January 2012
1 post
“Economists … note that a struggling economy is sometimes transformed by...”
– CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER, How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
December 2011
2 posts
“Twitter provocateur”
– Zeldman, MIKE MONTEIRO ON ART & DESIGN http://www.zeldman.com/2011/12/03/big-web-show-no-59-mike-monteiro-on-art-design/
used unironically.
“This conversation lasted until about 2 a.m., at which point he gave up trying to...”
– unkown
November 2011
3 posts
“If there’s one word that would accurately describe my testicles, it would...”
– Mick Foley http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kwyfi/iama_professional_wrestler_best_selling_author/c2ny8ao
“I don’t know to this day how he did it, but while trying to create a small...”
– happyelf, on bob http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=699832
“Watching someone witnessing an awful thing is a powerful tool. One that not...”
– Drew, “Horror—What Works and What Doesn’t: The Fewdio Interview” http://firefox.org/news/articles/2884/3/HorrorWhat-Works-and-What-Doesnt-The-Fewdio-Interview/Page3.html
October 2011
6 posts
“I saw ‘cout’ being shifted “Hello world” times to the...”
– Steve Gonedes
“We can’t tech our way out of the cyberthreat”
– Shawn Henry, The FBI official in “FBI Official Calls for Secure, Alternate Internet” http://www.military.com/news/article/fbi-official-calls-for-secure-alternate-internet.html
“Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words and style, Homer is...”
– Matthew Arnold, on the requirements for a good translation of Homer http://www.amazon.com/review/RK7LT0GV99UWQ/
“Snoop’s murder didn’t make perfect dramatic sense to me, but this...”
– Jeffrey Goldberg, “Week 9: Reassessing Marlo’s Putative Punk-Assedness” http://www.slate.com/id/2181449/entry/2185600/ (on Snoop from The Wire, a gangster enforcer.)
“In the unlikely event I am ever asked to demonstrate a non sequitur, I will...”
– dexterpeabody, commenting on the otherwise fantastic, “California and Bust” http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111
“I hope you suffer; it’s good for you.”
– The Shine, What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire-part-eight/
September 2011
8 posts
“See, that’s what makes the game the game. You live and die with those around...”
– The Shine, What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire-part-seven/
“Well, you know, one of the first rules of war is that its a very good teacher....”
– C.J. Chivers, “The AK-47: ‘The Gun’ That Changed The Battlefield” http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=130493013
“The nice thing about being the sole host is that I don’t have to appear...”
– Lance Mannion, “Dreaming of a white Christmas while live-blogging on the Sunset Strip” http://lancemannion.typepad.com/lance_mannion/2006/12/studio_60_dream.html
“Quality,” Simonton writes, is “a probabilistic function of quantity.”
– Malcom Gladwell, Creation Myth http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
“He always seems to know where to look.”
– Roger Ebert, “The Artist” and the new Herzog http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/09/_toronto_entry_2_i.html
“Years of experience had taught her that “children of poverty perform better with...”
– quoting Suzanne Gimenez http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/12/how-one-district-fixed-its-failing-schools.html
“Dear Improv Nerd,
You realize, you talking about a scene is like hearing a fat...”
– Rosa Salazar, SARGASM http://thesargasm.blogspot.com/2010/10/wrench-vogue.html
“[Elmore Leonard] began getting up at five a.m. to write fiction for two hours...”
– Robert Fulford, “The mad, enthralling novels of Elmore Leonard” http://www.robertfulford.com/leonard.html
August 2011
3 posts
“I would trust him with the payoff mortgage on my house — in cash. But I...”
– Andy Bartalone, from the Potomac Tea & Knife Society, World Domination: the Game http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38110-2004Nov9_3.html
“Investigators reviewing hotel security video said the heist late Saturday was...”
– UPI release http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/15/Rembrandt-stolen-from-California-hotel/UPI-59061313414077/ The worst top-quality security I’ve ever seen.
“And there is good reason why the training of a spetsnaz soldier starts with the...”
– Suvorov Viktor, Spetsnaz. The Story Behind the Soviet SAS http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/04.html
July 2011
11 posts
“that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with that...”
– Justice Antonin Scalia, Dissent on PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGA_Tour,_Inc._v._Martin
“Call it a bible, but it’s really a death warrant with decimal points.”
– about the Ratings Bible, in A Face In The Crowd http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/
“Since Mongrel2 is about being language agnostic, and C is the Latin of...”
– Zed Shaw, Mongrel2 Says, “Goodbye Python” http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285063820.html
“You guys don’t have a right angle in the city. I think the right angle was...”
– Christopher Devane, interview for Borders without order http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-19/news/29791308_1_urban-boundaries-neighborhoods-christopher-devane
“Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.”
– Robert Bresson, Notes On Cinematography http://theseventhart.info/2010/09/12/notes-from-notes/
“Sometimes kids would come to the set, and I could see them looking at me...”
– Ralph Fiennes, Lord Voldemort Responds to Critics http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/lord-voldemort-responds-to-critics.html
On playing Lord Voldemort.
“Athens somehow manages to be bright white and grubby at the same time. The most...”
– Michael Lewis, Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010
“As for the interests of white women, you have romance novels, some country...”
– Christian Rudder http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/
“The death knell of any relationship is contempt.”
– Shroedinger, SA
“Modern yu-gi-oh revolves around winning in 3 turns or less by summoning monsters...”
– Barudak, SA
“To begin with, the “War on Terror” is a civilian idea that...”
– Admiral Snackbar, SA
December 2010
5 posts
“Good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.”
– Steve Ballmer
“The Guardian has a bit of reputation for these kinds of errors. They even...”
– AKA Pseudonym, SA
“You may also remember me as Peaknuckle Lawson, the lead actor in the...”
– Panama Jackson http://www.verysmartbrothas.com/about-the-brothas/
“Today we can say of gaming what Jacques Attali said of music: “its styles...”
– Shaviro, Gamer, The Pinocchio Theory http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=830
“I’m tempted to break into your apartment, spike your lube with...”
– Dan Savage http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=4239252
November 2010
12 posts
“Smiling is one of those universal expressions. Anywhere you go in the world,...”
– David McRaney, “The Duchenne Smile” http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/09/the-duchenne-smile/
“Smiling is one of those universal expressions. Anywhere you go in the world,...”
– David McRaney, “The Duchenne Smile” http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/09/the-duchenne-smile/
“Who can resist an era in which first aid for any trouble begins with a shout of,...”
– Michael Sims, “All the Dead Are Vampires” http://chronicle.com/article/All-the-Dead-Are-Vampires/65829
on the wonders of the victorian era
“I like you, but I’d like you a lot better if you were fighting vampires...”
– (someone), Party Down
“In Ruby you have Merb, Sinatra, Rails, Camping, Ramze, Vintage, Hayclon,...”
– Chris Prather
the best use of lolspeak i’ve ever read
“Yesterday’s “public-private partnerships” are relabeled “crony capitalism.”
– Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/
“From long years of experience, the IMF staff knows its program will...”
– Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/
“Huh. You’re a lot more… of a dude, then I’d assumed based on your picture.”
– Dan O’Brien http://www.cracked.com/blog/facebook-detective/
taken wildly out of context, this summarizes the internet
“How exactly does one underplay a scene of man-on-man testicle grooming?”
– QuakerOats, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/she-s-out-of-my-league-film-review-1004073324.story
“Pussies are powerful; they can take pummeling and spit out a brand-new human...”
– Dan Savage, Savage Love http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=3948355
“Gargleblarg!”
– Ronald J Kimball
describing perl