January 2011
32 posts
Finally, A(n) (iPhone) Challenger? →
Is this what 1989 felt like? →
My professors’ and parents’ experiences of the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe (though more peaceful whan what is going on in North Africa) keeps coming back to mind…
“… hereinafter called “The Author”
– AW/HUP
Most Useful Website Ever →
(for all your holiday-obsessed friends)
“Yet here in Miami Beach, whose aesthetic is equal parts bulging biceps and...”
– NYT on Miami Beach. For VB, whose charity event will be at the space; more info on that forthcoming…
“This museum may not be the most extensive, but it’s the most intensive.”
– Antonio Saura on El Prado, heart of Madrid.
“You’re still AIM-ing with people. (And I judge you for it.)”
– A Google man
“History was never going to end. It remains, though, on the side of democracy.”
– Philip Stephens, in a touching elegy to Western values in today’s FT
“The ceremony itself is almost always a fast-paced orgy of fashion, frivolity and...”
– Times on Globes - spot on.
“Si me das un último portazo,
¿en qué calle morire yo? /
Estás tan bonita esta...”
– IS
Le Pen, Again →
“So what model does he want instead? Singapore? “I think it’s probably the...”
– Nicolas Bergguren, Lunch with the FT
“Alan Greenspan, March 22, 2005, in an exchange with Dino Kos, then head of the...”
– “Can we borrow from the Greeks?”
Fed Fun, Greenspan Era.
Most Useless Story of the Day →
WatchPriceless
“I don’t know which one to like better… You or your blog.”
– Anonymous - but clearly the blog.
AA 984 - MVD-MIA →
“Dear Pier,
Translate. No one speaks French anymore.
Love, America.”
– SKM
“No lo pienses, vámonos, ya somos dos.”
– LOVG
“But if this so-called Santa Claus does not bring me a burgundy dinner jacket, we...”
– Manny
