From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Plus, our culture is just getting dumber and dumber, so it may not stand a chance. The proof in that is that a guy with a C-average degree from the University of Maryland and 13 years of covering cops for a newspaper in Baltimore has a television show, and everyone’s arguing over whether it’s brilliant or not. OK, that’s a culture that’s in serious decline.

Plus, our culture is just getting dumber and dumber, so it may not stand a chance. The proof in that is that a guy with …

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● Alison Stokke diet plan helps Oprah lose 10,000 lbs.

● Alison Stokke diet plan helps Oprah lose 10,000 lbs.

Or, “with all the dogmatism of brevity”, Ogilvy & Mather show us how to create …

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The Creative Underclass [Shut Up, Brooklyn]

The Creative Underclass [Shut Up, Brooklyn]
“Brooklyn’s ‘creative self-employed’ workers — its architects, designers, writers, jewelry makers — are growing. But what’s to stop this …

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Clive Thompson on the Benefits of Being a DIYer [DIY]

Clive Thompson on the Benefits of Being a DIYer [DIY]
tool_scaled.jpgWired writer Clive Thompson has a thought-provoking piece in this month’s issue on the general …

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Keeping too many doors open narrows our options. "Closing a…

Keeping too many doors open narrows our options. “Closing a…

Keeping too many doors open narrows our options.

“Closing a door on an option

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Instead of leaving your organs to someone else when you die, leave all your intellectual property.

Instead of leaving your organs to someone else when you die, leave all your intellectual property.
Intellectual Property Donor – Featured on BuzzFeed…

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Mr. Gondry comes off seeming confused and conflicted — if not condescending, self-serving and intellectually slippery. Given how inventive an artist he has proven to be, it would be interesting to see him try to realize his fantasies outside the magic bubbles of high-end moviemaking and the high-brow art world.

Mr. Gondry comes off seeming confused and conflicted — if not condescending, self-serving and intellectually slippery. Given how inventive an artist he has proven to …

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It would be swell if it were otherwise — if there were some sort of unified Brooklyn vision. But you’d have to be a bit dense to confuse a geographical and economic accident with an aesthetic movement, no matter how sick you are of hearing about how green the grass is over here, no matter how much you long for that nurturing Elysium of your dreams.

It would be swell if it were otherwise — if there were some sort of unified Brooklyn vision. But you’d have to be a bit …

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