Deelicious.
Andrew Scrivani for the NYT (also on Flickr).
World Cup Photo Replay: Day 11, June 21: Noel Valladares, the Honduran goalkeeper, couldn’t stop Villa’s second goal. (Credit: Jerry Lampen/Reuters)
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Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYTimes.com
CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company.
But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn’t matter that she didn’t have business cards, because all they would say was “Mom.”
No, it gets better.
(via Instapaper)
In 2010, no less. Shoot me now.
What Doreen said! sigh.
[Toby Stuart, a Harvard Business School professor] says that some men are reluctant to invest in women’s start-ups because “there are enough things that can go wrong with a high-risk, early-stage venture that if you’re worried about any interpersonal dynamic issues, why not do a deal that takes that out of the equation?”
Oh, sweet; I didn’t know men never had interpersonal dynamic issues. That’s awesome! Go you guys! …
Many are pushed to pursue supervisory and management jobs instead of “individual contributor” jobs involving deep technical expertise…
What I really enjoyed about being a manager, apart from bullshit-filtering for my team (unexpectedly satisfying!), is that I worked. I had bugs to fix and templates to build and problems to solve, on top of the delegation and performance reviews and hiring. Loved it.
Mr. DiCaprio, having grown perhaps overly fond of his accent from “The Departed,” brings it along for the ride, and it spreads through the movie like a contagious disease. Teddy’s partner (pahtnah), Chuck Aule, played by Mark (Mahk) Ruffalo, is supposed to be from the Pacific Northwest but he seems to have left all his R’s back in Seattle.
All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings, A.O. Scott, NYTimes
Cracking up over here. My favorite part of the review might be “Something TERRIBLE is afoot.” You and I both know all-caps like that is a set-up and he follows through quite well.
What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk tail in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes.
Study Offers Insight Into Dinosaur Colors
THAT is an intro paragraph. (:
We changed our style several years ago on plurals like this. Here’s what the current “plurals” entry in The Times’s stylebook says:
But do not use apostrophes for plurals of abbreviations without periods, or for plurals formed from figures: TVs, PCs, DVDs; 1990s, 747s, size 7s.
“Words We Love Too Much”, Philip B. Corbett, NYT
To which I say: it’s about damn time.
The House Next Door (photos Martin Tessler for the NYT) (found via walkwhilereading)
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(The light in the first photo! The La Chaise! The Yanagi stool! Lovely.)
tiffehr → The Way We Live Now → The Place of Women on the Court
From the Brooks op-ed:
This isn’t the old story of a career woman trying to balance work and family. This is the story of pressures that affect men as well as women (men are just more likely to make fools of themselves in response, as the news of the last few years indicates).
What I hope we don’t see — and so far I haven’t, though it’s possibly due to my not paying close enough attention? — is judgment that she isn’t trying to balance them. Maybe it’s purposeful? Who knows. Who. Cares. (fingerscrossed)
From the Ginsburg interview:
Q: It seemed to me that male judges do much more abrasive things all the time, and it goes unremarked.
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the notion that Sonia is an aggressive questioner — what else is new? Has anybody watched Scalia or Breyer up on the bench?
Q: She’ll fit right in?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: She’ll hold her own.
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More reasons to love A.O. Scott
From The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3:
“Mr. Washington, perhaps the most effortlessly charismatic American film actor since Paul Newman, is, like Newman, best when his magnetism is dented by failure or tarnished by meanness or sleaze. In this case his quiet, stoical everyman heroism is deepened by the suggestion of a smudge on his character, a sense of moral compromise that both connects him with, and distinguishes him from, the would-be criminal mastermind who becomes his nemesis.”
Item the first: there are few writers who do the 2-sentences-in-1 via commas as well as Mr. Scott.
Item the second: there’s little current writing (news, though entertainment especially) that doesn’t shortcut but takes the long way ‘round using constructions like “a sense of moral compromise that both connects him with, and distinguishes him from, the would-be criminal mastermind…”
Previously, we loved A.O. Scott for his pop-culture mash-ups.
