Year: 2006
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Movie: Deliverance
Yes, it took me this long to see Deliverance (1972). I thought the story originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, as this 1994 history of the magazine explains: It was to The Atlantic Monthly that a little-known writer named James Dickey came when he had something called Deliverance that he wanted to publish. But it’s…
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Best intellectual parody ever
The Columbia Business School students mashup Sting and the Federal Reserve in “Every Breath You Take.” Didn’t know it could be done, but it’s funny. Watch the YouTube-hosted version (how does YouTube pay for its bandwidth again? anyone?). Via Bubble Generation.
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Media dollars as hard to aggregate as audiences?
Scott Karp asked a few days ago “What If Media 2.0 Is Less Profitable Than Media 1.0?” As consumers spend more and more of their media time online, ad dollars have been pouring into online media — the assumption has been that the billions of dollars that large companies spend on mass media advertising and…
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A reason to visit NYC this summer
In reading Mark Hurst’s interview with Katy Börner of Indiana University, I learned for the first time about Places & Spaces. This exhibit is about maps, and visualization, and it’s going to be at the New York Public Library for much of the summer. On my list to visit if I get the chance.
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Following through is important
When we moved CNET News.com to CSS in September, 2003, an obvious inspiration was CSS Zen Garden. Later on, as the style sheets were improved and refactored as part of the October, 2005, redesign, we discussed just how far we had come. And we even discussed holding a contest to let our readers see what…
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Arsenal pulls it off
After playing a stalling game all night, Arsenal pulls out a 0-0 draw and moves on to the Champions League final. Tense, yet boring, for an Arsenal fan…with a penalty kick save by Lehmann in the final three minutes. Phew! I can’t imagine the Gunners would get by Barcelona (the favorite to get past Inter…
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RSS Industry Night Roundtable II on Thursday night
I’m looking forward to Thursday night’s RSS Industry Night Roundtable II, hosted by Pheedo during Ad:Tech this coming week. Thanks to Bill Flitter for the invitation.
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Book: Force 10 from Navarone
Alistair MacLean claimed a few more hours of my life earlier this week, with Force 10 from Navarone. The Guns of Navarone (1957) grabbed enough attention (and money) that MacLean must have felt obligated to create this sequel. The story in Force 10 (1968) starts only hours after the end of Guns. The lead characters…
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Deactivate Markdown if your WordPress post content disappears
Thanks to the very helpful geekgrrl on the WordPress.org support forums, clock is ticking once more, after being broken for a bit. All posts have their content once more. I noted the problem this morning with this note “Post content and comments not rendering (WP 1.5.2)” and a similar post “All copy in posts has…
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clock is broken, working on it
Somehow, I broke my blog. All that shows up now are the headlines, categories, and timestamps. The content is still there in the database when I go to edit, but not rendering. I haven’t changed anything that I know of, but it is suspicious (maybe?) that post 1000 was the last one live. I’m making…