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Who said anything about a recession? Sometime between the government bailout of Bear Stearns and the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that America lost 80,000 jobs in March, Lee Tachman, a Wall Street banker, spent roughly $50,000 last month on a four-day jaunt to Miami for himself and three close friends.
“It was just all out — it was insane,” said Mr. Tachman. “I’m not afraid to spend money like that.”
posted on Apr-14-08 at 7:37 AM
The pop music industry has sadly come to depend on “heritage acts” – wrinkled, dyed-hair, aging stars – to pack houses and make money.
“Whatever a future superstar act will be, it won’t be as ubiquitous as the acts from the ’60s because we were all listening to Top 40 radio.”
posted on Apr-11-08 at 2:18 PM
Frank Newsome leads the congregation at the Little David Church in Hayside, Va. Old Regular Baptists, they sing the way people sang when they first came to the American colonies: without instruments or notation, and following their leader line by line. It's called lined-out hymnody, and people outside the southern Appalachian Mountains rarely hear it. One of the songs Newsome sings at services is a hymn about longing for heaven, called "Beulah Land."
posted on Apr-8-08 at 2:04 PM
Pay to play. The children of big-donor Harvard alums are systematically given preference over legacy offspring of lesser means. Additionally David Karen, now a professor at Bryn Mawr, concluded that alumni children at Harvard lose most of their admissions advantage if they apply for financial aid.
posted on Apr-7-08 at 12:02 PM
"Hendon's library's opening hours have been cut, a cafe has taken the place of part of the fiction section, and a computer learning zone has replaced the periodicals room. When I complained, a local councillor wrote back to say that he did not feel that the cut in opening hours was a great hardship for anyone."
The Guardian writes on the long slow death of libraries.
posted on Mar-7-08 at 2:04 PM
"Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? People are coming in from all over. In fact, the physical act of moving your possessions from Manhattan to Brooklyn is now the equivalent of a two-year M.F.A. program. When you get to the other side, they hand you three Moleskine notebooks and a copy of “Blogging for Dummies.” You’re good to go."
posted on Mar-1-08 at 11:47 AM
The dangers of Jiffy Lube in which the average customer pays for services never rendered. (.asx video)
posted on Aug-27-06 at 9:22 PM
Say what you will. The new Land Rover Defender is rad.
posted on Aug-23-06 at 6:42 PM
Being a little overweight can kill you.
posted on Aug-22-06 at 3:28 PM
Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace.
posted on Aug-20-06 at 11:01 AM
"Inthewrongplaceness" is a live art installation whereupon a naked woman cradles a dead pig.
posted on Aug-19-06 at 9:06 AM
Text messaging for teenage girls is like an orgasm explains neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine. The doctor from Yale provides the science behind why male and female brains are different in architecture and chemical composition.
posted on Aug-8-06 at 5:56 PM
What is the value of your vinyl record? An archive of the marketplace of wax.
posted on Jul-26-06 at 7:39 PM
Math gets a patent.
"The field of invention relates generally to performing division operations using processing components and, more specifically but not exclusively relates to techniques for performing efficient software-based integer division using reciprocal multiplication."
posted on Jul-13-06 at 6:35 AM
Sam Harris on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists. (Salon click-through ad) "Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed."
posted on Jul-7-06 at 1:29 PM
Ken Lay is dead.
posted on Jul-5-06 at 7:23 AM
Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace.
posted on Jun-30-06 at 8:05 AM
United States collapses as Ghana is "sick with happiness." World Cup, we hardly knew you.
posted on Jun-22-06 at 11:12 AM
Prayer as placebo. Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested.
posted on Mar-31-06 at 7:17 AM
In Georgia public schools, the Bible is the textbook. Georgia would become the first to require its Department of Education to put in place a curriculum to teach the history and literature of the Bible. Schools would use the book itself as the classroom textbook. Specifically the bill would establish electives on both the New and Old Testaments.
posted on Mar-28-06 at 7:49 AM
Dead ravers littered the floor. A gunman/rave kid walked into the Capitol Hill house Saturday morning during an after party for the 'Better Off Undead' rave. With a pistol grip shotgun he killed 7 men, two women, and then himself.
posted on Mar-26-06 at 9:20 AM
Literary novels going straight to paperback. Because, you know, nobody reads them.
