Ice Cube then and now. (Source Reddit)
Oct 06
Oct 03
“ There comes times in everyone’s life where they need to make a decision to be more than they think they can. You have to take and cherish these moments as they will change your life forever.
— Jeff Monson
Sep 22
“ A real essay, as the name implies, is dynamic: you don’t know what you’re going to write when you start. It will be about whatever you discover in the course of writing it.
— Paul Graham, List of N Things
Jul 18
“ In the end it was he who understood best of all of us what this whole thing was about: the need to hold on to one’s humanity even if, all around, others have surrendered theirs.
— Peter Z. Malkin - Eichmann In My Hands
Jul 15
“ It made him realize that what was once a trend has become a gimmick.
— Wikipedia article on Jay-Z and his song Death of Auto-Tune
Jul 14
Auto-tune the news.
Jul 10
“ The late Huw Wheldon of the BBC once described to me a series, made in the early days of radio, about celebrated exiles who had lived in London. At one stage, this had involved tracking down an ancient retiree who had toiled in the British Museum’s reading room during the Victorian epoch. Asked if he could remember a certain Karl Marx, the wheezing old pensioner at first came up empty. But when primed with different prompts about the once-diligent attendee (monopolizing the same seat number, always there between opening and closing time, heavily bearded, suffering from carbuncles, tending to lunch in the Museum Tavern, very much interested in works on political economy), he let the fount of memory be unsealed. “Oh Mr. Marx, yes, to be sure. Gave us a lot of work ’e did, with all ’is calls for books and papers …” His interviewers craned forward eagerly, to hear the man say: “And then one day ’e just stopped coming. And you know what’s a funny fing, sir?” A pregnant pause. “Nobody’s ever ’eard of ’im since!” This, clearly, was one of those stubborn proletarians for the alleviation of whose false consciousness Marx had labored in vain.
— Christopher Hitchens reviewing a book on Marx (source).
Jul 09
President Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President’s haircut felt like his own. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
“ I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.
— Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player (source: Newsweek)
Jun 16
Armed government-backed vigilantes (Basij/Hezbollahis) drive around Tehran on motorbikes to suppress critics of the of the disputed election.
