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Tyler Coates: ‘The New Yorker’s’ Bert and Ernie DOMA Cover Is Infantilizing and Offensive (Flavorwire)
Tyler Coates: ‘The New Yorker’s’ Bert and Ernie DOMA Cover Is Infantilizing and Offensive (Flavorwire)
You know what kind of image would have been nice to see on The New Yorker cover? Perhaps one of actual gay and lesbian couples. Were the magazine’s designers struggling to find one that anyone might recognize? How about Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, whose relationship was at the center of the case that determined DOMA was unconstitutional in the first place?
·flavorwire.com·
Tyler Coates: ‘The New Yorker’s’ Bert and Ernie DOMA Cover Is Infantilizing and Offensive (Flavorwire)
Russell Davies: No Brand Good
Russell Davies: No Brand Good
For some reason, as soon as you describe something as a brand all this fake science marketing mysticism gets invoked and paralysing decisions get made.
·russelldavies.typepad.com·
Russell Davies: No Brand Good
Kat Stoeffel: It’s Okay to Hate the Kickstarter ‘Rape Manual’ (NY Mag)
Kat Stoeffel: It’s Okay to Hate the Kickstarter ‘Rape Manual’ (NY Mag)
Bustillos hopes that a nonjudgmental dialogue with Hoinsky will help us discover an ethical form of seduction. I doubt it. If a woman must be seduced, either (a) the desire is not mutual and she is in fact being coerced (he is waiting until she is weary enough, drunk enough, or feels guilty enough for leading him on), or (b) the desire is mutual but she can’t express it, for any number of sexist social reasons.
·nymag.com·
Kat Stoeffel: It’s Okay to Hate the Kickstarter ‘Rape Manual’ (NY Mag)
Luke Winkle: We Should Be More Cynical About Albums Claiming to Change the World (Village Voice)
Luke Winkle: We Should Be More Cynical About Albums Claiming to Change the World (Village Voice)
The entirety of our conversation has been extracted from what essentially was Shaking the Habitual's PR campaign. The Knife talked about how thoroughly political the new album was, and a bunch of smart people patiently waited to see how those ideas were manifested. This is understandable, because The Knife seem like earnest people with important and indisputably unique perspectives. But it seems we've let Karin and Olof's rhetoric blend over into what we're hearing. There's nothing wrong with context, but we can't let the creative forces frame an album for our consumption.
·blogs.villagevoice.com·
Luke Winkle: We Should Be More Cynical About Albums Claiming to Change the World (Village Voice)
Eric Harvey: Afterword: Storm Thorgerson (Pitchfork)
Eric Harvey: Afterword: Storm Thorgerson (Pitchfork)
Along with Pink Floyd, Thorgerson and Hipgnosis were central figures in the transition from 60s psychedelia to the expansive, million-selling radio rock that defined most of the 70s. More than any single figure, he established intricately composed, surrealist photographic techniques, collages, and pictorial reappropriations as key ingredients of mainstream album art.
·pitchfork.com·
Eric Harvey: Afterword: Storm Thorgerson (Pitchfork)
Conor Friedersdorf: All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic)
Conor Friedersdorf: All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic)
America has stepped back from the brink in the past when wars ended. But we've never had a "war" go on this long -- and there's no end in sight. It's time for the people to pressure their elected representatives, so that, through Congress, we can dismantle the infrastructure Bush and Obama have built. In less than four years, an unknown person will start presiding over the national-security state.
·theatlantic.com·
Conor Friedersdorf: All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic)
Jacob Bacharach: Peeping Thomism
Jacob Bacharach: Peeping Thomism
At some point, employers will have to face up to the unavoidability of hiring people whose first Google image is a shirtless selfie. Demographics will demand it. They’ll have to get used to it just as surely as they’ll have to get used to nose rings and, god help us, neck tattoos. It’s a shame, though, that it’ll be compulsory and reluctant. We should no more have to censor our electronic conversations than whisper in a restaurant. I suspect that as my own generation and the one after it finally manage to boot the Boomers from their tenacious hold on the steering wheel of this civilization that they’ve piloted ineluctably and inexorably toward the shoals, all the while whining about the lazy passengers, we will better understand this, and be better, and more understanding. And I hope that the kids today will refuse to heed the warnings and insist on making a world in which what is actually unacceptable is to make one’s public life little more than series of polite and carefully maintained lies.
·jacobbacharach.wordpress.com·
Jacob Bacharach: Peeping Thomism
Mark Richardson: A Stray Thought About Music Writing That Probably Shouldn't Be Taken Too Seriously
Mark Richardson: A Stray Thought About Music Writing That Probably Shouldn't Be Taken Too Seriously
A lot of people writing seem to think that trainspotting, being able to identify sample sources and lyrical allusions, is the essence of criticism, and to me that kind of identification in and of itself is not very interesting unless it goes into these other realms, of thinking more deeply how the music works and (especially) articulating how it feels from the perspective of the listener.
·markrichardson.org·
Mark Richardson: A Stray Thought About Music Writing That Probably Shouldn't Be Taken Too Seriously
SelfControl
SelfControl
SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X (10.5 or above) that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites--even if you restart your computer or delete the application.
·selfcontrolapp.com·
SelfControl
Charlie Detar: Hackathons don't solve problems | (MIT Center for Civic Media)
Charlie Detar: Hackathons don't solve problems | (MIT Center for Civic Media)
Hackathons can spur creativity, can inspire a concerted amount of development effort on a focused project for a short period of time, and can increase attention to a critical issue. For people who feel disaffected and hopeless, a hackathon can rekindle a sense of creativity and possibility. But the tangible products of a hackathon (hardware, software) are rarely of adequate quality for real-world use.
·civic.mit.edu·
Charlie Detar: Hackathons don't solve problems | (MIT Center for Civic Media)
Pad Woon Sen (Pretty Dishes)
Pad Woon Sen (Pretty Dishes)
There are quite a few recipes out there for Pad Woon Sen, but the basic ingredients are cellophane noodles, eggs, onions, carrots, mushrooms, protein, and fish sauce. We started with the following recipe from the Thai Kitchen and added a few vegetables we like best. The savory, salty seasoning paired with smooth noodles and soft vegetables makes for a great, healthy meal. The possibilities are endless!
·prettydishes.wordpress.com·
Pad Woon Sen (Pretty Dishes)
Japanese Cucumber Salad
Japanese Cucumber Salad
This recipe couldn’t be easier. You just toss the cucumbers in salt, let them sit for 5 or 10 minutes, then gently squeeze out the excess water. Then you mix the cucumber slices in a fragrant blend of sesame oil, rice vinegar, and soy sauce.
·appetiteforchina.com·
Japanese Cucumber Salad
101 20-minute Recipes
101 20-minute Recipes
From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/dining/02mini.html?_r=0
·notes.pinboard.in·
101 20-minute Recipes
Aisha Harris: Charles Ramsey, Amanda Berry rescuer, becomes internet meme. (Slate)
Aisha Harris: Charles Ramsey, Amanda Berry rescuer, becomes internet meme. (Slate)
It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.
·slate.com·
Aisha Harris: Charles Ramsey, Amanda Berry rescuer, becomes internet meme. (Slate)