posted on Mar-22-06 at 7:59 PM
Biblical Errancy. Complete with an Index of Biblical Citations.
posted on Mar-18-06 at 8:53 AM
Icons of England. Stonehenge? Shakespeare’s plays? A cup of tea? What are the icons of England?
posted on Mar-15-06 at 1:39 PM
"God created man exactly how Bible describes it." A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement.
posted on Mar-8-06 at 8:50 AM
"I just hit several people with a vehicle," he told the dispatcher. "I don't have any weapons or anything on me; you can come and arrest me now." Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar punishes 9 Chapel Hill students for the actions of the United States government. "People all over the world are being killed in war and now it is the people in the United States turn to be killed."
posted on Mar-7-06 at 7:40 AM
The New Orleans Effect: Crime is up. Schools are overcrowded. Hospitals are jammed. Houston welcomed a flood of hurricane evacuees with open arms. But now the city is suffering from a case of 'compassion fatigue.'
posted on Mar-5-06 at 8:44 AM
Please don't hurt 'em. Hammer got a weblog.
posted on Mar-3-06 at 8:18 AM
The Case for Impeachment. An essay by Lewis H. Lapham. Another one by Garrison Keillor. And Elizabeth Holtzman. Legislation by John Conyers.
posted on Mar-1-06 at 11:27 AM
So you want to hear the new Guns N Roses tracks.
posted on Feb-23-06 at 1:53 PM
Make Kevin wear the same suit until he gets fired.
posted on Feb-22-06 at 1:00 PM
The Nissan Terranaut. Quite the vehicle.
posted on Feb-15-06 at 1:08 PM
It's on. Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
posted on Feb-12-06 at 5:16 AM
So you want to know sexual averages.
posted on Feb-3-06 at 1:03 PM
Muslim world goes apeshit over Danish cartoon. Saudi Arabia and Libya have withdrawn their ambassadors to Denmark, which issued safety warnings to its citizens travelling in Muslim countries after threats by militant Islamic groups and a boycott of Danish goods
posted on Jan-31-06 at 3:29 PM
Bob Woodruff is in serious condition after being hit by an IED in Iraq. Woodruff and [his cameraman] Vogt are undergoing surgery at the U.S. military hospital in Balad. Both men suffered head injuries. Woodruff sustained shrapnel wounds and Vogt was hit by shrapnel in the head and suffered a broken shoulder.
posted on Jan-29-06 at 8:17 AM
Redneck get busy. Video clip presenting the collapse of celebrity culture.
posted on Jan-26-06 at 8:30 AM
The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress. "A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.
posted on Jan-24-06 at 2:41 PM
Worship in Lifting Holy Hands. Lifting hands over the head and waving them is a taught religious practice. It does not normally happen (except in utter lostness and hopelessness) unless it is in response to a charismatic leader with whom the worshipers have developed a too-close connection.
posted on Jan-23-06 at 12:47 PM
"Were there U.K. publications?" Hilton responded: "No... there is stuff in London." Hilton's lawyer, Larry Stein, jumped in: "London is a U.K. publication." Her retort: "Right. U.K. Whatever."
posted on Jan-20-06 at 9:21 AM
Are Conservative Republicans Now America's Permanent Ruling Class?
posted on Jan-18-06 at 12:37 PM
Hooked on a Feeling? Enter the Hasselhoff.
posted on Jan-15-06 at 6:52 PM
Obese and overweight people do not want to lose weight.
posted on Jan-10-06 at 1:42 PM
Osama bin Laden is dead?
And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
posted on Jan-9-06 at 1:22 PM
Here are the the ten most beautiful science experiments.
posted on Jan-5-06 at 2:00 PM
Bloggers make terrible novelists. Ana Marie Cox's "Dog Days" meets a reader.
posted on Jan-3-06 at 7:26 AM
The Internet Is Broken -- Part 2. We can't keep patching the Internet’s security holes. Now computer scientists are proposing an entirely new architecture.
posted on Dec-21-05 at 9:01 AM
85% of Americans are going to heaven.
posted on Dec-20-05 at 8:19 AM
If you shop at Urban Outfitters a $10/hour manager will accuse you of stealing. Or something.
posted on Dec-19-05 at 7:54 AM
Tell your boyfriends, partners, ex's, or hookups they may have been exposed to HIV or another STD.
posted on Dec-17-05 at 10:54 PM
“It was just all out — it was insane,” said Mr. Tachman. “I’m not afraid to spend money like that.”
posted on Apr-14-08 at 7:37 AM
The pop music industry has sadly come to depend on “heritage acts” – wrinkled, dyed-hair, aging stars – to pack houses and make money.
