February 2012
32 posts
Apple Confronts the Law of Large Numbers — Common... →
Apple’s first-quarter earnings of more than $13 billion accounted for more than 6 percent of all earnings for the S.& P. 500, according to Mr. Silverblatt. Sales for the quarter that ended Dec. 31 included an astonishing 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads and totaled $46.33 billion, up 73 percent from the year before. Earnings more than doubled. Compare that with this week’s earning...
WatchGet over it, chubbs!
“241 pedestrians or cyclists were killed by drivers last year. Only 17 of the...”
– Here’s Why Drivers Get Away With Murder In NYC: Gothamist
“The idea that we will not need to know other languages in 25 years because...”
– We Have a Listening Problem If We Aren’t Learning Foreign Languages « NAFSA: Association of International Educators Blog
“That is not legal argument or empirical evidence. It is the death rattle of a...”
– Why the Proponents of a Gay Marriage Ban Will Soon Be Speechless - Slate Magazine
“Nathan Hamblen, who works for the website Meetup.com, says the best hacks are...”
– For Facebook ‘Hacker Way’ is way of life – USATODAY.com (that’s my man!)
“And that’s the effect throwing the idea of bike lanes into a story has on...”
– The Great Divide « Brooklyn Spoke (via n8han)
A Mother Lets Her Sons Do the Cooking -... →
I don’t know why but this story has me crying at my desk. Unexpectedly touching and charming.
January 2012
47 posts
The Street Sweeper - By Elliot Perlman - Book... →
The novel ends with a laboriously engineered tableau of racial, ethnic and class unity: “On the western side of York Avenue between 67th and 68th Streets a young African-American oncologist and a white Jewish historian stood smiling and talking to a skinny black street sweeper in a bright blue uniform.” Random onlookers are said to be “uplifted” at the sight; readers who believe that effects...
On night school and ridiculous trifles
I thought of this passage in my German class last night. Wilmet was in her first night of Portuguese here.
barbarapym:
It was odd to be learning something again, but there was a certain lightheartedness in the process, as if we had shed some of the intervening years since schooldays. We laughed inordinately at the smallest jokes, finding something amusing in the most ridiculous trifles, and...