December 2010
kateoplis:
citadelnow: Our List: The Best News Tumblrs
washingtonpoststyle:
Seriously? Another list that omits us? In favor of The Huffington Post’s Tumblr, which hasn’t been updated IN A MONTH? GET ON THE BUS, PEOPLE.
I’m not going to comment on this ‘list’; instead, here’s mine in no particular order:
TheAtlantic
CNNMoneyTech
TheEconomist
TheNewYorker
SoupSoup
WashingtonPostStyle
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“New Year’s Eve is the ultimate Amateur Night—even worse than St....”
– Hampton Stevens provides some tips through surviving New Years with all limbs intact.
Read the full article here.
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“New Year’s Eve is the ultimate Amateur Night—even worse than St....”
– Hampton Stevens provides some tips through surviving New Years with all limbs intact.
Read the full article here.
Watchyoungmanhattanite:
“New Years Eve” by Snoop Dogg
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– Eisenhower on the Opportunity Cost of Defense Spending (via wilwheaton)
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“Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think...”
– At McSweeney’s, Comic Sans fights back.
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“The rapid development of the modern arts of illustration, and the conspicuous...”
– Edward Sylvester Morse, “If Public Libraries, Why Not Public Museums?” (The Atlantic, July 1875)
Read the full article here.
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“With the new year soon upon us, so is the time for resolutions. Let the list...”
– Derek Brown makes an appealing New Year’s resolution.
Read the full article here.
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The science and imagination behind modern dessert →
canisfamiliaris:
Pastry is the closest that a human being can get to creating a new food. A savory chef will look at puff pastry not as a combination of ingredients but as an ingredient in itself. Pastry is infinitely exciting, because it’s less about showing the greatness of nature, and more about transmitting taste and flavor. Desserts are naturally denatured food.” He looked at me sternly....
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Escape Route →
The problem with the public discussion about libraries in prison is that it’s the wrong discussion. For over a century now, the debate has centered on reading — on which books should, or more often should not, be included on the prison library’s shelves; which books are “harmful” or “helpful”; whether reading is a privilege or a right. […] But the issue of reading is only one dimension of the...
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How Would You Dress An Atlantic Reader? →
Back in 1988, we ran the advertisement you see above, which consists of a hunky man dressed in his skivvies. You see, he’s waiting for you to dress him! You can do him up in a tuxedo or cowboy boots, riding pants or a Hawaiian shirt. Or all of the above. It all went along with the magazine’s tag line back then: “Well-read. Well-rounded.”
The text that ran with the ad...
Remember This →
longreads:
There is a 41-year-old woman, an administrative assistant from California known in the medical literature only as “AJ,” who remembers almost every day of her life since age 11. There is an 85-year-old man, a retired lab technician called “EP,” who remembers only his most recent thought. She might have the best memory in the world. He could very well have the worst.
By Joshua Foer,...
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WatchTrack of the Day: “Weight in Gold”
One of the buzzier bands from the UK as we head into the last days of 2010 is a four-piece from Sheffield known as Starlings. Anyone over a certain age will hear echoes of Birmingham’s world-beaters from the ’80s, rather than hometown heroes like Human League or Heaven 17. It starts with arpeggiated synths and front-and-center vocals,...
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How the Christmas Tree Got Its Lights →
Alexis Madrigal explores the long history of the Christmas tree:
Old world German protestants had decked their trees since the early 17th-century with “roses cut out of many-coloured paper, apples, wafers, gold foil, sweets, &c.” By the first few decades of the 1800s, the practices had spread throughout western Europe and, according to Penne Restad’s book, Christmas in...
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“To the great body of men who have had exceptional advantages in the way of...”
– Theodore Roosevelt, “The College Graduate and Public Life” (The Atlantic, August 1894).
Read the full article here.
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“The war was much on my mind in those days, and it was almost entirely the one...”
– Charles Portis, “Jacksons” (The Atlantic, May 1999)
True Grit—the Coen brothers’ latest film, out in theaters this week—draws on two sources: a 1969 John Wayne movie and a 1968 novel by Charles Portis. Along with 1966’s Norwood, True Grit is Portis’s best known...