To is a preposition

olloclipmacro: Mussels

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:06:27 -0400

olloclipmacro:

Mussels

“Do we really need to pixelate that?”

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:18:31 -0400

“Do we really need to pixelate that?”

The Daily Show: Tweedledick and Tweedlerum

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:33:58 -0400

The Daily Show: Tweedledick and Tweedlerum

funnyordie: Sloth’s Best Friend

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:02:28 -0400

funnyordie:

Sloth’s Best Friend

laughingsquid: Amusing ‘Lord of the Rings’ Walking Directions...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:26:22 -0400

laughingsquid:

Amusing ‘Lord of the Rings’ Walking Directions From the Shire to Mordor in Google Maps

Oceanside

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:00:32 -0400

Oceanside

Honeymoon.

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:33:01 -0400

Honeymoon.

RIP, George Jones

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:47:54 -0400

RIP, George Jones

hodgman: In which Ira Glass and I bother @Thaogetstaydown.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:49:56 -0400

hodgman:

In which Ira Glass and I bother @Thaogetstaydown.

laughingsquid: Movies in Color, The Color Palettes of Stills...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:47:14 -0400

laughingsquid:

Movies in Color, The Color Palettes of Stills from Famous Films

laughingsquid: Police Release Thermal Imaging Photos Showing...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:30:00 -0400

laughingsquid:

Police Release Thermal Imaging Photos Showing Bombing Suspect In Boat

laughingsquid: “Bullet hole through our wall and the chair” -...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:37:04 -0400

laughingsquid:

“Bullet hole through our wall and the chair” - Andrew Kitzenberg, who was across the street from the shootout

laughingsquid: 4chan’s analysis of photos from the Boston...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:07:50 -0400

laughingsquid:

4chan’s analysis of photos from the Boston Marathon bombings

Atul Gawande - Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:21:00 -0400

Atul Gawande - Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready:

Talking to people about that day, I was struck by how ready and almost rehearsed they were for this event. A decade earlier, nothing approaching their level of collaboration and efficiency would have occurred. We have, as one colleague put it to me, replaced our pre-9/11 naïveté with post-9/11 sobriety. Where before we’d have been struck dumb with shock about such events, now we are almost calculating about them. When ball bearings and nails were found in the wounds of the victims, everyone understood the bombs had been packed with them as projectiles. At every hospital, clinicians considered the possibility of chemical or radiation contamination, a second wave of attacks, or a direct attack on a hospital. Even nonmedical friends e-mailed and texted me to warn people about secondary and tertiary explosive devices aimed at responders. Everyone’s imaginations have come to encompass these once unimaginable events.

Hence the grim efficiency with which the city responded. Organizers halted the race. Runners who’d trained for weeks for the event turned away from the finish line in bewildered but stoic acceptance. The press, for the most part, rightly hesitated to amplify unsubstantiated claims about the identity of the perpetrators.

Risks of further attack required assessment. Panic had to be averted. Criminal evidence had to be secured. And above all, victims needed to be saved.

What prepared us? Ten years of war have brought details of attacks like these to our towns through news, images, and the soldiers who saw and encountered them. Almost every hospital has a surgeon or nurse or medic with battlefield experience, sometimes several. Many also had trauma personnel who deployed to Haiti after the earthquake, Banda Aceh after the tsunami, and elsewhere. Disaster response has become an area of wide interest and study. Cities and towns have conducted disaster drills, including one in Boston I was involved in that played out the scenario of a dirty-bomb explosion at Logan Airport on an airliner from France. The Massachusetts General Hospital brought in Israeli physicians to help revamp their disaster-response planning. Richard Wolfe at the Beth Israel Deaconess recalled an emergency physician’s presentation of the medical response required after the Aurora, Colorado, movie-theatre shooting of seventy people last summer. From 9/11 to Newtown, we’ve all watched with not only horror but also grave attention the myriad ways in which the sociopathy of killers has combined with the technology of inflicting mass casualty.

We’ve learned, and we’ve absorbed. This is not cause for either celebration or satisfaction. That we have come to this state of existence is a great sadness. But it is our great fortune.

Dennis Lehane - Messing With the Wrong City

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:27:00 -0400

Dennis Lehane - Messing With the Wrong City:

When the civilian bystanders to the attack ran toward the first blast to give aid to the victims, without a second thought for their own safety, the primary desire of the terrorists — to paralyze a populace with fear — was already thwarted.

laughingsquid: Two Explosions at the Finish Line of the Boston...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:28:42 -0400

laughingsquid:

Two Explosions at the Finish Line of the Boston Marathon

laughingsquid: The New York Times mapped out the site of the...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:27:39 -0400

laughingsquid:

The New York Times mapped out the site of the Boston Marathon explosions

Krugman on Bitcoin

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:09:00 -0400

Krugman on Bitcoin:

The practical misconception here — and it’s a big one — is the notion that we live in an era of wildly irresponsible money printing, with runaway inflation just around the corner. It’s true that the Federal Reserve and other central banks have greatly expanded their balance sheets — but they’ve done that explicitly as a temporary measure in response to economic crisis. I know, government officials are not to be trusted and all that, but the truth is that Ben Bernanke’s promises that his actions wouldn’t be inflationary have been vindicated year after year, while goldbugs’ dire warnings of inflation keep not coming true.

The philosophical misconception, however, seems to me to be even bigger. Goldbugs and bitbugs alike seem to long for a pristine monetary standard, untouched by human frailty. But that’s an impossible dream. Money is, as Paul Samuelson once declared, a “social contrivance,” not something that stands outside society. Even when people relied on gold and silver coins, what made those coins useful wasn’t the precious metals they contained, it was the expectation that other people would accept them as payment.

Actually, you’d expect the Winklevosses, of all people, to get this, because in a way money is like a social network, which is useful only to the extent that other people use it. But I guess some people are just bothered by the notion that money is a human thing, and want the benefits of the monetary network without the social part. Sorry, it can’t be done.

So do we need a new form of money? I guess you could make that case if the money we actually have were misbehaving. But it isn’t. We have huge economic problems, but green pieces of paper are doing fine — and we should let them alone.

Javier Bardem on Working with Terrence Malick

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:53:00 -0400

Javier Bardem on Working with Terrence Malick:

Javier Bardem was one of the few actors to work on “To the Wonder” and make it to the finish line of Terrence Malick’s latest opus (Rachel Weisz, Jessica Chastain, Michael Sheen, Amanda Peet and Barry Pepper did not) …

“I was surprised when I saw myself in it,” he said laughing, when asked about his initial reaction.

“Someone earlier asked me, ‘Did you expect the movie to be like that?,’” he continued. “And I said, ‘When you work with Terrence Malick, you don’t expect anything because you don’t know what you’re doing.’ You just go there, show up and let yourself be guided by him to the wonder of things that may happen or not happen — and you may not even make it to the final cut.

“I’m deeply proud of being in one of his movies,” he added. “I truly believe that ‘Tree of Life’ is a masterpiece, and the experience of working with him has been great. So the end result, you may like it or not, but what I will always hold with me will be the experience of working with him.”

Asked whether he would leap at the opportunity to work with the enigmatic director again, Bardem was quick to say, “Yes.”

That’s one of the worst calls ever. Zobrist is being far...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:54:00 -0400

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That’s one of the worst calls ever. Zobrist is being far too kind…

That can’t happen in a major league game.
— Joe Maddon (@RaysJoeMaddon) April 9, 2013