Derek Gottfrid
December 2010
99 posts
“Borrowing techniques used by the French Resistance in World War II and the Vietcong, Modern Weapons Caching is a practical "how-to" manual on safely sequestering firearms by constructing a foolproof cache guaranteed to weather the elements for years. Readers will also find information about where to place their cache in order to avoid detection -- even beating high-tech metal detectors. Modern Weapons Caching is informative, instructional, and a valuable contribution to any firearm owner's reference library. -- Midwest Book Review”
—Amazon.com: Modern Weapons Caching: A Down-To-Earth Approach To Beating The Government Gun Grab (9780873645836): Ragnar Benson: Books
“Borrowing techniques used by the French Resistance in World War II and the Vietcong, Modern Weapons Caching is a practical "how-to" manual on safely sequestering firearms by constructing a foolproof cache guaranteed to weather the elements for years. Readers will also find information about where to place their cache in order to avoid detection -- even beating high-tech metal detectors. Modern Weapons Caching is informative, instructional, and a valuable contribution to any firearm owner's reference library. -- Midwest Book Review”
—Amazon.com: Modern Weapons Caching: A Down-To-Earth Approach To Beating The Government Gun Grab (9780873645836): Ragnar Benson: Books
“mamaluke - Italian-American slang for someone acting stupid. ie Why you gotta act like some kinda mamaluke”
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I would like to thank one of my little league baseball coaches for introducing me to this word.
“mamaluke - Italian-American slang for someone acting stupid. ie Why you gotta act like some kinda mamaluke”
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I would like to thank one of my little league baseball coaches for introducing me to this word.
Wonder Woman
Attila
I likes the pre Piano Man Billy Joel.
Wonder Woman
Attila
I likes the pre Piano Man Billy Joel.
I thought there would be a few empty desk at the office today - but there is way more than I anticipated.
“Daddy, you be a hipster? Am I a hipster?”
—Alex, to me at bedtime (via harrisj)
“Daddy, you be a hipster? Am I a hipster?”
—Alex, to me at bedtime (via harrisj)
Derek Willis: Where Joy Lives
dwillis.tumblr.com
Last Sunday morning I woke up in a homeless shelter. It was my 40th birthday.
You might be thinking, “Wait, I know you have a home.” And I do. But if I’ve had a second home for the past year or so, it’s at St. Luke’s Shelter in D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood. And this Christmas, I’ll be…
"Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it."
edendale.typepad.com
An email interview with Banksy on documentary filmmaking via The Browser
“A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating”
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A must see.
“Does winning a Pulitzer Prize exempt you from properly doing your job at the NYT?”
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Trust me - you don’t need to win a Pulitzer to exempt you from doing your job at the NYT.
“The difference, however, is that Tumblr is enabling its users by partnering with them to curate topic pages. … Tumblr is still figuring out how these pages will be integrated, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction in helping users discover content they care about. It also, in some ways, sets the platform up to be a useful news source by enabling an army of curators to create a stream of relevant content around a specific topic.
[[An army of curators! My heart is a-flutter at the thought. —mw]]”
—http://mashable.com/2010/12/20/tumblr-adds-curated-topic-pages/ (via marciw)
“I got really good at something really stupid” - another gem I picked up at lunchtime from brilliant a co-worker.
“I got really good at something really stupid” - another gem I picked up at lunchtime from a brilliant co-worker.
Can’t get enough Ngrams from Google? Luckily there’s a Tumblr for that (h/t .@Zseward) http://nie.mn/fVpqYH
Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Tumbl, and You Shall Find
markcoatney.com
One of the big challenges on Tumblr right now is the problem of discovery: How can we come up with better ways to help Tumblr users find great new, interesting things outside of the circle of the people they follow? One step toward solving this is our new curated tag pages. Right now, with…
“Few of the activities covered in this report have decreased in popularity for any age group, with the notable exception of blogging. Only half as many online teens work on their own blog as did in 2006, and Millennial generation adults ages 18-33 have also seen a modest decline—a development that may be related to the quickly-growing popularity of social network sites. At the same time, however, blogging’s popularity increased among most older generations, and as a result the rate of blogging for all online adults rose slightly overall from 11% in late 2008 to 14% in 2010. Yet while the act formally known as blogging seems to have peaked, internet users are doing blog-like things in other online spaces as they post updates about their lives, musings about the world, jokes, and links on social networking sites and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter.”
—Generations Online in 2010 | Pew Internet & American Life Project
“Few of the activities covered in this report have decreased in popularity for any age group, with the notable exception of blogging. Only half as many online teens work on their own blog as did in 2006, and Millennial generation adults ages 18-33 have also seen a modest decline—a development that may be related to the quickly-growing popularity of social network sites. At the same time, however, blogging’s popularity increased among most older generations, and as a result the rate of blogging for all online adults rose slightly overall from 11% in late 2008 to 14% in 2010. Yet while the act formally known as blogging seems to have peaked, internet users are doing blog-like things in other online spaces as they post updates about their lives, musings about the world, jokes, and links on social networking sites and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter.”
—Generations Online in 2010 | Pew Internet & American Life Project
China launches 'Red Twitter' - Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
I anxiously await ‘Red Tumblr’ #fuckyeahmao
"How Mariah Carey Makes Goats Produce More Milk"
express.co.uk
“A farmer has discovered that by repeatedly playing her festive favourite All I Want For Christmas Is You to his herd he can increase milk production by 20 per cent…”
Credit goes to Mrs. Tragos for this amazing find.
