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Mmmmm, the future

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:35:03 -0400

Memorandum by John C. Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, to...

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:52:00 -0400

Memorandum by John C. Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, to Alberto Gonzalez, attorney general, October 23, 2001, page 24.

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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:45:26 -0400

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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:43:00 -0400

The grass isn't greener when you don't know what grass looks like

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:07:08 -0500

New York City surveyed residents last year on their feelings about various municipal services. Some results are not surprising: people in high-crime areas feel the city does a poorer job at crime control than those in safer neighborhoods. However, residents in areas of the city that actually use the public school system rated it much higher than, say, the Upper East Side, which had a lower opinion of the schools (22% rating them good or excellent) than anywhere else.

Rhetoric of the Image

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:23:00 -0500

At Times Open on Friday, I was chatting with the guy who runs the unofficial CNN Breaking News feed on Twitter. I recorded the interview on my BlackBerry, so the video would be automatically uploaded to Qik, and on a Flip camera, so I’d have a higher-quality copy for editing later. Another attendee, understandably finding some humor in this scene, snapped the above photo on his iPhone and uploaded it to Flickr. I was also caught contemplating my MacBook Air and tweeting. This is what happens at tech conferences.

Gay Talese has a cold shoulder toward Times website no longer

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:01:00 -0500

Last year, Gay Talese told New York magazine that he had never visited the website of his former newspaper, The New York Times. “Never, and I never will.” This, despite the fact that he was working on a documentary with fellow Times veteran Arthur Gelb “about the paper’s struggles in the digital age,” according to New York. “I don’t deal with the technology,” Talese said, clearly with a whiff of disdain. “I don’t even know how to go into the Web. Maybe Gelb will do it. I insist on being with the people I’m writing about.”

Today, fresh off a Polk Award for lifetime achievement, Talese wrote a blog post for the Times website.

Let's Get Free

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:07:09 -0500

True, and also:

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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:47:00 -0400

Feel Me

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:39:00 -0400

Joe Biden’s response to this local TV news anchor…

…owes a debt to Lil Wayne:

Human Resources Poetry

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:34:00 -0400

Since I’m now an employee of Harvard University, I get to enjoy all the trappings of a major bureaucracy. Like the Harvard 2008 Staff Survey, which was distributed this week along the with the free gift at left. Yes, those are magnetic-poetry tiles filled with the jargon of human resources.

It is the rare set of words that can not be arranged into something vaguely akin to literature. But I’ve given it a lot of thought this week, and I think these tiles are immune to eloquence. They may very well be the 54 dreariest words in the English language. This is all I could muster:

life is a balance, I think
work, values, relationships
our best is enough

"A lot of people think the world will end in 2012. I don’t believe that. I just think..."

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:57:00 -0400

“A lot of people think the world will end in 2012. I don’t believe that. I just think there’s gonna be like an asymptote.”

- Guy behind the register at Berryline

The Al Jazeera English channel on YouTube has more subscribers...

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:10:02 -0400

The Al Jazeera English channel on YouTube has more subscribers than any other news organization — more than the Times, the AP, the BBC, all of them. This video demonstrates why.

Meet the Wojahn Brothers

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:52:23 -0400

Cam’ron’s latest track, which Nah Right posted tonight, is a remix of the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames theme song, which was made by, uh, these guys:

But, no matter, the Cam’ron single is great! It would have the been the song of the summer if his record weren’t so badly delayed.

Sex-offender registration has always bothered me — I gave a...

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:37:00 -0400

Sex-offender registration has always bothered me — I gave a speech opposing Megan’s Law in eighth grade! — but wow:

The Scarlet Letter for Maryland sex offenders this Halloween will be a bright orange pumpkin.

That is the symbol on a sign they are required to post on their doors with a warning, in capital letters, to trick-or-treaters: “No candy at this residence.”

The paper signs began arriving last week in the mailboxes of the roughly 1,200 violent and child-sex offenders across the state with a letter explaining how they are to comport themselves on Oct. 31. […]

In addition to posting the sign, the offenders must stay at home, turn off outside lights and not answer the door, according to the letter obtained by The Washington Times.

I desperately want one of these signs. Will pay top dollar. (via Tapped via Simon)

Here’s a Joe we can all believe in.

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:27:51 -0400

Here’s a Joe we can all believe in.

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning out of Control

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:29:14 -0400

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning out of Control:

In retrospect, this absurd AP piece was eerily prescient.

via Questlove via Simon

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:42:29 -0400

via Questlove via Simon

Campaign Season

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:32:00 -0400

This new ad by Democratic senatorial candidate Jim Slatterly of Kansas…

…clearly owes a debt to the opening scene of “Killa Season,” the 2006 Cam’ron biopic:

Music from the car ride to New Hampshire

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:17:00 -0400

Music from the car ride to New Hampshire