Wow, a photographic record of unfoggedcon, before it even happens.
Are dominatrices losing their jobs due to outsourcing or something?
1 - An ad for an internet retailer that sells, among other things, that book. The rest of the products they intercut with the S&M scenes were sleek electronics like video game players and iPods. Tom Friedman stuck out.
Is it the big internet retailer with the name that everybody recognizes as they would that of the big coffee chain from Seattle?
(Cause I don't think I've ever actually seen an advertisement for them on the tube.)
Until the book showed up, I was sure the commercial was going to be for Home Depot. That first little saw looked very effective.
a photographic record of unfoggedcon
If you replace photo #6.
I thought for sure the link in 9 would send me to Labs' colon, perhaps with Apo inside.
8--
"saw"??
pshaw--that's an angle-grinder. Looks like a 4.5" model.
Well, Friedman lays it all out pretty clearly in the book. China is on a six-lane highway/African savannah/fuck dungeon to globalized flatitude, impeded only by the roadblock/wildebeest herd/studded leather wrist restraints and gags and/or cat-o'-nine-tails of authoritarianism.
13: Sadly, I think that post was both more clear, more concise and less absurd metaphorically-laden than the Mustache of Understanding could produce.
Sheesh, they're filming the in neighbourhood again.
Better move to the out neighborhood.
Actually, we're in the out neighbourhood. This is our Neighbourhood Watch meeting.
in the out neighbourhood
"Up the Down Staircase" for a new decade.
The scary part is that I think I've done lots of corporate research on that company. I'm betting it isn't the Amazon one. Its the Utah one that's run by a conspiracy theorist/wing nut who dropped $500k on negative ads against Al Gore in 2000. And whose latest little political gambit is an initiative to get schools to cut administrative spending, by which we mean school nurses and guidance counselors.
*sigh* Makes me miss my pre-grad school life...
19 - His "Sith Lord" schtick isn't working as well now that it's apparent that he's running his company into the ground, n/ked sh/rts or no.
Speaking of Friedman, this review of "The World Is Flat" from a ways back is excellent.
I've read that Taibbi review three times and it never fails to crack me up.
Taibbi is one of maybe five non-fiction writers right now who A) has a distinctive style and B) is a good writer. I have the feeling his Rolling Stone "Worst Congress Ever" piece might have turned the tide in a few of those Congressional races where the electorate contained lots of middle-aged affluent ex-hippies.
Benton has boggled my mind. The only Utah online retailer Al Gore connection I know of is the financier of Gore's movies. ..? I haven't slept properly in days so maybe I'm just being stupid again.
It would have been even more mind boggling if I'd gotten it quite right. I was sleepless myself He didn't put 500k into the 200 attack on Gore. He put it into the 2004 attack on Kerry/Edwards, attacking Edwards for being a trial lawyer in particular.
Holy shit, that Taibbi essay is superlative. It almost makes one grateful for the existence of Tom Friedman, that he could be eviscerated so expertly.
Almost.
I used to read the NY Press just for the Taibbi articles, and after he left, I read it for the angry letters from readers who thought the paper was going to shit and for the mind-blowing awfulness of its sex columist Dr. Dot. Then I stopped reading it. But apparently, Beyerstein just got a front-page article published there! So maybe I should start picking it up again.
Re hating on NYPress -- is there still a "Mugger" column? That was always a good target for despite.
Was that the editor Russ Smith's column? If so, yes, it's still there but it takes up less space, which is a good thing because it always awful.
Was that the editor Russ Smith's column?
The very one! It used to be "anonymous".
angle grinding with exposed skin is a recipe for little pinhole burns all over you.
At least leather is the recommended material.
34: your skin gets used to it and you don't really notice. Welding, otoh, not so much.
that Taibbi review was awful. The first part consisted of possibly the dumbest critique of vernacular I've ever seen* and a few paragraphs of ranting insults completely devoid of actual substance. The second part got into finally showing Friedman make a ponce of himself, but Taibbi still doesn't ever delve below surface criticisims.
*Friedman: I stomped off, went through security, bought a Cinnabon, and glumly sat at the back of the B line, waiting to be herded on board so that I could hunt for space in the overhead bins.
Taibbi:Forget the Cinnabon. Name me a herd animal that hunts. Name me one.
dude - "i was herded" is not a metaphor for "I am a herd animal", and "hunt for space" is not equivalent to "hunt for prey." Wrong on both counts.
And the last metaphor quoted - it's awful, but Taibbi manages to even screw the critique of that up. Taibbi bitches about the insanity of openning windows in fallen walls, which isn't actually something Friedman described happening.
Michael, are you saying that Friedman's windows opened before the walls fell, or at the same time? Maybe Friedman's windows were in a different house.
Michael's criticisms are valid but don't diminish the sheer awesomeness of Taibbi's review.
At the time, I described Taibbi's review as, "hyper-critical, calling Friedman out on everything that is even conceivably an error and on certain things that plainly aren't." Without looking at it again, I stand by that, and therefore Michael's point.
None of you have ever graded undergraduate papers, have you?
Friedman is just an awful writer. Taibbi wasn't talking about content, though most people just assume that his content is awful by now.
