…somewhere in China, it is entirely possible that a business person sat down for a ride on a 200-mile-an-hour, state-of-the-art, levitating bullet train and cracked open “The Wall Street Journal” and read about how in America, we’ve decided we can’t afford paved roads anymore.
me and my drummer are looking for a bass player for our alt rock power pop punk band we do a lot of green day, eve6, collective soul, everclear and so on. the pay is whatever one third of what the band makes per show my expectation are pretty low all we ask is you’re somewhat familiar with the songs and able to make it through a whole song without having to stop and remind you what key its in. i can get plenty of shows in the greater portland area so lets do this mother effer.
also if you can sing back-up and or lead vocals that would be cool and if you cant just pretend no one can REALLY tell the difference anyway
Wanted: Philosopher King
Date: 2010-08-10, 12:52PM EDT
Reply to: job-trrft-1891072734@craigslist.org
Seeking a naturally well-proportioned and gracious mind that will move spontaneously toward the true being of everything. Successful candidate will be quick to learn with a good memory, friends with the truth, temperance, justice and courage. Must have access to forms of the good. Equal opportunity employer.
Mother of 8-year-old: I don’t mind that my son is so into zombies, Jesus was a zombie technically. After all, it’s a healthy way for him to find our religion.
Mother of 10-year-old: I never thought about it that way. (to son) Joseph, do you like zombies?
As for the few of you who wrote to Goldblog to say they were praying for Hitch’s death, I can say that he does not care one way or another what you do or think or pray, but on behalf of myself and the entire team here at The Atlantic, let me just say, Go fuck yourselves.
Jefferey Goldberg: A Message to Those Praying for Christopher Hitchens
America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere.
… I kept seeing all of these examples in day-to-day life of how people who read books and who focus on the life of the mind are becoming more and more like the monks of the medieval times. That is, they’re more and more separate form the mainstream of society. They are to media culture kind of what vampires are to mirrors. People like that have just stopped showing up in talk shows and the media in general because they talk too slowly. I mean, if you can’t say what you need to say in seven seconds or less, then you’re going to get mercilessly edited down, or edited out of the program altogether. And sooner or later, rather than do all that tedious editing work, the producers will just stop inviting you. And if you’re one of those people, you’re going to start saying “no,” even if someone does invite you, because it’s so annoying. I know that they’re out there, they’re out there by the millions, but they are invisible to the rest of the culture, and they’re talking to each other on back channels of e-mail and books that are like a separate stratum of communication.
Neal Stephenson (Interviewed in “A Voice from the Future” — Bostonia)
Now I do believe
That it’s just like Adam learned with Eve
People can hide things up their sleeve
Even when naked
The truth is, we know Google is going to have more market share than we do. Heck, let’s just say it — they’re going to dwarf us. We don’t care. We would rather have 10 percent of a gorgeous beautiful pristine market that we can completely own and control (read: huge margins) than have 90 percent of a bucket of shit.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : We do not care about Android
… whereas we used to spend hours a day passively watching the tube, now we spend our time editing Wikipedia articles and creating lolcats for every occasion. In a vacuum those acts may seem trivial; but the collective consequences can be vast (witness the open-source software movement). Moreover, even a silly act like crafting the perfect title to place above the photo of an obese cat is more creative—and more productive, more satisfying—than merely watching Seinfeld. The lolcat is more evolved than the sitcom.
Near Earth Archive 