the Daily Whale - archive 2011

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2011

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It’s revving up! It’s revving up! Now let’s see if we get anywhere. Is revolution the solution, or will it just go around again?


	January	February	March
1	in the present	Egypt	civil war
2	bound and gagged	first step	hadron nation
3	worse every year	devices	fixed-point theorem
4	tragically understood	value judgements	refugees
5	subtlety	best effort	suppress dissent
6	neutral cell	government-in-a-box	phase transition
7	continuous improvement	catastrophe theory	strong opinion
8	raise my standards	stability 1	those ancestors
9	bribery	stability 2	indirect fire
10	structuralism	stability 3	blind faith
11	polarization	Berlusconi	criminal ruler
12	polarization 2	eternal vigilance 1	Japan earthquake
13	polarization 3	eternal vigilance 2	puny Earthlings
14	apart	not the end	crumbling infrastructure
15	opposite attitudes	out of whack	nuclear trouble
16	gratefulness	economics	nuclear trouble 2
17	Tunisia	UFO	nuclear trouble 3
18	revolutions	rocket science	nuclear trouble 4
19	refreezing society	dominoes falling	before dishonor
20	error budget	contagion	important language
21	scapegoats	computer security 1	European air bases
22	uncharitable	computer security 2	actions of war
23	Tunisia revisited	sign of madness	news terminology
24	know everything	computer security 3	provisional verdict
25	magazine	pluralism	nuclear poisons
26	defines you	more study	stabilizing attitude
27	North Korea	for my flaws	confusing
28	entertainment industry	21st century Monday	precise culture
29	1848		demanding culture
30	FBI and Anonymous		pearl
31	Anonymous 2		wingnuts get loose

	April	May	June
1	web comics	postdestined	project management
2	persistence	positive power	prevention and cure
3	military intervention	Obama vs. Osama	cell phones
4	celebration	war	to-do list 1
5	INDISPENSABLE	mechanical problems	to-do list 2
6	trust quiz	hate me	think deeply
7	black swan	account information	absolutism
8	on message	into your worldview	what’s important 1
9	software testing	PET	what’s important 2
10	god of grammar	no generalists	what’s important 3
11	universal peace	significant result	training
12	don’t repeat	nothing makes sense	credulity
13	poetry slam	nonsymbolic illogic	well-rounded
14	forgetting experience	contention	good taste
15	eliminate wasteful spending	No Admissions	up and down
16	lunch before dishonor	stone wall	contemporary
17	capital requirements	elephant in the room	gnome-user-guide
18	length of ten	being a beginner	tradecraft
19	teach the controversy	Ottawa Treaty	meme fitness
20	zero-proof knowledge	day breaks	never died
21	a little sharper	job security	Corporate Bland 1
22	careful study	end of the world	Corporate Bland 2
23	flush your DNA	goodness	Corporate Bland 3
24	birthdays	end of the world 2	love of danger
25	election problems quiz	stakeholder	equilibrium arguments
26	success	nuclear danger	don’t get it
27	used to	first lifetime	U.S. election 2012
28	while the iron is hot	Marmite	political power
29	rare giant tsunami	diplomat	invisibility
30	rare skyfall	futurism	harder
31		amnesia

	July	August	September
1	Convention on Disarmament	probably wrong	prohibit childbirth
2	idiocy	debt deal	dogfood
3	temporary	self-importance	as smart as I think
4	budget bomb	progress	babies are ugly
5	too late	stereotypes	daycare
6	East of times	dunce dunce	steal innocence
7	good enough	political stalemate	abandon recklessness
8	small weaknesses	lunatic fringe	without saying
9	immorality	properly organized	Great Depression 1
10	News of the World	bounded in a cosmos	Great Depression 2
11	casualty of peace	soundness	dumb question
12	Rupert Murdoch	iceberg towing	Chinese dream
13	nudist	plotting violence	carbohydrates
14	satire	last words	omniscient narrator
15	hearsay	too short quiz	atomic operations
16	duplication of effort	treachery	board of managers
17	selling out	brake rools	unthinkable
18	truth quiz	new starts	waiting on hold
19	a good day for	poisonous multiplier	JDAM decoded
20	like an ass	honk if you love	moderation
21	confidence interval	Republican soundbites	near this planet
22	inventor of summer	vision and insight	road safety 1
23	tweeds	political divisiveness	road safety 2
24	collateral damage	decent and good	good point
25	full faith and credit	east coast quake	too good
26	light years of lead	downpour of ideas	endpoints
27	practical joke	labyrinthine energy	fire engine
28	idealpolitik	long for the past	atom haiku
29	dye	national debt	albatross
30	professionals	wind surfing	camouflage
31	communist tactics	inner beauty

	October	November	December
1	enemy	only 1%	exceptions
2	European Fall	claims	20th century
3	click OK	facts and opinions	I want everything
4	trying quiz	message: diversify	the 0.01%
5	sunrise	plague my parents	Little Bother
6	bite your tongue	Shakespeare	cheese plover
7	mistakes	technical writing	political ads
8	Occupy Wall Street	not a poem	economic cycles
9	99% Party	tinfoil lining	terms of service
10	the 99%	plenty of fish	exchange currency
11	coalition politics	statute of liberty	realism wins
12	democratic sweep	opening a door	stealing elections
13	magical thinking	suspension of disbelief	not documented
14	repressed memories	intellectual poverty	hyperactive passivity
15	not big enough	Italy	good enough
16	last words	die laughing	blue LED’s
17	cellphone age	great leader	typecasting
18	one must sing	eurocrisis	elephant
19	blow up the Earth	symbiotic eurocrisis	snow nor rain
20	spectacular failure	belief	King Jong Il dies 1
21	walk in street	palm of your hand	Kim Jong Il dies 2
22	politics	territory dispute	Kim Jong Il dies 3
23	cleansing fire	shallowness	Wukan
24	once bitten	apple doesn’t fall	critical distance
25	death spittoon	police support	foreign pressure
26	unexpect	optimality	a box of chocolates
27	kinds of mistake	dirt budget	the horror crawls
28	non-specialists	flexible business plan	part of the cure
29	eyes a loss	sand castles	acknowledgements
30	lady or tiger	until they hurt	a good idea
31	time is money		great corporations