Should newspaper Web sites really be free? – By Tim Harford – Slate Magazine “Free online access makes more sense now not because of some fundamental law of online economics, but because the online advertising market has matured.” (tags: news business via:h3athrow) AllAboutJazz.com: Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis [...]
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"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
October 30th, 2007
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LTHForum.com :: Conversations with Mario [Interview] “For the record: Mario DiPaolo Jr. aka “Skip” aka “Mario” of Mario’s Italian Lemonade on Taylor Street in Chicago. There are many Chicagoan’s that would have a hard time getting through the summer without his help, and we’re blessed to have (tags: chicago food interview) Mac OS X 10.5 [...]
October 29th, 2007
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If It’s Retail, Is It Still Rock? – New York Times “Even though it might be hard to distinguish branded lunchboxes from Mötley Brüe, Nikki Sixx rolls his eyes when he sees some of the products that musicians are endorsing. He says he drew the line at baby bottles…” (tags: music marketing) New York Times: [...]
October 28th, 2007
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Flickr: The The Psychedelic Colour Group Pool (tags: color flickr photography) Restaurant Roulette/My Dinner with Alien: Stacy’s, Bellwood “Saturday night I decided that starting from the first intersection of streets the first letters of which spelled a word, I vowed to go to the 25th restaurant (because it was January 25th) on my left-hand side [...]
October 27th, 2007
Why I Write
In Why I Write, a column in yesterday’s New York Sun, Harvard economist and “exiled New Yorker” Edward Glaeser disputes another writer’s assertion that Glaeser could be blogging instead of writing for a newspaper. In the process of explaining why this isn’t so, Glaeser glosses the op-ed column as “a somewhat formal 750 word art [...]
October 27th, 2007
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Dining For A Dollar: Halloween horrors edition | The A.V. Club “Below are some of the cheapest (and most horrifying, in various ways) candies we could find, all ready for unsuspecting and soon-to-be-traumatized neighborhood kids.” (tags: food halloween) ExtremePumpkins.com – Extreme Pumpkin Carving “We will buy a big, ugly, pumpkin so large one man cannot [...]
October 26th, 2007
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AllAboutJazz.com: Poets of Action: The Saint Louis Black Artists’ Group, 1968-1972 “The members of BAG fused ideas of artistic modernism with the local experience of blacks, Afrocentric ways of viewing art, and traditional forms of blues, jazz and narrative expression with social activism and a communal focus.” (tags: jazz music stLouis) Share and Enjoy:
October 25th, 2007
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Mashable.com: 30+ Resources For US Politics On The Web (tags: list politics) Slate V – Conventional Wisdom: Prison Food Convention “As part of our Conventional Wisdom series, we visit the exhibition hall at this year’s conference for the prison food industry. There’s a lot to keep in mind when serving meals to inmates, like removing [...]
October 24th, 2007
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BestCrosswords.com – Meet Ben Tausig Index of online playable puzzles by one of my favorite crossword constructors (tags: crossword) This American Life 110: Mapping “Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way—by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using [...]
October 23rd, 2007
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PLANTAnswers: Pumpkin What is the difference between a pumpkin and a squash? I need to know so I can impress all of my ghostly friends on Halloween. (tags: food pumpkin) Wordorigins.org: Trafalgar & The Language of the Age of Sail, Part I “We’re all familiar with the more common terms that are falsely given nautical [...]