my social production
- Regular series on this blog:
- Living in Syria |
- Living in London |
- Cycling |
- Cooking
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Craigslist Apartment Search Facts
- 1 out of 5 emails sent are responded to at all
- most of those lead to an actual viewing
- 4 out of 5 viewings range from underwhelming to absolute crap
- 1 out of 5 viewings are actually decent
Conclusion: send 50 emails. 20% will be responded to, of which 20% will be decent places, leads to a choice between 2 apartments. Great.
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That’s pretty good. And it’s true, he does actually follow nobody.
Louis CK hates Twitter.
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Hello Subway Mouse
Hello subway mouse
Squeezing yourself through spaces
Only a mouse canHello crazy man
Discussing important stuff
With steel subway beamsHola compadre
That’s an awesome sombrero
Stop screaming at usHello local train
Really wish you were express
Your stops are uselessHello model girl
At least I hope you model
In any case, eatHello Apple store
Someday I’ll buy an iPad
InevitablyHello coffee shop
Raping me with your prices
Cup of brewed dried pooThank you lil’ smartphone
An effective medium
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Leaving the Scene of a Fatal Crash Now Legal in New York City
It took days for NYPD to track down the driver of a flatbed truck who ran over Mathieu Lefevre in East Williamsburg on October 18. According to Erika Lefevre, who continues to wait for a full account of her son’s death, police said the truck was found two blocks away, and showed visible damage from the collision. She was also told that charges had been dropped against the driver — whose name she still doesn’t know — though she is doubtful charges were ever filed.
“There’s no criminality,” an NYPD spokesman told Metro. “That’s why they call it an accident.”
Whatever caused the collision between the driver and Mathieu Lefevre, it is illegal in New York State to leave the scene of a crash.
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Great blog post in defense of Google Reader
In short, this is not a workflow designed around sharing information and communicating about it. This is a workflow designed to make people click on things.
Taken in hand with the earlier announcement from Google that they’re shutting down Buzz (another quirky social network that didn’t achieve Facebook-level popularity), part of me suspects that someone in Google corporate looked at the Buzz and gReader communities, looked at Plus’s less-than-vertical adoption & use rates, and concluded that by killing Buzz and gReader’s social elements, these communities would migrate over to Plus.
That is, however, a ridiculous idea.
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Visiting a Craigslist apartment in Bushwick
- Me: How's the water pressure here?
- Her: (bursts out laughing) Well, it's not New Jersey!
- Me: I don't know what that means.
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”To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Andrew Sullivan (via soupsoup)
AND he’s bringing home all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, as he promised last year. On-schedule and to-spec.
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Re: Naomi Wolf arrested in Occupy Wall Street protests
Very surprised this story didn’t make it into my Tumblr feed at all yesterday. Was buzzing all over the web and other feeds. Wolf, you might recall, in her book The End of America lucidly and convincingly itemized the ten steps to fascism, arguing that the United States is on that very track. Her arrest Tuesday falls neatly into step 6, to arbitrarily detain and release people, as the police clearly made up the rules on the spot in order to get her off the street, before releasing her from jail without charge a little while later.
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“The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours”
Stumbled upon this just now, posted this morning at 7:37 AM. Let’s see how the prediction pans out.
1. Why Gadhafi’s Death Vindicates “Leading From Behind” (Tom Friedman)
2. Gadhafi’s Death Shows The U.S. Was Never Really “Leading From Behind” (Anne-Marie Slaughter)
3. There Is Still More To Do In Libya (Any Washington Post op-ed)
4. On To Damascus, Then Teheran (Weekly Standard)
5. Gadhafi’s Death Shows The Post-Iraq Syndrome Is Over (TNR)
6. Whither The Obama Doctrine? (David Ignatius)
7. Saving The Responsibility To Protect From Future Libya Wars (Democracy Arsenal)
8. Slideshow: Bye, Bye Moammar (Foreign Policy)
9. Gadhafi’s Death May Not Lead To Bump For Obama (Politico)
10. The Warplanes And Warships of Libya (WIRED’s Danger Room)
Go read The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours
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JSTOR for Life (or How my Alma Mater can get a yearly donation out of me)
Yale is the latest of 19 institutions to provide unlimited access to JSTOR to alumni through the archive’s Alumni Access pilot, which it opened with little fanfare in 2009. The pilot grew out of little more than speculation and a sense that offering perpetual access to the popular library resource could be a boon for the colleges’ alumni relations and generate a little extra money for JSTOR. (The initial price is 10 percent more than the institutions’ existing content license.)
Now, with two full years of usage data under their belts, some colleges are finding that even though many alumni no longer have to write scholarly papers after they graduate, some still enjoy being able to read them.
» via Inside Higher Ed
I graduated from WFU in 2004 and every year since I’ve received those glossy packets in the mail imploring me to donate back to the university. But I have not contributed a dime. “What’s the point?” I ask myself. I’ll leave aside the fact that my major’s department head refused to write me a recommendation for graduate school — I went on to enroll in a great program at SOAS — and the university’s career services was a farce — though aren’t they everywhere?
Well, here’s a point: I would gladly contribute a yearly donation to WFU if they signed on to the JSTOR Alumni Access Pilot. JSTOR access is revoked as soon as you leave your learning institution and your student card expires, and there have never been membership options for individuals, although JSTOR’s website says they “expect to move forward with additional access options in the coming months and years”. Basically if you want electronic access to your favorite journals you have to individually subscribe to each one. That’s cost prohibitive for someone like me who is no longer in the academic world but still enjoys reading scholarly works for fun.
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