December 2009
45 posts
15 Reasons To Live For The Next 10 Years - io9 →
RT @hypem: Hype Machine Pillows! http://bit.ly/hypempillow Yeah, that’s right. Pillows!
“Considering the ease with which a suicide bomber could stroll into a Starbucks...”
– Holman Jenkins:Two Cheers for Airport Security - WSJ.com
“The Associated Press has learned that a second Nigerian man has been taken into...”
– ABC News Alert
Seriously?
Listening to the Jock Jam on Sirius’ 90s on 9
“First, you need a true love, and this is a city filled with many lonely people....”
– NYC - Wanted - Pear Tree, Preferably With Partridge - NYTimes.com
Fucking New York Times.
What’s Stabler from SVU doing as one of the grooms on Runaway Bride?!?
“The price of Boodie’s chicken livers, for example, is $9, written simply as 9....”
– Restaurants Use Menu Psychology to Entice Diners - NYTimes.com
“A man dressed as Father Christmas pulled out a gun and robbed a bank in...”
– ‘It’s a ho-ho-hold-up’: armed Santa robs US bank - Times Online
RT @BreakingNews: Circus employees, police searching for 2 tigers that escaped in southwestern Mexico when their cage burst open while i …
“Amtrak says power problems have halted trains coming in and out of New York...”
– Low Voltage Halts Amtrak Trains In and Out of NYC - NYTimes.com
OH COME ON.
““Dear Mr. Kidder,
Thank you for taking the time to e-mail AT&T. I...”
– Gee, thanks, AT&T!
Barack Obama Wants to Be at Work Today Just as... →
Barack Obama spent the day calling into local news-talk radio shows as “Barry from D.C.”
I love how one of the Twitter trending topics confuses “your” and “you’re”. I suppose Twitter is going mainstream! #youknowyourfat
Moving day!
“GAWKER The New York media world was all too eager to slam the door on Nick...”
– Book of Tens: The Most Important Websites of the Decade - Advertising Age - Print Edition
“Al Perruzza, now a senior vice president, recalls a dinner in the early ’70s at...”
– Reader’s Digest, Revised and Condensed - NYTimes.com
“In 2004, while vacationing in Brazil, I learned that Jason Calacanis had set up...”
– Nick Denton, new issue of Wired (Jan. 2010), answering a question about failure as an instance of success (via fimoculous)
AJ was my secret santa! It wasn’t a half dead frog. RT @AJDaulerio Now about to wrap Secret Santa present for lucky Gawker employee.
Company Party: 10:37 AM, Morning After
kateism:
fek:
There should be some kind of digital marathon clock above the elevator that just ticks away at the actual time. Our start time is 10:00 AM, and our CEO and his assistant are saying hello to everyone as they walk in. When I got here:
Sales Force: 0-4. Big win for them.
Interns: None. 0-at least 5. To be expected.
Editorial, including myself: 5-1. Shockingly. Our missing rank...
MTA Mythbusting: back again →
Great post by Chris:
This is a cop-out when there’s no constructive criticism about the MTA’s finances, so let’s explain how the MTA got saddled with a deficit every year – and sometimes multiple times a year. One of its biggest sources of revenue is real estate transaction taxes. Look at what real estate has done in the past two years. That revenue has barely topped 50% of its projection. If the...
How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion →
MTA whistleblower breaks nose, loses teeth, needs... →
An MTA whistleblower who helped expose track workers sitting around idle for hours every day claims he was shoved off a Brooklyn platform onto a live railway.
Moving to Brooklyn Heights in a week!
Watching a British Law and Order — they changed the theme song!
Why are the checkout lines at KMart consistently inefficient?
Really enjoyed seeing Up in the Air — highly recommended.
“During a year-long gambling binge at the Caesars Palace and Rio casinos in 2007,...”
– The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million - WSJ.com
Many Police Officers Wear Fake Badges and Keep the... →
WTF?
(via @erickuo)