December 2008
Mary C Matthews' PROJECT MIDNIGHT
urbanpeephole:
Hello Friends! am working on a special video project for 2009 called Project Midnight and I need your help to make it happen. Can you take a picture wherever you are and whatever you are doing the very moment midnight strikes on New Years eve? I’d like to include your midnight photo in a video I’m making, which will hopefully include the largest collection of midnights around the...
Christmas Eve on the Upper West Side
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An older gent rolls up to Absolut Bagels on 107th and Broadway, stroller in tow. From the street, he opens the front door, and asks me as I’m leaving if I can find out if the bagel shoppe will be closed tomorrow.
JROSENTHAL: Hey, they said that they’ll be open.
STRANGERMAN: Of course they will. What am I thinking? It’s the Upper West Side.
JROSENTHAL: Yea, even the non-Jews...
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Last Christmas by WHAM! (Midi Version)
AP Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out Bank Execs →
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WatchRIP Peso.
Peso the completely adorable little shit of a chihuahua died last week. I hope he’s growling at everyone in doggie heaven.
welcome to the social.
Brad O'Farrell: guess what I got for christmas... a ZUNE!
yatta: are you shitting me?
Brad O'Farrell: someone got two in a gift bag a year ago, she was able to give away one, she couldn't get anyone to take the other one, so she gave it to me
Brad O'Farrell: now I own a Zune!
Brad O'Farrell: I can't wait to try to figure out how to put songs on it some how
yatta: please tell me it's 'chocolate'
yatta: b/c that's the best color for electronics ever.
Brad O'Farrell: it's baby puke green
yatta: in all seriousness, how great would it be to bring it to industry [events].
yatta: and when you start talking about how GREAT a video is
yatta: you just say, "wait wait wait... let me just SHOW you"
Brad O'Farrell: hold it up in the air
Brad O'Farrell: "hey guys
Brad O'Farrell: guys
Brad O'Farrell: anyone wanna start a social music circle?
Brad O'Farrell: we can squirt songs at each other!"
yatta: wow. now I want a zune.
Brad O'Farrell: haha
Brad O'Farrell: Ironic hardware ownership will be big in 09.
WatchSweet Freedom - Michael McDonald
A classic 80’s music video. Michael McDonald sends a postcard to Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines that reads “Hey! Come down to Key West! I’ll sing a song that will uplift us all! We’ll improvise a lot! And there’s a fetish girl in a leather bra and handcuffs on rollerskates! Make sure Gregory wears his Walter Payton jersey!”
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2008 Urlies - Meme of the Year - Urlesque →
As far as memes are concerned, it was the year of FAIL. Sure, the four-letter word has been trolling around the web in various forms for years, but as countless image macros fueled the fire and everyone added the catchphrase to their vocabularies this year, writers were sparked to write lengthy piecesFAIL overload. Oh the irony. about the phenomenon — thus instigating a complete
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WatchTarget: Women - Jewelry
I’m not a very big fan of Current’s InfoMania but this segment is pretty damn funny.
Foreign Auto Makers Won Billions in Government... →
To hear Southern Republicans tell the story, the financial burdens facing Detroit’s automakers are self-made troubles to be settled by the laws of Adam-Smith capitalism.
Not coincidentally, these Southern states are represented by the same coalition of GOP senators who led the fight against the recent Detroit bailout proposal. That legislation would have provided $14 billion in emergency bridge...
love, mom inc.
Subject: mon Date: December 15, 2008 12:16:12 PM EST To: kenyatta cheese
Hi, how are you feeling today? mom
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“Rather than Bond’s private infrastructure expensive cars and toys, Bourne uses...”
– The Bourne Infrastructure « Magical Nihilism
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Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? - New... →
LQC has been tantalising physicists since 2003 with the idea that our universe could conceivably have emerged from the collapse of a previous universe. Now the theory is poised to make predictions we can actually test. If they are verified, the big bang will give way to a big bounce and we will finally know the quantum structure of space-time. Instead of a universe that emerged from a point of...
Reprieve for Tax Shelter Is in Proposed Bailout... →
A little-noticed provision in the proposed bailout plan for Detroit’s automakers blesses an aggressive tax shelter sold by large banks and insurers to municipal transit agencies across the country.
The provision asks the government to help the agencies by guaranteeing the economics of the complex shelter, despite years of efforts by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service to shut...