February 2012
5 posts
The lie of "strength" →
via D
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Well, like all Americans... fast!
A NY Times article on single-serve coffee seems to be making the rounds lately. I think it’s mostly sensationalism.
The point of the article is how much consumers are actually paying per pound of coffee ($50+) when going down that K-Cup river of swill. They go on to state the obvious (“you’re paying for convenience”), and explain why the K-Cup thing works with modern consumers...
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The Majority of Diets Start "Tomorrow"
From Brian Lam:
If there’s no stake, no conflict, no resolution–if it’s not a story you’d tell a date to excite them–it’s all marketing.
What did you read about today?
I’m also saying, fuck consumption.
More. Again. And louder, please.
You can argue styles, but you can’t argue quality. Quality is quality.
Before object and subject, you have...
January 2012
5 posts
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“I tried and therefore no one should criticize me.”
December 2011
8 posts
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November 2011
9 posts
Within limits, one should try to allay unnecessary social dissonance. If you’re...
– http://t.co/aZniovez (via monstersliveindoorways)
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS... →
artemiswinter:
Matt Taibbi, FTW.
This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become. If there is such a thing as going on strike from one’s own...
How Being A Programmer Breaks You →
October 2011
6 posts
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The bigger issue might be whether there’s any real underground left to...
– Much ado about Lana Del Rey
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September 2011
9 posts
It’s the end of the web as we know it →
Obvious, accurate, grim. What’s the answer? Legislation?
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August 2011
7 posts
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Metropolis/Lollapalooza 2011: Day 2
pushin’ that black drink
and then it got ominous
and then it rained
but then the sun came back
and made a rainbow
but then it rained again, hard
the Mirage got bundled up
things were a mess
but we had fun anyway
Metropolis/Lollapalooza 2011: Day 1
sunbaked
bros
oh coffee paw, i’ve missed you…
properly cleaning the machine
daddy fat stacks (of ones)
July 2011
9 posts