July 2011
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Jul 31st
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“I’m not suggesting that Marvel give “Thor 2” to somebody like Lars von Trier,...”
– Alex Pappademas: The Prescription to Save Ailing Superheroes in the New York Times. I don’t know why not. It’d be interesting, at least. (via)
Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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“One knows that designers seldom read, but they don’t have much knowledge of Inca...”
– Alan Bennett in a piece for the LRB: Baffled at a Bookcase.
Jul 25th
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Jul 22nd
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“What’s missing from the news articles about Swartz’s arrest is a realization...”
– Kevin Webb: The difference between Google and Aaron Swartz at the MediaFile blog, Reuters.
Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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“The [closure] got press worldwide, after all, not just because it was a...”
– Chris Turner: What Carmageddon taught us about behavioral economics.
Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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“While some psychologists — and many parents — have worried that a child who...”
– John Tierney: Can a Playground Be Too Safe? in the New York Times.
Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 18th
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“[Murdoch’s] philosophy is simple – let the market decide. He is so wedded...”
– Roy Greenslade: How Murdoch’s philosophy created a climate of misbehaviour, from his Guardian column.
Jul 18th
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“Finding sustainable solutions isn’t about discovering new, ever-more disruptive...”
– Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen: Over-Innovation Makes U.S. Firms Suck At Sustainability.
Jul 18th
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“I’ve paid a lot of attention to ways that things like “Lost” and “Battlestar...”
– Nick Spencer, in the commentary track of “Morning Glories” #1 - Comic Book Resources (via timoni). This seems as good a quote as any to hang the following from. Battlestar Galactica, while good, evidently didn’t have a plan (which is hilariously obvious if you watch the spin-off movie of the...
Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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“This insane measure of good -iness against which everything is judged gets under...”
– Aaron Straup Cope in meat grinder prisms.
Jul 13th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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“Among the clues in the quick crossword were the words “brook”,...”
– Tabloid signs off with a sting in the tail for Rebekah Brooks by Ian Burrell for The Independent.
Jul 11th
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Jul 11th
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“Americans may see a parallel between Fox News’s willingness to set up sinecures...”
– David Carr for the NY Times: A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals.
Jul 11th
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“A ticket does not exist to tell you where to go. A ticket exists purely as proof...”
– “Eagle” commenting on the spate of speculative UK rail ticket redesigns at the RailUK Forums.
Jul 11th
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“Andy Hayman, who led the widely-criticized operation, later left the police to...”
– Archie Bland in Anybody There?, covering the phone hacking scandal in the Columbia Journalism Review.
Jul 10th
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“For me it’s roughly on a par with parking in a residents’ parking bay in terms...”
– Roger Alton, executive editor at The Times, quoted by Archie Bland in Anybody There?, covering the phone hacking scandal in the Columbia Journalism Review. From his profile page at the Observer, where he used to work: “Roger is also a member of the Press Complaints Commission.” (He is...
Jul 10th
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