January 2010
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1st Person Tetris →
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On my birthday a few years ago, I taught class, called the guy I was sleeping...
– Continue reading! Lives - Going Cyborg - NYTimes.com
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Whereas a dictionary makes it possible to follow the history of a word, a...
– On Language - Semantic Time Travel - NYTimes.com
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures →
beetx:
so weird, via writingwords.tumblr.com
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gazette!
This week, I talked to Pete Van Leeuwen of Van Leeuwen Artisanal Ice Cream about setting up shop in Greenpoint, just steps away from the Gazette offices. We are in trouble. Story here.
Also, I spent some time sewing at SPACECRAFT in Williamsburg. Sew Rebellious!
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Starting, um, tomorrow, the G train will be suspended on four consecutive...
– great, thanks!
G Train Entirely Suspended for Four Straight Weekends - Gothamist
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BEIJING — Google said Tuesday that it would stop cooperating with Chinese...
– Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit China - NYTimes.com
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MTV has succeeded on that score; it can give itself a pat on the back for...
– MTV’s Jersey Shore review : The New Yorker
How to Save Journalism
“But must Americans pay $30 billion a year to get the job done right? Possibly not. Digital technologies have dramatically lowered production and distribution costs. Still, the main source of great journalism is compensated human labor, and, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. We’re longtime advocates of citizen journalism and the blogosphere, but our experience tells us that...
ROBOTS!
NYC Resistor: Making Awesome Things Happen | Motherboard
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In his final State of the State address this morning, California governor Arnold...
– Schwarzenegger Proposes State Constitutional Amendment to Put Universities Ahead of Prisons « Student Activism
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If we don’t fix this now, we’ll be stuck saying years the long way...
– It’s Twenty-ten, not Two-thousand and ten.
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The author’s heirs hold the copyright to his work. But should another company be...
– Op-Ed Contributor - There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen - NYTimes.com
From Jonathan Galassi at an old stompin’ ground- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
I read pages 164–170 of Varieties of Disturbance, by Lydia Davis, while eating...
– READING LIST - By Miranda July - Vice Magazine
Click for the full reading list of Miranda July, whom I unashamedly love.