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Love the information correlation in these maps
Category: Internet (Page 15 of 40)
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Makes me want to go abroad next summer, simply so I can take no-cost flights
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Interesting, sensible (and foreboding) post by Nick Denton on how media firms like his should weather the ad slowdown. Also noted: his site has a new Gawker-esque design that pulls his posts from across his web properties. Reminds me that I need to get my Action Streams up and running
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Obama is actually a sci-fi nerd. Somewhere a million D&D fans are smiling
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Noted
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Part of me thinks, quelle horror! Double secret authority for military action! But part of me also thinks, well, there's been next to no anti-US terrorism in all this time, so maybe that's not such a bad thing
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Apparently DST increases, not decreases, energy consumption. C'mon, Congress, scale it back! Please!
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The broadcast debut of Marc Meyers' festival-prizewinning film. And to think I get to say I gave him his start as a writer! Marc, I'm proud and excited–publicly wishing you continued success
(Compiled from several previous auto-feed posts.)
Some more items on the election’s impact:
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George Will on the Republican election loss, mirroring my blog post from yesterday: “more dispiriting than numerically stunning.”
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Experts call it, among other things, “a normal win.” Which sounds about right.
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Tyler Cowen: "Both voting and not voting are motivated by the thought that you are better than other people. I am glad that we have an entire day devoted to this very important concept." Clever bit of absurdist reductionism. And the cringe-inducing comment thread proves his point.
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I think, sadly, that Krugman is right. And I think it might give momentum to my cry for a new political party–social liberal, fiscal conservative. Call it the European party….
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I had to read this twice in the voting booth to understand it. Then I still didn't get it, decided I wasn't against veterans' benefits, and voted for it. Last line of this explanatory web page: "Con: The League can identify no arguments against this proposal." whew
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Reading this, you can hear Nate's inner baseball fan enjoying the parallels of the moment
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As they hope, this makes me want to shop amazon.com for just about everything
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I'm sorry, but once you get to this point, the explanation is basically moot
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And me, in my tag cloud costume. Ah, office Halloween
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Ah, schadenfreude
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Anil and Alaina sitting in a museum…. what a neat gift
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Wow: "In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions." I will be sad when the NYT does this in a few years, leaving me to download PDFs to a gadget
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Alaska's main newspaper endorses Obama. The editors neatly sidestep any pro-Palin bias by focusing (rightly) on the two candidates for President, then politely put the governor in her place, noting her extreme lack of experience
Now online: MTV Music. So obvious and wonderful it’s amazing it took this long. Not only is it great for archival purposes, it’s also a chance to see videos that don’t get much air time in this post-music video era. Shame it took MTV so many years to roll out an easy-to-use music video archive, but hey, better late than never.
What I’ve watched this morning, blissfully all over the map:
~ Godley and Creme, Cry (probably my favorite video, period)
~ Val Emmich, Get on with It
~ LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out (live Unplugged)
~ Estelle, American Boy (she looks nothing like I expected)
~ Kiss, I Love It Loud
~ Queens of the Stone Age, Go with the Flow (check the similarities in the glowing eyes to the Kiss video)
~ Living Colour, Cult of Personality
I’m disappointed by some conspicuous omissions (Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way” is a huge lack; “Ray of Light,” “You Oughta Know” too), but in general, it’s both fun and fascinating.