January 2010
38 posts
Hoping to get to the Super Bowl? Have your... →
Abita beer isn’t the only thing brewing for the Super Bowl. Every year, the NFL allows public officials and corporations to buy set-aside tickets for the biggest sporting event of year – but who…
Walking in Holden's Footsteps - Interactive Map →
It’s a rap, take two →
Back in December, we featured the premiere of a rap showdown between economy theorists John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek. The lastest installment continues the feud, and comes to us via Paul…
How to watch the State of the Union →
It’s hard to believe that it’s been just over a year since President Obama took office. Tonight he addresses Congress and the country in his first State of the Union address, which will focus on the…
LEH4 recommended an article : When Chocolate and... →
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Helvetica Cookie Cutters! →
When Chocolate and Chakras Collide - NYTimes.com →
“It’s a little weird to sit on a sweaty yoga mat and eat soup,” said one woman, not pausing as she spooned up a smooth, cinnamon-spiked butternut squash purée from a bamboo bowl. “But people are used to doing some weird things in yoga class.”
Dead air →
Last week, liberal talk radio network Air America announced it would go off the air. Was it just another victim of the struggling economy, or were there other factors at play?
At its core, Air…
Sky high →
Stuyvesant Town, NYC/Credit: Flickr User Marianne O’Leary
Skyscrapers are going up, but are they getting sold?
EconomyBeat.org reports on the Skyscraper Index, a calculation that…
How to use a semicolon →
An illustrated guide to the most feared punctuation on earth. From The Oatmeal
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Dead air →
The Paris Review - Ha Jin on The Art of Fiction →
“English has more flexibility. It’s a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language”
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Footing the bill for unemployment →
Mr. Plimpton's Revenge →
“A Google Maps Essay, in Which George Plimpton Delivers My Belated and Well-Deserved Comeuppance”
by Dinty W. Moore
First published in The Normal School, January 2010: http://thenormalschool.com/
Campaign finance, then and now →
“Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them,...”
– clearly, Ms. Woolf is pro-Kindle!
Virginia Woolf via The New Yorker, HT to TeleRead (since I have a crazy New Yorker backlog) (via penguingirl)
Time Travel On The Cheap - The Picture Show Blog :... →
After Mass →
Checking in across the pond →
The giving text →
Money moves →
Permanent vacation? →
Fees, keys and ripped up tees →
New Orleans, or what you will →
Spending to save →
Green Day musical 'American Idiot' moving to... →
Lighten up →
New things for the new year →