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Newspapers’ precipitous fall

A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | The Awl

27 October 2009 | Comments |

Digging yourself out of the DiggBar

The new Diggbar has rankled feathers all over the internet. So much so, that a mere 24 hours after the folks at Digg released their new baby out into the world, there is already a bevy of ways available for defeating it. And to express how yo feel about it too.

11 April 2009 | Comments |

Star Wars & false memories

Have you ever asked yourself how it is you ever knew that an Ewok was an Ewok? Because its not how you think it was learned.

12 March 2009 | Comments |

The pauses between

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides!
– Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
Specifically, Schnabel is referring to the creation of music, explaining that each note, by itself, connotes little. It’s the relationship between the notes that [...]

4 March 2009 | Comments |

Merry Christmas

It’s a scrapbook, collage and walk-down-memory-lane type of post
Collected especially for you, some moments from some of my favorite holiday shows.
I have a soft spot in my heart for The Muppets and, truth be told, John Denver as well. When The Muppet Christmas Special came out I was in heaven. This is one of my [...]

25 December 2008 | Comments |

Award Winners

You can’t always judge a “book” by it’s “cover” but you should always trust your roaster
Sometimes, you have to wonder about awards. I used to look forward to the Oscars. They were an event in my home and we would plan our evening around the show. It was like a sporting event. We would wait…(read [...]

21 December 2008 | Comments |

Happy Thanksgiving

I’m thankful for the avoidance of what could have been …

… the passing of what we have all been forced to suffer through (gettim Gobbly!) …

… and the hope of what can be.

Have a hopeful holiday.

27 November 2008 | Comments |

A Slight Adjustment

One of the things about the experience of covering election night from inside the bubble of a TV studio is that one becomes slightly paranoid that the entire event has been staged for the cameras: a cruel Truman Show kind of experiment, the illusion to be broken only once one leaves the premises and is interrupted by [...]

5 November 2008 | Comments |

Fire up the Afterburners

Is Four Barrel going to begin roasting soon?
I was in Four Barrel Coffee today and witnessed what, I believe, may be the last piece of the roasting operation puzzle for them. There was a monolithic oriented strand board box sitting smack dab in the middle of the front of the house as I walked in. Not [...]

3 November 2008 | Comments |

A Basic Misunderstanding

Apple’s earnings report is out and there is much iPhone love, today, over at John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Take a look at one example, the post “No Likelihood”, read the quote, then come back.
Yeah. Ooops. It seems to me that there are two things Mr. Dvorak, obviously, did not understand when he wrote the article associated [...]

22 October 2008 | Comments |

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