White iPhone bestows immortality? – IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE: “the real scoop is that the white iPhone bestows immortality and as such only Steve Jobs has one. That would explain, once and for all, why the white iPhone has not yet been released and why it has been removed from the Apple Web site. We mere mortals were never intended to have a white iPhone 4.”
Month: October 2010
All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books: “I was told by a prominent young producer. “Now young people come to the radio with the idea that it’s cool. ‘Cool’ and ‘radio’ in the same sentence is a whole new phenomenon.””
All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books: “As they become the primary news source for more and more Americans, public radio newsmagazines are restricting their own ability to move listeners. Like physicians in medieval times they seek to balance the four humors (so as not be too choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, or melancholy) by blood-letting. Public radio newsmagazines are looking a little pallid these days, because the passion has been drained off.2”
In just 30 days, you too can write a masterpiece – News, Books – The Independent
In just 30 days, you too can write a masterpiece – News, Books – The Independent: “Two years ago, Birdsong author Sebastian Faulks wrote a James Bond thriller, Devil May Care, in only six weeks – following the work pattern of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming.”
Woman Charlie Sheen was with during his drunken night ID’d as porn star Capri Anderson – NYPOST.com
Woman Charlie Sheen was with during his drunken night ID’d as porn star Capri Anderson – NYPOST.com: “Sheen then flew back to Los Angeles, where he is set to resume shooting next week for his CBS sit-com, which pays him nearly $2 million per episode.”
Wait, two million per episode? That’s unbelievable.
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) – NYTimes.com
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) – NYTimes.com: “Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence. Within weeks, he and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, had organized a program of research. Their paper, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was published in 1999.[3]”
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don’t Mix – The Perl Journal, Winter 1997
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don’t Mix – The Perl Journal, Winter 1997: “I meekly suggested that the task of finding and fixing the bugs could be automated by a Perl script, and it was then that they asked me to leave the room.”
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don’t Mix – The Perl Journal, Winter 1997
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don’t Mix – The Perl Journal, Winter 1997: “Red Alert!
Sometimes I think working for NORAD is like being a systems administrator. As long as you do your job well, everyone else ignores you with impunity. It’s only when crises occur that people notice you, and not many pleasantries get exchanged when that happens.
However, if you ever get the chance to observe see a full-blown military crisis firsthand, I recommend the experience. It’s kind of like when the fire alarm goes off in high school. You’re pretty sure it’s a false alarm. You act like it’s a big joke. But there’s a little jittery part of you worrying that you will soon be engulfed in a huge scholastic inferno and miss the prom.”
UniWar | official site
How to make a map.
I’m going to be a college professor | MetaFilter
I’m going to be a college professor | MetaFilter: “I would stick a shrimp fork in my eye before even remotely considering leading a different life or changing one bit of the career path I’ve stumbled along for the 28 years since I was a first-year MA student. The smartest, most fortuitous thing I ever did was go to graduate school and get a humanities doctorate because it’s what I was most suited for, and because of all I learned along the way and keep learning with and from the students who give a [expletive]. I’m aware that it doesn’t work out this well for everyone and academic jobs are — and have throughout my professional life been — hard to get. And that is unfortunate, except maybe it does also sift out some of the people who are quite bright indeed but not really cut out for a lifetime of 90-minute meetings to distribute travel funding or morning-long discussions of department bylaw revisions.”
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