Cosmo Catalano

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“Look at your hair,” she says—chiding, yes, but more mildly than I’d expected. “I would get a little more highlights.” I used to get them, I say, but I haven’t been able to afford it for… well, however long it takes for hair to grow about eight inches.

“But if you think of that $200 every six weeks as, like, an investment in your man future…

— Instant Classic

but PS: Emily’s craftily slipped a 200k avatar image past The Awl—millionaire matchmaking in progress????

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…(T)his could have been their big moment, when everyone was watching to say, look at our amazing content that you’re going to love paying for just like you love paying for music with iTunes.

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soupsoup and a massive nerd fight

Dude, in that last sentence, didn’t you mean to say “just like you love paying nothing for music with BitTorrent”?

Conversion to digital multimedia is not a gigantic pile of money sitting there, waiting for old media companies to take. It’s a gigantic pile of money surrounded by a moat full of sharks, land mines, and bear traps. One flimsy toll bridge with an Apple logo on it barely makes that approach more appealing.

Don’t take this the wrong way—I think Neighborhoodr is cool—but (unless there’s something I’m missing) you’re hardly in a position to be lecturing people on a path to monetization.

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25th December 2009

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How to unplug on vacation - bijansabet.com

thebrianhayes:

Simple tips for disconnecting while on vacation.

Am I the only one who thinks it’s a bit odd people write articles online during the holidays about how to not be online during the holidays?

Reblog of The Brian Hayes

18th December 2009

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Oh, by the way, this is happening just as news is breaking from Copenhagen.

14th December 2009

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Will the Real Highland Park Please Stand Up?

Post-industrial, post-credit-crunch wasteland:

or

Tree-lined, quaintly-archetectured, working-class utopia:

(via)

13th December 2009

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Ok—seriously? I’m not as versed on the technical end of this as I’d like to be, but I’m pretty sure .m4v, .m4a, and .m4r are artificial designations of .mp4 that Apple made up.

You know what happens when you make stupid fake file extensions? You get stupid fake file extension fake Wikipedia articles.

Thanks, Steve.

4th December 2009

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Down the shore.

alexbalk:

[on Jersey Shore]

…while I have no doubt a few people out there in America are stupid enough to think less of Italian Americans based on this show, I firmly believe that when those few people turn fourteen and meet their first actual Italian American, that spell will be broken.

As will their legs. Because that’s what Italians do.

We start with thumbs, generally. Broken legs impede the debtor’s ability to repay.

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