2011 archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Congressional Division:
At least frankenfurters have popular appeal.
Twitter, the home of twits from all over the world.
Facebook Frolics 0
Virtual subpoenas:
Courts in New Zealand, Canada and the U.K. have adopted the Australian example to avoid having cases stall when people can’t be located and served in person. Lawyers said the U.S. may not be far behind in using the world’s most popular social- networking service.
Bet they don’t let you respond with an avatar.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Lenscrafters Dept. 0
Doug J at Balloon Juice is on a roll.
Here’s a bit of his analysis of the punditocracy.
With the Village things are slightly different, but much the same. The Democrats caused a huge deficit that is killing us, even if Democrats didn’t cause the deficit, it is killing us, if the deficit isn’t killing us we should still pretend it is so that we can use it as a pretext to make “tough choices”, even if the deficit isn’t killing us and the “tough choices” are all nonsense, it’s what voters believe. Also too, remember Walter Mondale, you don’t want to end up like him, and Greg Mankiw has some wonky stuff that supports something I said about this economically, I think.
Twits on Twitter 0
Congressman Weiner has created a frankenfurter monster.
Facebook Frolics 0
Contagion:
Facebook data scientist Adam D.I. Kramer analyzed postings by about 1 million English speakers and their roughly 150 million friends in multiple countries on the social network to show that the words people use in their status updates drive the emotions of their online friends, even days later. Kramer found people who used emotionally loaded words like “happy,” “hug,” “sick,” and “vile” in their status updates sparked similar emotions in later Facebook postings by their friends.
“Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain” 0
Either they are ashamed or they have something to hide. Since their public conduct indicates that they are without shame, that leaves . . . .
Bloomberg:
Follow the link for more.
Mirror Image 0
I can’t remember where I found this.
“Yes, But” Always Means “No” 0
Basic rule of communication. For example.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Moving on from a relationship necessitates courtesy.
Wars and Rumors of War 0
Doug J at Balloon Juice muses about war fever, Potomac style:
DC elites like war because they know they know they won’t have to go themselves, because wars are an opportunity to show off how much they know about Kurdish or whatever, and because they see themselves as citizens of the world who should care passionately about the “freedom” of this or that people (that last bit sounds more condescending than I mean it to be, I think).
I think he has a point (though he left out the part about rank-and-file Democrats who also fell for Bush’s lies).
He also left out the part about how beating the drums of war makes old men feel like macho men.
Wars of choice are popular with those who won’t have to fight.
Humpty Dumpty History: Paul Revere, with Bells On (Updated) 0
Sarah Palin says she got it right.
Frightening is that it is quite certain that she is sincere.
Sincere ignorance is still ignorance.
Addendum, That Afternoon:
In wingnut world, history is what they want it to be. From TPM:
iDropers 0
New Frontiers in Cell Phone Addiction 0
Without missing a beat . . .
Also, a couple of weeks ago on the other side of the country:
She traveled by mouth from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon, where she was taken into custody for disorderly conduct.
I was on a train once from New York to Philly. A woman boarded the “quiet car,” which was instituted primarily because of cell phones, and talked loudly for miles. The Conductor had to explain (I knew the Conductor–he handled himself in exemplary fashion) that he could and would call the cops to the next station before he could get her to move to another car.
Amtrak story via GNC.
