August 2009
15 posts
“The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher affirm that...”
– Mark Singer on Ricky Jay. Secrets of Magus, from The New Yorker.
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via 52books)
T.J., endorsing bacon.
“A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell one of its flagship...”
– Judge: Microsoft can’t sell Word anymore
Patent abuse is annoying; imagining a world without Word is nice.
“Ferris clocked in at nine absences his final high school semester. My own was a...”
– Edward McNally Remembers John Hughes
My high school friend Andrew E. had 29 absences his senior year. Pretty good.
“We were like the Darling children when they made the decision to leave...”
– Molly Ringwald, The Neverland Club
Of note: Anthony Michael Hall turned down roles in Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“In West Palm Beach, Florida, planners have redesigned several major streets,...”
– Hans Monderman is a genius, or something like that.
“As noted, the majority of people who get swept up into the law schools of North...”
– Posted without comment.
“Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary...”
– I hate this Apple stuff.
“But perhaps a better answer is that if we want innovation and scientific...”
– Rule #1 of evaluating your sources: don’t trust anyone who claims to be an expert but uses the phrase “bass-ackwards.”
Additionally: Jerry Avorn employs the rhetoric of derision: mock those who believe that the market leads to innovation and discovery by calling their beliefs...
“I deal in the real world, not superstitions, and unless the consumer absolutely...”
– Wow.
The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
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The American, A Magazine of Ideas
