September 2010
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“But best of the bunch were the Cribs, back with dad Johnny Marr after a few...”
– Guardian review of Leeds festival. I’m a few days behind. (via turnabout)
Look, Johnny Marr helped them out of the bean can they started in but he’s not their dad, OK?
August 2010
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A++, Liz.
Because that’s the thing: To dismiss something because it’s popular, in the sprawling digital marketplace, is to be willfully ignorant of an emerging skill set within the new media world: the ability to get seen. It’s a complicated formula that involves the constant creation of new content, regular communication with one’s audience, endless networking and collaboration with other creators and...
I also frequently want to yell, "I'm so sorry if...
(via lostgrrrls)
Did you know that William Shatner was in a pilot... →
turnabout:
Let’s not even get into the fact that Meredith Baxter was Meg and Eve Plumb was Beth.
Discoveries like this are the result of me introducing old friends to new friends. <3
“So much of the American economy is based on GDP that comes from waste,...”
– “Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?”: America’s misguided culture of overwork - Nonfiction - Salon.com
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sourdoughislife:
Remember that bullshit NY Times article about “emerging adolescence”? Two rebuttals via Feministing are far more coherent than I was:
Everyone I know who did a stint of living at home while legally an adult, including myself, did so out of financial necessity. That’s 100% of folks I’ve heard of doing so. In a way, it’s too bad, because the notion that living with your...
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I made her tweet this. It was even better live.
turnabout:
I will not allow the beauty-industrial complex to tell me I need special lotion for my boobs.
The New York Times is making me feel weird about...
lizlet:
Apparently that makes me special and unique?
Link for context
DUDE THANK YOU YES!
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“We find that creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain...”
– The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind - TIME
Someone linked this on Twitter today. The article is four years old and Time-typical (light ‘n’ fluffy but attempting Deep Thought) but I liked this link between the thoughts above.
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“We are conducting a study to compare the sharing intentions of Facebook users to...”
– A Facebook Privacy Study
To participate, install our Facebook application by going to http://apps.facebook.com/gotprivacy.
And so we come full circle.
Columbia was one of the original 12 colleges where your .edu email could get you a Facebook account. I knew Facebook would be huge when our...
“It turns out, for any plan to work, every team needs at least one asshole who...”
– Groupthink « You Are Not So Smart (via spytap)
Barrett sometimes manages to post the perfect things at the perfect times.
In Pictures: Best-Ever Social Media Campaigns - 1.... →
Was the thought behind this, Maybe if we compliment them they’ll think we know what we’re talking about!? Because that’s sure what I read into this.
Alternately: Maybe if we talk about that new, social media stuff people will think we’re relevant!
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10 Sneaky Marketing Tricks That Got You Hooked
Gillette gave women a new insecurity — “objectionable hair”
How it happened: A 1982 article from The Journal of American Culture reveals that women shaving, in particular their underarms, was spawned by magazine marketing.
The article, “Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture,” indicates that the hair-free revolution was engineered by a marketing blitz, The...
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“[Eric Schmidt] predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day...”
– Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record
This is both surprisingly practical and utterly terrifying.
I forgot the 22-20s existed! I featured “Why...
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Dear Tumblr,
I had a fucking awesome weekend. How about you?
“KRISTIN STEWART Just a little while ago I told my dad I was a virgin. He was...”
– If ‘Eclipse’ Was 10 Times Shorter And 100 Times More Honest | Cracked.com
I love me some smart snark.
I try not to feel too self-satisfied, since feeling so is the best way to guarantee I’ll be over-inundated shortly and it also feels like satisfaction leads to complacency.
That being said: good job, Westerby.
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npr full stream: God Willin' And The Creek Don't... →
I wasn’t a Ray LaMontagne devotee until today.