January 2010
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newsweek:
This story will break your heart, and Jess Bennett tells it really well:
This is a story about a photo—an image so horrific we can’t print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn’t allow her...
Stock Names for 2010
kevin:
stocknames:
We want to kick off 2010 with some of the freshest, most versatile stock names available. The following 10 names are our most advanced names available and the result of several months of R&D and market research.
Brace Hyatt
Lens Yentle
Greg Odyssey
Rico Parkinson
Cliff Goddard
M. Todd Seltzer
Lampton Enochs
Vernon Major
Dallas Sbarro
Paul Mignon
Stock names...
December 2009
Flat-pack accounting →
givemesomethingtoread:
Forget about the Gates Foundation. The world’s biggest charity owns IKEA—and is devoted to interior design
The Anatomy of a Smear: How The Reigning King of...
jhnmyr:
A couple of days ago I was pointed to a video on TMZ.com that featured “Avatar” director James Cameron involved in a verbal scuffle with who the gossip website would have you believe was a “fan.” The question is implicit in the video and write-up: “Why would a wealthy Hollywood director be so rude as not to sign an autograph for someone going out of his way to meet his hero?” Having...
“No. Yes.”
– Exhausted Senate majority leader HARRY REID (D - Nevada), mistakenly casting the former vote, then correcting with the latter, on the Senate healthcare reform plan.
(via the New York Times)
We must admit, we kinda understand.
(via inothernews) (via newsweek)
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“The sun is so beautiful, the waters of the Hudson so green that I take the boat...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day. First published in French in 1954 as L’Amerique au joure jour.
MJ located the Santaland Diaries on NPR. I’m addressing Christmas cards for friends and the firm. later, up goes the garland on the house!
Movies | 'An American Journey': Retracing a... →
Séclier’s subject is a book that inspires as much passion in some circles as any religious tract. “The Americans,” the collection of 83 black-and-white images of American life that Frank published in 1958, was a defining moment for photography. A half-century later, Séclier, a French filmmaker and photo-book editor, was inspired to spend two years retracing the routes Frank took...
“It is suggested that if you use the same password on your Twitter account with...”
– Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” (Developing) (via highlow)
A Mexican navy official says alleged drug cartel... →
(via chicabajoelsol)
