From the monthly archives:

February 2009

BROOKLYN’S STREET-CENTRIC HACKTIVIST | More Intelligent Life

BROOKLYN’S STREET-CENTRIC HACKTIVIST | More Intelligent Life

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Banksy of Brooklyn

Originally in: The Economist's Intelligent Life.

For four seasons running, the city’s greatest art crawl has been the New York subway system, courtesy of an anonymous razor-witted and -wielding graffito who …

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The self-fulfilling story

The self-fulfilling story
I found myself irritated by today’s story in the New York Times that asks whether putting money from the bailout toward broadband …

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The great weakness of belletrism—and something Updike was criticized for throughout his career—is that it tends to be apolitical, detached, comfortably rooted in its own exquisite self-consciousness. It floats free of events. When it’s done well, however, this is also its strength…

The great weakness of belletrism—and something Updike was criticized for throughout his career—is that it tends to be apolitical, detached, comfortably rooted in its own …

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