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March 2009

Culture

Wikipedia and Cities

[Via NYTimes.com.] Wikipedia can no more be completed than can New York City, which O. Henry predicted would be “a great place if …

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Technology

The New York Times Makes Comical Statements About the Internet, 1995-2009 [Standards]

The New York Times Makes Comical Statements About the Internet, 1995-2009 [Standards]
The New York Times has issued a formal set of standards for their …

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Culture

WSJ Editor: ‘New Nomenclature Alone Will Not Generate News’ [Without Comment]

WSJ Editor: ‘New Nomenclature Alone Will Not Generate News’ [Without Comment]
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson urged his charges to work faster. To underline …

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Culture

Essay – Our George Steiner Problem — and Mine – NYTimes.com

Celebrated as a one-man bastion of high Western culture and admired for his moral subtlety by some, Steiner was attacked as pompous, pretentious and inaccurate

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Linkblog

Seed Magazine tries on a little dataviz

Seed Magazine tries on a little dataviz…

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Linkblog

Kill your computer and join the cloud. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine

At the moment, deploying a mix of cloud and noncloud apps seems to be the sensible middle way. But there is something freeing and almost …

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Linkblog

What still amazes me, in spite of my scholarly concerns here, is the nostalgic punch of early video games—how transporting the blocky sounds and sights can be.

What still amazes me, in spite of my scholarly concerns here, is the nostalgic punch of early video games—how transporting the blocky sounds and sights …

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Linkblog

It’s an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography—but more upsetting than RapeLay is the social environment that birthed it. The premise here is that a wealthy man is out for revenge against the schoolgirl who had him jailed as a chikan, or subway pervert.

It’s an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography—but more upsetting than RapeLay is the social environment that birthed …

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