Clay Shirky is one of my favorite writers about the Internet. Only some of that is because I was the first editor to put his essays in general circulation; the rest is that he’s such a wonderfully clear thinker and writer. We don’t usually agree entirely, but our conversations always leave me more informed than when we started. […]
Continue reading... June 28, 2002
Turns Out Republicans Really Can’t Sleep At Night, After All
Angela Gunn passes this along, with only a slightly victorious sneer. From the New Scientist: The further your politics lean to the right the more likely you are to have nightmares, according to a dream researcher from Santa Clara University in California. Kelly Bulkeley found that US Republicans are almost three times more likely to […]
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Is This Really Necessary?
They are apparently re-making one of my favorite movies. “The In-Laws” is a 1979 comedy written by Andrew Bergman, who also wrote “The Freshman” and “Soapdish,” and part of “Blazing Saddles.” (He also wrote “So Fine” and “Striptease,” demonstrating that no one’s career is unmarred.) “The In-Laws” starred Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, with Richard Libertini […]
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Ah, Show Business
The Telegraph reports something of a dust-up over a prosthetic penis in a West End play.
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Generational Asides
I have no idea where these thoughts are leading: Where we have today is the Hands-On Generation. People use technology to control their lives. They use computers to decide what they want to read and where and when. The choices of music — and the media by which its enjoyed — is unprecedented. We’ve moved […]
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Interview with the Pledge Judge
Former UPI reporter Barney Lerten tracked down U.S. District Judge Ted Goodwin at his summer home for an interview. Read it here.
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No Gators. But Crawfish And….
A couple of enterprising reporters tour some of Las Vegas’s 283 miles of drainage tunnels. Spooky. Good piece.
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Good for Me, Bad for You
The Supreme Court ruled today that school vouchers, which allow parents essentially to opt out of the public education system, are constitutional. That may be as it is, but “constitutional” is not the same thing as “good.” I will make out very well with school vouchers, which will allow me to apply a significant amount […]
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Teaching Civic Virtues
From the Denver Post (passed on by David Hakala): A 12-year-old seventh-grader has been summoned to Littleton Municipal Court on a charge of unlawful retention of library materials: She had an overdue library book… Delinquent borrowers aren’t hauled into court right away, Smith said. Books at the Bemis Library are loaned for three weeks. After […]
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More Blogrolling
Added a couple of new entries to the Blogrolling list over on the right. Corante is the parent company of Microcontent News, previously cited here. It’s an interesting collection of tech news-oriented weblogs. And if you really really really can’t get enough of online journalism, I’ve put a link to a large list of what they […]
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