March 2010
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Partisan/Bipartisan — Crooked Timber →
A typically witty and insightful analogy from Crooked Timber’s John Holbo, but the comments thread becomes something even richer with the observations of the Tea Party movement by commentator “Salient”.
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“And it’s kind of sad, quite frankly, that you almost can’t write “Shit My Dad...”
– Content wants to be paid for – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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Chloë Sevigny vs the AV Club
A timeline, for your consideration:
In an interview with the Onion’s AV Club, Chloë Sevigny complains about the absurd plotting in the latest season of Big Love, naming two co-stars who share her concern.
Chloë Sevigny gets some serious heat from HBO about her comments.
She then walks the comments back, claiming she was taken out of context and her interviewer provoked her into making...
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Passing the Damned Bill →
I’ve always been cautiously optimistic about the potential for the weblog form as a mechanism for political progress. That optimism faded slowly over the years of the Bush presidency. But Andrew Sabl’s account of how Steven Benen at the Washington Monthly blog became the focal point to rally support for the US health care reform vote confirms and frankly redoubles my battered optimism....
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Michael Wolff's Observations on Rupert Murdoch
Some tasty treats in this report on Michael Wolff’s speech to the Changing Media summit in London:
he may own movie studios but, really, he’s never, to my knowledge, sat through a movie besides Crocodile Dundee. He doesn’t watch television although he’s the largest creator of television programmes in the world. All of those businesses exist so that he can be in the newspaper business.
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Hysterical Amazon exec calls 911, says accelerator... →
Via Daringfireball, the best headline this week.
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“Google has declared itself as the champion of the “open web” while maintaining a...”
– Microsoft passes the “choice” bludgeon against Apple to Google « counternotions. Google-related disquiet is growing.
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Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior,... →
I imagine everyone in the Mac world’s going to link to this Fireball. No matter. If you’re a Mac user and you care about your data, read it.
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AVC at GDC '10: An interview with Alpha Protocol... →
Great interview with Avellone, the lead designer on what surely must be the Citizen Kane of computer role-playing games, Planescape: Torment.
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“The world has become so complex that simple tasks are nearly impossible.”
– Scott Adams: Complexity (via marco)
February 2010
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