Category: Alex
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Quote of the day.
From this Newsweek article, about how photojournalists feel it\’s possible that BP and the Coast Guard are being overly restrictive towards who gains access to the affected areas of the Gulf Coast: Some Gulf Coast watermen find BP’s desire to limit press access obvious. “If there was a major fire in a warehouse, would you…
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The 20 Worst Drinks in America
I\’m not usually a big fan of these advice type articles. I\’m of the opinion that diet advice boils down to the following phrase: Eat less. Work out more. That said, I think this is worth a look, both because of the startling badness of some of these concoctions, and the clever imagery with which…
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RIP Jose Lima
Naturally, Poz says it better than I ever could. \’Heart attack at 37\’ is certainly a sobering phrase, and we should all take the time, perhaps, to celebrate life like it\’s Lima Time. In that spirit, I\’d like to open the commenting floor to Wade A, who had the good fortune of believing in the…
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30th Anniversary
It\’s apparently the 30th Anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back, a fact which Spike TV is using to run a Star Wars marathon all weekend. So that\’s cool. But here\’s a fact I wasn\’t aware of: George Lucas didn\’t write the screenplay. He wrote the story, but two other writers did the…
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[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]
This would have been a feel-good story. A random group of folks decides to pull together content and publish a magazine, an actual thing, in 48 hours, with the theme of \’Hustle\’. It works, and finds some pretty decent critical review. And then CBS sues them for infringing on the brand of their 48 Hours…
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The *other* Game 7.
You know, the historic one.[1. I\’m well aware that you probably don\’t know, and in fact may only barely know your own ass from a hockey puck. Don\’t worry, I\’ll spell it out.] The Philadelphia Flyers have already made history. They\’re now the sixth team in NHL history to lose the first three games of…
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The iPad
I\’ve been considering an iPad post ever since it was announced, but one thing kept stopping me – I couldn\’t answer the question of why it exists. \”What\’s it for?\” \”What does it do?\” I get the feeling that this blog post is going to come as close as anything to summing up the answers…
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Fantasy Baseball
(No, it\’s not quite what you\’re thinking.) It\’s May, so I\’ve bothered to look at the American League standings. I\’m intrigued by what I see. Let me explain. I skew towards the AL Central, where the Twins are on top, but the Tigers are playing some decent ball. The other three teams in the Central,…
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Disney\’s Feral Cats
Great article in the LA Times[1. h/t to Daring Fireball] about the lengths that workers at Disney Parks go to in making sure that every part of the park is cleaned up and/or repaired each night. It\’s an attention to detail that helped attendance rise 8% last year in a bad economy, while other parks…
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A Serious Man
So I watched A Serious Man last night, fully expecting to like it. And I mean obviously it was well done, and clever, and it\’s the Coen Brothers, and I usually like what they do, and you all know I like a good dark comedy. But it was seriously (pun intended) depressing, and the ending…