Andrew Hart: Collections

In Northwest, Free-for-All Elections - New York Times →

“Dang me, dang me, they ought to take a rope and hang me,” Mr. Chandler, a five-term Congressman given to somber statements and cautious policy utterances, started in. “Hang me from the highest treeeeeeee, woman would you weep for me.”

The silver-haired Republican’s version of the Roger Miller standby left his audience of Rotarians, otherwise sympathetic, somewhat befuddled. Asked about it later, Kraig Naasz, Mr. Chandler’s spokesman said, “I can’t explain it.”

Non-Errors →

Great resource. For example, beginning a sentence with a conjunction:

one should be aware that many such sentences would be improved by becoming clauses in compound sentences, but there are many effective and traditional uses for beginning sentences thus.

Purported Picture Of Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James and Charlie Bowdre

(via Billy the Kid and Jesse James)

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Dig this. (via Henry Hargreaves’s Photos of What Famous Musicians Eat Backstage | VICE United States)

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Average primary school quality around the world. Very interesting.

"Could it be that social apps that aggregate content like Pulse or Flipboard are growing in importance?
The answer may also lie as much with a change in publisher behavior than in user behavior. Are publishers investing less time in SEO than they used to and putting those resources into social?"

— Where Did All The Search Traffic Go

COMA - Hoooooray (by Kompakt Köln)

First encounter with this tune & video, and I love it. Not really my genre of sounds either.

#goodreads 28 april 2013

Sachs said these same people on Wall Street are out to make billions of dollars, and believe nothing should stop them from doing that. “They have no responsibility to pay taxes; they have no responsibility to their clients; they have no responsibility to people, to counterparties in transactions,” he said. “They are tough, greedy, aggressive and feel absolutely out of control in a quite literal sense, and they have gamed the system to a remarkable extent.”  

- NYPost

 
“Over the years, I’ve talked to clinicians about why the self is rarely mentioned in treating patients who suffer from mental illnesses that damage their sense of who they are. If anything, it seems that psychiatry is moving away from a model in which the self could be discussed. For many psychiatrists, mental disorders are medical problems to be treated with medications, and a patient’s crisis of self is not very likely to come up in a 15-minute session with a psychopharmacologist.” 

- NYT

In Sarajevo, Bosnia, I once ordered a “Turkish coffee” only to be corrected by the irritated waiter: “You mean a Bosanska kafa” — a Bosnian coffee.

- NPR

After all, systems of power have no interest in undermining themselves — but they often make mistakes. Tracking these slip-ups, as they are inevitable, Anonymous seems to style itself after the Rebel Alliance hunting the Death Star of State and Corporate Secrets.

- Alex

Washington’s numbers are based on Americans who filled out three-day food diaries in 1973 and 1974. If the numbers used by the two states are compared, the findings show that Oregon residents eat 27 times more fish than people in Washington.

- spokesman.com

“When he was killed by the US government, he was a teenager; he wasn’t 21. He wouldn’t have been able to enlist in the military in the US. He was 16,” Nasser told me. Days after the killing of Abdulrahman, the United States released a statement, as usual feigning ignorance about who was responsible for the strike, even though “unnamed officials” in the United States and Yemen had confirmed it. 

- thenation.com

“There is a quiet and conventional path from shame to redemption for American political figures brought down by personal sins, and David Petraeus has, just six months after resigning as director of the CIA, followed it with his signature focus on strategy, and on his own image.”

- Ben Smith

"By our math, over three-quarters of the announced guests at tomorrow night’s non-prom are not nerds. The majority are celebrities."

— Don’t Call It ‘Nerd Prom’: A White House Correspondents’ Dinner Guest Analysis - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

"if we consumers want to have a real-time account of events—and we do, it really makes us a better informed citizenry—we have to understand how to deal better with ambiguity."

— gist:258160a059598b273f90