July 2010
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Susan Orlean Weighs In on the "Jeggings" Trend
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“On most people they look like hell, but, to be honest, they are very comfortable and functional, and are essential in the fashion silhouette of the moment, which is the inverted triangle consisting of masses of thick Medusa-like hair and a poufy tunic sort of top over pipestem legs and twelve-inch stiletto heels.”…
Read the rest of her post at her blog, Free Range.
Before now,...
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Many knitters wait until marriage before making a sweater for a significant other, or ask their affianced to sign a “pre-knitual agreement.”
—Sweater curse, Wikipedia
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The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird...
– David Foster Wallace
[via]
(via drinkyourjuice)
And I say this sincerely: David Foster Wallace is a national treasure.
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I love you like this girl loves Justin Bieber.
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My Weekend, In a Nutshell →
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The San Francisco-iest crime ever committed →
caro:
[The thief] rode a bicycle up to a woman Monday afternoon in the South of Market neighborhood, snatched an iPhone out of her hands, and then pedaled away.
Problem was, the woman was carrying the phone as part of a company’s demonstration of a real-time GPS tracking program. If the bandit would have taken a peek at the screen, he would have seen himself traveling across a map of San...
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I write like Ian Fleming →
Who woulda guessed?
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Mel Gibson is crazy.
Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah, and the Short Pants →
Last month, my friend Neel Shah left his job at the New York Post’s “Page Six” and moved to LA to write for a network sitcom. Neel’s new gig marked not only the end of his time in New York, but the end of a year-long fascination with the management style of his boss’ boss’ boss, Rupert Murdoch….
An ingenious, ingenious story.
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The Millennial Job Whine is not something that should elicit pity from any...
– Richard Lawson (via soupsoup)
These people annoy me so much. Whatever happened to getting a crappy job straight out of college and making something better out of it, rather than frittering your life away waiting for the perfect opportunity to come to you?
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It amazes me that, after more than a decade of having one of the ugliest, least-functional websites in the world, Dr. Jakob Nielsen is still called on for his ‘usability advice.’
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