“Speaking gibberish has long been known to be a telltale sign of a stroke, but how about sending nonsensical text messages? It turns out, those can also be a key indicator of a life-threatening loss of blood supply to the brain — a newly recognized phenomenon called dystextia.”
I'm Peter Wade. Formerly of The @Daily.
Here I blog about news, politics, media & pop culture.
I also manage SNY's Tumblr
A TIME Magazine Must-See Tumblr Blog: "A constant stream of news, politics and pop culture with just the right serious-to-meme ratio."
One of BuzzFeed's Best Tumblrs of 2011
One of HuffPo's 33 Tumblrs You NEED to Follow
"Here's a guy who writes all day long for a living. And what does he do with his free time? He takes all this seemingly random and different news and blends it together into one great tumblr blog." - PR Newswire
SNY made a great pick in bringing [Peter] on." - Mark Coatney, Tumblr Media Director, formerly of Newsweek
"Really smart hire ... Peter is one of the best bloggers around and he gets tumblr more than most." - Anthony De Rosa, Reuters Social Media Editor
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“So, are you David’s secretary or something?”— Male model on the set of a cover shoot to the magazine’s editor-in-chief
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Followers? More Like Cheerleaders
A quick and sappy shout-out to those who follow me on Tumblr is probably necessary once in a while, and in my case, it’s very overdue.
This...
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“… [T]his condition is congenital. It is inborn and exists in the microscopic structure of his body. He is in sexual matters an INVERT: i.e. one whose interest sexually has been...”
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A couple ticks behind on this, but Newsweek’s redesign is really, really good.
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I know I'm gonna get shit for this but...
…I like the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr (if it happens).
Tumblr needs something to happen. This is clear. The team in place has taken the...
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So, as you may have seen, one of my favorite internet friends, ION, and I went to go see Star Trek Into Darkness together tonight. It was fantastic.
ION and I were sitting in...
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“In the past twenty years, corporate profits have quadrupled while the corporate tax percent has dropped by half. The payroll tax, paid by workers, has doubled.”
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Gap & Wal-Mart To Bangladesh Garment Workers: Go Die In A Fire, LOLSince “competition” and “efficiency” and “unit cost” are key to success in international trade and to...
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“The Simpsons and Twin Peaks premièred a few months apart from each other in 1989/1990, and at the time, it felt like a real sea change had taken place in the culture. That feeling...”
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