11 month ago
Rod Begbie : Iowa's undemocratic caucuses are no way to choose a presidential candidate. - Slate Magazine - Excellent and timely curmudgeoning by Christopher Hitchens. #
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12 month ago
Rod Begbie : Rock Band vs. Real Band: Sleater-Kinney's guitarist tests out Rock Band. - By Carrie Brownstein - Slate Magazine - Greate article on "Rock Band" by Carrie Brownstein. "If you are going to play the game with a group of friends for more than a night, shouldn't you just form a real band? There is something sad about the thought of four teenagers getting Rock Band for Ch [via] #
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cameron : Can photographers be plagiarists? - Interesting Slate piece on the replication of content and aesthetic in photography
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philgyford : Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine - Interesting interview. Sees the show "as a 66-hour movie" and "a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it's the Postmodern institutions that are the gods" (via Kottke)
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jkottke : Phillies pitcher Don Carman found a box of fan mail in his garage that he had accidentally not answered 15 years ago...so he replied to them, better late than never - Phillies pitcher Don Carman found a box of fan mail in his garage that he had accidentally not answered 15 years ago...so he replied to them, better late than never. "He lugged the envelopes down to the Naples post office, where he discovered that most of
Rod Begbie : A baseball player answers his fan mail 15 years later - Slate Magazine - Former baseball player finds a box of fan mail from 1991 while cleaning his garage, and replies to them! [via] #
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26 month ago
cameron : How do airplanes avoid each other? - I've been wondering how the planes over the Amazon were able to collide; this story doesn't answer the quesiton but does explain quite a bit.
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : reddit.com: Slate - what's new online - Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the "official" place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there's more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just "targetted advertising". [via] #
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : How To Swing - The United States Patent Office explains it all for you. - If I ever write a patent, I'm going to sneak in the phrase "The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell". [via] #
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Bitter Brew - Bitter Brew: "I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life."
Nelson Minar : Coffee economics - Why running a cafe is a bad idea
philgyford : My coffeehouse nightmare. By Michael Idov - Why not to dream about running a coffeeshop.
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