December 2011
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Tweet and Get Punched in the Face
A few weeks ago my dad told me to be very careful using my phone in public. On the news someone in SF got punched in the face on MUNI and had his iPhone stolen. I looked up local news websites and figured that since I couldn’t find a related article, it wasn’t worth worrying about. He used to warn me about crossing the street when I was young. I couldn’t walk to school unescorted...
November 2011
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“Most the stores I went to I just turned around and went back because the lines...”
– Running back Kendall Hunter on holiday shopping
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Frank Gore Will Play →
Locker room chat with Frank Gore. He ran 6 times for 0 yards last Sunday against the Giants and left the game later with a bruised knee. Gore had a day’s rest, but I’m hoping he’ll get the week off. Hunter and Dixon are quality backs, and besides, the man deserves a break, finally.
(Offfensive coordiantor Greg) Roman said the Giants took “extreme measures” in stacking the box...
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Rodgers rodgers rodgers
Aaron Rodgers is on track to the best season an NFL quarterback has ever had. I don’t think hearing about him constantly will ever grow tiring for some fans. It makes me a little nostalgic. He played QB for the best college in the world, of course. But on the radio back home I heard the announcer talk about the spiral of his throws. He said it was the most perfect spiral he has ever seen on...
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Victim 1 →
“This is not a case about football,” Noonan said. “It’s a case about children who have had their innocence stolen from them and the culture that did nothing to stop it.”
It is definitely not a case about football, though football has kept the issue alive on sports news and radio, and the love of it has appallingly blinded Penn State students who rioted against the...
October 2011
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Arkham City Review →
Batman breaks legs, snaps arms, head-butts, throws elbows, and generally just kicks people’s asses. So it is a little strange that the game, staying true to Batman’s comic book ideation, makes so much of its hero’s refusal to take human life. Batman, punching someone in the spine as hard as you are capable of punching someone does not strike me as the modus operandi of a man...
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September 2011
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What's Wrong With Living At Home? →
The fridge is always stocked.
In some ways our parents see “success” and “independence” as synonyms, though no such conflation exists for many immigrants.
[…] I suspect that many young American adults who have to move in with their parents feel crummy about it. Most Russian immigrants I know do not. They don’t see it as a sign of failure but as a means to achieve their financial goals...
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Rumpus Interview with Oakland artist Ise Lyfe →
The Fox Theater, dead-smack in the middle of Oakland, ten blocks from West Oakland, brings no artists to that theater that anyone black gives a fuck about: Girl Talk, Modest Mouse. How do you do that? Can I go out to Napa and open a fuckin’ hyphy joint? So how do you come to Oakland… it’s ridiculous. It’s so crazy.
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Paris Review - Interview with Ernest Hemingway →
INTERVIEWER
Finally, a fundamental question: as a creative writer what do you think is the function of your art? Why a representation of fact, rather than fact itself?
HEMINGWAY
Why be puzzled by that? From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a...
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UCLA Student Soul Searches In Libya →
Badass UCLA math student Chris Jeon bought a one way ticket to fight along the Libyan rebels. I get the feeling he has no idea what he’s gotten himself into.
“I just go and see what happens,” he said. “At spring break I told my friends a ‘sick’ vacation would be to come here and fight with the rebels.” […]
“His plan is to head back to California the day...
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Generation Limbo →
Meet the members of what might be called Generation Limbo: highly educated 20-somethings, whose careers are stuck in neutral, coping with dead-end jobs and listless prospects.
This could have been, might be, maybe, me.
August 2011
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More Heart Benefits from Eating Chocolate →
I like that in research that shows positive effects of wine or chocolate, usually a scientist is quoted saying “this finding is not a license to indulge.”
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What Poker Teaches →
“Poker teaches you humility, emotional control and, most of all, patience. You realize that life in general is one big game of chance that you can kind of sort of control, but often is subject to just plain dumb luck, and that life is about how you react to that luck.”
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Town of Cats →
An excerpt from Murakami’s upcoming novel, 1Q84. Pre-ordered!
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Ball Boy Auditions →
Over 500 people applied for 80 ball boy positions
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Amazon Opens NY Publishing House →
“Amazon announced that their new New York-based imprint (called Amazon), which is the company’s fifth but its first intended to rival the big houses (it has the right address and a V.P. with a fine New York pedigree), had bought its first title: self-help-for-guys guru Timothy Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Chef,” a book that needs to exist because, after you’ve finished your 4-hour workweek and...
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The Elusive Big Idea →
Idea-provoking article on the decline of ideas.
BART Website Hacked by Anon →
In an attempt to shed light on BART “exploiting and abusing the people,” Anon exploits the people by leaking their personal information on the web.
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The Prettiest Boy In The World →
A profile on the androgynous male model Andrej Pejic, who is dominating both male and female runways. Can you imagine the size of his closet?
“For even a moderately vain female, spending time with Pejic is like losing a race to someone who’s not even running: If he were not a man, he would be the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in the flesh—which, in his case, is flawless and poreless...
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Saved From Drowning in An Elevator →
In what almost became a Final Destination like freak accident, two men were rescued from a flooding elevator.
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“Douchey Affectations: Because you can’t be bothered with...”
– Stanford, 4th douchiest college
July 2011
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"Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "Friends with Benefits"... →
James Thurber and E. B. White asked, “Is sex necessary?” The new trend in romantic comedy is to ask, “Is love necessary?”
Still Counting Calories? →
“This study shows that conventional wisdom — to eat everything in moderation, eat fewer calories and avoid fatty foods — isn’t the best approach,” Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of the study, said in an interview.
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The Most Dangerous Line
“I hiked half dome before it was cool to hike half dome.” That time would probably have to be before Ansel Adams touched a camera. I hiked it though before a series of accidents led the national park services to limit the hike to 400 people a day with a permit policy. Don’t worry because the only restriction is that final sleek treacherous part for whoever is willing to skirt...
June 2011
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