February 2012
31 posts
NYT's Photo 'Morgue' on Tumblr →
Really smart idea by the New York Times to put their photo “morgue” on Tumblr. It offers prints for sale. Perfect merger of old and new technology.
Feb 28th
Whisky From Islay, Scotland — Spirits of The Times →
By ERIC ASIMOVPublished: December 6, 2011, nytimes.com From Scotland, Fog and Smoke and Mystery TAST­ING whiskies can be a clin­i­cal, pro­sa­ic task, nos­ing and assess­ing, jot­ting notes, recon­sid­er­ing, lips com­pressed in con­cen­tra­tion, brow fur­rowed. Yet, as the spir­its panel tast­ed 20… Scotch from my favorite part of Scotland.
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San Francisco Giants: Pitchers warming up in the... →
twitter.com Pitchers and Posey report for first full day of Spring training.
Feb 19th
San Francisco Giants: One of the perks of #Sprin... →
twitter.com Heee’s baaaaacccckkk ….. Wahoo!
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Whitney Houston - NAACP Image Awards 2012 →
yolandaadamstribute, youtube.com
Feb 18th
Print Out Vulture’s Downton Abbey Paper Dolls --... →
By Kyle Hilton, vulture.com Down­ton Abbey wraps up its sec­ond sea­son this week­end, when the stel­lar Christ­mas spe­cial airs on PBS on Sun­day night. (Seri­ous­ly, this Christ­mas Spe­cial. It may even make you for­get the stranger-from-the-past… Because I can’t go a week without posting something about “Downton Abbey.” So sad the finale is Sunday.
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Viola Davis Says Her Mother Has Not Seen 'The... →
Jorge Rivas, colorlines.com Viola Davis revealed Wednes­day on CBS’ “This Morn­ing” that she believes her moth­er is part of a gen­er­a­tion of women who would rather for­get some of the racial themes in “The Help.” “My moth­er has yet to see the movie… I think it’s just…
Feb 17th
San Francisco Giants: This reminder brought to y... →
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Hear Aretha Franklin’s Emotional Tribute to... →
By Eliot Glazer, vulture.com PREV NEXT See a Sneak Peek of Celebri­ty Appren­tice See a Poster for the New Sea­son of Game of Thrones Watch The Video For Jack White’s ‘Love Inter­rup­tion’ Lis­ten to Usher and Diplo’s Col­lab­o­ra­tion, ‘Cli­max’ Watch…
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Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker →
wsj.com Why does Adele’s “Some­one Like You” make every­one cry? Sci­ence has found the for­mu­la. An excellent explainer on why we cry when we hear Adele’s “Someone Like You.” Seems SNL was on to something.
Feb 14th
San Francisco 49ers family mourns the passing of... →
By Daniel Brown dbrown@mercurynews.com, mercurynews.com Stand­out receiv­er helped lead 49ers to its first two Super Bowls and men­tored many of the fran­chise’s greats Sad day for Niner Nation.
Feb 14th
"Phony" (A Song for Mitt Romney) →
Jay Smooth, illdoctrine.com A song for Mitt Rom­ney by my alter-ego Repub­li­can Jay Smooth. After Jay-Z record­ed “Glory” to wel­come his new daugh­ter into the world, I won­dered what it would sound like if Repub­li­can vot­ers made a song to wel­come Mitt Rom­ney… Jay Smooth strikes again. Brilliant.
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Whitney Houston Videos: Top 5 Performances →
I did this list for The Root.
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Radio Play of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' Is... →
By DAVE ITZKOFF, nytimes.com Live per­for­mances of the play, with a cast that fea­tures Phyli­cia Rashad and Leslie Uggams and direct­ed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, will be record­ed for a planned nation­al broad­cast in Sep­tem­ber.
Feb 9th
Another Reason Your K-Cup Coffee Machine Is a... →
gizmodo.com I think the cof­fee that comes out of single-serving cof­fee pod machines is not very good. But, putting that aside, it can be obscene­ly expen­sive, as Oliv­er Strand points out in the NYT: For exam­ple, the Nespres­so Arpeg­gio costs $5.70 for… Love my Aeropress. K-cups are evil.
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How Don Cornelius Got His Start →
Henry Louis Gates Jr., theroot.com The Root’s editor-in-chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote this about Don Cor­nelius — who died Wednes­day morn­ing at the age of 75 — in his book, Life Upon These Shores: Don Cor­nelius badly want­ed his own radio show, and he took dra­mat­ic ste…
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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The Epi-Log on Epicurious.com: A Downton Abbey... →
epicurious.com I share the Down­ton Abbey obses­sion that is over­tak­ing Esther Sung and mil­lions more, part­ly because it’s an updat­ed ver­sion of an old favorite, Upstairs Down­stairs, and part­ly because it strikes a chord with me: My pater­nal… My weekly Downton Abbey post.
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Supermarket Meat Comes from Sick Animals →
—By Tom Philpott, motherjones.com Of course, some of that rac­topamine makes it into the pork on the super­mar­ket meat aisles, Bot­temiller reports. “While the Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture has found traces of rac­topamine in Amer­i­can beef and pork,” she writes, “they have not… Stories like this is why I stopped eating meat four years ago.
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It's Official: Google Is Evil Now →
gizmodo.com In a rad­i­cal pri­va­cy pol­i­cy shift, Google announced today that it will begin track­ing users across all ser­vices—email, Search, YouTube and more—shar­ing infor­ma­tion with no option to opt out. The change was announced in a blog post tod… Holy s&$t, Google!
Jan 24th
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... During this year of epic passing, San... →
If the Niners had won, this would have been the story. As it is, still an amazing feat.
Jan 24th
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“We’re hurt but not slain. We’ll lay down and bleed a while but...”
–  San Francisco 49er coach Jim Harbaugh, paraphasing Sir Andrew Barton in his last press conference of the season today.
Jan 23rd
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The iEconomy: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle... →
By CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER, nyti.ms Apple once bragged that its prod­ucts were made in Amer­i­ca. But it has since shift­ed its immense man­u­fac­tur­ing work over­seas, pos­ing ques­tions about what cor­po­rate Amer­i­ca owes Amer­i­cans. Great NYT story on why iPhones aren’t built in the United States.
Jan 22nd