January 11, 2014

The Book of Tebow

Just as anything you said about Tebow was right, anything you said was wrong. And probably offensive to someone. To many Christians he was a hero, a paragon of virtue in an age of great sin, and this feeling complicated any rational measurement of his quarterbacking talent. Tebow has accepted a role as an NCAA football analyst and shown promise. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb at 11:39 PM PST - 104 comments

Everything we ate, drank, wore, touched was on TV, is there for all time

Ira Gallen calls himself "the unofficial Baby-Boomer Guru of my Television Collecting Generation," and has spent a significant part of his life finding and restoring films, specifically televised media. In the past, he shared his collected materials on a public access show (NYT) on Manhattan and Paragon cable television seven times a week, but he changed his focus and has been sharing those varied and various collections on a handful of different YouTube accounts, where he has uploaded everything from oddly scored family home videos, a restoration of a lost Thurgood Marshall interview with Mike Wallace from 1956, an uncut 1992 interview with Richard Attenborough about the 1992 biographical film Chaplin and other topics, a montage on Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on Broadway (IBDB), Little King in Prison (full Jolly Good Fellons clip; more information), and a collection of air conditioner screening videos from years past, to name a (very) few. [more inside]
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Essence of beech was dripping on to the forest floor.

A cave with a view: the imaginative benefits of living in the dark
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 9:18 PM PST - 3 comments

Bring Your Own Headphones

"Though multitasking millennials seem to be more open to distraction as a workplace norm, the wholehearted embrace of open offices may be ingraining a cycle of underperformance in their generation." The Open Office Trap
posted by Mchelly at 8:55 PM PST - 88 comments

This is the famous Greenwich Marillion Line, named after the band

Philomena Cunk asks "What is clocks?" at the 'Greenwich Clock Museum' from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe on the BBC.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 7:06 PM PST - 20 comments

So a swiss man and a black xhosa woman were walking down the street

Trevor Noah — Live at the Apollo — London
posted by esprit de l'escalier at 4:22 PM PST - 14 comments

"Quiet on the set...action...rolling!"

Skateboard legend and artist Mark Gonzales ("The Gonz") takes his circle board to the streets of NYC.
posted by windbox at 1:48 PM PST - 23 comments

“Is there a gay sensibility? Can you see it in a work of art?”

America, Your Food Is So Gay
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:37 PM PST - 68 comments

YHBT YHL HAND. Repeat.

Jesse A. Myerson described five economic reforms millenials should be fighting for in Rolling Stone. Conservatives were generally aghast at the suggestions. Dylan Matthews at Wonkblog wrote a response, "Five conservative reforms millenials should be fighting for". Liberals disapproved. Both articles argued for I. Employer of Last Resort II. Basic Income III. Land Value Tax IV. Sovereign Wealth Fund V. Public Bank. Ezra Klein discusses the trolling.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 11:31 AM PST - 107 comments

Blue lava

An Indonesian volcano with glowing blue lava. [more inside]
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 11:16 AM PST - 24 comments

Scott Hanselman's list of Developer and Power Users tools for Windows

Scott Hanselman has updated his much appreciated list of great tools for Windows. Still don't get Windows 8? Here's the guide and instructional video you've been waiting for. [more inside]
posted by Foci for Analysis at 10:05 AM PST - 54 comments

For World Literature

For World Literature "In this story of an ever-broadening canon, the study of world literature makes perfect sense. It is simply the latest chapter in the larger story of the widening horizons of literary study. Yet world literature has prompted an awful lot of hand-wringing. Isn’t it absurd to try to study the literature of the entire world?"
posted by dhruva at 9:50 AM PST - 12 comments

The Agony of Frank Luntz

What does it mean when America's top political wordsmith loses faith in our ability to be persuaded? [more inside]
posted by readery at 9:12 AM PST - 92 comments

This is Chicago

City of Necessity, a 22-minute documentary from 1961, explores race, class, life, and culture in midcentury Chicago. WBEZ writeup by Lee Bey.
posted by dinty_moore at 8:55 AM PST - 6 comments

Ariel Sharon dies at 85

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon died at a hospital near Tel Aviv last night, aged 85, after spending eight years in a coma. He was one of Israel's more popular leaders as a fierce defender of the Jewish nation, but was loathed by Palestinians and other regional powers who dubbed him the "the Butcher of Beirut". Israel is in mourning. Twitter is reacting. NPR reflects on his life as being one of a warrior's journey to peace.
posted by Mezentian at 7:51 AM PST - 148 comments

The local economy runs on black-market soda

In Appalachia the country is beautiful and the society is broken.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:50 AM PST - 110 comments

It's the same in the whole wide world.

Every Day is Halloween: The Evolution of Ministry
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