October 2010
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“Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea...”
– Matt Taibbi on the Tea Party for Rolling Stone. Hat tip to ripslich for the link, in response to my last link.
The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by... →
Interesting Guardian writeup on the billionaire Koch brothers, who (the writer claims) seeded the entire Tea Party movement to serve their own interests.
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The Hollywood Reporter review of Sherlock
It’s not hard to spot the hands at work of series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, both part of the rescue team that helped rehabilitate “Doctor Who.” With his foppish taste in outerwear and scarves, it’s conceivable that Cumberbatch’s Sherlock shares the time-traveling doctor’s stylist, but there’s also a kinship in the eccentricities of two characters on their own frequently...
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How iPods are designed
The quiet is so deep you can taste it, like the silence over a graveyard after the first snow of winter. Jony Ive sits in the lotus position before a marble altar holding a single pristine block of virgin aluminium, 1 by 4 by 9. His eyes are closed, his breathing shallow. It has been three weeks since he last moved.
Suddenly he strikes. His hand is a blur, the blade of one palm impacting the cold...
From I’m Homeless and This Is Why I Have an iPad on Gizmodo, a piece which talks to a homeless man who nevertheless owns and uses an iPad and an MSI Wind netbook:
The interesting thing is, Paris is very technofriendly. I have met a lot of people when they ask me how I like my iPad… It’s funny to see them react when I say I live off of it. But when people see a gadget, ...
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Firefighers watched a family house burn down...
ThinkProgress:
As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county’s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, saying that the family failed to pay the [$75] annual subscription fee to the fire department. Because the county’s fire services for rural residences is based on household subscription fees,...
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