December 2010
My bookmarks at Pinboard →
This is my last bookmark at Delicious. I’ve jumped ship to Pinboard in advance of Delicious’ possible impending shutdown.
Check out my new game Balloon Popper on the App... →
grantjonah:
If you got some iTunes gift cards on Christmas, check out my new game on iTunes. It’s a good little time waster for a cheap price of $.99.
I’ll love you forever if you buy it and reblog this. Forever. And ever. And ever.
It’s a fun game, and while you’re at it, buy Removr :) Both support Game Center.
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Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition →
clint:
Excellent article by David Leonhardt:
The federal income tax, a senator from New York said a century ago, might mean the end of “our distinctively American experiment of individual freedom.” Social Security was actually a plan “to Sovietize America,” a previous head of the Chamber of Commerce said in 1935. The minimum wage and mandated overtime pay were steps “in the direction of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Daft Punk (30)
The Decemberists (16)
Arcade Fire (3)
youssou n’dour & le super etoile de dakar (2)
The Pogues (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
tedr:
The World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems
France
Italy
San Marino
Andorra
Malta
Singapore
Spain
Oman
Austria
Japan
Norway
Portugal
Monaco
Greece
Iceland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Ireland
Switzerland
Belgium
Colombia
Sweden
Cyprus
Germany
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Israel
Morocco
Canada
Finland
Australia
...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
The National (15)
Weezer (10)
Tinariwen (3)
Loreena McKennitt (2)
Rachid Taha (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A man has been cured of HIV. →
markyb:
This is a big deal.
Imagine the advances we could have made if our government didn’t ban stem cell research.
Clients From Hell: It looks better anyway →
clientsfromhell:
I’m an in-house designer at a local event promotions agency. We focus primarily on small bands and small theatre shows — not cool ones, but mostly the friends of my boss: blue grass, swing, kid’s theatre, everyone way old or way young. We stay in business because we’ve got two large contracts out…
At least they didn’t use Comic Sans.
gcn:
The Arcade Fire - Jingle Bell Rock
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♫ Listening to Bamako by Youssou N’Dour...
♫ Listening to Sabar by Youssou N’Dour &...
How Our ‘Security’ Obsession Costs Us
Via Daring Fireball: Powerful piece by Tom Engelhardt connecting U.S. security theatrics with our unending wars in the Middle East:
Of course, the U.S. national security state has quite a different
formula for engendering safety in America: fight the Afghan war
until hell freezes over; keep the odd base or two in Iraq;
dig into the Persian Gulf region; send U.S. Special Operations
troops into...
