June 2008
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The Dharma Initiative is looking for some new... →
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Guide to Better Napping →
How to maximize the effectiveness of naptime, which seems like an oxymoron in a way because, after all, isn’t the guilty pleasure of napping all wrapped up in shirking responsibility? Also: chronotypes! Who knew there was such a thing? Mine is Owl, meaning my “sleep gate” for naps and bedtime is later.
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis
For Mike Hudack, friend and fellow experiential learner.
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“Since 1913, the length of the average presidential sentence has fallen from 35...”
– NYMag, on the dumbing-down of speechifying in modern American politics, in an article on the challenge Obama faces in tuning his August DNC oration to juuuust the right note to appeal to both his base of “excitable college-educated liberals” and the people “who are suspicious of...
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“I have Tokyo Drifted in and out of so many lives it’s exhausting.”
– Diablo Cody
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Sex Scene Called an Artful Lie →
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"Why Doesn't He Just Use His Cell Phone?" →
An interesting piece by Dan Gurewitch on how cell phones are making it more difficult for screenwriters to “Force your character up a tree, throw rocks at him, then get him down again.”
Welcome to the Hotel California →
Today I officially work for Rainbow Media again. It’s an odd sensation to have the company you just left follow you. (The link to Newsday, a property Cablevision [Rainbow’s parent company] bought right around the same time they acquired Sundance Channel, is a nice little touch, dontcha think?)
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Tell them why you love New York State in a :60 short.
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Samuel Johnson
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Are You Ready To Be Liberated? →
You’re welcome, JC. All we ever wanted was to see you happy, and safely home.
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The definition of 'comportment' →
Luke Russert’s Today Show interview this morning.
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Open Wide for the Food Film Festival at Water Taxi... →
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“Mah inglish skillz, lolcats b0rkedem.”
– I Can Has Cheezburger?’s Webby acceptance speech. The five-word limit was kinda genius.
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The minisite for Live From Abbey Road Season 2 is,... →
Each clip lovingly hand-picked by “this moi.”
Mystery Tales #40 →
A group blog created by LOST fans eager to find out how the comic book that Locke didn’t choose when Richard Alpert visited him as a child in the episode “Cabin Fever” (and that Hurley was reading in Spanish on Oceanic Flight 815 that Walt later found and Michael threw in a fire on the beach) relates to the greater mythology of show. Collectively they bought a copy of the comic...
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“Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our… song.”
– Thom Yorke of Radiohead speaking to the AP about Prince, who covered “Creep” at Coachella and then sent cease-and-desists to YouTube claiming users who’d posted videos of the performance were violating copyright. Except Radiohead owns the copyright of the song, while Prince owns...