October 2010
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Brooklyn Bridge Zombie Walk for Libraries →
theinevitablezombieapocalypse:
From The Brooklyn Heights Blog:
Help Zombies Shuffle Over Brooklyn Bridge, Save Libraries
Zombie librarians love two things: brainy people and the Dewey Decimal System. So come join them as they try to save NYC libraries with a Halloween walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. (Bonus points for already wearing a zombie costume on Halloween, thus killing two undead...
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Get in the Halloween Spirit with these HP... →
From the fine folks of the Brooklyn Heights Blog, Homer Fink, and Quentin Lewis, a fantastic description of author H.P. Lovecraft’s life in Brooklyn Heights, and the story of ‘The Horror at Red Hook.’
Listen to ‘The Horror at Red Hook’ Podcast
Every year since I was 13, I’ve read something by H.P. Lovecraft around Halloween. My parents had several collections of...
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Watch/via @creepysleepy:
My friend and Brooklyn Heights neighbor John Loscalzo recently interviewed innovative and controversial media veteran Lee Abrams. As a personal side-note, Abrams, former Chief Innovation Officer for the Tribune Company, was a colleague of my mentor Dave Diamond.
Link to Video
RAMP video: John Loscalzo conducts our exclusive interview with Lee Abrams. The former Chief...
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BREAKING: US, European Authorities Investigating... →
/via @abcnewsradio
(NEW YORK) — U.S. and European authorities are attempting to thwart what appears to be an ongoing bomb plot in which more than a dozen potential bombs were shipped to the U.S. aboard numerous air carriers, federal sources told ABC News, and then distributed onto UPS cargo trucks in New York, and possibly New Jersey.
Keep Reading on ABC News Radio
Stay Current with...
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Doc's 2010 Election Predictions →
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@creepysleepy:
Creepy Sleepy, long known for its amazingly accurate election predictions, may or may not do something around this election. However, whether or not we do something on the election as a team, I want to take a second to lay out what I believe what the results of the election will be.
Fear…
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Stellar CMJ Photo: Ian Axel Performing at Pianos →
/via @NoPulpMusic
See more rocknroll photos from CMJ 2010
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@abcnewsradio is Hiring! →
Have a passion for news? Skills for finding good stories? Experience with both broadcast and digital media?
Then, join us!
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We are hiring dynamic individuals to join our national news operation for both...
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WatchIs this Really the Nastiest Campaign Season Ever?
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“If there’s nobody else to do it, then of course I would believe that we should...”
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Sarah Palin’s response when asked on “Entertainment Tonight” if she would run for President in 2012. Interview with Mary Hart is set to run tonight.
(via abcnewsradio)
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A First Look: China Builds New Supercomputer
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Some morning headlines as we head towards the end of the week:
/via @abcworldnews:
- Obama Losing Support With Key Groups of Supporters
- College Tuition Fees on the Rise
- Foreclosures Up in Most Metro Areas
- Chinese Supercomputer Now Fastest in World
And in case you missed it:
- Obama Defends Policies to Stewart on The Daily Show
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What Was the Hipster? -- New York Magazine →
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If I speak of the degeneration of our most visible recent subculture, the hipster, it’s an awkward occasion. Someone will point out that hipsters are not dead, they still breathe, they live on my block…
Keep Reading
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Bill Clinton Weighs in On Election: 'It's What... →
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Bill Clinton told ABC’s Jon Karl that next week’s election results will depend on how badly Democrats want to win. Based on the number of campaign events the former President has been attending every day he seems to want to win pretty badly - although that isn’t really anything new.
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“Tumblr is positioned to be the antithesis of Twitter and Facebook because it’s a...”
– Josh Sternberg in Mediaite
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Vote for Creepy Sleepy as Your News Choice! →
creepysleepy:
Howdy everyone - the new Creepy Sleepy uses the Tumblr publishing platform. Every Tuesday Tumblr asks their users to ‘recommend’ their favorite websites and blogs. If you use Tumblr and have 3 free minutes, we’d love your recommendation. This helps us reach a larger, more engaged audience and we’d really appreciate your vote!
However, we too hate the self-promotional beggary...
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Scalia takes Kagan to gun range, sources say →
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Alexis Levinson:
Scalia was bending down in order to teach Kagan how to hold the shotgun, the witnesses say, and the pair were shooting skeet.
With thanks to the inimitable imbeccable.
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“The concept of social identity seems to address the fascination of Tumblr that’s...”
– Josh Sternberg, in a nice “What is this thing called Tumblr” piece in Mediate today. (via markcoatney)
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Insane Clown Posse Goes Christian →
Insane Clown Posse: And God created controversy
America’s nastiest rappers in shocking revelation – they’ve been evangelical Christians all along
Milwaukee. A bad and quite eerie part of town. This happens to be the very block where the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer murdered and ate 17 people in the 1980s. Now, from all around, thousands of young men and women, wearing scary clown...
denato-world asked: CTHULU SAVES.................some for later
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The Story of FiveThirtyEight - How Nate Silver... →
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Nate Silver is a number-crunching prodigy who went from correctly forecasting baseball games to correctly forecasting presidential primaries—and perhaps the election itself. Here’s how he built a better crystal ball.
In a month when the Dow had its worst single-day plunge in over twenty years, when Lehman imploded, AIG faltered, and WaMu failed, when the word crisis became...
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Link: Jeter - Faith in A.J., Issue is Runs →
Jeter’s right - pitching wasn’t our problem last night, but the bats were dead against the (as @JoshSternberg says) “sick-ass Cliff Lee pitching.” I have confidence in Burnett, and it gives CC another day of rest. Just wish I had confidence in the Yankees offence… #ALCS
/via @ESPN
Derek Jeter expressed support for Game 4 starter A.J. Burnett, and suggested the...
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Tumblr: Showing, Telling, Watching →
Great article by my buddy and fellow Brooklynite Josh Sternberg on the integration of Tumblr in to the consumption and distribution habits of main-stream media ecosystems.
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Commentary from Creepy Sleepy’s @JoshSternberg:
For 50+ years, if someone were to mention The Big Three Networks, one would automatically know the conversation was about ABC, NBC and CBS. Over the past...
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Vote for Creepy Sleepy as Your Tumblr News Choice! →
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Hey all! We have a stellar team of work-a-holics posting news, propaganda art, podcasts, production, and informative essays on Creepy Sleepy To that end, we’d love your vote in the weekly Tumblr Tuesday recommendation for Creepy Sleepy. Thanks a ton! Here’s the recommendation link and please do let us know which news and politics blogs you follow on Tumblr. Thanks!
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Link: Independent Voters Could Decide Congress →
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“I mean, just being here at Independence Hall, and — and thinking of what happened here a few hundred years ago,” Yordy says. “This is where our country began. And we just need to take a look at it, go back to our roots, and pick up and go forward.”
Finding a path to consensus is what allowed our country to be birthed. As a lifelong independent, I’m in the same place as...
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Assigning Blame for the Great Recession →
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The other day while I was waiting for the bus, two people behind me started discussing the state of the U.S. economy. Within one minute, each began assigning blame. One contended that Obama single-handedly destroyed the economy with his massive deficit spending. The other argued that it was…
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