August 2009
52 posts
“In many ways, foreign health-care models are not really “foreign” to...”
– By T.R. Reid — Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World - washingtonpost.com
“As part of today’s investors teleconference, Iger did mention that John Lasseter...”
– Jim Hill : Monday Mouse Watch: Marvel acquisition offers significant challenges, huge potential rewards for The Walt Disney Company
BBC NEWS | India Moon mission is 'mixed success' →
Brooklyn Man’s Cellphone Turns On His Oven -... →
Note that this was not an intended “feature”.
“If life were more like “New Yorker” cartoons, today I could be getting paid to...”
– Adam Isacson (via merlin)
@shitmydadsays on Twitter →
Name Justin
Bio I’m 28. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals just shops around... →
Gamasutra - News - Opinion: The Complex Question →
You may want to skip the comments. The Game author shows up and it gets pretty crazy.
Eddie Izzard's marathon battle - Times Online →
“I don’t think he was having any fun and we were a big part of that, and...”
– Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly, on Dollhouse S2
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The... →
Castle Cake →
That’s a CAKE, people.
(via Cake Wrecks)
“What do you mean “a headache”?! But I just dragged two bathtubs into...”
– Twitter / Jason Sweeney
More on Mackey (From Wikipedia)
Animal welfare
Whole Foods was the first grocery chain to set standards for humane animal treatment.[1] He was helped in this by the influence of an animal rights activist, Lauren Ornelas, who criticized Whole Foods’ animal standards regarding ducks at a shareholder meeting in 2003. Encountering Ornelas after the meeting, Mackey gave her his email address and they corresponded on the issue....
“The chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc. wrote anonymous online attacks...”
– msnbc.com
“When you go to Whole Foods you are bankrolling the conservative Republican...”
– AMERICAblog News| Whole Foods comes out against health care reform, calls it “socialism”
DGA Quarterly > Steven Soderbergh on the... →
The logic used to make you, the filmmaker, conform to this belief makes a pretzel look like a ruler: you are told you shouldn’t care whether your 2.40 film is turned into a 1.78 film because there really isn’t that much of a difference, while in the same breath you are told viewers notice the difference enough to complain about it. The end result is we have a better chance of seeing a 2.40 film...
Craig Brown on Gwyneth Paltrow | vanityfair.com →
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive... →
“You have the signatures of laundry detergent, you crazy bimbo. And unless A.T....”
– All Tempa-Jeer | You Are Dumb
Recipes for 101 Simple Salads for the Season -... →
“The indicator I prefer is the Hot Waitress Index: The hotter the waitresses, the...”
– What the Hotness of Your Waitress Says About the Economy — New York Magazine (via Kottke)
The Anglo-American telegraphic code ... - Google... →
“Foodies are the first to hit the newest restaurant, or to plan a trip based on...”
– Ruhlman.com on the distinction between cooks and foodies
Woot : Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD - 12 Pack... →
All the New Shout DVD releases for 50 bucks on woot. I’d buy if I didn’t already have 2/3 of them already.
