Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Sunday’s Snippets
Ted Koppel has an excellent op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times today about the increasing manner in which network news caters to the desires of advertisers.
Most television news programs are therefore designed to satisfy the perceived appetites of our audiences. That may be not only acceptable but unavoidable in entertainment; in news, however, it [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Remainders
I managed to miss posting the link to this interview with Jonathan Lethem, which is required reading for everyone who cares about literature or art or anything, or, well, just anyone.
The IHT/NYT blog reports that tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Bono will announce a multi-million dollar corporate backed campaign for The Global Fund. [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
NYT coverage of internet privacy
The Times has some interesting articles in today’s paper beginning with an article on the increasing use of privacy software and internet anonymizers:
A few reasons exist for the surge, which is hard to measure - it is nearly impossible to track how many people have made themselves invisible online. People who want to continue to [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Stanford on iTunes
Stanford has been making various podcasts available for download on iTunes. Among their offerings are podcasts from Tobias Wolff, Ann Packer, Michael Chabon, and others.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Gone for good
Mario Lemieux retired from the NHL today, saying, “I can no longer play at the level that I was accustomed to in the past and that has been very, very frustrating to me.”
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
The Year of Magical Thinking Revisited
Jonathan Yardley remembers John Gregory Dunne in Sunday’s Washington Post. He likens Dunne to my favorite author:
In certain respects, the American writer whom Dunne most resembles is his fellow Irishman and fellow (lapsed) Catholic, F. Scott Fitzgerald. To be sure, Fitzgerald was an outsider who wanted in, while Dunne liked the outside just fine, [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
So: is Google a good thing?
John Lanchester asks, “Is Google a good thing?” in the London Review of Books and concludes:
The best historical analogy for where Google is today probably comes from the time when the railroads were being built. Everyone knew that trains and railways would change the world, but no one predicted the invention of suburbs. Google, [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Amy Tan Reading at Kepler’s Tonight
Amy Tan will be reading at Kepler’s on Tuesday, January 24 at 7:30 pm. This is the only event that has been announced so far for the winter literary season. I’m wondering where all the other events are. There are many authors with books coming out in the next few months that we’re interested in: [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Turkey drops charges against Orhan Pamuk
Turkey has dropped its charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk for “insulting the Turkish identity” by making reference to the Armenian genocide in an interview he gave to Das Magazine in 2005.
