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“Yak shaving is what you are doing when you’re doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you’re supposed to be working on, yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you’re doing to the original meta-task.”
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‘If you look at what produces learning and memory and well-being, play is as fundamental as any other aspect of life, including sleep and dreams.’’’
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Some good points, especially comparisons to NPR. Yet about half of my TiVo Season Pass watching is PBS shows: American Experience, American Masters, Independent Lens, Bill Moyers, Check Please, Mexico One Plate at a Time, Globe Trekker…
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The 2008 primary campaign has been so fast and furious that we haven’t paused to register just how spectacular that change is. All the fretful debate about whether voters would turn out for a candidate who is a black or a woman seems a century ago.
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“Hers is a moderate, sensible, well-founded position, shared by many Americans, yet it somehow rarely got voiced amid the raging hyperbole of the culture wars.”
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WNUR Jazz DJ Poll results: today you can see #11-40 of our 2007 top 40; the rest will be revealed gradually this week.
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notes on a few unique Japanese variants of familiar US foods
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Chris Ware-animated segment accompanying interview from TAL TV show. Not really Chris Ware talking despite description on YT page.
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“L.A. rockabilly twanger Big Sandy gives kids a sample of his sound.”
