Week four in Buenos Aires. It's hot and sticky here. Or rather, it's hot and I'm sticky. The other people on the subway are also sticky. We stick together. This is where tango comes from incidentally ( Read more... )

palinphobic, grammarphilic fun:

http://www.slate.com/id/2201158/

Our mayor today:
"What has happened is unacceptable and intolerable. Having said that, we do not know at the moment what happened or why."

Now that they have an album title, I hope Explosions In the Sky will release their latest.

Derek Gottfrid has done an amazing job on TimesMachine, a new feature of nytimes.com that lets you view high res pdf scans of all of the Times articles in the public domain (< 1922). (Resisting urge to join the chorus that lately sees every activity in print media as part of some ongoing funeral for itself.) Without looking too hard, I think this ( Read more... )

Lately the messages on my Yogi teabag handles have been jarringly out of sync with my plane of existence. "There is no love without compassion" is decent; it's something that stabs at the heart of a few current internal issues. But " Open up to infinity and you become infinity" is a little north of my wavelength. Maybe one day that'll mean ( Read more... )

"the grotesque body is not separated from the rest of the world. It is not a closed, completed unit; it is unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts through the world enters the body or emerges from it, or through which the body ( Read more... )

i don't think i've ever used a winking emoticon. I've wanted to. But it feels like a lie.

Documentation for microsoft's SQL Server 2000's 'Send Mail Task' includes this note ( Read more... )

If twitter.com restricted posts to 10 characters length, their english members would burn through* all 3,656,158,440,000,000 possible unique posts** in just over 25 million years - sometime in June of 25044189***. As it is Twitter actually allows posts of up to 140 characters in length, which pushes that mark significantly further hence - a year of ( Read more... )

I'm not one to forward youtube videos - much less ones paid for by Hillary for President - but some good friends of mine put this together and it's actually pretty funny:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IA8Wy51Ionk

P.S. Vote for Obama