December 2008
51 posts
Holiday Gifts, 10% Off
You have to buy a ton of holiday gifts for your friends and family but you don’t want to spend a lot of money because of the macro economic environment (which has probably only effected you on paper but still makes you feel the need to modify your spending habits). Buy them at BustedTees. Seriously. Go there now and buy some shirts. Use the coupon code JOSHBLOG for 10% off your order.
Freedom Isn't Free
But you can find great deals on it on CYBER MONDAY!!!
November 2008
47 posts
How to Publish Without Perishing
An interesting op-ed I just read about the transition of books into cyberspace, found on Ted Roden’s page on his new website Enjoysthin.gs. I realized as I prepared this tumblr post that the op-ed was written by James Gleick, one of the founders of the first real ISP (not AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve) that my family in the mid-90s.
fat:
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie...
How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free →
A nice artlcle and a worthwhile read for my friends in the Editorial department!
Google Translate Search →
(via pile)
Sweet! I used it to search for Hebrew pages on search term “funny t-shirts” and got this article about “Tees באסטד”
Jump! Jump! - Kriss Kross
jstn:
I can’t believe that, with so much negativity in this world, people are so eager to introduce more.
Unnecessary commas, asshole.
“Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will...”
– Op-Ed by David Brooks, NYT - the personnel of the smarty-pants administration (via kateheffernan)
This is exactly how it should be. The smartest, best education people available should be running our government.
Green Tips
caitlinoppermann:
russann:
Things I learned on TODAY:
30% of all timber goes to produce paper. Deforestation is considered the second leading cause of climate change.
ATM Receipts: There are 8 billion ATM transactions per year. The receipts from those transactions equal 2 billion feet of paper per year; enough to circle the earth 15 times. DON’T PRINT YOUR ATM TRANSACTION RECEIPT.
Paper...
Best Purchase of 2008
I recently bought the Logitech Squeezebox Boom All-In-One Network Music Player. It is by far the greatest purchase I’ve made in 2008, and I’m going to tell you all about it!
The Logitech Boom connects to your wireless (or wired) home network and streams your music collection from your computer or network attached storage using the SqueezeCenter/SlimServer protocol. It can play your...
East Village Landlords Suck
There’s a bunch of stuff wrong with my apartment. A couple of essential light fixtures don’t work properly. The oven doesn’t really work anymore. My front door knob was installed backwards (auto-lock locks you in the apartment, rather than the other way around), and some other minor issues.
In my 3+ years living on east 3rd street, I’ve had a few email conversations with...
Do's and Dont's
Do download the new(ish) iphone facebook app. It’s a fantasic upgrade. Don’t see Zak and Miri Make a Porno. I’m glad they gave CollegeHumor some ad sales dollars but it’s Kevin Smith’s worst movie by far.
“Senator Lieberman’s preference is to stay in the caucus, but he’s going to keep...”
– An aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman on what happens if Harry Reid strips Lieberman of his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee. Fuck him! Let him go. What’s he gonna do, vote against his own views? He already supports the Republicans on national security issues and Democrats on social/domestic...
Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff! →
I’m almost as excited about Rahm Emanuel being the Chief of Staff as I am about Obama being president. He’s a bad-ass in-your-face Jew from Chicago. I love him!
Emanuel is the basis for the character Josh Lyman on the West Wing. His brother, Ari Emanuel, is the basis for the character Ari Gold on Entourage.
A final thought
patbaer:
Tomorrow, win or lose, there will be some people who won’t want to to talk or read about politics for a while. I understand it, and I might be one of them. So let me say this now.
I was born and raise in CT, and have voted there in the presidential elections 2000, 2004, and 2008, and the federal elections inbetween. I lived there in the 90s, when a certain CT politician tried to ban...
klocksien:
Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who
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Pearl Jam - Bu$hleaguer
“Born on third,...
“There’s a special place in hell for Jews who vote for McCain.”
– Anonymous (via arigreenberg)
Electoral Landslide
At 12:18am I am ready to project Obama as the winner with 375+ Electoral Votes.
Dixville Notch Picks OBAMA!!!!!
For the first time in 40 years, Dixville Notch, the 21-voter village in New Hampshire that votes at 12am, picked a democrat. Check it out:
2008 General Election: (21 voters)
Barack Obama - 15
John McCain - 6
2004 General Election: (26 voters, 9 using absentee ballots)[2]
George W. Bush - 19
John Kerry - 7
2000 General Election: (27 votes)
George W. Bush - 21
Albert A. Gore Jr. - 5
Ralph...