December 2009
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“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without...”
– Alexander Pope
Dec 29th
WatchWatch
Severely underwhelmed.
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The 10 Types of Internet Commenter →
Best comment on the article: “why i generally stick to lurking”
Dec 29th
The Decade's Noughtiest Photos →
One of the better, more exhaustive, photo essays I’ve seen. Courtesy of Foreign Policy.
Dec 29th
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Why is Krauthammer still writing for WaPo? Ugh.
Chris Wallace: “Best guess: Will the president end up giving McChrystal the troops he wants, or will he change the war strategy?” Charles Krauthammer: “I think he doesn’t and McChrystal resigns.” —Fox News Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009  On Dec. 1, Obama announced the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. If you count the 7,000 troops promised by NATO,...
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Search, but You May Not Find →
Some will argue that Google is itself so innovative that we needn’t worry. But the company isn’t as innovative as it is regularly given credit for. Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Groups, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Android and many other Google products are all based on technology that Google has acquired rather than invented. [I do believe Tumblr is making me an awfully lazy writer, if at...
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“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room...”
– Blaise Pascal
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Faux Friendship →
The best excerpt from an otherwise disagreeable conclusion (with some very valid points, to be fair). So information replaces experience, as it has throughout our culture. But when I think about my friends, what makes them who they are, and why I love them, it is not the names of their siblings that come to mind, or their fear of spiders. It is their qualities of character. This one’s...
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“I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Vanity Fair's Decade Definer →
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“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was...”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Dec 19th
Coffeeshop banter
This girl at the café—who is in earshot and therefore I am eavesdropping on against my will—insists on saying some language (only half-way eavesdropping) sounds Islamic. Oh? Do you mean it sounds like Arabic? Farsi? Ugh.
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