“Whatever a future superstar act will be, it won’t be as ubiquitous as the acts from the ’60s because we were all listening to Top 40 radio.”
posted on Apr-11-08 at 2:18 PM
Frank Newsome leads the congregation at the Little David Church in Hayside, Va. Old Regular Baptists, they sing the way people sang when they first came to the American colonies: without instruments or notation, and following their leader line by line. It's called lined-out hymnody, and people outside the southern Appalachian Mountains rarely hear it. One of the songs Newsome sings at services is a hymn about longing for heaven, called "Beulah Land."
posted on Apr-8-08 at 2:04 PM
Pay to play. The children of big-donor Harvard alums are systematically given preference over legacy offspring of lesser means. Additionally David Karen, now a professor at Bryn Mawr, concluded that alumni children at Harvard lose most of their admissions advantage if they apply for financial aid.
posted on Apr-7-08 at 12:02 PM
"Hendon's library's opening hours have been cut, a cafe has taken the place of part of the fiction section, and a computer learning zone has replaced the periodicals room. When I complained, a local councillor wrote back to say that he did not feel that the cut in opening hours was a great hardship for anyone."
The Guardian writes on the long slow death of libraries.
posted on Mar-7-08 at 2:04 PM
"Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? People are coming in from all over. In fact, the physical act of moving your possessions from Manhattan to Brooklyn is now the equivalent of a two-year M.F.A. program. When you get to the other side, they hand you three Moleskine notebooks and a copy of “Blogging for Dummies.” You’re good to go."
posted on Mar-1-08 at 11:47 AM
The dangers of Jiffy Lube in which the average customer pays for services never rendered. (.asx video)
posted on Aug-27-06 at 9:22 PM
Say what you will. The new Land Rover Defender is rad.
posted on Aug-23-06 at 6:42 PM
Being a little overweight can kill you.
posted on Aug-22-06 at 3:28 PM
Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace.
posted on Aug-20-06 at 11:01 AM
"Inthewrongplaceness" is a live art installation whereupon a naked woman cradles a dead pig.
posted on Aug-19-06 at 9:06 AM
Text messaging for teenage girls is like an orgasm explains neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine. The doctor from Yale provides the science behind why male and female brains are different in architecture and chemical composition.
posted on Aug-8-06 at 5:56 PM
What is the value of your vinyl record? An archive of the marketplace of wax.
posted on Jul-26-06 at 7:39 PM
Math gets a patent.
"The field of invention relates generally to performing division operations using processing components and, more specifically but not exclusively relates to techniques for performing efficient software-based integer division using reciprocal multiplication."
posted on Jul-13-06 at 6:35 AM
Sam Harris on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists. (Salon click-through ad) "Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed."
posted on Jul-7-06 at 1:29 PM
Ken Lay is dead.
posted on Jul-5-06 at 7:23 AM
Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace.
posted on Jun-30-06 at 8:05 AM
United States collapses as Ghana is "sick with happiness." World Cup, we hardly knew you.
posted on Jun-22-06 at 11:12 AM
Prayer as placebo. Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested.
posted on Mar-31-06 at 7:17 AM
In Georgia public schools, the Bible is the textbook. Georgia would become the first to require its Department of Education to put in place a curriculum to teach the history and literature of the Bible. Schools would use the book itself as the classroom textbook. Specifically the bill would establish electives on both the New and Old Testaments.
posted on Mar-28-06 at 7:49 AM
Dead ravers littered the floor. A gunman/rave kid walked into the Capitol Hill house Saturday morning during an after party for the 'Better Off Undead' rave. With a pistol grip shotgun he killed 7 men, two women, and then himself.
posted on Mar-26-06 at 9:20 AM
Literary novels going straight to paperback. Because, you know, nobody reads them.
posted on Mar-22-06 at 7:59 PM
Biblical Errancy. Complete with an Index of Biblical Citations.
