Yesterday we compared Barack Obama's Philadelphia address on race in America to Mitt...
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New York Magazine -- New York Metro Guide -- Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping, Politics, Arts
Yesterday we compared Barack Obama's Philadelphia address on race in America to Mitt Romney's recent last-ditch speech on faith. But as the New York Times points out, it's really more like JFK's 1960 speech on religion.
Fashion Calendar
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New York Magazine -- New York Metro Guide -- Restaurants, Nightlife, Shopping, Politics, Arts
6:48 AM
WWGD? - The book
From
BuzzMachine
I’m delighted to tell you that I just got a contract to write a book: WWGD? - What Would Google Do?
I’m reverse-engineering Google, taking the lessons and rules I find in their singular success in the internet economy and applying them to other companies, industries, and institutions.
A new activist twist on the Stations of the Cross.
From
Slate Magazine
Lent is a sober season, and no Christian ritual associated with the 40-day run-up to Easter is more sobering than the Stations of the Cross. The traditional devotion, often performed on Good Friday, is a sequence of prayers and meditations that recall events on Jesus' path to crucifixion and burial.
Crayon Physics Deluxe, an ingenious video game that looks like it was designed by a third-grader.
From
Slate Magazine
The annual Game Developers Conference is a chance for all the major players in the video-game industry to show off their flashiest new titles. Attendees at February's meeting, for instance, were treated to a sneak peek of the upcoming Gears of War II, a richly detailed sci-fi action game that appears indistinguishable from a blockbuster sci-fi movie.
Stocks rally after the Fed cuts key interest rates.
From
Slate Magazine
Fed week continues as all the papers lead with the latest efforts by the central bank to prevent a long-lasting recession. The Federal Reserve slashed short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point yesterday.
How To Make A Button...
From
goldenfiddle
with your VBS.TV host, Miranda Cutie-Pants July. Watch out, Gondry.
- Download: Cat Power, The Black Sessions
Devil-cum-Shoeshine Boy Tells a Customer the Genesis of His Current Occupation Is a Bad Bargain with
From
Yankee Pot Roast - Hastilly Written and Sloppilly Edited.
Shoeshine, sir?
Hop up here.
Nice Rockports, comfortable?
Yeah, leather's a bit worn but I'll buff ’em right up.
Newspaper?
Murdoch Post or Murdoch Journal?
[read more at Yankee Pot Roast - Hastilly Written and Sloppilly Edited.]
Women's World
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
Women's World is a novel constructed entirely from words cut out of 1960s women's magazines. Nerve has an interview with the author.
Why White People Like Stuff White People Like
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
Adam Sternbergh in The New Republic on Why White People Like 'Stuff White People Like' -- a seven-layer cake of meta that goes down rough.
Parker Posey, Sitcom Darling
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
You were probably wondering if The Return of Jezebel James, Fox's Fall sitcom starring Parker Posey, was going to be horrible. The first two epps are already available on Hulu and now you know: it is.
Microspotting
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
For my Microsofty friends: Microspotting, a blog about the eccentric characters on campus. Nothing yet about pony-tail comb-over guy, who was my personal fashion hero.
Dave Eggers' TED Talk
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
Cafe Mom
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
Last week I saw a presentation for a site called Cafe Mom -- ya know, a social network for moms. I started joking that Cafe MILF would probably be more successful.
New Media Tuesday
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
Some new releases that come out today.... Music: The Teenagers' Reality Check, Be Your Own Pet's Get Awkward, and The Kills' Midnight Boom. DVD: Southland Tales, Season Three of Battlestar Galactica, and the Criterion of The Ice Storm.
Short is In
From
Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself
Ten Reasons We Don't Have the Economy We Thought We Had
From
Gotham Gazette
As we "wake up to the recession," James Parrot finds some things we thought were true about the economy have turned out not to be. For example: Huge Wall Street bonuses are good for New York City
Wow. "The Selling Of The War" on VPRO
From
greg.org: the making of, the making of: movies, art, &c., by greg allen
A couple of months ago, I was contacted by producers from Backlight, an investigative documentary TV series on the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. They were trying to locate and interview Scott Sforza for a program set for the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
[read more at greg.org: the making of, the making of: movies, art, &c., by greg allen]