February 2009
19 posts
maygen:
Sunny Day Real Estate- Pillars
How It...
Emailing while asleep →
Incredible.
This cracks me me up
“If 9/11 had really changed us, there’d be a 150-story building on the site of...”
– James Lileks (via azspot)
Passwords in Email
marco:
avinash.vora:
Why do certain websites insist on emailing me my password in the account confirmation/activation email and displaying it in plain-text right in the body of the email? I’m neither interested in being told my password 1-2 minutes right after I create my account, nor am I happy if someone is looking over my shoulder and catches a glimpse of my password.
Agreed. My next...
The fruit of our facial hair growing labor- the...
“People were gathering around, watching out of windows, you know, the way a city...”
– The Daydream Girl, a good short story
“I take responsibility for it and we’re going to make sure we fix it so it...”
– Barack Obama on the Daschle situation.
Even when I criticize the guy he comes out less than a day later and says exactly the right thing. Now please wrangle the congressional leaders to make sure the stimulus is spent on creating jobs and building infrastructure and doing it quickly, and save the...
Robert Reich's Blog: Tom Daschle and the Populist... →
This is a positive thing in my estimation, but a populist reckoning is a powerful thing that can have good and bad sides to it. Daschle isn’t a huge loss though as far as I’m concerned
“When complex arguments are distilled down to single-sentence maxims or sound...”
– Saint Gasoline (via azspot)
This is a parallel style argument to one I’ve been making recently, that if you’ve taken a complex issue and boil it down to one ‘common sense’ style phrase, you’re almost definitely doing the argument an injustice. This is why I hate most...
The President must be serious
A post today on Swampland comes away from yesterday’s pre super bowl Lauer interview with the president with a bit of criticism. Lauer asks Mr. Obama about how he was cut out of his family picture so that the cover of Us Weekly could be devoted to none other than Ms. Jessica Simpson, and he responds “who’s in a weight battle, apparently.”
Karen Tumulty raps him with a...
Francis Scott Key To Sing National Anthem At Super... →
Once again, I love the Onion