Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

There is little to be said about Mel Gibson that hasn’t been said already. But I have to ask why Gibson’s anti-Semitic remarks, which shouldn’t…

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The Pampering Machine

The Pampering Machine

You know that John W. Campbell series of stories, beginning with “The Machine” and continuing with “The Invaders” and several other stories in The Machine…

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New William Gibson Book

New William Gibson Book

According to the Amazon Bookstore Blog, a new William Gibson novel is set to be released in the middle of 2007. Some portions of the…

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Speedy Snail Turns Seven

Speedy Snail Turns Seven

Happy Seven Years, Mr. Ewins!

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Boorish American Behavior Causes Outsourcing to Go Awry

Boorish American Behavior Causes Outsourcing to Go Awry

BusinessWeek: “Like almost everyone, Indian operators dislike dealing with abusive customers frustrated by shoddy service. But more important, India’s leading outsourcing shops say their U.S….

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Gorilla Warfare

Gorilla Warfare

IOL: “The gorilla is threatened with extinction by the mid-21st century if poaching and destruction of its habitat continue at the current rate, the United…

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Someone Should Start Paying Attention to What Manohla Dargis is Downloading

Someone Should Start Paying Attention to What Manohla Dargis is Downloading

New York Times Corrections: “A film review on Wednesday about ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ referred incorrectly to contestants in the fictional children’s beauty pageant of the…

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More Like a Life Preserver Ring

More Like a Life Preserver Ring

Editor and Publisher: “‘The online editions of newspapers are providing a bit of a life raft for newspapers,’ Kohut said. ‘But it’s a pretty small…

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With That Title, One Can Only Imagine How Green Berets Perform Cunnilingus

With That Title, One Can Only Imagine How Green Berets Perform Cunnilingus

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “Though romance writing remains an almost exclusively female vocation, some men have ventured into the field. Former Green Beret Bob Mayer, who has…

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Newspapers Confuse Print for Weblogs

Newspapers Confuse Print for Weblogs

New York Times: “The Washington Post, The New York Sun and The Daily Oklahoman, in Oklahoma City, have contracted with an online news aggregator, Inform.com,…

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This Week in Sweeping Generalizations

This Week in Sweeping Generalizations

Benjamin Kunkel on Samuel Beckett: “Easy on the eyes, Beckett is, however, a hard read. His plays continue to be performed, but as a novelist—and…

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eBullshit

eBullshit

Cerado: “In an exclusive e-mail exchange with our editors, the reclusive vowel talks about what he’s been doing since the year 2000, his investment strategy,…

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It's Funny Because It's True

It’s Funny Because It’s True

Your Blog Sucks.

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The Best Desire Andrew Lloyd Webber Has Felt in Years

The Best Desire Andrew Lloyd Webber Has Felt in Years

BBC: “Speaking to the Radio Times, the Evita composer said he did not have ‘a huge desire’ to write another musical.”

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Roundup

Roundup

Pinky remembers Rupert Pole, who recently passed away. Pole was otherwise known as Anais Nin’s lover and (later) executor of her estate. But if it…

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Updike Misunderstood?

Updike Misunderstood?

The London Times: “And that, I think, explains some aspects of the critical response. They want their terrorists to be explicable in the most banal…

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A Michael Moore Publicity Stunt?

A Michael Moore Publicity Stunt?

So there’s a mysterious publicity stunt that was announced over at Galleycat. Apparently, a book that will have an initial print run of 300,000, categorized…

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San Francisco Marathon

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Cacophony Obtained

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This Chalk Outline’s for You!

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Dutch Angle

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Widescreen Tapestry

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Chalk on the Walk

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Innocent Bystanders

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Fuzz With a Funny Bone?

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Instructing the Troops

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Homegrown Elton?

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Art on the Move

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Cacophony in the Haight

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Last Days of the Leak

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