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A real estate agent confesses her sins: What am I doing now? I take depressing classes on the labyrinthine procedure of conducting short sales, orchestrate foreclosures, show buyers countless homes before they confess they'd like to "maybe wait a year...
Andrewsullivan.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:53:00 -0400
The inimitable Susan Boyle sings for an charity album unearthed from 1999:
Andrewsullivan.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:00 -0400
Vomit-cleaner at an amusement park after Easter kiddie chocolate binges.
Andrewsullivan.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:11:00 -0400
So I’m sitting in traffic in Manhattan. Not moving. In the distance I can hear a firetruck siren and its getting closer. As those around us start to realize that we were in its path, I could see the frustration and even sense of fear in the driver’s face as he physically turned in all [...]
Blogmaverick.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:10:51 +0000
Last week's announcement of Java support for Google App Engine (GAE), along with a host of new features aim specifically at businesses, served to reconfirm the Internet giant's interest in providing enterprises with its evolving cloud computing capabilities. So what's new and what's missing in GAE for enterprises that are looking to try out the cloud?
ZDNet Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:03:06 PDT
Oops, Microsoft did it again. Someone in Redmond accidentally published a page offering downloads of the Windows 7 release candidate to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. That appears to be a slip-up, but the page also confirms the date when the Windows 7 release candidate will be publicly available.
ZDNet Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:00:13 PDT
Seekingarrangement.com is a website for would-be sugar daddies and sugar babies (no, not the candy). It claims 300,000 registered users. Here's a New York Times article from last week about the site (and a Globe and Mail article from '07).
Metafilter.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:41:54 -0800
Maggie Koerth-Baker is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. A freelance science and health journalist, Maggie lives in Minneapolis, brain dumps on Twitter, and writes quite often for mental_floss magazine. I remember reading Walden in high school. I had this very specific mental image of the whole thing: Thoreau out there in the woods, building his little shack. Nothing but silence and the beauty of nature. "A mile from any neighbor," the man wrote. I have to admit, it's probably on my own head that I took Thoreau's narration there to be an example of poetic understatement. I'd assumed he really meant "miles". Turns out, he was being quite literal, almost down to the foot. But Earth Day is coming up and if you're feeling burned out on modern society, there's definitely a couple of things you can learn from Thoreau. I've summarized them here (and in Be Amazing) for your benefit. First: Choose Your "Wilderness" Carefully You'd hate to end up communing with the Earth someplace...rural. Shudder. That certainly wasn't a problem for Thoreau. Despite what impressions he might have given you, Thoreau's Walden Pond had more in common with Central Park than with Yellowstone. Damn near exactly a mile away from bestie Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, Thoreau was often called to meal times by Mrs. Emerson's dinner bell. From his hand-built cabin, Thoreau could see a major highway and hear the train that ran along the opposite side of the pond. In fact, Concord Village was close enough that he walked down there nearly every day. In a lot of ways, Walden is really similar to that time you "ran away from home" to live in the garage. Of course, you were 5. Second: Don't Let Yourself Get Bored Turns out, there's plenty of room in the vast wilds of nature for all your friends and acquaintances to come over. Besides regular weekly visits with his mother and sisters (who brought baked goods and pre-made meals, lest Thoreau be forced to do something drastic, like hunt and gather) and frequent (and also frequently food-related, see a pattern here?) sojourns to the Emersons', Thoreau's idyllic, natural lifestyle also included numerous house parties. He hosted galas for political groups, dinners for luminaries like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bronson Alcott, and once managed to pack 25 people into his one-room cabin. Accurate illustrative wood-cut print provided by Mr. Michael Rogalski, esq....
Boingboing.net Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:28:51 PDT
Microkhan is a terrific, eclectic blog by Brendan Koerner. If he had only introduced me to WEFUNK's weekly show he would have earned my gratitude (previously). Other recent posts which have caught my eye: Why does Lehman bros. own the rights to enough yellowcake to make an atomic bomb? The existence of the sport of Unlimited Hydroplaning. Musings on the suicide rate in Montana. America's abandoned polar radar stations. Convict love tokens from Australia. Photographer Harald Finster. The 1898 book about the experience of the British in Afganistan The Rising on the North Western Frontier. Via. Koerner is a writer for Wired and author of Now the Hell Will Start about "one soldier's flight from the greatest manhunt in WW2"
Metafilter.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:09 -0800
Craig Eisler, the former head of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU) has a new job heading up "entertainment client software" for the company. Eisler -- who is now Corporate Vice President for the TV, Video and Music business -- will lead "the planning, design and development of client software across Windows, the Xbox video game system and Windows Mobile."
