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Friday, March 28, 2008

the cavorting pig

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Infinite Thought is in San Francisco. Checks out some socialist realism, quotes: 'No nation has ever treated the pig as cruelly, as bar...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

wikiwonderland

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A brief history of wikis, with an interview of Jimmy Wales (a founder of Wikipedia) and Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki), by Mike Rogo...

you don't need a diploma, you need a work ethic

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Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution on education and signaling, here If education is pure signaling, just give everyone a standardized test i...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

hatherley on godard

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It's long been my suspicion that when people say they don't like Brecht, and Brechtian techniques, what they really mean is they...
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logistical Berlin

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I went to Robben & Wientjes to rent a van for the Schlafsofa. The girl at the desk asks: Are you Canadian? (I am speaking in German.) ...

Pardon me, my name is Stimson

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The dollar has gone into freefall. An editor has offered to publish Your Name Here, explaining that he loves Joyce, Beckett and Pynchon and ...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

flabbergasted

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Mark Liberman has chosen Wiggins' The Shadow Catcher over Tom McCarthy's Remainder in the Tournament of Books . Readers of this blog...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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