23 days ago
gleuschk : Ideas and Trends - The Best Mind of His Generation - David Foster Wallace - NYTimes.com - A.O. Scott
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1 month ago
gleuschk : David Foster Wallace: The depressed person - short story - The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
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8 month ago
deusx : La Shish closes 11 metro eateries | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press - "The La Shish restaurant chain, which helped popularize Middle Eastern cuisine in metro Detroit, went out of business Saturday night -- the victim of bad publicity involving its fugitive owner, Talal Chahine, whom federal prosecutors linked to terror
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Memo to the Reed College community from Lisa Moore, assistant dean for multicultural affairs - The Oregonian Extra - OregonLive.com - jesus h. christ.
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14 month ago
gleuschk : Does your ceiling hang low, does it wobble to and fro? | Ask MetaFilter - help me figure out what the hell kind of ceiling I have
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14 month ago
gleuschk : Atle Selberg passed away - nice writeup by Terry Tao
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17 month ago
gleuschk : OAKLAND / 15 goats in herd grazing on brush shot, killed - some jerkwads killed the goats. I love the goats!
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17 month ago
gleuschk : Lloyd Alexander was 83 - the Prydain books are my favorite kids' fantasy series evar
cobra libre : Lloyd Alexander, R.I.P. [via] #
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18 month ago
gleuschk : Police remain baffled by prof's fiery death - CNN.com - Steve Haataja
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18 month ago
gleuschk : Yestercuse: The Rise and Fall of Syracuse - amazingly, crushingly detailed dissection of the collapse of Syracuse (ongoing)
Matthew M. Boedicker : documentation of the decline of Syracuse, NY - in 1850 it was the 12th largest city in the country (via del.icio.us/gleuschk) [via]
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Sad news about Paul Cohen - I've been talking about his stuff in seminar this month
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Sad news about Paul Cohen - I've been talking about his stuff in seminar this month
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19 month ago
gleuschk : E! - Kristin's Blog - Exclusive! Veronica Mars Canceled - - NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo..........
deusx : E! - Kristin's Blog - Exclusive! Veronica Canceled - - "With actual tears in my eyes, I must tell you that I’ve heard from several solid sources that the CW has decided not to bring Veronica Mars back for a fourth season."
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22 month ago
gleuschk : bye bye, blo.gs / December 13, 2006 6:35pm @ trainedmonkey - finally dead dead dead. Too bad -- it was a nice place to keep things I wanted to read twice a month or so (but not every time they update).
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gleuschk : Parking Applications and Fees - Faculty and Staff Permits
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30 month ago
gleuschk : A Vt. drowning sets off a story of revelations - Who knew he was a world-renowned physicist with weightier questions on his mind? Wow. This is an astonishing story.
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30 month ago
gleuschk : Mac Lane Lecture, by John Thompson - from back in December
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32 month ago
gleuschk : lost camera: camera unlost, but not quite found. - unbelievable. poor judith!
Andy Baio : "Lost Camera" unlost, but not quite found - a Canadian couple found the Flickr fan's camera, but won't give it back [via]
jkottke : Camera unlost but not quite found - My pal Judith lost her camera on vacation in Hawaii and tried to make the best of the situation by starting a project using other people's Flickr photos to reconstruct a trip journal. Now, a family has found her camera but won't give it back to her becaus
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32 month ago
erikbenson : 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - I wonder if there are guidelines for ways to prime your unconscious mind solve problems in your sleep.
plasticbag : 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - this may be more true of me than other people... - “At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we’re not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things"
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32 month ago
gleuschk : What Is the Value of Algebra? - clueless knuckleheadedness in the Washington Post. "I confess to be one of those people who hate math." Irresponsible moron.
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33 month ago
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell on "power law problems" like homelessness, auto pollution, and bad cops - Malcolm Gladwell on "power law problems" like homelessness, auto pollution, and bad cops. These problems have solutions which focus on the small number of hard-core cases, like the 5% of Denver vehicles that account for 55% of the city's automobile pollut
gleuschk : Million-dollar Murray (Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker) - this should be required reading. How do you solve hard problems? First, you identify the problem.
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33 month ago
gleuschk : Playing School, Irreverently: It's a nice theory, but I wonder if he wants the job. - to read and respond to later (grrrr, bill c., you're embarrassing me)
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34 month ago
gleuschk : Raoul Bott, an Innovator in Mathematics, Dies at 82 - New York Times - a nice memorial
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