July 2009
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A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come →
I started a new blog late late late last night called Left For Dead. Not as a substitute for this one. Not at all. To work, most of what appears on Left For Dead will need to come from others. You could be one of them. Please follow the link (above or right here) and consider contributing something from your own past. You’ll see.
A note on privacy, ads, audiobook links, and book...
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After many weeks of using a service that places ads at the bottom of my posts, I’ve become uncomfortable with the variability of the ads that appear. Maybe I should have given the service more of a chance. I gather that it works well for many people. I don’t exclude the possibility that some day I might go back to using the service. For now, though, I find...
“It sounds great in the movies ..."
There’s a certain it’s-the-day-after-Sputnik-and-some-crackpot-wants-to-put-a-man-on-the-moon quality to the stories published about a covert scheme that former VP Dick Cheney allegedly told the C.I.A. to keep secret from Congress.
Greg Miller’s story in Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times opens this way:
The secret CIA program halted last month by Director Leon E. Panetta...
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“After all, the last thing a business author wants to suggest is that we’re...”
– source: Virginia Postrel of DeepGlamour.net, writing about Chris Anderson’s “Free” in the 7/12/09 New York Times Book Review.
Postrel’s first paragraph above offers a kind of relief, a suggestion that contentment for most of us need not depend on some yet-to-be-perfected...
“Rich Exner: Even the Dan Rather thing or some of the videos that showed up with...”
– I came to hear the exchange above thanks to this Twitter post by NYU’s Jay Rosen:
Rosen is consistently interesting. Because of this, I follow him on Twitter. But I’m sometimes left with a sense that there’s a rigidness to Rosen, a certain with-me-or-against-me outlook. So I...
After just posting a link to Ben Gibbard covering Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in ‘07, this Donovan cover seemed like a decent bookend. I have a real fondness for covers. By moving past the original incarnation of the song, they tell us so much about the underlying strength — or weakness — of the music.
Leave No Trace (a recycled Public Service...
Originally posted 2/23/09 to my Facebook back when I was posting things to my Facebook. I figure the basic idea here could be a useful reminder to people. If nothing else, it will be useful for me to come across six months from now when I need a reminder to go expunge my Facebook account. I’ve soured on Facebook. Dramatically. I’ve made some clumsy attempts to articulate my...
WatchThis SNL ad from 1988 popped into my head today. A totally asinine concept. That’s why it’s funny. That’s why I remember it almost 21 years later.
The related ad that ran later in the same show can be seen here. It’s this second one that actually has the line that got me remembering these First CitiWide Change Bank ads today: “All the time, our customers ask us,...
Somewhere there’s a girl or woman with the integrity, maturity, and toughness to be what Sarah Palin seemed to be the day of the VP announcement. May she not be deterred from her dreams by this phony victim narrative.
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Why do I feel somehow adulterous to be using blip.fm to share a song I only know about because of Pandora?
Moving on.
This song is stuck in my head. That sounds like a curse. Not in this case. Not for me, at least. If it were a curse, I wouldn’t be inflicting it on any of you nice people who take the time to stop by here.
UPDATE: Just bought the song. For 89 cents. And now I feel better...
