September 2008
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Sep 24th
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Sep 19th
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Root causes
The problems Wall Street is having right now — problems whose technical aspects I don’t begin to understand fully, since among other things my grasp of economics is pretty weak — has journalists everywhere scrambling for something to say about it. I suspect that many of them (even, or especially, the ones whose job it is to cover investments and such things) don’t really...
Sep 19th
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“It is easy to make fun of radical environmentalism. Its climatological...”
– The Return of Goodness
Sep 18th
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Sep 16th
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HarperCollins launches a new sci-fi imprint called... →
Sep 11th
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“There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and...”
– So says Joe Biden. Real classy.
Sep 4th
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Sep 4th
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Sep 4th
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Sep 3rd
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On having a real job
All through high school, college, and graduate school, I had a goal to work towards. The understanding was that in a few years I’d move on to something else, jump another step up the ladder, advance a little further down the path. But then I got my graduate degree and moved on to a “real” job. All of a sudden, I don’t have a concrete goal waiting for me a few years out. That’s not to say that I...
Sep 3rd
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Listen“Unless It’s Kicks” by Okkervil...
Sep 3rd
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Publishers should all have a /covers directory →
BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow: … publishers should create default directories called “covers” at their server-root (e.g., tor.com/covers, harpercollins.co.uk/covers, etc) filled with high-rez PNGs or JPGs (or both) named after the book’s ISBN — for Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book, it would be http://harpercollins.co.uk/0060530928.png. Tweak your robots.txt...
Sep 2nd