Four-minute animation of the American Civil War. Interesting that in lieu of the traditional Blue and Grey, the Union is represented in Blue and the Confederacy in Red. Think there’s anything to say here about the state of politics today?
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Watching the Union land a beach-head in New Orleans, drive south through Mississippi, [...]
if Hitch were to get his own talk show?
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I’m not crazy about the guy, but he’s always fun to watch. He pwns Hannity pretty nicely in this clip. And ad hominem-ing Ralph Reed with cries of “Abramoff! Abramoff!” isn’t the classiest move in the world, but it certainly feels good.
This is a sad end to a wonderful project. Derek Powazek has left JPG, the photo magazine he and his wife Heather founded. The story is worth reading, especially for the grace and tact with which Derek tells the story. But I was most taken with what he learned from the whole [...]
I’ve been saying this for years, but I finally wrote it down in response to a bday email, and thought it might be of interest to the general internets-community-at-large:
On 5/10/07, < REDACTED@gmail.com> wrote:
Ahhh, so the time has passed for my quarter of century mark. No longer a early/mid twenties but alas, a mid/late twenties. [...]
David Chang talks about moving Momofuku to a larger space. To fend off attention, he made up a decoy resturant (complete with menu) that’s ostensibly moving in to the new space.
Its like Blue [...]
Bicyclists are a boon to any city, reducing congestion and pollution and pushing back the anonymity of automobile culture. Its enraging to see this kind of motorist-on-cyclist violence (which tends to be common) and gratifying to see it publicized and punished.
Students Accidentally Catch Cyclist Assault On Tape
Tuesday May 8, 2007
A group of students on a [...]
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ain’t it purty?
You can read the story here, but the page has been getting hammered pretty badly of late, so here’s the backstory:
There’s nothing odd about watching several TV shows or playing several video games simultaneously, but books tend to be idealized as serial pursuits: don’t start a new one until you’ve finished whatever yr reading. I have NADD and a bad habit of beelining straight for the remainders table in St. Marks Books; consequently, there’re [...]
…before 10am.
He’s apparently got a radio show now, which my radio is apparently tuned to. In the course of taking phone-in ethics queries with Randy Cohen, the Ethicist for the New York Times, the subject of file-sharing came up several times.
Finally, a caller chimes in with “hey man, you can’t argue that this [...]
Last night’s panel on Net Aesthetics 2.0 continued a streak of 2.0-themed events that I’ve recently attended. The panel was alright, but ran really long, and there was a lot of chaff to sift through. There were some good insights, especially regarding the nature of art on the internet vs. art in galleries, [...]
