Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Issac Hayes And His Marvelous Scalp

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Pitchfork : Think about how crazy this is for a moment: Stax loses Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays to a plane crash and the rights to their ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Why Michael Jackson's Death Feels Different

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Josh Marshall : I think it's because so much of Michael Jackson's life seemed like make believe. Sometimes farcical. But always like...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

University of Chicago / Your Mom

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Andrea Walker, "Chicago, Where Fun Comes to Die" : The U. of C. is known for serious thinking combined with a sarcastic, self-depr...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Boom and Bust of Asian Cinema in the U.S.

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Andrew O'Hehir interviews Grady Hendrix at the New York Asian Film Festival : "You have acquisitions people picking up movies that ...

The Kindle and the Jewish Question

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Chava Willig Levy, The Kindle and the Jewish Question : Like my father and the Jewish doctoral student, a Chasidic master living at the turn...

A Gesellschaft of Angestellten

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The Importance of Order: German Researchers Tackle Untidy Desks, from Der Spiegel Online : It's the same problem everywhere: Overloaded ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

One Hundred and Forty-One Years of the Typewriter

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[I especially like the shout-out to linotype.] June 23, 1868: Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap … Ding! | This Day In Tech | Wired.com : Christopher L...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Project Girl Wonder

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Henry Jenkins interviews Mary Borsellino about Project Girl Wonder and her book Girl and Boy Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context : The idea o...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Map Is Not The Territory

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Tim O'Reilly gives an interview on the relevance of classical education to digital humanism : The unconscious often knows more than the ...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Money, Philosophy, and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

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The Greeks and money by Richard Seaford in the TLS : This new and revolutionary phenomenon of money itself underpinned and stimulated two gr...