From the monthly archives:

July 2008

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Watch the growth of Wal-Mart across the country as time passes.

Watch the growth of Wal-Mart across the country as time passes.

Watch the growth of Wal-Mart across the country as time passes. It’s like …

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Magazine layout stop-motion video (via magculture)

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The legacy Usenet leaves behind is that some of the worst blowhard behaviors online were born there, too, and still won’t die. The kids Twittering their gripes in public today probably had parents who replied-all “I don’t see why this is news” on Usenet a decade ago. But for anyone who was on Usenet in its brief halcyon days, sad or not, these are the blocks of amber that preserve an Internet before their moms showed up. Before everybody showed up. At least we can all agree on one thing: The Internet was so much better when we were the only people on it.

The legacy Usenet leaves behind is that some of the worst blowhard behaviors online were born there, too, and still won’t die. The kids Twittering …

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No one likes you, leverage. You exemplify all that is wrong with the English-ish in which press releases are written. Despite the popularity you flaunt as though it justifies your nasty self, we all hate you. Seriously. Just leave.

No one likes you, leverage. You exemplify all that is wrong with the English-ish in which press releases are written. Despite the popularity you flaunt …

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What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one. “I lost and found myself in remote topical aisles of scholarship-wreck,” he says of his hours in Yale’s library, reading the most obscure books he could find. His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all.

What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating …

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● POW camp economics

● POW camp economics

How a rough system of barter developed into a more complex system of trade in WWII POW camps. This is …

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The Girls of Jezebel

The Girls of Jezebel

CULTURE BUZZ – The bloggers at Jezebel get chewed out for being allegedly drunk and saying irresponsible things while appearing on …

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So much of what passes for quality writing online these days is little more than lurid typing, and I’m not into that. I had hoped the blogosphere would be a great literary groundswell, an electronic distillation of art and beauty for the 21st century. Turns out that generation blog just Google-maps the contours of our own navels, and the greatest oversharers get the biggest prize.

So much of what passes for quality writing online these days is little more than lurid typing, and I’m not into that. I had hoped …

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