June 2012
2 posts
“my dad always warns me to avoid low-probably jump moves high up on a line…”
– Cameron Hörst – “Reaching Higher…” | “Dream big, train hard, stay the path – even if you have to pave it yourself” – Jeremy Bloom
Surprising study says over-55 Germans pick safest... →
May 2012
5 posts
“mundane, vapid jingoistic tripe”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall... →
Does this speak to a man’s character? Yes, it does. For Romney to say that he doesn’t recall the incident says to me that he either did things like this so often that he can’t recall which one these people are talking about, or he is lying. One or the other. Take your pick. People don’t forget acts like this unless they are evil or insane.
“No matter how many times the U.S. kills innocent people in the world, it never...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Bottom Line - Wells Fargo fires employee for '72... →
“Airbus has conceived a system preventing one pilot from easily assessing the...”
– Air France Flight 447: ‘Damn it, we’re going to crash’ - Telegraph
April 2012
8 posts
“President Obama is increasingly taking the unusual route of bragging about how...”
– Opponents Pounce as Obama Trumpets the Killing of Bin Laden - NYTimes.com
Phil Humber throws perfect game against Mariners |... →
Any press is good press, right?
Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse | Matt... →
Man, Obama really signed a turkey this time.
“a full-sized reconstruction of the Starship Enterprise”
– Revealed: the scrapped plan for a life-sized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas | The Verge
“Our film is a broad alien invasion comedy”
– Bad Timing for a Comedy Called ‘Neighborhood Watch’ - NYTimes.com
“rogue bunny”
– Local News | $1,248 to cage a bunny? City officials hopping mad | Seattle Times Newspaper
Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race... →
March 2012
15 posts
“You’re more likely to die from being crushed by a vending machine.”
– Mega Millions: The Odds of Hitting the Jackpot - Businessweek
Local News | Seattle mayor announces broad... →
Monorail, monorail, monorail, monorail! →
“The difference between table games and slot machines is that slots are entirely...”
– Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life - NYTimes.com
Though my mind could think, I still was a mad man →
“a rare acquiescence to a poor and confusing user experience for Apple”
– In a triumph of marketing, AT&T upgrades Apple’s iPhone to ‘4G’ | The Verge
Guest Post: Attorney General Holder Says Murder Is... →
“the system crashing or rebooting while the vehicle is being driven”
– After Ratings Drop, Ford Reworks Touch Screens - NYTimes.com
“an impressive debut for a start-up operating in a highly competitive environment...”
– Yelp Shares Surge on Debut - NYTimes.com
Senate halts measure aimed at reversing new... →
“French children don’t throw food”
– Why our lousy child-rearing wouldn’t cut it with the French | Crosscut.com
“we’d just rather start that sooner rather than later”
– Arctic offshore drilling: Shell launches preemptive legal strike - latimes.com
February 2012
13 posts
“200 yards wide and 20 feet deep”
– Local News | Four dead in avalanches at Stevens and Snoqualmie passes | Seattle Times Newspaper
“We would not make something like this up.”
– Cops: Swedish man spent months in snow-buried car - World news - Europe - msnbc.com
“Some people missed flights and important appointments.”
– Massive 10 Freeway traffic jam evolves into Caltrans scandal - latimes.com
“they don’t have a clue about what is going on”
– Nuclear News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo
“The diner was eating a “Triple Bypass Burger”
– Customer at Vegas’ Heart Attack Grill suffers heart attack - latimes.com
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
“get gay people out of fashion”
– Bill O’Reilly’s Surprising Defense of Ellen DeGeneres - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
“largely confined to the embassy”
– United States Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half - NYTimes.com
“Every time I have had to deal with a broken Apple product, the experience has...”
– From Dell hell to Genius Bar: A customer service journey | Rafe’s Radar - CNET News
“an astonishing 337 wings, 82 more than the previous record of 255”
– Wing Dynasty: How an early-morning chicken-eating contest came to be the ultimate Philly event
“world’s greatest cyclist”
– Prosecutors Close Inquiry on Lance Armstrong - NYTimes.com
“freakishly warm”
– No end in sight to the warm winter - latimes.com
January 2012
25 posts
1 tag
“He said the name of almost every cat as he handed them to authorities.”
– Man with 74 cats in camper to face animal cruelty charges | KING5.com Seattle
“eradicated in India”
– Health milepost on polio in India
“Roundup-resistant superweeds”
– Dow and Monsanto Team Up On the Mother of All Herbicide Marketing Plans | Mother Jones
Google's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be... →
Oh. Google isn’t free.
“If half of iPhones were malfunctioning, do you think Apple would let it go on...”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
Google tracks consumers across products, users... →