November 2008
“Richard L. Fortman, an internationally known authority on checkers, the sport of...”
– (thx erode)
Richard L. Fortman, 93, Checkers Champion, Is Dead - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
“LA pal reports sonic booms, Londoner points out shuttle re-entry as cause....”
– Twitter / Boris
“Mr. Brown and about 100 other students living in Random Hall at M.I.T. have...”
– MIT work profiled by Markoff
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com
“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say...”
– Martin Amis, The Information
“Major labels function with the assumption that 90 percent of artists they sign...”
– Miller-McCune | Article | The Close Relationship Between Pop Music and Advertising
“@mumbaiupdates Please stop updating about real time operations (the police have...”
– Twitter / Please stop …
“We stepped out again, and as we did so, we heard gunshots, and saw people...”
– NYTimes.com
The 80s Next to Mine
Facebook surfaced these photos via someone I went to grade school with (someone I haven’t seen in over 25 years).
To be straight: these photos produce nostalgia for lives that weren’t my own. The nostalgia is for the lives next door, all around me and all around the Bronx, 1981-1987.
In the 80s, all of us who had gone through grade school together were scattered to different high...
“My 4 yr old just said I’m not as good as Barack Obama at putting him to...”
– Twitter / John Geraci
“Dear Dianne’s co-worker, sorry I rummaged through the office fridge at...”
– Twitter / Crowley
“in a sense this reverses the Scitovsky effect. You will remember...”
– This Blog Sits at the
“Eyl has become a town tailor-made for pirates - and their hostages. Special...”
– BBC NEWS | Africa | Life in Somalia’s pirate town
WatchI CAN DO MORE WITH THIS PUPPET THAN … YOU CAN DO … WITH ALL YOUR FANCY PUPPETS
Revised link: Puppet Envy | 1938 Media
Links to Twitter streams from McCain voters =... →
“But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power...”
– said Ted Kaczinski, frighteningly.
Op-Ed Contributor - The Rise of the Machines - NYTimes.com
“In the spring of 2006, I exchanged email with Peter Bazalgette of Endemol...”
– Excerpt (unredacted): The whole completed project up to 8 May 2008
