Andrew Cohen

Daily Cheat video: SOTU, GOP response, Google Eyes

theswingingsixties:

The Rolling Stones — She’s a Rainbow - 1967

my-ear-trumpet:

WPA rumor poster (c. 1939-1941)

lionskeleton:

James Rosenquist

shutupweirdo:

WFMU bathroom shot, Andycized.

shutupweirdo:

New on the wall of studio A at WFMU

shutupweirdo:

Topic: False Accusations.

magnificentoctopus:

A is for…

Anna’s Book of Bike Bits. To help Anna remember the names for all the bits. With probably unhelpful attempts at German translations.

shutupweirdo:

But it’s spelled I-ran, like the Flock of Seagulls song.

I stand correctly accused. I’ve heard this complaint from Persians I work with. Oh, the irony.

On the same count, remember it’s Mos-KOH, Mos-KOW. There are no cows there.

Keiko, “Freiburg 3.0” — Repeated listenings of this song are getting me through a difficult day. It’s like a rave in my head.

Oil laundering, Gitmo contraband.

That’s my boy.

Friday’s Show: Falsely Accused

We’ve all made mistakes, done things we’re not proud of, but nothing stings so much as being falsely accused when you’ve been walking the straight and narrow. You’ve felt it. I’ve felt it. So have Alger Hiss, O.J. Simpson, and the Rosenbergs. 

So call us this week on  Shut Up, Weirdo and share your tale of offended innocence. Tune in this Friday, 6 to 7pm ET, and deny, deny, deny (201-209-9368). Or just plead the Fifth and listen at WFMU 91.1 (NYC area) or WFMU.org.

Shut Up, Weirdo: The calm before the storm, on Opposite Day.

Here I sound drunk and sleepy.

Steve McQueen, 1930-1980.

Terry Riley, “In C”

WFMU bathroom shot, Andycized.

Topic: False Accusations.

New on the wall of studio A at WFMU

frangry:

Someone’s been doing his research.

Maybe he recognized your voice from WFMU. I know I didn’t tell him.

But it’s spelled I-ran, like the Flock of Seagulls song.

I stand correctly accused. I’ve heard this complaint from Persians I work with. Oh, the irony.

On the same count, remember it’s Mos-KOH, Mos-KOW. There are no cows there.

Friday’s Show: Falsely Accused

We’ve all made mistakes, done things we’re not proud of, but nothing stings so much as being falsely accused when you’ve been walking the straight and narrow. You’ve felt it. I’ve felt it. So have Alger Hiss, O.J. Simpson, and the Rosenbergs. 

So call us this week on  Shut Up, Weirdo and share your tale of offended innocence. Tune in this Friday, 6 to 7pm ET, and deny, deny, deny (201-209-9368). Or just plead the Fifth and listen at WFMU 91.1 (NYC area) or WFMU.org.

Shut Up, Weirdo: The calm before the storm, on Opposite Day.

jacobsoboroff:

Little known radio secret: the “cough” button. (Taken with Instagram at NPR West)

We don’t have that, but we could use it. That plus a “yawn” button.

• Frangry: we are going to have to TOUCH each other! and YOU DONT CARE?!?!
• Andy: no. I touch lots of people
• Frangry: ew
• Andy: I'm touching myself right now

You need to be available either or both of the marathon Fridays (2/24 or 3/2) during our show to answer phones and take pledges. Email us at shutupweirdo@wfmu.org if you’re interested!

Jenna directed us to this video of herself (at least it sounds like Jenna), but why? Also: this video was posted more than a year ago. But why?

After last week’s show.

Frangry, on the line with Jenna, during last night’s show. 

Frangry photographing this week’s Muller masterpiece.

WFMU bathroom shot

Topic: What Fell on You

nevver:

Thank God it’s Friday the 13th

shortformblog:

iBooks Author sounds like it could be the next-generation InDesign, or a souped-up Pages. God, we hope it’s the former and not the latter. (via)

92y:

Paul Krugman: The Economic Crisis Will Permanently Scar New Graduates

“How long does it you as an individual to recover from the fact that you happen to graduate from college into a bad job market? And the answer is forever. It scars your entire work career. You will never recover from the fact. So the kids that are graduating into the 2011 job market are never going to have the lives they should have had. And this is going on. At the moment, it does not look like the 2012 job market is going to be very much better than the 2011 job market.”

—Paul Krugman with Jeff Greenfield at 92Y March 29, 2011.

Paul Krugman returns with Jeff Greenfield on April 29. Get your tickets now.

cheatsheet:

Since men are not angels, it was inevitable that state and local education authorities would dumb down the tests to make themselves look good to the feds and to the voters.

10 Years Later: How No Child Left Behind corrupted education in the U.S. 

Photo: Jeff Hutchens / Getty Images

thedailyfeed:

Yikes! College for today’s newborns could cost as much as $422,320.

The Daily analyzed historical, inflation-adjusted price data from the College Board to see what a bachelor’s degree might cost the class of 2034 in 2011 dollars. The result: Total tuition and fees would top $232,000 for an average-priced four-year private college and nearly $81,000 at an average-priced public university — up 111 percent and 167 percent, respectively, from the average class of 2012 tuition.

Room and board brings the average price of a four-year college education up to a projected $288,000 in 2011 dollars for four years beginning in 2030 at an average private school and $123,000 at an average public school. The class of 2012 paid about $149,195 for a private school and $64,591 at a public university, according to College Board data.

lareviewofbooks:

Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com

One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists,…

thedailyfeed:

Want a job when you graduate? Don’t major in architecture. 

Job-hungry college students: Consider majoring in agriculture, natural resources or education, and get a graduate degree. Whatever you do, forget architecture. The major has the distinction of the highest unemployment rate for recent grads, at 13.9 percent.

 A new study from Georgetown University lists the majors with the highest and lowest unemployment rates for recent graduates — and some might surprise you.

ilovecharts:

HAPPY NEW YE..oops.

bookmania:

In Defense of Humanities. As universities [around the world] question the need for humanities education, John Landy, co-director of Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative comes to the defense of literature. “Spending time in the presence of works of great beauty can powerfully change your life,” he says.

gaminginyourunderwear:

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who loves science puns. 

journalofajournalist:

This link is great. It turns out the internet has a whole subculture of competitive foreign language learners… And this bulletin board is just goddamn amazing. Je trouve mon nouveau timesuck.

flavorpill:

Free online classes at MIT for ANYONE. Game changer. 

dataanxiety:

gregmelander:

A great article on how people learn. Basically people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired.com via Chris McConnell 

Education isn’t magic.

Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.

shortformblog:

felixsalmon:

(via PROOF that the earth is only 6000 years old)

This leaves me with only one question. What will I do once I have neither scripture nor science to back me up?

Can you see the fallacy in this argument?