ZDNet Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:57:06 PDT
1 2 3 4 5 Older >> Oldest >>
A real estate agent confesses her sins: What am I doing now? I take depressing classes on the labyrinthine procedure of conducting short sales, orchestrate foreclosures, show buyers countless homes before they confess they'd like to "maybe wait a year...
Andrewsullivan.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:53:00 -0400
The inimitable Susan Boyle sings for an charity album unearthed from 1999:
Andrewsullivan.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:00 -0400
Vomit-cleaner at an amusement park after Easter kiddie chocolate binges.
Andrewsullivan.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:11:00 -0400
So I’m sitting in traffic in Manhattan. Not moving. In the distance I can hear a firetruck siren and its getting closer. As those around us start to realize that we were in its path, I could see the frustration and even sense of fear in the driver’s face as he physically turned in all [...]
Blogmaverick.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:10:51 +0000
Last week's announcement of Java support for Google App Engine (GAE), along with a host of new features aim specifically at businesses, served to reconfirm the Internet giant's interest in providing enterprises with its evolving cloud computing capabilities. So what's new and what's missing in GAE for enterprises that are looking to try out the cloud?
ZDNet Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:03:06 PDT
Oops, Microsoft did it again. Someone in Redmond accidentally published a page offering downloads of the Windows 7 release candidate to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. That appears to be a slip-up, but the page also confirms the date when the Windows 7 release candidate will be publicly available.
ZDNet Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:00:13 PDT
Seekingarrangement.com is a website for would-be sugar daddies and sugar babies (no, not the candy). It claims 300,000 registered users. Here's a New York Times article from last week about the site (and a Globe and Mail article from '07).
Metafilter.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:41:54 -0800
Maggie Koerth-Baker is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. A freelance science and health journalist, Maggie lives in Minneapolis, brain dumps on Twitter, and writes quite often for mental_floss magazine. I remember reading Walden in high school. I had this very specific mental image of the whole thing: Thoreau out there in the woods, building his little shack. Nothing but silence and the beauty of nature. "A mile from any neighbor," the man wrote. I have to admit, it's probably on my own head that I took Thoreau's narration there to be an example of poetic understatement. I'd assumed he really meant "miles". Turns out, he was being quite literal, almost down to the foot. But Earth Day is coming up and if you're feeling burned out on modern society, there's definitely a couple of things you can learn from Thoreau. I've summarized them here (and in Be Amazing) for your benefit. First: Choose Your "Wilderness" Carefully You'd hate to end up communing with the Earth someplace...rural. Shudder. That certainly wasn't a problem for Thoreau. Despite what impressions he might have given you, Thoreau's Walden Pond had more in common with Central Park than with Yellowstone. Damn near exactly a mile away from bestie Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, Thoreau was often called to meal times by Mrs. Emerson's dinner bell. From his hand-built cabin, Thoreau could see a major highway and hear the train that ran along the opposite side of the pond. In fact, Concord Village was close enough that he walked down there nearly every day. In a lot of ways, Walden is really similar to that time you "ran away from home" to live in the garage. Of course, you were 5. Second: Don't Let Yourself Get Bored Turns out, there's plenty of room in the vast wilds of nature for all your friends and acquaintances to come over. Besides regular weekly visits with his mother and sisters (who brought baked goods and pre-made meals, lest Thoreau be forced to do something drastic, like hunt and gather) and frequent (and also frequently food-related, see a pattern here?) sojourns to the Emersons', Thoreau's idyllic, natural lifestyle also included numerous house parties. He hosted galas for political groups, dinners for luminaries like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bronson Alcott, and once managed to pack 25 people into his one-room cabin. Accurate illustrative wood-cut print provided by Mr. Michael Rogalski, esq....
Boingboing.net Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:28:51 PDT
Microkhan is a terrific, eclectic blog by Brendan Koerner. If he had only introduced me to WEFUNK's weekly show he would have earned my gratitude (previously). Other recent posts which have caught my eye: Why does Lehman bros. own the rights to enough yellowcake to make an atomic bomb? The existence of the sport of Unlimited Hydroplaning. Musings on the suicide rate in Montana. America's abandoned polar radar stations. Convict love tokens from Australia. Photographer Harald Finster. The 1898 book about the experience of the British in Afganistan The Rising on the North Western Frontier. Via. Koerner is a writer for Wired and author of Now the Hell Will Start about "one soldier's flight from the greatest manhunt in WW2"
Metafilter.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:09 -0800
Craig Eisler, the former head of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU) has a new job heading up "entertainment client software" for the company. Eisler -- who is now Corporate Vice President for the TV, Video and Music business -- will lead "the planning, design and development of client software across Windows, the Xbox video game system and Windows Mobile."
ZDNet Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:57:06 PDT
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