January 2012
13 posts
“The host of the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune says that back in the...”
– Pat Sajak Drunk on Wheel of Fortune: Host Admits to Drinking on Game Show : People.com
“I work for Grooveshark,” the anonymous commenter wrote on October 17, 2011. “We...”
– Ohhhhh. Did a Grooveshark Employee Admit to Pirating Entire Albums? - SocialTimes.com
“Partalo thinks her age is spot-on for Cadillac’s goals. Her peers, raised...”
– Cadillac Turns To A 28-Year-Old To Reinvent The ‘Standard Of The World’ | Fast Company
“I don’t know this person, but I like the commentary:
Danielle Maveal...”
– Oh hey, NYT live blog of the new East River Ferry, good job finding the most outrageous Brooklyn stereotype imaginable! A girl who works at fucking Etsy and has named her puppy — who she brings to work with her, at fucking Etsy — after a fucking street in Brooklyn. Oh yeah, and she’s going to Berlin...
Dan K's Blog: Heatmap of Restaurants in New York... →
Love a good visual map.
dfkoz:
Two things I like are data and food. The two rarely mix, unless you do something stupid like create a heatmap of restaurant density in New York City. Which is exactly what I did. Without further ado, here it is:
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan
Upper Manhattan
Downtown…
“One of the things you learn is that ‘polymath’ doesn’t even begin to describe...”
– Shel Silverstein is one of my all-time favorite creators.
A journey to the Shel Silverstein archive, from whence the fantastic recent posthumous anthology Every Thing On It was excavated. (via)
“A significant part of marketing to strangers is the work of appearing to be the...”
– Seth’s Blog: “How much are you going to tip?”
Jumpstart Your Wellness (in Under 20 Minutes a...
BEDTIME YOGA
Time: 10 minutes
When to do it: Before bedtime If you have trouble sleeping, it might be because of pent-up tension. With the lights out, sit cross-legged on the floor and take ten deep breaths into the bottom of your belly. Then, gently roll your head in a circle to knead out any knots in your shoulders. Stretch your arm over to one side and take five deep breaths into your ribcage, and repeat on the other side. Finally, lie down in Happy Baby pose to open your hips and lower back for one to two minutes. Slowly sit up and make your way to bed for easy, deep sleep.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
December 2011
13 posts
“Dear David— It has been far too long since our last encounter, and today I found...”
– BEST OF 2011: Perfect PR pitches: NYT tech columnist picks his favorites | Articles
“Combine naps and caffeine for ultimate midday refreshers
Got 15 minutes and a...”
– New work habit in 2012.
How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically | Fast Company
“Obviously, it’s not that only a lumberjack can wear a plaid shirt, but...”
– Well said.
out of the bag
“This is hardly something that we’re just waking up to. But it is accelerating by...”
– Interesting discussion in these comments about the role of the AP and breaking news. As one of the commenters wrote, “As a reader, there’s no reason for me to seek out AP specifically after the story is broken. ”
Exactly. So is the AP trying to become a destination on it’s...
no wonder people have a hard time living in the...
It’s December 13. I just got an email about Foster the People at Summer Stage on May 29th and 30th. Tickets go on sale this Friday. That’s 5.5 months away.
The other day, a friend (who shall remain unnamed) was concerned about leaving a holiday party we were at to head to a different holiday party because “It didn’t look that like many people were checked-in...
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine
(via Diana)
This is great.
(via megburns)
I don’t often get inspirational on y’all, but this really nails it.
(via haygirlhay)
agreed.
(via muchtoyourchagrin)
For some Monday inspiration.
(via shapinup)
“Ms. Cutrone said she supports the entrepreneurial spirit of the start-up...”
– Exactly. And one possible way to do that? Get hooked in with LC and the rest of her crew.
P.R. Stunts in a Digital Era - WSJ.com
“The New Jersey Nets won’t have new jerseys for their final season in New...”
– The Nets unveil the final ‘New Jersey Nets’ logo - Ball Don’t Lie - NBA Blog - Yahoo! Sports
“Just when you thought no one was celebrating or remembering the 70th anniversary...”
– Vet gets face broken on Pearl Harbor Day for vandalizing Japanese car
“I am not sad that I will die today. I am angry that because of the cowardice of...”
– Letter: I am not sad that I will die today, but angry that I can’t die at home | Society | The Guardian
“The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s...”
– A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR
November 2011
6 posts
“Adversity and the route to success Resource-rich regions often fall behind in...”
– Seth’s Blog: Adversity and the route to success
“Since container ports are efficient, industry didn’t need to locate near them,...”
– Noted.
The Epic Story of Container Shipping (via cacioppo)
excited to read this book
(via khuyi)
“The subspecies of the black rhino — which is classified as...”
– Western black rhino declared extinct - CNN.com
October 2011
16 posts
Fortune Favors The Bold: wrt something I just... →
constantly rearranging goals.
organizingthesoup:
brianvan:
wrt something I just emailed to Katie Bakes, I did not know that both Drew Brees AND Carson Palmer were born in 1979. Then I saw that John Krasinski and Mindy Kaling are also on that list, and suddenly I’m having this weird moment where the pace for achievement in life (until now mostly set by actors who started as teenagers) is...
“The purpose of this piece is two-fold. First, it will establish that attorneys...”
– “99 Problems:” A Fourth Amendment Analysis - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
"Connecting people who can benefit each other is... →
Hmmm. I don’t agree with this sentiment. In fact, what does “monetize” even mean in this sense? Ask for a transactional fee to introduce two people? That just makes you an asshole. Instead, bank that favor. To use a term I’ve learned recently: “social capital.”
It’s not “Monetize, ladies. It’s “Work it, ladies.”
Also, this:
...
“We are the first generation bombarded with so many stories from so many...”
– Sam Keen
(Sent to me by one of my best friends. I think I might print this and tape it to my bathroom mirror so that I can read it every day.)
“My life had been derailed like one of the commuter trains I report on each...”
– Oh, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie… Stuck in Traffic? A Star Is Born - NYTimes.com
“Helen Rosner: My all-time favorite was worn by a UChicago grad student (of...”
– If I do Halloween this year, this is my costume. Take This Halloween Costume Idea … Please | The Hairpin
September 2011
7 posts
“Lauren, who did not want her last name used, told the the Wall Street Journal...”
– Definitely not the right way to pass on information.
NYPD Warns Women About Skirts in Brooklyn Sex Attack Probe | NBC New York
