December 2010
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Hipster Racism →
dkpalmer13:
“As hipster racism has become more widespread, it’s also crept into more general society. Racist content appears in films and television shows, disguised as “satire,” it’s on the cover of major magazines, it’s in the pages of respectable newspapers. While explicit racism is viewed as socially unacceptable, racism disguised as irony or satire is evidently perfectly acceptable,...
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Hipster Racism →
dkpalmer13:
“As hipster racism has become more widespread, it’s also crept into more general society. Racist content appears in films and television shows, disguised as “satire,” it’s on the cover of major magazines, it’s in the pages of respectable newspapers. While explicit racism is viewed as socially unacceptable, racism disguised as irony or satire is evidently perfectly acceptable,...
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what’s really interesting is that this locksmith was penalized for getting...
– Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Locksmiths « (via slantback)
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what’s really interesting is that this locksmith was penalized for getting...
– Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Locksmiths « (via slantback)
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In the end, those of us who expected the crisis to provide a teachable moment...
– Wall Street Whitewash - NYTimes.com (via ronmarks)
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In the end, those of us who expected the crisis to provide a teachable moment...
– Wall Street Whitewash - NYTimes.com (via ronmarks)
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This is why genre writers cannot claim to have everything. They can take the...
– Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction? | Books | The Observer (via ronmarks)
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This is why genre writers cannot claim to have everything. They can take the...
– Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction? | Books | The Observer (via ronmarks)
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Google doesn't think Americans are literate →
“Seriously! What other possible reason could explain Google Australia and Google England getting a Jane Austen Doodle and Americans geting just the regular old logo?”
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Google doesn't think Americans are literate →
“Seriously! What other possible reason could explain Google Australia and Google England getting a Jane Austen Doodle and Americans geting just the regular old logo?”
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Research by Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell...
– Restaurants Use Menu Psychology to Entice Diners - NYTimes.com (via slantback)
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Research by Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell...
– Restaurants Use Menu Psychology to Entice Diners - NYTimes.com (via slantback)
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Missing Link: My 50 Favorite Albums of 2010 →
bestalbumsof2010:
I didn’t realize to the degree that 2010 was such a good music year until I tried putting this list together. 100 albums allows you be lazy, but 50 albums really forces you to hone it and sure the ones on the bottom aren’t as good or memorable as the ones up top, but it’s…
Great list!
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For Every Holiday Party, the Right Drink →
mssnglnk:
The perfect article for someone like me. Maybe I can expand my staple drink beyond the Amaretto Sour.
The Black Velvet sounds perfect:
“Ingredients
3 ounces Guinness stout, chilled
3 ounces Champagne or other sparkling wine, chilled.
Preparation
Fill a champagne flute halfway with the Guinness. Carefully pour the sparkling wine over the back of a spoon to fill the...
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Comedian Conversation Falls Flat at 92nd Street Y →
“Midway through the conversation, a Y representative handed Ms. Solomon a note asking her to talk more about Mr. Martin’s career and, implicitly, less about the art world, the subject of his latest novel, “An Object of Beauty.”
According to Mr. Martin, viewers watching the interview by closed-circuit television from across the country sent e-mails to the Y complaining “that the evening was...
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National Portrait Gallery bows to censors,... →
“Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has said that taxpayer-funded museums should uphold “common standards of decency.” But such “standards” don’t exist, and shouldn’t, in a pluralist society. My decency is your disgust, and one point of museums, and of contemporary art in general, is to test where lines get drawn and how we might want to rethink them. A great museum...