March 2012
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“This is very different, but I just can’t imagine being that wet all of the time....”
– The first, best comment on an article I wrote about reef balls. (via dcwalter)
Screenwriting Tip #919
screenwritingtips:
Repeat after me: “I will write it now. I will fix it later.”
Applicable to everything else, too.
February 2012
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“We have an ambivalent relationship with power,” said senior research...”
– “Germany finds itself back in power in Europe,” by Henry Chu, LA Times, Feb. 27, 2012
“I should and have to take risks, but I cannot embark on adventures. My oath...”
– German Chancellor Angela Merkel, “Merkel: ‘Incalculable’ Damage If Greek Plan Rejected,” by Patrick Donahue and Tony Czuczka, Bloomberg News, Feb. 27, 2012
“There was a raid in a park in Los Angeles in February of 1931 in which they...”
– “Remembering California’s ‘Repatriation Program’” All Things Considered, Jan. 2, 2006
Last week, Los Angeles joined California in issuing a formal apology for the “repatriations,” which sent 2 million people from the U.S. to Mexico, about 60 percent of them...
“Moral hazard sounds like the name of a video game set in a bordello, but in...”
– “Moral Hazard: A Tempest-Tossed Idea,” by Shaila Dewan, NYT, Feb. 25, 2012
Lines from The Princess Bride that Double as... →
by Jennifer Simonson, McSweeneys
‘We live in fear of a massacre' →
Marie Colvin was the only British journalist reporting from inside the besieged Syrian enclave of Baba Amr. This is her final report
Feb. 19, 2012
“This is the worst war we’ve ever seen. And they’re getting away with it.”
– The late journalist Marie Colvin, as written in a personal obituary penned by Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum. Colvin, a reporter for the Sunday Times, was one of two western journalists killed after the shelling of a neighborhood in Homs, Syria on Wednesday. [Channel 4] (via producermatthew)
When There's More To Winning Than Winning →
by Frank DeFord, Morning Edition NPR, Feb 22, 2012
When last we left the NCAA, it was February madness, colleges were jumping conferences, suing each other, coaches were claiming rivals had cheated in recruiting — the usual nobility of college sports.
And then, in the midst of all this, the men’s basketball team at Washington College of Chestertown, Md., journeyed to Pennsylvania to...
Police put the squeeze on hug thieves →
IceNews, Feb. 20, 2012
Stockholm police have warned residents to be on their guard against a gang of thieves which is targeting its marks with seemingly harmless hugs. According to more than 20 victims, the passionate pickpockets issue an embrace without any greeting or warning, sometimes lifting them off the ground. It is thought that a second gang member, who scoped out the location of...
“After fifteen minutes of teasing one of the most dangerous animals on earth, he...”
– On John Fairfax, the Ocean Rowing Society
“Every Sunday, the New York Times publishes the wedding announcements of the most...”
– Katie Baker on the New York Times wedding section - Grantland (via wonklife)
It’s baaa-aaack!
For Space Mess, Scientists Seek Celestial Broom →
by Kenneth Chang, NYT, Feb. 18, 2012
The most obvious sign that there is a lot of junk in space is how much of it has been falling out of the sky lately: a defunct NASA satellite last year, a failed Russian space probe this year. While the odds are tiny that anyone on Earth will be hit, the chances that all this orbiting litter will interfere with working satellites or the International Space...
“First, he understood the basic rule of reporting: always go. He went to places...”
– Bill Keller on Anthony Shadid
Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities →
tetw:
By Michael Lewis
On Sept. 20, 2000, the SEC settled its case against a 15-year-old high-school student named Jonathan Lebed, the first minor ever to face proceedings for stock-market fraud.
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“My thesis: “This text is me; and simultaneously not me. And it will feed for...”
– We, Yevgeny Zamyatin (I’m reading this for my science fiction class)
“We are a male-dominated society, so while I know there are relatives on the...”
– “Lin’s Grandmother Watches, Along With Taiwan,” by Keith Bradsher, NYT, Feb. 15, 2012
omg stop don’t ruin it
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“According to district attorney’s records, Moffett believed that Cooper had...”
– “L.A. County sheriff’s deputy alleges colleague pointed gun at him,” by Robert Faturechi and Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 14, 2012
WHAT.