December 2010
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Dec 30th
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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Mom, flipping open laptop after dinner: “I have a lot of constituencies, you know.”
Dec 25th
“Mr. Mills, who was not traveling to Munich, said that the problems at Heathrow...”
– NYT
Dec 24th
Cleaning out my Delicious links after transferring...
Lots of unread Zadie Smith articles in there! Sorry, Zadie. 
Dec 22nd
Dec 22nd
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Apples to oranges unless you're talking about the... →
Dec 20th
doree: Other things I have done today: - checked the correct style of Run-D.M.C. Simon LeBon is next. Or is it Le Bon? Or Lebon? I STILL DON’T KNOW
Dec 17th
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“No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is...”
– What’s Next for Delicious? Oh, whew. (via datn) Too late! Already panicked and switched my bookmarks to Evernote. Hmpf. 
Dec 17th
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“Today, you don’t have to buy an old guy a drink before you get yours....”
– NYP
Dec 14th
“All I can say is that it’s an astonishing thing to regard the dazzling lower...”
– WELLS (!!!), on taking a dump at the Standard Hotel (via whatevs) Disappointed this wasn’t Wells taking a dump ON the Standard Hotel (in review form, that is).
Dec 9th
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“I never have a problem knocking on Hal’s door and asking for more money,” said...”
– NYT
Dec 9th
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“Pistole: I thought of bringing something in that actually was pornographic. I...”
– The Atlantic interviews John Pistole of the TSA. 
Dec 8th
“He was as heated as he gets in public (still not warm enough for your hot...”
– Slate
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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I realized my lifelong dream of being Julia... →
Dec 7th
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“Fact-checking, copyediting, calling eight sources—that takes time. That’s...”
– Maer thinks newspapers fact-check! MWAHAHAAH. The WSJ, another Murdoch-owned publication, just has the writers fact-check their own stories, as far as I understand it from a friend who wrote a column for them a few years back. As we all know from reading any Alessandra Stanley column, she is most...
Dec 5th
“In fact, the number of warnings was such that the plane’s computers could not...”
– More details on the Qatas A380 accident from the NYT. 
Dec 3rd
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Focus Features
Had the pleasure of attending a focus group covering a travel website this week. Here are some choice quotes from my favorite focus group commenter: “I would be like, fuck Montreal at this point.” “I hate it. I hate every second of it. It’s like an anti-smoking Public Service Announcement.” “It’s like a dot gov site. It’s SO low budge. Why does...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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