August 2013

Pearl Izumi, you might want to fire your ad agency—this is horrible.

August 30, 2013

[Even] the most definitive-seeming inventories are always undermined by a sense of their own arbitrariness. There’s an absurdity—a hysteria—that lurks between the lines of the most stern and sober of lists. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments (or “10 Judeo-Christian Moral Injunctions You Need in Your Life Right Now”) was surely aware that it could just as well have been eight, or eleven, or seventy-seven commandments. (You get the sense that God, or whoever, could have gone on prohibiting and decreeing things all day, but that He was well aware of His people’s already compromised powers of attention.)

10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now : The New Yorker

August 30, 2013

All are bad, but these are the worst.

4. The Workaholic Feint
You don’t need to tell us that you’re “traveling for work” on Labor Day weekend. You’re playing beer pong at a barbecue. We know.

via NextDraft

August 29, 2013

Best practice guidelines for the inspirational approach to interethnic inclusiveness.

via Digg

August 28, 2013

This is perffff:

8. “Okay”: Used to signify that the sender hates the recipient, or, more likely, is simultaneously chastened and irritated by what the recipient has just said.

Glossary For Annotated Email Correspondence From 2013 via Coudal

August 28, 2013

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte from Duarte on Vimeo

via the Dish

August 28, 2013

Catnip for language peevers.

August 28, 2013

“The explosives-heavy approach to humanitarianism has a lot of unpredictable side effects, sometimes backfires massively, and offers an extremely poor value proposition. So whatever you think about killing some Syrians this summer, please consider throwing a few dollars in the direction of a cost-effective charity of some kind.”

Matthew Yglesias: Military Strikes Are an Extremely Expensive Way to Help Foreigners – Slate.com

August 27, 2013

It started with Gawker. Now Slate piles on. Stay tuned for the backlash to the backlash.

August 27, 2013

It’s actually dangerous. You aren’t killing any bacteria and you may be spreading bacteria around your kitchen. The only way to kill the bacteria on chicken is to cook it properly.

August 26, 2013