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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-03 I timed my run last night to arrive at...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-17 Any other auction sites that people use now that...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-27 What if making the web more valuable means making...

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Rediscovering film with the Leica M7 Six years ago I gave up shooting film entirely...

How to get AppleCare cheap? The answer is eBay. Like many but not enough people, I understand that extended...

Leica’s new digital cameras Leica will be announcing its new lineup of cameras on...

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A knockout show at the Met Jed Perl, writing in The New Republic, calls the current...

Premium Denim and the Great Gatsby Last weekend, by chance, I ended up at the Blues...

Responses to Salinger Over at the New Republic, Gish Jen asks, Why Do People...

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The New Yorker profile of David Foster Wallace D.T. Max’s  profile of DFW, which runs in this week’s...

Details’ 1996 Profile of David Foster Wallace Here is a profile of DFW that ran in Details...

Paul Auster on why he writes In Paul Auster’s acceptance speech for Spain’s Prince of Asturias...

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40mm Leica Summicron-C: The best cheap Leica lens Steve Huff recently posted his choice for the best budget...

How to recover erased .RW2 and other RAW files from SDHC cards I recently lost all my GF1 photos from my SDHC...

The world’s greatest gadget Anthony Lane has a story in this week’s New Yorker...

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Learning Adobe Illustrator I like to learn how to use software by finding...

Yanidel street photography Aperture presets I’m a big fan of Yanidel’s photo blog of...

40mm Leica Summicron-C: The best cheap Leica lens Steve Huff recently posted his choice for the best budget...

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How to recover erased .RW2 and other RAW files from SDHC cards I recently lost all my GF1 photos from my SDHC...

A knockout show at the Met Jed Perl, writing in The New Republic, calls the current...

How to make your own ringtones for the iPhone One odd limitation of the iPhone is that you can’t...

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Piper Jaffray on Apple’s iPhone I’ve been planning a post on Apple’s iPhone for a...

Joe the plumber is not representative Of course, people are gullible, and the McCain campaign is...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-12 My favorite novel of the year, by far, is...

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How to recover erased .RW2 and other RAW files from SDHC cards I recently lost all my GF1 photos from my SDHC...

Joseph Arthur at Rickshaw Stop or the GF1 and concert photography I took my GF1 to a show by Joseph Arthur...

PW reviews Nabokov’s The Original of Laura Publisher’s Weekly has the first review of Valdimir Nabokov’s last...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-31 Why you shouldn't update Instapaper on your iPhone to...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-29 This week’s New Yorker cover was made with an...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-01 No, sorry, Steven Johnson, you’re wrong about what that...

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