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“Porter style beers were first popularized in the nineteenth century by merchant sailors and manual dock laborers,” the label reads. “Unemployed Reporter is crafted in the same tradition, honoring a profession likewise doomed to decline and irrelevance.”

 

Front page of The Huffington Post right now.

Damn.

climateadaptation:

wnycradiolab:

forgeries:

A Science Guy’s Place in the Sun: How Bill Nye keeps his home humming with solar panels, energy-efficient windows and a range of green gadgets.

Love that bow tie rack.  (Nice break for the photographer that it’s labeled!)

Great interview and slideshow.

The slideshow is FANTASTIC. Bill Nye is the man.

abbyjean:

  • transcribing audio recordings of an interview
  • transcribing audio recordings of an interview where i am speaking and wow do i sound stupid
  • transcribing audio recordings of an interview slowed down by 20% so i sound like a horror monster saying stupid things from underwater

Holy crap, this. Not only am I terrible at transcribing things (I’m praying that I don’t get asked to transcribe the debate tomorrow night), but just listening to any sort of recording of myself is absolute torture. The amount of times I think to myself “Jesus Christ do I really sound like that?” and “Why the hell would you say that, that was idiotic” over the course of transcribing is unbearable.

A photographer at a newspaper takes between two and ten rolls of film a day. For big events, it can be double that. Each roll contains thirty-six negatives; so it’s not unusual for a local newspaper to accumulate over three hundred-plus images each day, of which only a very few are published. A well-organized department cuts up the rolls of film and places the negatives in six-frame sleeves. A roll takes up about one page in a negative binder. A binder holds about 110 rolls. In a year, about twenty-five binders are filled up. Over the years a huge number of binders is accumulated, which generally lack any commercial value and overflow the shelves in the photographic department. On the other hand, every photographer and pictures department is convinced that the pictures contain a historical documentation of incalculable value, so they never throw anything away.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I’m flying through this book.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME. COME ON, NEW YORK TIMES!

FOR FUCK’S SAKE, THE CAPTION ON ONE OF THE IMAGES READS LIKE THIS: “Many strips focus on some small moment, a true-life anecdote, that sent the author spinning into inexplicable fury or burrowing deep into resignation to keep from exploding.”


COME ON

In advertising an event the department is holding, they send out an email to all Journalism students with the subject heading “FREE FOOD ALERT!” 

Very smart, Professor McKeen.