posted on Mar-18-06 at 8:53 AM
Icons of England. Stonehenge? Shakespeare’s plays? A cup of tea? What are the icons of England?
posted on Mar-15-06 at 1:39 PM
"God created man exactly how Bible describes it." A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement.
posted on Mar-8-06 at 8:50 AM
"I just hit several people with a vehicle," he told the dispatcher. "I don't have any weapons or anything on me; you can come and arrest me now." Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar punishes 9 Chapel Hill students for the actions of the United States government. "People all over the world are being killed in war and now it is the people in the United States turn to be killed."
posted on Mar-7-06 at 7:40 AM
The New Orleans Effect: Crime is up. Schools are overcrowded. Hospitals are jammed. Houston welcomed a flood of hurricane evacuees with open arms. But now the city is suffering from a case of 'compassion fatigue.'
posted on Mar-5-06 at 8:44 AM
Please don't hurt 'em. Hammer got a weblog.
posted on Mar-3-06 at 8:18 AM
The Case for Impeachment. An essay by Lewis H. Lapham. Another one by Garrison Keillor. And Elizabeth Holtzman. Legislation by John Conyers.
posted on Mar-1-06 at 11:27 AM
So you want to hear the new Guns N Roses tracks.
posted on Feb-23-06 at 1:53 PM
Make Kevin wear the same suit until he gets fired.
posted on Feb-22-06 at 1:00 PM
The Nissan Terranaut. Quite the vehicle.
posted on Feb-15-06 at 1:08 PM
It's on. Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
posted on Feb-12-06 at 5:16 AM
So you want to know sexual averages.
posted on Feb-3-06 at 1:03 PM
Muslim world goes apeshit over Danish cartoon. Saudi Arabia and Libya have withdrawn their ambassadors to Denmark, which issued safety warnings to its citizens travelling in Muslim countries after threats by militant Islamic groups and a boycott of Danish goods
posted on Jan-31-06 at 3:29 PM
Bob Woodruff is in serious condition after being hit by an IED in Iraq. Woodruff and [his cameraman] Vogt are undergoing surgery at the U.S. military hospital in Balad. Both men suffered head injuries. Woodruff sustained shrapnel wounds and Vogt was hit by shrapnel in the head and suffered a broken shoulder.
posted on Jan-29-06 at 8:17 AM
Redneck get busy. Video clip presenting the collapse of celebrity culture.
posted on Jan-26-06 at 8:30 AM
The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress. "A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.
posted on Jan-24-06 at 2:41 PM
Worship in Lifting Holy Hands. Lifting hands over the head and waving them is a taught religious practice. It does not normally happen (except in utter lostness and hopelessness) unless it is in response to a charismatic leader with whom the worshipers have developed a too-close connection.
posted on Jan-23-06 at 12:47 PM
"Were there U.K. publications?" Hilton responded: "No... there is stuff in London." Hilton's lawyer, Larry Stein, jumped in: "London is a U.K. publication." Her retort: "Right. U.K. Whatever."
posted on Jan-20-06 at 9:21 AM
Are Conservative Republicans Now America's Permanent Ruling Class?
posted on Jan-18-06 at 12:37 PM
Hooked on a Feeling? Enter the Hasselhoff.
posted on Jan-15-06 at 6:52 PM
Obese and overweight people do not want to lose weight.
posted on Jan-10-06 at 1:42 PM
Osama bin Laden is dead?
And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
posted on Jan-9-06 at 1:22 PM
Here are the the ten most beautiful science experiments.
posted on Jan-5-06 at 2:00 PM
Bloggers make terrible novelists. Ana Marie Cox's "Dog Days" meets a reader.
posted on Jan-3-06 at 7:26 AM
The Internet Is Broken -- Part 2. We can't keep patching the Internet’s security holes. Now computer scientists are proposing an entirely new architecture.
posted on Dec-21-05 at 9:01 AM
85% of Americans are going to heaven.
posted on Dec-20-05 at 8:19 AM
If you shop at Urban Outfitters a $10/hour manager will accuse you of stealing. Or something.
posted on Dec-19-05 at 7:54 AM
Tell your boyfriends, partners, ex's, or hookups they may have been exposed to HIV or another STD.
posted on Dec-17-05 at 10:54 PM