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June 17th 2010

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Curent issue of The Atlantic p.40

Posted at 4:56pm and tagged with: tiger woods, the atlantic, std,.

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Newly conventional ideas that were once unthinkable: You might have slept with Tiger Woods

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May 20th 2010

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Žižek, Hegel, Palin | The Atlantic Wire

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She has a “castrating” effect on her male opponents not by way of being more manly than them, but by using the ultimate feminine weapon, the sarcastic put-down of male authority — she knows that male “phallic” authority is a posture, a semblance to be exploited and mocked. Recall how she mocked Obama as a “community organizer,” exploiting the fact that there was something sterile in Obama’s physical appearance, with his diluted black skin, slender features, and big ears. Here we have “post-feminist” femininity without a complex, uniting the features of mother, prim teacher (glasses, hair in a bun), public person, and, implicitly, sex object, proudly displaying the “first dude” as a phallic toy. The message is that she “has it all” — and that, to add insult to injury, it was a Republican woman who had realized this Left-liberal dream…No wonder that the Palin effect is one of false liberation: drill, baby, drill!

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November 11th 2009

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What Is It About Google? - Peter Osnos

Excellent article. Still not satisfied with regard to what sets Google apart from everyone else, but it’s nice to know others are still puzzled too.

You have to admit though, for all its awesomeness, Picasa still sucks.

Posted at 1:23pm and tagged with: google, the atlantic,.

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Invited for lunch at Google’s lavishly stocked cafeteria, you need to sign a nondisclosure agreement at the reception desk.

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August 18th 2009

Greening With Envy

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I like this idea. I’d like to see a breakdown of my neighbors energy use and what they are paying. It’s tough to explain to your housemates that $300 a month for electricity in a townhouse is stupid.

It’s also nice to know how easily we are persuaded by each other.

Posted at 8:08pm and tagged with: the atlantic, environment, energy,.

February 16th 2009

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The Future Is Cheese by Michael Hirschorn

This may be why I have becoming increasingly incapable of watching the vast majority of TV programming. Dirty Jobs is still pretty awesome. I guess that is considered reality TV. I digress.

Posted at 10:46am and tagged with: Michael Hirschorn, the atlantic, Reality television, Broadcast programming,.

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[A]s the networks increasingly become the domain of the Lord of the Dance, viewers will (I think, and hope) happily continue to pay for quality.

Those who don’t will get what they don’t pay for: not a cultural wasteland, exactly, but the television equivalent of AM talk radio, which survived the emergence of higher-quality FM radio in the 1970s by reverting to its core strength—cheap, live talk.

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June 12th 2008

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Life On Planet Green - The Current

Posted at 10:06pm and tagged with: green, environment, the atlantic, the current, planet green,.

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If this sounds like a nightmare, like the Soviet communal apartments of yesteryear, it’s worth noting that this is not an unfamiliar arrangements in the annals of human history, that going green will naturally require some small sacrifice in private space, and that social isolation is a much bigger killer in modern America than overcrowding. In 1970, Americans consumed 478 square feet person. As of 2000, that number had increased to 800 square feet per person. Suffice to say, Americans did not become twice as happy over that interval.

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