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Marketing, branding, and memory, told around a company called River West that acquires the intellectual property around “dead” brands: “In most cases … gulfstream/2438
Essay on the iconoclastic Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and his involvement in the making of an early parallel supercomputer. gulfstream/2442
Nice analysis of the Republican candidates and their debate. (By Peggy Noonan.) gulfstream/2325
TV show invites five Pacific tribesman to the UK. What they find strange: homelessness, artificial insemination of pigs, the time spent cleaning and washing … gulfstream/2326
Loving piece on the Leica. “Ralph Gibson once went to a meeting of the Leica Historical Society of America and, he claims, listened to a retired Marine … gulfstream/2331
Steven Pinker: Linguistic, historial and sociological aspects of swearing. Many good points in here, e.g. “To hear nigger is to try on, however briefly, … gulfstream/2339
Nice series by Tim Wu on some categories of laws that are not actively enforced (including copyright laws, immigration laws), and why. gulfstream/2342
Nice post outlining some of the UI changes being suggested for Firefox 3, together with a good overview of browser UI challenges and issues in general. gulfstream/2351
There’s a lot to like about Barack Obama. (Long Larissa MacFarquhar profile.) gulfstream/2368
Dean Wareham of Luna’s personal, thoughtful, account of the end of his marriage. gulfstream/2386
“The Charms of Wikipedia,” by Nicholson Baker. The first section neatly captures the charms of Wikipedia, and the last is a nice account of Baker’s … gulfstream/2407
What chefs eat when they travel. gulfstream/1702
“Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white … gulfstream/1721
On Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet. gulfstream/1722
“How vanilla became shorthand for bland.” I hate hate hate it when I get a milkshake with no flavour when I ask for a vanilla milkshake. … gulfstream/1813
Curious: Cory Doctorow endorses ISP’s plan to monitor network traffic, report what songs are being traded (via audio-analysis software) back … gulfstream/1825
Spotting the fake: the (new) New Oxford American Dictionary contains a copycat-busting fake word starting with E. gulfstream/1826
Leonard Cohen possibly broke. gulfstream/1832
“Nobody dumbs down the finance pages. Imagine the fuss if I tried to stick the word ‘biophoton’ on a science page without explaining what … gulfstream/1833
Malcolm Gladwell on the college admissions process. gulfstream/1846
One hell of a kill switch: to discourage a secondary “grey market” for that (much-hyped) $100 laptop, “the machine is disabled if not connected … gulfstream/1882
“I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.” gulfstream/1915
The traditional year-on-year German NYE TV show is a 1963 B&W recording of an obscure British skit involving a nonagenarian birthday celebrant, … gulfstream/1918
Are take-away pizza menus good design, or bad? “The fact is, pizza flyers set up precisely the right expectations about the product and the service: … gulfstream/1929
Good piece on how reality TV shows choose contestants, how the shows are run, and how contestants and failed contestants are affected by the experience. … gulfstream/1946
Mostly thoughtful and sincere criticism of Sarah Silverman’s comedy: “Silverman’s inconsistencies also extend to the convenient shield of … gulfstream/1951
Great profile of a very successful and very good children’s entertainer called the Great Zucchini … who also, as it turns out, has a gambling … gulfstream/1959
Interview with Dan Savage.You joke about people getting your advice and then killing themselves, but do you have any actual anxiety about the effect … gulfstream/1972
“There’s no substantial business today in charging companies money for the privilege of indexing one’s book …” I do so enjoy Cory Doctorow’s … gulfstream/1976
Almost perfect story for the media: two miners are trapped 1km underground in a Tasmanian gold mine; they’ve been under ground almost a week, and are … gulfstream/2077
The Nocebo effect: thinking that bad things will happen is a self-fulfilling prophesy. (So should doctors lie to patients about their prospects?) gulfstream/2102
Are cities the new countries? “The most important place to London is New York and to New York is London and Tokyo … London belongs to a country composed … gulfstream/2114
Reviews of street fashion photo blogs. Big ups The Satorialist (suitably). gulfstream/2120
“Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence”: “... Little did such founding fathers as George Washington, George Jefferson, and ***ERIC … gulfstream/2124
The surprising advantages of rubber sidewalks: they last longer than concrete (in areas with lots of tree roots and/or snow clearing), they’re environmentally … gulfstream/2126
An article on the pastor of an evangelical megachurch who preaches that the church should stay out of politics has (predictably) got NY Times readers all … gulfstream/2128
Journalists from The New Yorker, thoughtful individuals that they are, attempt to arrange a meeting with the famously reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman: … gulfstream/2150
Jim Holt’s review of two books critical of string theory. (Good overview of the theory and its weaknesses.) I would’ve thought that two books on string … gulfstream/2163
Great story: Steven Levitt, playing in a poker tournament to celebrate his 10 year wedding anniversary, plays like a crazy man in order to either lose … gulfstream/2170
How to make a $36 entree look cheap? Add a $43 entree to the menu and don’t fret if no-one buys it. gulfstream/2179
Google whines about “google” turning into a verb that means “to search the internet,” urges customers to stop using it like that. (There must … gulfstream/2182
Interviews with the actors who dub movie stars into other languages. (It’s usually done by the same actor across the star’s career.) “It is hardest … gulfstream/2185
“A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.” gulfstream/2193
Kansas Outlaws Practice of Evolution: “Violators of the new law may face punishments that include jail time, stiff fines, and rehabilitative education … gulfstream/2197
Profile of Malcolm Gladwell. Whilst working at the Washington Post, he won a competition with a fellow reporter over who would be first to get the phrase … gulfstream/2219
Sort of meadering piece on nutrition, the food we eat, and the food we should eat. (Long; though there’s nine point-form tips at the end.) “Avoid … gulfstream/2221
Terrific picture: small ginger cat looks up at a black bear perched high in a tree after scaring it there. (Although … Google is suspiciously ignorant … gulfstream/2222
Interview with the designer of the pre-Euro Dutch bank notes, complete with revelations of secret embedded features. gulfstream/2224
The psychology of house pricing. According to one realtor, a price like $433,779 “would be a real turnoff ... you’re talking about someone who’s … gulfstream/2236
Profile of Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist. He really is married, too, and not in a only-recently-legal kind of way! gulfstream/2239
Good overview of possible applications of OpenId, a promising approach to single sign on. gulfstream/2243
Glowing account of Apple’s retail stores. “The interiors, too, have been distilled to a minimum of elements. ‘We’ve gotten it down so there’s … gulfstream/2256
Writers name their favourite fonts. “Obsessing about fonts is a form of procrastination, so of course I have indulged in it ever since I graduated from … gulfstream/2283
