January 2012
10 posts
“Soviet central planners mandated quotas for steel production, regardless of...”
– State of the Union Flop - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online
“For an entire decade, between 1975 and 1985, Brian Eno could do no wrong. In...”
– SWINGING MODERN SOUNDS #33: The Sweet Spot - The Rumpus.net by Rick Moody
“The American public shares much of the skepticism of government at the heart of...”
– State of the Union? More Like State of the Campaign - NYTimes.com
Wow! A stunning admission from the Grey Lady.
“The MetLife mortgage lesson is that even companies with the best risk...”
– Review & Outlook: The MetLife Lesson - WSJ.com
“Were you a big Gowalla fan? Did you like Dodgeball? Did you think Trunk.ly...”
– Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
“The United States is living through an era of unprecedented elite failure, in...”
– Pariahs and Prophets - NYTimes.com
by Ross Douthat - and that’s just about the most accurate thing I’ve read in the Times in a long time.
“Among the arrests, 17 were for assault, 17 for drunkenness and 16 for public...”
– BBC News - London New Year celebrations: 77 arrested
Ahhh, the understated British…
Lake Superior State University's 2011 List Of... →
December 2011
30 posts
Win/Luck Compilation of 2011 →
New post on Dougist
“Research has shown that intellectual ability matters for success in many fields...”
– Sorry, Strivers - Talent Matters - NYTimes.com
“Has book blogging hit the wall? A marketing department email sent to bloggers on...”
– Has book blogging hit the wall? William Morrow’s blogger notice - latimes.com
“A POPULAR parlour game among historians is debating when the modern world began....”
– The East India Company: The Company that ruled the waves | The Economist
“We would visit Rocco now and then when we hankered for a...”
– Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York: Rocco Ristorante
One of my favorite small Italian places is closing…but what a great quote
“The serenity of Christmas morning in New York — a comforting restorative in a...”
– Christmas Morning Brings Rare Serenity to N.Y.C. - NYTimes.com
“The Panic of 1920 started out as a contender for the greatest depression of all...”
– RealClearMarkets - 1920: The Great Depression That Wasn’t
One-click "Save as PDF" option in Safari toolbar... →
An oldie, but still a great trick
“I rarely read full articles in my RSS reader. Instead, I usually look at...”
– Pinboard: the cement in my ‘read later’ workflow
“For years, Instapaper has been one of the best made, most used, and most beloved...”
– Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read | 43 Folders
Me too…
“MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally...”
– MIT launches online learning initiative - MIT News Office
“As the guesses indicate, you can’t really judge a book by its cover when it...”
– Lost and found, iPod shuffle reunited with owner - The Washington Post
“I now follow about 1,600 people and I unfollow and follow people every day. I’m...”
– Heidi Moore: What I Read - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
Good lord…
1,600!
How many times?
1 tag
HowTo: OPML Editor Home →
The OPML Editor is a distribution of the open source (GPL) Frontier programming environment. It can run all apps written for Frontier, but it’s unique in that it boots up as an outliner, ready to edit OPML documents. Everything else can be added by installing tools using the new Tool Catalog command.
“Berman, who started his intellectual career in the early nineteen-seventies, as...”
– Hirsi Ali, Berman, and Ramadan on Islam : The New Yorker
“Cornell University was chosen by New York City to build an engineering campus...”
– Cornell Said Chosen by NYC for Engineering Campus - Bloomberg
“Congress spared the 100-watt incandescent light bulb from a government-enforced...”
– Incandescent Bulbs Spared in Tea Party Victory - Bloomberg
Whew! Now that we got that out of the way maybe we can get to work on the deficit…
“Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and...”
– Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
We’ll miss you Hitchens…
Tufts University Center for Cognitive Studies →
The funniest comics ever
“Dear Prime Minister,
Merry Christmas! I mean it. All that “Happy Holiday...”
– New Statesman - Leader: Do you get it now, Prime Minister?
An open letter to the Rt Hon David Cameron MP from theNew Statesman’s Christmas 2011 guest editor, Richard Dawkins.
“I remember how the Cold War was changed, and you could for the first time feel...”
– Hacking of 760 Firms Reflects Global Cyber War - Bloomberg
“They are stealing everything that isn’t bolted down, and it’s getting...”
– Hacking of 760 Firms Reflects Global Cyber War - Bloomberg
“Crystal Bridges was designed by Moshe Safdie, who is a fine architect, and his...”
– Goldberg: Wal-Mart Heiress’s Museum a Moral Blight - Bloomberg
“The first outline should be a rough indication of all the things you need to...”
– Taking note: Flat Outlines versus Hierarchical Outlines
“If a professor who makes $75,000 a year spends five years on a book on Charles...”
– The Research Bust - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“…after four decades of mountainous publication, literary studies has...”
– The Research Bust - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Writers Institute Authors dominate NYTimes Notable... →
Sixteen writers whose books were selected for the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 are former Visiting Writers at the New York State Writers Institute. Among these, Karen Russell (Swamplandia!), James Gleick (The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood) and Tom Perrotta (The Leftovers) joined us during the 2011 season, while Michael Ondaatje (The Cat’s Table) and Russell Banks...
November 2011
14 posts
“The New Luddites are back, and they’re packing heat. The mighty Economist writes...”
– What If This Is No Accident? What If This Is The Future? | TechCrunch
Former Billionaire Declares Personal Bankruptcy -... →
Once Ireland’s richest man with a personal fortune of $6 billion, Sean Quinn applied for voluntary bankruptcy in Belfast this morning. Quinn owed an alleged $3.85 billion to Anglo Irish Bank’s successor institution, the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, which he simply couldn’t repay.
Charlie Rose - Slavoj Zizek →
“Let us give the devil his due..”
“Developer Ziel Feldman is probably about to get control of troubled One Madison...”
– Another Set of Condos Will Soon Tower Over the High Line - Coming Attractions - Curbed NY
“… people will be able to stroll along the High Line from the Whitney, stop...”
– West Side’s Museum Mile - WSJ.com
“Bottom-line: I know from experience that it’s bad to depend on a...”
– Scripting News: I deleted my Facebook account
“It is, however, accepted by everyone that the plight of women, equal yet...”
– Women, who are equal to men, write better TV, women say ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
“We are being pummeled by a deluge of data and unless we create time and spaces...”
– Rebecca Blood :: Weblogs: A History And Perspective
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The great Harry Houdini speaks about his “Water...”
– Audioboo / Harry Houdini speaking, in 1914
“Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the...”
– Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality