July 2011
22 posts
“Such expressions of devotion are unusual for her daughter to voice, Bremnes said. “She sometimes tells us, but not in texts. Not as you in America. You’re so clever to tell anybody that you love them, but we in Norway, we normally don’t do that.”
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Julie: Mummy, tell the police that they must be quick. People are dying here!
Mother: I’m working on it, Julie. The police are on their way. Dare you call me?
Julie: No.
Julie: Tell the police that there is a madman running around and shooting people.
Julie: They must hurry!
Mother: The police know and they have had many calls. It is going well, Julie. Police are calling us.
now. Give us a sign of life every five minutes please?
Julie: OK.
Julie: We are in fear for our lives.
Mother: I understand that very well, my darling. Stay hidden, do not move anywhere! The police are already on their way, if they haven’t already arrived! Do you see anyone injured or killed?
Julie: We are hiding in the rocks along the coast.
Mother: Good! Should I ask your grandfather to come down and pick you up when everything is safe again? You have the option.
Julie: Yes.
Mother: We will contact Grandpa immediately.
Julie: I love you even if I still misbehave from time to time.
Julie: And I’m not panicking even if I’m shit scared.
Mother: I know that, my darling. We love you too very much. Do you still hear shooting?
Julie: No.
Mother: Have you heard anything from the other people from Troms? Grandpa is on his way down.
Julie: The police are here.
Mother: The person shooting is said to be in a police uniform. Be careful! What happens to you now?
Julie: We do not know.
Mother: Can you talk now?
Julie: No. He is still shooting!
Mother: Joergen has swum to the shore. I just spoke to his father. This is everywhere on the national news now, all attention on Utoya now. Be careful! When you get the chance, you come to the mainland and stay with Grandpa of Hamar.
Julie: I’m still alive.
Mother: And thanks and praise for that.
Julie: We are waiting to be picked up by the police. We heard shooting just now, so we dared not get up.
Mother: Good! Good, well done. The evacuation is now ongoing, they are saying on TV.
Julie: We hope we will be picked up by someone soon. Can they not catch him soon?
Mother: The anti-terrorism unit is there, and they are working on catching him.
Julie: OK.
Mother: Should we try to get the flight home tomorrow?
Julie: I have no time to think about that now.
Mother: I understand that.
Julie: Do you know if they have managed to catch him?
Mother: Will keep you posted, my darling. We are following everything on television.
Mother: Hey, are you there?
Julie: Yes. The helicopters are circling above us.
Mother: Then you should be OK?
Julie: They are looking for people in the water; we have not been picked up yet!
Julie: What are they saying in the news?
Mother: The police are also arriving by boat to Utoya, otherwise nothing new. It is not clear what’s happened to the shooter, so keep still. Wait for someone to pick you up.
Mother: Now they have taken him!
‘Mom, don’t panic … but there’s a gunman going loose here’ - CNN.com
“There’s never been a more obstinate fan base than that of The Wire; it’s a secular cult that refuses to accept any argument that doesn’t classify The Wire as the greatest artistic endeavor in television history. It’s almost as if these people secretly believe this show actually happened, and that criticizing the storyline is like mocking an episode of Frontline. This was not a documentary about Baltimore: Wallace is not alive and playing high school football in Texas, Stringer Bell was not reincarnated as a Pennsylvania paper salesman, and you are not qualified to lecture on inner-city education because you own Season 4 on DVD. The citizens on that show were nonexistent composites, and the events you watched did not occur. As a society, we must learn to accept this.”
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True.
“I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everyone”
—Bill Cosby (via khuyi)
“I have started to count them, and am averaging five per day. Clearly those trendy starvation diets and juice cleanses are taking their toll. As bone density has plummeted, heels have risen. The lethal combo of fragile feet and outrageous Pierre Hardys, Alaïas, and Louboutins has produced this catastrophic futuristic plague. As I walked through Barneys on my way to the Olsen girls’ handbag launch last week I saw no less than three—count ‘em!—women sporting these casts.”
—$39,000 backpacks and other troubling summer fashion trends. - By Simon Doonan - Slate Magazine
“It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew You Out All Day Long.”
—Correcting a Boyfriend’s Table Manners - Social Q’s - NYTimes.com
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“These concerns were enhanced after a white sangria or six, when I would wonder idly if this thing had been beta-tested enough to prevent online strangers and acquaintances from seeing how they’d been apportioned, specifically, “Creeps,” “Creeps [from The Bar Where I Am a Regular],” “Married Facebook Creeps,” “Creeps from Twitter with Girlfriends,” or “Wives/Girlfriends of Creeps from Facebook and Twitter,” and “No Idea Who This Creep Even Is?”
—How to Approach a Girl on the Internet: Men’s Lives: GQ
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This is exactly what happened with a Cole Haan bag I've been eyeing...
Here’s how Criteo works: if you visit a shopping site without checking out, your browser will keep a digital trail, or cookie, that says where you’ve been. Criteo will then buy ad space on other sites you visit (including this one) and show you ads for precisely the products you looked at. Since the ads are for products you previously looked at, the odds that you will click through and complete the sale are much higher than it would otherwise be, so Criteo makes money.
“For the time being, in trendy loft workspaces around the country, the music rocks on. “It’s the first time I’ve encountered social integration with a music site, where I am curious about what song will play next and I want to know what people have to say,” says Brian Schechter, 32, co-founder of the online dating service HowAboutWe.com. Until mid-June, the staff at HowAboutWe’s office in Brooklyn used the streaming site Pandora to pipe music through a communal set of speakers. Now they’re all in with Turntable.fm. “There are a lot of startup offices with between 5 and 25 people where everyone is listening to the music all day,” says Schechter. “This provides a fun way to do that. You hear your co-workers’ stuff. Everybody is DJing. You need to adjust constantly in order to build on the momentum of a particular set. So there’s almost a collective effort to create a good mix.” No word yet on how all that precision DJing affects employee productivity.”
—Turntable.fm: Where the DJ Is in the Next Cubicle - BusinessWeek
“I had one good pickup line, and e-readers ruined it. I can no longer hit on a handsome man on a long commute by asking about his book — because I can’t see it.”
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I just got a Kindle and this was one of my first thoughts.
I’ve been picked-up based on the book I’m reading, I’ve started conversations based on what they’re reading, and it’s one of my favorite kinds of voyeurism.
Lisa Lewis, writing in the NYTimes’ City Room blog on how e-readers make it harder for her to strike up conversations with strangers. - Matt (via cnnmoneytech)
