Archive for January, 2009
the future of newspapers
Steve Coll, who wrote one of the more depressing books I’ve run across in recent years, Ghost Wars, lets fly with his theory on the future of print journalism in this piece from the New Yorker. I’ll spoil it for you: Non-Profit.
In the foreseeable future, it seems, there will be two kinds of nonprofit newspapers—those [...]
john hodgman answers the questions of New Yorkers
This is funny. An excerpt:
I was checking the weather forecast and noticed a three degree difference in the forecast between Manhattan and Brooklyn for Friday (16 degrees for Brooklyn, 13 degrees for Manhattan). Why is this and why would it be warmer in Brooklyn, isn’t it closer to the ocean? Also, on other days there [...]
epic ineptitude
via curbed
It’s 5am
I have two cats laying on my legs, I can’t sleep, I’ve played all of the iPhone games I care to play, and I’m getting bored.
So I’m seeing if the wordpress iPhone app works like it should.
And so this post isn’t a total waste, I’m going to attach some photos from my trip to Darkroom [...]
all done
we’ve moved everything over to wordpress, and (for me, at least) the address nurblog.nurble.com resolves to the new fancified wordpress site. I have no idea what will become of the links from the old podcasts, but I can only assume that they will be, to use a technical term, fucked.
Your patience is appreciated.
amusing
I just read 18 pages of Nick Douglas‘ tumblr blog. Do I call it a “tumblr blog” or just a “tumblr”. Maybe it’s in the tumblr FAQ, or they’ll tell me once I start my own tumblr (blog).
Anyway. it’s funny, and you should add it to your bookmarks, or favorite it, or follow him, or [...]
You want our money? Well then fuck you
That’s essentially what Bob Reich seems to be saying here. Reich proposes that financial institutions who avail themselves of TARP II funds should be required to sign on to a litany of conditions that (in my limited but ever-increasing experience with banker types) will horrify and outrage their executives.
3. Prohibit any bank that gets TARP [...]
on foodies
From Eater:
ON ‘FOODIES’ —
“For me, the word is a warning that says, ‘Hey, I’m not any fun to have a meal with.’ I’m all for people enjoying the hell out of food, but not if it means they have to give themselves a title to lord over ‘non-foodies.’..I like the olden days when people who [...]
nurblecast episode 15
Three months? Pshaw. This one’s dedicated to my 7 Twitter followers. I love you all.
listen to nurblecast 15 ➤
Disko Partizani – Shantel
After buying a series of increasingly downtempo releases from this guy, I was very surprised to see Shantel’s name pop up in the Shazam UI in a bar one night. This is festive [...]
next nurblecast
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