January 2012
3 posts
“Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option....”
– This is an Apple executive’s idea of what a workforce should look like so that the company can make $400,000 of profit per (non-contracted) employee. That’s some robber baron shit. NO, actually, that’s some Dickens action!
August 2011
4 posts
5 tags
Watchtheatlantic:
Time Lapse of Night Sky Over London Riots
This time lapse of the night sky over Tottenham during the London riots shows helicopters, search lights, smoke, and flares all night before the sun finally begins to rise. U.K.-based culture blog itdrewitself shot the film on a Canon 7D, taking 2.5 second exposures every three seconds all night. Of the riots, they said, “Watching the...
Longshot!: And the bounty goes to... →
Aholaah’s story was amazing. And the interview Sarah Rich did with her is wonderful, too.
longshotmag:
We are delighted to announce that the Longshot editors have selected Aholaah Arzah, author of Ring Cycle, to receive our $2000 feature fee. As Mat put it, when the three of us read this story together in a Gakwer conference room last weekend, we let out a collective gasp. We love...
WatchI love California is a Place, our lead series for the new Atlantic Video channel. It’s just awesome.
It’s just so beautifully done. The kind of video you didn’t even know you were waiting for and then you see it and you’re like — YES!
July 2011
1 post
Watchtheatlantic:
Video: NASA Testing Awesome Old Spacesuits
While Nicholas de Monchaux’s recent book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, is now the definitive investigation of this terrain, the short video above gets at something fundamental to the space enterprise, too. Namely, it’s funny to design things for the heavens from down here on the ground. That is to say, watching a guy catch a football on...
June 2011
7 posts
May 2011
2 posts
“BEING HAPPY IS BEING OFF THE GROUND
BEING HAPPY IS BEING IN HEAVEN
HAPPY IS UP...”
– Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
Longshot!: Save the Date →
longshotmag:
Hi there.
It’s been a long time. We’ve scattered to the winds, changed jobs, had babies, broken our hearts, found ourselves, and generally had a hell of an action-packed year.
But we’re back, and we’re hoping you’re still into us. We are definitely still into you. So, let’s get right to the big…
April 2011
13 posts
Miklós Radnóti - Wikipedia →
Eighteen months after his death, the mass grave was exhumed and in the front pocket of Radnóti’s overcoat his small notebook of final poems was found. The final poems are lyrical and poignant and represent some of the few works of literature composed during the Holocaust that survived. Possibly his best known poem is the fourth stanza of the Razglednicák, where he describes the shooting of...
Gertrude Stein on "Sky Scrapers" — The Atlantic,...
“…there are more lights here than anywhere. And there were. And more beautifully strung as lights than anywhere except in Spain, and we were walking along and talking and all of sudden I noticed that Alice Toklas was looking queer and I said what is it and she said my knees are shaking and I said what is it and she said I just happened to see it, the side of the building. She just...
March 2011
9 posts
“Later, at 3:30 am, I heard tires squealing loudly on the road in front of the...”
– revolutionology
“23 January 1812:
What are we gonna do? You cannot fight it cause you do not...”
– New Madrid Earthquake, account 2
Your Favorite Writers (Online, At Least)
Earlier today, I posted a query to Twitter: “If you could hire any three journalists working primarily online right now, who would they be?” I later clarified by query, “I think the word ‘journalist’ confused things. Think of your favorite three people who write online (whatever you call them). Who are they?”
In total, 84 suggestions came in, 40 women and 44...
February 2011
1 post
“When I went to get my coat the coat check girl said it was in the other place...”
– The Doree Chronicles Party Report
January 2011
3 posts
“But listen: What is going on with that high hat? It almost sounds like…...”
– Track of the Day: ‘Who Loves You’ - Alexis Madrigal - Culture - The Atlantic
“Defenders of traditional authority will object to the relativism of all this,...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversar (via ayjay)
December 2010
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November 2010
4 posts
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Literary Writers and Social Media: A Response to... →
October 2010
3 posts
