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This is kind of ridiculous, but also a little bit awesome
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Great observations by Alex on social networking and how unclear the waters can be. When is it really appropriate to friend someone?
Category: Internet (Page 8 of 40)
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Great, great concise summary of today's big news
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No more @replies if I don't know both people? I don't get this at all. Suddenly it's much harder to bounce into things, find new people, etc
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Delicious: "Ticket prices at the new Yankee Stadium are so high that if a New Yorker wants to watch a Mariners/Yankees game from the best seats, it would be a lot cheaper to fly to Seattle, stay in a nice hotel, eat fancy dinners, and see two games."
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Great, evil writeup of the grub at the new Yankee Stadium. I keep telling people: IT'S STILL JUST A BASEBALL STADIUM.
At the end of the day, you're attending a ball game, with all the wonderful lowbrow treats that implies: outdoor seating, weather variances, sticky floors, people yelling. No amount of haute cuisine, good or bad, will change that fact, nor can it justify huge ticket price increases.
As Mitch Albom said a few weeks back, "I don't know anyone who ever came home from a sports event talking about the food." -
Pandora's definition of Janet Jackson's music includes "extensive vamping." From the Pandora FAQ: "Vamping is a term that refers to extended improvisation over a repeated chord change." I never knew vamping was a technical term. Fascinated (and wiser)
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"If you were a child in the '70s or the '80s and were allowed to go visit your friend down the block, or ride your bike to the library, or play in the park without your parents accompanying you, your children are no less safe than you were." I am so heavily in favor of letting my boy be a child on his own terms.
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Simple little Greasemonkey script made my Twitter site visits much more tolerable (although it's now prompting me for API logins too often, but I'll take it)
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Great rundown of fragrances from someone who really knows. Appreciating Chandler Burr's nose may be the most lasting pleasantry I acquired from my days selling beauty products
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There's "my friend wrote a good book," and then there's "President Obama is name-dropping my friend's book"
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Great story of the history of WebRing (and the ridiculous amounts of money that surrounded it)
A week on, I’m really enjoying The Awl, Choire Sicha and Alex Balk’s new project. (And I’m not just saying that because Choire is a friend. Hell, I don’t even know what Balk looks like.)
There’s something starkly refreshing and pleasant about the site, greater than the sum of its parts: forced lack of design, missing headlines, unironic self-consciousness. With a crack staff of professional writers but no publisher overhead, the site is as snarky as it damn well pleases, but not in an off-putting way. It’s more of, “This is how we feel, read it if you like, wander over to one of Nick Denton’s sites if you must, we’ll still be here. Fucker.” Well, okay then. And so I’m reading it all day.
I’m also a fan of the subject matter, which, thanks to its writers’ sensibilities, hews toward the Spy/Radar/Gawker-circa-2003 detached observer’s angle. The Daily Show-style news dissection is a nice addition to the daily RSS routine, and it’s varied enough to keep me paying attention.
The juxtaposition of top-quality, to-the-moment critique and messy, low-budget blog hasn’t been executed quite like this, at least not in some time, and not by a staff. Choire and Alex ostensibly have a business model up their sleeve, but as of now, the site is creeping along, filled by a roster of un- and underemployed bloggers. It’s a fascinating experiment, and one that, even if it cleans up before it turns platinum, will no doubt make for great reading. I wish them much success.
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Credit to Time for not cleansing the results. "Influence" does indeed have many angles