December 2009
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November 2009
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If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be... →
AKA: Quit complaining about your customer and start making money. Dammit.
(via @bookoven)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
The Hidden Cameras (27)
Tori Amos (25)
Elliott Smith (20)
MIDIval PunditZ (14)
Arcade Fire (14)
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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines... →
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If your protag is a criminal or an antihero, you don’t have to make him likable,...
– Screenwriting Tips… You Hack: Screenwriting Tip #150
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MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood →
Have you been following the story of the bizarrely secret negotiations of the international treaty?
Secrecy is wholly inappropriate in this circumstance. Our governments owe us transparency.
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Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword... →
Freaking hilarious.
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The History of the Internet in a Nutshell →
I started university in 1994, with Netscape for web and elm for email. Then pine. By the time I started grad school in ‘98, Netscape was on its way out and cross-browser compatibility was a daily website-making consideration. It’s amazing how fast it all evolves.
[via abbyjean]
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BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create... →
Cory Doctorow: “This is as bad as I’ve ever seen, folks. It’s a declaration of war by the entertainment industry and their captured regulators against the principles of free speech, privacy, freedom of assembly, the presumption of innocence, and competition.”
BAD.
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Local dad spoke only Klingon to child for three... →
If the kid was only “starting to learn it” by the age of three, something’s wrong either with Klingon or with the dad’s speaking of it. If Klingon’s a language that has all of the properties of “natural” human languages, the kid should have started picking it up before he was a year old. The more I think about it, the more fascinated I get by this.
(via...
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This American Life Episode 391: More Is Less →
This is a must-listen overview of the American health care system!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Tom Waits (26)
Vampire Weekend (20)
Cat Power (15)
Jem (10)
The Mountain Goats (9)
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Twoogie, M.D.: Update Your Twitter, Doogie-Style →
How have I lived without this?
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Amusing Father Comments Becoming a Show →
Um, remember those cavemen? Well, anyway. I’m pleased I immediately had the same reaction: We’ve already had Jerry Stiller. A few times.
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100 books that defined the noughties →
Agree? Disagree? Conspicuously missing?
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We Know Hollywood Is This Dumb. Et Tu, Netflix? →
OMG, Hollywood businesses. Has no one told you to GO WHERE YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE? No? Well, go where your customers are. They will not follow you. You’re just not that cool.
(via @NicBoshart)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Radiohead (34)
The Dutchess And The Duke (10)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (4)
U2 (2)
Alan Alda & Marlo Thomas (2)
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