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Notes on news, art, pop culture, politics, and ideas big and small.

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Bigger Than The Sound

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Robin at Snarkmarket loves Radio Lab . Chris Dahlen at Pitchfork loves Radio Lab . And I love Radio Lab. Won't you love Radio Lab, too ?...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

The Last One To Leave

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Back-to-back punches to the face for my old hometown (and I'm not talking about Ron Silliman impugning the honor of Lou Whitaker ): In S...

Poetry and the Expansion Draft

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The Phillies moved into a tie for first place in the NL East last night with the NY Mets. Philadelphia is going a little cuckoo this morning...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

All Things Wes Anderson

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Wes Anderson is releasing a thirteen-minute prequel to his new film The Darjeeling Limited , titled Hotel Chevalier -- first as a short fi...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Discourse of the Master

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Something that's always struck me as odd in my readings in philosophy and intellectual history is how some authors get more truth-scruti...

The Bottle Gives Birth to the Cup

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Bookpornography

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One photo + text blog that I love is the "Bookporn" section of A Historian's Craft . There's stunning photos of books and ...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Analog God With Artificial Limbs

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Anthony Lane, in his superb essay on the Leica 35mm camera, hits on a definition of something I've always found difficult to express. Af...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The Three Pixels

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Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic Software, talks about developing Panic's Coda web editor. They couldn't get the toolbar to do wh...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Get Off Of My Cloud

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"Cloud" or web-based apps are all the rage, in part because your data can be retrieved anywhere, anytime, and can't be lost as...
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I write about technology, design, & culture for Wired.com.
For many years, I did Literature and Media stuff at Penn.
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