February 2011
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Is a category with five Mexican feminist writers impressive, or embarrassing...
– Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List (NYT)
Less than 15% of Wikipedia writers are women.
January 2011
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NPR Music Premiere: New Documentary On The Late... →
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Deduct The Costs Of Your Job Search (Consumerist) →
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Anybody want to buy an awesome weekend cottage?
evangotlib:
Location: Sharon, CT
Price is negotiable, especially if no broker is involved.
Listing is here.
I’d be grateful for reblogs!
Who’s in?
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Save Harper's Magazine →
A pledge drive to prevent layoffs at the country’s oldest continually published monthly magazine
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Beth for FuelTV!
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under nyc, frugal,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #nyc, #frugal, #awesome
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“Oregon Trail” and “Carmen Sandiego” Games Coming... →
Well played, The Learning Company.
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…there are only two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.
– Duke Ellington
Reading via my Twitter feed as I sit at an Ólafur Arnalds performance and am bored to tears. It’s the other kind.
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Untappd.com →
This sounds like social media that even Tristan Cook might like. Has anyone tried this yet?
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E-Trade, Borders And Frontier May Vanish This Year →
I apologize to everyone I advised to open a savings account with ETrade in 2008 (Andrew still won’t let me live it down!). Now is probably a good time to switch to the American Express Savings account.
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Port your existing mobile number to Google Voice →
Awesome in theory, but I’m a little nervous to tell Verizon that I want to transfer my number over to Google.
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…in 2000 a Disney executive named Andy Mooney went to check out a “Disney...
– Is Pink Necessary? (NYT)
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Dancing like it's 1989
Me and Andrew.
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What is that, jazz porn?
– Kate to Dennis as he watched a video of Donna Lee
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This show speaks to me. It’s ridiculous. I’m hooked already.
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…I sometimes sense a note of desperation in the way musicians and arts...
– Classical Resolutions: [pianist] Jonathan Biss Challenges The New And Old (NPR)
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What IS a shamisen?
– Overheard in my office just now
I was required to take a World Music class during my first semester of college, where some classmates grumbled, “Why do we have to know this?!” when we were learning about Japanese instruments (including shamisen). It’s officially relevant in my...
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80% Of AOL Revenue Is Subscribers, 75% Of Whom... →
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