January 2012
12 posts
“Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially...”
– from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA (via monkeyknifefight)
“If you tell kids that they can get a book with sex in it for free, that might be...”
– That’s the thesis behind Uprise Books, a nonprofit that is sending low-income students all the good books that have been banned or challenged to promote teen literacy, fight censorship, and halt the cycle of poverty.
Read on: How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books
(via fastcompany)
sugashane:
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) - “Niggas in...
December 2011
11 posts
“It was no surprise, since we all knew he was ill,”
– Kim Jong Il - L.A. NOW - latimes.com (via trudymade)
“But the conflict also reveals something profound about the way the issues...”
– Chris Paul: The Occupier and the Occupied by Dave Zirin [The Nation]
(via thenoobyorker)
“The league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons.”
– NBA spokesman Tim Frank on the nixed trade deal that would have sent Lamar Odom to the New Orleans Hornets, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and Chris Paul to the Lakers.
The league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons. For basketball reasons. For basketball reasons. If you say...
November 2011
28 posts
Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses... →
npr:
Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence
Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces
There’s more….
Aziz is Bored: #ThroneFlight by Aziz Ansari via... →
azizisbored:
Last night I was on an incredibly boring redeye flight back to LA, but thanks to wifi inflight I was able to get on Twitter and detail our exploits once the whole flight decided to go H.A.M.
Thanks to the RocNation Tumblr (or whoever they reblogged from) for compiling what turned out to be quite…
The performance of lustiness is camp. Strippers... →
Watchsupersmashtv:
Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.
A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that...
I award you no points: pasky replied to your... →
savagemike:
pasky replied to your photo: Happy Halloween!
Do you work at (mt)? I was looking into open positions there back in January, and from what I’ve read it seems like a great place to work (the perks alone, among many other things). Just wondering if you would shed some light on…
Thanks for the reply, brother, and congrats on the new job!
D-2: The Undeniable Cultural Impact of the Mighty... →
While I had no issue with being the neighborhood’s resident cake-eater, Russ Tyler (played by Kenan Thompson) was the undisputed idol of every 7 year old I knew. For us, the knucklepuck was the hockey version of the cross-over. And-1 on ice, if you will. Everyone swore they could control it, make it bob up and down, and score. Obviously, no one really could on a consistent basis, but when it...
Decoder & The Fool: Why "Bank Transfer Day" will...
dcdecoder:
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a weekly series of talks between Decoder and The Motley Fool columnist Morgan Housel. You can find all of Housel’s Fool columns, including his most recent, “How succesfull will Bank Transfer Day be?,” here. Read last week’s talk the potential for labor to have its day in the sun here.
1. Perhaps thousands of Americans will transfer their...
