
diana needs
fuckyeahlevarburtonº
coullotesª
“moonlit wang” ...
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McSweeney's: HEALTH CARE REFORM: MYTHS & FACTS →
Including amazing footnotes and such wonders as (link is mine):
MYTH:
Athena emerged, fully grown, from the skull of Zeus.
FACT:
Despite being King of the Gods and Lord of Thunder™, Zeus was denied medical coverage by private insurers due to being classed with a “Priapistic condition.” This painfully constant state of male “preparedness” could only be tamed by...
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Marco on the non-inevitability of "openness" in... →
He should have mentioned the Internet along with the PC as a counter-example.
What’s a better word for “non-inevitability”?
Jonathan Zittrain has some interesting thoughts on this issue
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ROFLCon 2 →
2 ROFL 2 Con
America's 25 Douchiest Colleges (GQ) →
mollyfitz:
Aww, we’re only #4.
They’re so kind.
Why Smart People Do Stupid Things →
givemesomethingtoread:
Intelligence by itself doesn’t make you rational. Thinking rationally demands mental skills that some of us don’t have and many of us don’t use.
The article includes this great brainteaser:
Time for a pop quiz. Try to solve this problem before reading on. Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not. Is a married person...
“But the rub to all this, as I glimpsed briefly last winter, is that many...”
– Christian Flow in Why Harvard Needs to Get Harder
i am having a nice time →
dailymeh:
A choose your own adventure. (via)
The Plungercam 2 →
Look at this video. I need to make one desperately.
marco:
I used to try to run a popular blog. I cared about timing posts for the weekday-morning rush and getting on Digg and getting meaningful comments and increasing my traffic and focusing my subject matter and becoming an authority and developing an audience and making enough money from ads to reach AdSense’s check-issuing minimum every few months and maybe actually breaking even after my...
clipse - grindin
In honor of its placement at...
30 Novels Worth Buying For the Cover Alone →
mollybierman:
(via thepursuit)
the rant cover is particularly awesome
Too bad rant itself is blehh. Still trying to decide if I like the Poisonwood Bible cover on the site more than this one on the copy I own (and the same thing about Brave New World vs this cover).
How To Land Your Dream Job →
As any CEO or ballerina will tell you—the secret to being happy at work is having an awesome job where you don’t have to do any work and you get paid a lot. Unfortunately, because most Americans have no skills, many of us end up working at shitty places like TheSpark. Recently, however, I’ve developed sure-fire techniques that can help anyone get their dream job. And...
While My Guitar Gently Beeps →
givemesomethingtoread:
The band that upended the cultural landscape of the 1960s is now hitching its legacy to the medium of a new generation: the video game.
Love this article. I’m going to have to buy Rock Band: The Beatles.
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The Aristhrottle →
and other Philosopher Finishing Moves
Journal of a New COBRA Recruit →
May 1, 1986
Man. I’m so excited to graduate this month. It’s been a fun few weeks, signing yearbooks and going to beer parties and such, but at the same time I keep feeling worried about what I’m going to do afterwards. I don’t have the grades for college. Heck, when I talked to the Army recruiter about becoming a G.I., he said I don’t even have the grades to...
““I don’t love you anymore. I’m not sure I ever did.”
His words came at me like...”
– Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
I read this a while back, but Brandon brought it up Friday night and we decided it’s by far the best Modern Love we’ve ever seen.
Nerd alert. →
dailymeh:
I want to see an impassioned debate about aspect ratios.
Excellent post. I can’t say I pick up on the difference between 4:3 and 3:2, but medium format is so closely tied to 6:6 in my mind.
This Is The Only Level →
dailymeh:
Thirty variations on one level. The captions for each stage are helpful. (via)
Clever as hell.
“Richard Wrangham, a Harvard anthropologist, published a fascinating book called...”
– I know that everyone linked to this fantastic Michael Pollan article, Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch, when it was published last week, but it’s so long that it took me a while to “digest” (bad pun).
I’ve never seen the above argument even hinted at anywhere else. I’d point out that fire is a...
Life Imitating Television Imitating Life →
In 2004, the Strip Search Prank Call Scam made national news when a man impersonating a police officer ordered one McDonalds employee to imprison and strip search another employee.
Next, the crime gets turned into a Law and Order: SVU episode, with Robin Williams as the creepster prank caller.
And now, The Smoking Gun has unmasked a whole gang of “telephone terrorists.”
Since...
“Time in Lesotho baffles me. Things get done when they get done, and if tasks are...”
– From my favorite entry in Lauren’s Lesotho Blog.
