Left in the West | Montana Politics (leftinthewest.com):
… here, I'll take up the tradition of providing links to some of the stuff I've been reading online lately. This will be presidential campaign-heavy, I'm afraid, just to warn you in advance. In the comments to Jay's most recent post, JC directs us to aNew Yorker article about Keith Olbermann, someone whose style never really drew me in. The highlight: "I fired him," Rupert Murdoch said recently. "He's crazy." Al Gore's endorsing Barack Obama. John McCain canceled a fundraiser in Texas …
Kings of A&R (www.kingsofar.com):
… The New Yorker …
Left in the West | Montana Politics (leftinthewest.com):
… here, I'll take up the tradition of providing links to some of the stuff I've been reading online lately. This will be presidential campaign-heavy, I'm afraid, just to warn you in advance. In the comments to Jay's most recent post, JC directs us to aNew Yorker article about Keith Olbermann, someone whose style never really drew me in. The highlight: "I fired him," Rupert Murdoch said recently. "He's crazy." Al Gore's endorsing Barack Obama. John McCain canceled a fundraiser in Texas …
CrabbyGolightly (www.crabbygolightly.com):
… CONTACT CRABBY HOROSCOPES SAMPLE CANDIES Hey, Be Us! Creature ComfortsThe New YorkerBad Banana FFFFound BLATHER TMZ Gawker Vulture Perez Hilton Jezebel Popbytes Egotastic E!Online Snarkerati Access Hollywood OMG! x17Online Gabby Babble Monsters & Critics The Superficial: Because You're Ugly …
Iconia (iconia.canonist.com):
… Journal of Biblical Studies Journal of Buddhist Ethics Journal of Contemporary Art Journal of Global Buddhism Journal of Hebrew Scriptures Journal of Religion & Society Journal of Religion and Film Modern PaintersNew YorkerNY Arts Magazine Oxford Art Journal Religion and the Arts (BC) Review of Biblical Literature Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion The Journal for the Renewal of Religion and Theology The Journal of Religion (U. of Chicago) …
Vox Popoli (voxday.blogspot.com):
… Eric Alterman explainsthe unlamented demiseof the daily newspaper: The American newspaper (and the nightly newscast) is designed to appeal to a broad audience, with conflicting values and opinions, by virtue of its commitment to the goal of objectivity. Many newspapers, in their eagerness to …
Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET (webware.com):
… Most don't attract mass audiences. Nevertheless, Google still has to pay the bandwidth costs. Each minute, more than 10 hours of video are posted to YouTube, which "is now the majority of outbound bandwidth" for Google, Schmidt said last week inan interview with The New Yorker. "We had to retool the network." Bandwidth costs are likely less of a worry than the advertising issues. If YouTube hasn't become a cash cow after three years as the Web's top supplier of short-form, homemade clips, perhaps its time to conclude …
Austinist: Austin News, Food, Arts & Events (austinist.com):
… Obama spoke about fatherhood at a church yesterday. The Odd Couple: British PM Gordon Brown and Dubya say they understand each other. After the untimely death of Tim Russert, what's next for "Meet the Press"?Keith Olbermann thinks he is a serious newsman, others disagree."In the Heights" wins Tony Award for Best Musical, "August: Osage County" wins the award for best play. …
The Numbers Guy (blogs.wsj.com):
… s paper that you can sneak in,” as Mr. Ewing put it. Conversely, papers published outside of traditional journals, such as the pioneering mathematical work of Grisha Perelman that was even chronicled bythe New Yorker, are excluded from the calculations. Mathematicians are particularly vulnerable to quirks in the impact factor, Mr. Ewing said, noting that his colleagues are more likely to cite older work — while impact factors use citations within two years of …
Errant Ventures (errantventures.wordpress.com):
… The New Yorker on Ezra Pound. …
Conversational Reading (www.conversationalreading.com):
… stands to fiction, Adam Thirlwell stands to literary criticism. Essays * The KR Blog collages quotes from the daybooks of George Oppenn, "easily one of the most influential poets of the 20th century" * This week, The New Yorker gives you work fromJames Woodand John Updike Video * A Borges documentary. For free, in English, on the Web. * How The Wire explains the contemporary world The Rest * Splice Today talks with the man who annotated The Recognitions …
CORKSPHERE (corksphere.blogspot.com):
… on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal." And, asSeymour M. Hershreported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement. Now, in a preface to a Physicians for Human Rights report based on medical examinations of former detainees, Taguba adds an epilogue to his own investigation. …
Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET (webware.com):
… Most don't attract mass audiences. Nevertheless, Google still has to pay the bandwidth costs. Each minute, more than 10 hours of video are posted to YouTube, which "is now the majority of outbound bandwidth" for Google, Schmidt said last week inan interview with The New Yorker. "We had to retool the network." Bandwidth costs are likely less of a worry than the advertising issues. If YouTube hasn't become a cash cow after three years as the Web's top supplier of short-form, homemade clips, perhaps its time to conclude …
kopfzeiler.org (www.kopfzeiler.org):
… ist die subjektive Herangehensweise in einem sowieso von politischer Verzerrung geprägten Klima verlockend, ja wahrscheinlich sogar notwendig. Doch mit der starken Bindung MSNBCs an die Marke Olbermann gehen Gefahren einher, die auch im aktuellenNew Yorkerthematisiert werden. So wenig wie FOX noch von Außenstehenden als neutrale Quelle politischer Berichterstattung wahrgenommen wird, so wenig könnte dies bald bei MSNBC der Fall sein. Erste Anzeichen dafür liefern die ständigen …
faith in honest doubt (danceswithanxiety.blogspot.com):
… James Wood'sdiscussionof Bart Ehrman's God's Problem contains some high points:During my teens, two members of my parents’ congregation died of cancer, despite all the prayers offered up on their behalf. When I looked at the congregants kneeling on cushions, their heads …
Bad Buddha (badbadbuddha.wordpress.com):
… The novelist Haruki Murakami recently published a piece in the New Yorker abouthow running has strengthened and informed his writing career. Unfortunately, the New Yorker’s archives aren’t fully available online as of yet, so all you get if you click on the link is a brief and rather generic-sounding abstract. If you can snag a June 9, 2008 issue of the …
Start Thinking Right (startthinkingright.wordpress.com):
… That line, by the way, came out of a prepared speech that Michelle Obama delivered several times. It was not an extemporaneous line, mistakenly misspoken once. And from an interview with Michelle Obama in theNew Yorker: Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. …
Secret Mint (secretmint.blogspot.com):
… Ed., [As a fortyish feminist with a semi-examined ambivalence toward H. Clinton (as well as a semi-examined love for the Obamas),] I am normally more a fan of Hendrik than of Hil. However,his column of June 23is little more than irksome. "Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove to avoid one," he writes, and then goes on to perform and encourage just such simple thinking, a competition among grievances, no sense of …
cuddlefish (cuddlefish.blogspot.com):
… on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal." And, asSeymour M. Hershreported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement. Now, in a preface to a Physicians for Human Rights report based on medical examinations of former detainees, Taguba adds an epilogue to his own investigation. …
WordCount/by Michelle Vranizan Rafter (michellerafter.wordpress.com):
… The New Yorkerand Vanity Fair, and currently working on a start-up news aggregator Website, will headline the 2008 Online News Association conference Sept. 11-13 in Washington D.C. Brown is working on the project for media mogul Barry Diller …
