October 2011
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In moments like this, the famously foreboding... →
On the matter of Kim Kardashian.
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Rapper Pusha T Lays Down Diss…on Tumblr! →
SHOTS FIRED.
Still waiting for David to weigh in on this with his own retaliatory freestyle, maybe something like…
“Fuck an RSS feed/ you used to sell coke/ now you can’t even cop good weed/ let alone get VC’d/ we get the money we want/ you get the money you need/ ‘cause Fred Wilson’s stacks/ make Ye’s look like chicken-feed.”
We’re here to...
Say It Ain’t Snow: New York City’s Fall is a... →
Monday—Halloween—holds its own grim possibility (30% chance of rain with an overnight low of 39 degrees) for trick-or-treat-ready families and those adults shuttling around from party to party in their costumes, which are widely understood to often carry the possibility of being exponentially more effort than they’re worth, as one rips it off at the end of a long, loveless evening, throwing it in...
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have... →
SecondMarket Q3 Private Market Results: Soundin’... →
500%! 66 Watchers! That means that Turntable.FM started out with 11 Watchers in Q2, and picked up 55 “Watchers” in those three months. Meanwhile, ZocDoc climbed a sad 142% to 63 Watchers, which means they picked up 37 Watchers from Q2. The difference in SecondMarket’s “Rising Stars” are 18 people clicking the “Watch” button, which warrants the question: WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCHERS?
So, by they...
More than a third of those low-income parents said... →
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Apple’s limited in its ability to upsell... →
Steve Jobs: The Perfect Aaron Sorkin Character For... →
Genius is almost always the driving quality of a misunderstood protagonist in all but one of Sorkin’s screenplays, The Social Network, where the invention is a manifestation of the great Sorkin villain: the tyranny of the masses. Jobs built something that enabled the masses, but not without being the complex—and some would argue, not-so-saintly—man we’re continuing to learn he was.
As is the...
sethcolterwalls:
Please enjoy this recording of...
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Organizers are desperate to maintain that acts of... →
Guess who said it!
Watchvillagevoice:
Puppy Makes Grown Man Weep
Incorrectly labeled. Try:
(ADORABLE) PUPPY MAKES GROWN MAN (WITH FACE TATTOO) WEEP.
Nominated for Clip of the Year from Television Shows I’d Never Watch award.
VIDEO: Students At Elite Wharton Business School... →
rawkblog:
graceyrself:
My attitude towards college was often playfully mocked by my fellow Penn students as my thinking I was “too cool” for frat parties, Smoke’s, downtowns and other bullshit. It’s a much more fundamental difference than that. I shouldn’t be ashamed or embarrassed to be associated with the place that I received my education but sometimes you just can’t help it. Fuck ...
Andrew Mason: Groupon’s Future To Come From... →
Riding the Groupon Gravy Train is a bit like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, if Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride occasionally ruined businesses and/or helped save them and had a fluctuating worth of billions of dollars depending on which car you got in and what time of year you decided to visit Disney/Grouponland.
“Brian Moynihan is here tonight. He’s the C.E.O. of Bank of America. As many of...”
– Live From New York, It’s Steve Schwarzman - NYTimes.com (via felixsalmon)
Also:
“I’m Jewish and a Republican. That used to be a rare thing. Now it describes all of Anthony Weiner’s old district.”
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I want to put this on the record
placesweusedtogo:
I am a big fan of Kickstarter, and it is not their fault that N+1 exists, or that fucking assholes are donating $6000 total (so far! Still time to back the project!) to N+1, a private business, to “think about” the movement in a way that only N+1 can “think about” things, instead of to charities or to causes or to just throwing the money on the fucking street where it’d do...
Occupy Wall Street and the Poetry of Now-Time →
aarongell:
I met these guys the other night drank the Kool-Aid on Occupy Wall Street.
AARON GELL IS ON TUMBLR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (!)
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Getting a New Orleans critic to take the reviewer... →
Ryan Sutton nails why Brett Anderson needs to be named to Sifton’s old post.
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Mr. Zuckerberg declined to be interviewed for this... →
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Occupy Children: Kids Night Sleepover at Zuccotti... →
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“Making stuff is what got us smiles from our parents and top billing in...”
– I mean, probably. (via meaghano)
“….the profiles for magazines that portend to speak for the First-Person Plural as a Great Generational ‘We.’” (Previously.)
“The editing process online is zero, pretty much. I’m not that comfortable with...”
– Adam Moss (via seanfennessey)
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Reading the Riot Actors: The Ground-Level View... →
WE HEARD IT FROM THREE BLOCKS AWAY. The Observer left North Brooklyn sharing a cab with a neighboring journalist who had also been covering the protests shortly after 5:30 AM. By the time the cab pulled onto Broadway, after a quiet ride into Manhattan, traffic was at a standstill. It was around then we heard the noise, seeping in through rolled-up windows: yelling and shouting in a distant,...
This is basically like positing that because a... →
Mr. Strauss-Kahn admitted during questioning that... →
Guess who was just found not guilty.
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The National Book Award in fiction, more than any... →
Salon correctly lays into the National Book Awards for fronting on books people actually read. We’re not even talking Dan Brown novels; these guys snub everyone. Franzen. Etc.
That said, the NBAs’ refusal to resign themselves to the New York City lit mag mafia (as lovingly embraced by Vanity Fair! Books about baseball, you guys!) is oddly pleasing. And they’re one of the few...
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Texas Girls Willing To Raw Dog With Ashton Kutcher... →
cajunboy:
Rarely has writing a headline made me LOL to myself more.
This is the work of a professional, folks.
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50 Portraits from Occupy Wall Street: After Hours... →
What do you do? I’m a media strategist. For what company? Abrams Research. Dan Abrams? Yeah. Dan Abrams! [Laughs.]
Fifteen hours (less three for sleep) later, this thing is finally done. It was, not to be hyperbolic, kind of an incredible experience. I’d be lying if I also didn’t say it was fun. We got to be a little playful with everyone down there, who were more than...
Big Machers: New York City’s Power Congregations →
Just in time for Yom Kippur:
Neighborhood: Upper East Side. Membership: Two-Parent Family Rate? They list it as $2,800, which is conspicuously cheap, and likely doesn’t come close to covering the cost of a front-row Yom Kippur seat. That said, they livestream their services. Baller. Famous Congregants: Michael Bloomberg, Alan “Ace” Greenburg, Eliot Spitzer (seen above with...
Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the... →