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awelltraveledwoman: ahhday: breathnaigh: Engineered Garments...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:53:23 -0400

awelltraveledwoman:

ahhday:

breathnaigh:

Engineered Garments FWK Fall Winter 2013.

jesus, they are fucking killing it

Oh my

cheatsheet: Dad puts Google Glass on his toddler, letting us...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:54:18 -0400

cheatsheet:

Dad puts Google Glass on his toddler, letting us all remember what it’s like to be a child. (via Buzzfeed)

At first, I was like, cool, dads are so tall.

And then I was like, Google Glass Dad, an Honest Toddler has words for you.

Audio

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:27:43 -0400

Two schools of thought up in the balcony at this Bruins game:...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:48:40 -0400

Two schools of thought up in the balcony at this Bruins game: 1.) “Hey! Let’s keep it positive up here!” 2.) “HIT HIM! Hithim! Take him out! KILL HIM!! HitHIM!”

teeheehaha-ara: waitingfornothing-andwastingaway: jaba-the-slut...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:58:47 -0400

teeheehaha-ara:

waitingfornothing-andwastingaway:

jaba-the-slut:

PLOT TWIST.

this is incredible

I THOUGHT IT WAS A CANVAS PAINTING

Marlborough St, Boston

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:23:30 -0400

Marlborough St, Boston

"This may not seem like a big deal, but I’ll tell you… A huge part of the reason I opened..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:05:23 -0400

“This may not seem like a big deal, but I’ll tell you… A huge part of the reason I opened Baohaus is because everyone thought Momofuku pork buns were the original and it pissed me off. I’d been eating them since I was a kid, I knew they were from Taiwan and no one stuck up for us so I did. If you don’t defend the things that matter to you, no one will. Why do Asians like myself care so much about their food culture? It’s all we have to be proud of in this country! A lot of these ABCs don’t even speak Chinese, they’ve lost their tongue, all they have is this food. It matters. It matters a lot.”

- “Is it Fair for Chefs to Cook Other Cultures’ Foods?” by Francis Lam and Eddie Huang, Gilt Taste, June 5, 2012

I laughed out loud.

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:36:24 -0400

I laughed out loud.

"To put it sharply, the unemployment rate in the United States is 7.6 percent. But there are about 60..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:59:43 -0400

“To put it sharply, the unemployment rate in the United States is 7.6 percent. But there are about 60 metropolitan areas that are 2 percentage points lower than that. That’s led by Midland, Texas, but it’s not all small, remote, oil boom towns. Honolulu is on the list, and so is Minneapolis and D.C. and Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas…This kind of thing sometimes gets brought up in the spirit of “why don’t all these lazy bums just move?” That’s a terrible question. People have lots of good reasons for not moving, and in a healthy labor market the national average unemployment rate wouldn’t be 7.6 percent and people generally wouldn’t have to move to get a job. But the fact remains that if people were more mobile we would have less unemployment. And 20 or 30 years ago, people were more mobile than they are today.”

- “Why don’t people move anymore?” by Matthew Yglesias, Slate, May 11, 2013

How this photo of the Milky Way over LA was made

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:33:00 -0400

How this photo of the Milky Way over LA was made

"A few years earlier, it had been possible for a Princeton administrator to quell a riot by standing..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:14:59 -0400

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A few years earlier, it had been possible for a Princeton administrator to quell a riot by standing on a car bumper and telling the kids to go home, at which point they would sing, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” But by 1963—the year sexual intercourse began, or was at any rate supposed to have begun—the campus was the perfect tinderbox, and not for nothing media catnip, thanks to such Ivy League-romancers as Fitzgerald, John O’Hara, and the original spring-break coming-of-age story, 1960’s Where the Boys Are.

…Obviously, the panty raid is dead and buried. In the age of the Take Back the Night March, it is incorrect. In a world where “Thong Song” is an oldie, it is superfluous. Coeds became women, and joined the boys in innovating new strains of misbehavior: “Newsflash, you stupid cocks: FRATS DON’T LIKE BORING SORORITIES.” The boys convicted of riotous behavior in the spring of ’63 were in the wrong place at the wrong time, minor accomplices to the culture’s murder of innocence.

”

- “The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution,” by Troy Patterson, Slate, May 9, 2013

"The long and dense tradition of rogue behavior at Princeton is such a marvel partly because the..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:12:44 -0400

“The long and dense tradition of rogue behavior at Princeton is such a marvel partly because the school, despite the best efforts of Woodrow Wilson, didn’t start getting good until after World War II. This is one reason that its president was so sensitive about Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise portrait of the school as “the pleasantest country club in America.” Soon after its publication, Fitzgerald received a very strange letter from John Grier Hibben: “I am taking the liberty of telling you very frankly that your characterization of Princeton grieved me.” That letter was dated May 27, 1920, two weeks after students opened up Houseparties Weekend by burning down the chapel.”

- “The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution,” by Troy Patterson, Slate, May 9, 2013

humansofnewyork: “If you let your gum air out for a few...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:47:03 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“If you let your gum air out for a few seconds, it’s more of a challenge when you put it back in.”

"A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:57:15 -0400

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A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for “abusive sexual contact” and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Wednesday.

The announcement came just one week after an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention office was himself arrested on charges of groping a woman in a parking lot.

”

- “Soldier in sexual assault office accused of abuse” by Robert Burns, AP, May 14, 2013

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Tue, 14 May 2013 18:51:04 -0400

npr: Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:58 -0400

npr:

Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some mystical and convoluted ritual, Ina Garten (The Barefoot Countessa) approaches each dish with the nonchalance of someone who could be doing something else. That’s because she could be. Between 1974 and 1978, Garten worked in the Office of Management and Budget at the White House; starting in 1976, she was responsible for the budget of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for part of the Department of Energy’s. How Garten went from analyzing nuclear policy to overseeing her own cooking empire is one of the unlikelier stories of American reinvention.

— How Ina Garten went from nuclear policy analyst to beloved chef. Mark Joseph Stern - Second Acts - Slate Hive

Photo: Therealbs2002/Wikipedia

"According to the consultant’s 2012 Sandwich Consumer Trend Report, sales in the sandwich..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:59:47 -0400

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According to the consultant’s 2012 Sandwich Consumer Trend Report, sales in the sandwich category are up 4.8% since 2010. Yet sandwich consumption overall hasn’t been gaining huge ground.

“Sandwiches themselves are not a growing category, they’re a shifting category,” said Harry Balzer, VP at NPD. Nearly half — 49% — of sandwiches consumed in 2012 were purchased at restaurants or other food-service locations, up from 44% in 2010, according to Technomic.

”

- “More Americans Dining Out on Sandwiches Boosts Category Growth,” by Maureen Morrison, Advertising Age, May 6, 2013

"They pretty much have a monopoly,” he said. “I am fed up and now they do this. I honestly would pay..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:58:25 -0400

““They pretty much have a monopoly,” he said. “I am fed up and now they do this. I honestly would pay as much for three-quarters of the data just to get away from them.””

- “More Clients Ask Questions of Bloomberg,” by Amy Chozick and Ben Protess, NYT, May 13, 2013

US News Tumblelog: The major television networks are hemorrhaging more young viewers than ever before

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:49:27 -0400

US News Tumblelog: The major television networks are hemorrhaging more young viewers than ever before:

No matter how optimistic the Big Four networks may feel about their new seasons — TV executives are masters at forgetting last year’s failures and staying on message about the future — the stress factors are enough to make them long for the days of “I Love Lucy,” when 50 million Americans would…

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:31:33 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)