May 2012
7 posts
Art Spiegelman visits Maurice Sendak, makes a... →
“Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!”
Seriously, stop with the booth babes →
“The long-term effects of this are damaging. By being conditioned to treat women as intellectually inferior to men, we are actively discouraging them from joining our environment.”
Black Women and Fat →
“How many middle-aged white women fear their husbands will find them less attractive if their weight drops to less than 200 pounds? I have yet to meet one.
But I know many black women whose sane, handsome, successful husbands worry when their women start losing weight. My lawyer husband is one.”
[via coco]
[From The Tech at MIT] Opinion: The story BCG... →
“It wasn’t just that I lost all motivation for my job; it was also that it is much harder than one would expect to do unsound analysis. There is an interesting kabuki dance to be done when crafting figures to fit a conclusion. The conclusion may be wrong, but you still need to make it believable. You still need numbers to fill out your PowerPoint slides, and the numbers need to have enough...
Taco Conf, May 12-13 2012: Bikes & Tacos →
So down.
April 2012
3 posts
Mobile Food Facility Permits in San Francisco →
Check this dataset.
Can't stop won't stop →
“[On General Education at Harvard in the 1950s]
Superficially, the positivist...”
– From an incredible essay on how the Unabomber became in the Atlantic, June 2000. Page 2 of Part 1.
March 2012
7 posts
February 2012
29 posts
“The supervisors originally came to a deal with the America’s Cup Event Authority...”
– “Whats wrong with the America’s Cup deal? A lot”
[by Tim Redmond for the SF Bay Guardian, via http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/02/24/whats-wrong-americas-cup-deal-lot]
Bradford Cox has a psychedelic encounter with his... →
This article from SFWeekly sums it up pretty well — it was magic to witness. Can you imagine being 13 and playing maracas on stage next to your idol? The write-up loses out by not mentioning the Carnivores (Bradford Cox’s best buds) and Frank Broyles, who put on a gripping 1-man set (3 of the acts of the night were solo - very unusual, and captivating).
January 2012
22 posts
