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Condé Nast acquires Ars Technica for $25m (rumoured). I don’t get Condé Nast’s fascination with tech sites (they also own Reddit)—shouldn’t … gulfstream/2437
Screenshots of TV. gulfstream/2439
How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: “Excepting first names, only nine proper nouns have ever appeared in a winning caption: Batmobile, … gulfstream/2450
Strange, funny, Sarah Silverman commercial urging her fellow Jews to go to Florida and convince their grandparents to vote for Obama (!). A campaign of … gulfstream/2530
Clay Shirky’s tantalising suggestion that perhaps TV is a temporary spare-time-filling measure, and that sometime soon we’re going to come up with … gulfstream/2431
Have I posted this before? Small story on Sao Paolo’s near-complete eradication of outdoor advertising. gulfstream/2320
Editing “journalism’s greatest prankster,” Hunter S. Thompson. gulfstream/1773
Scrollbar art installation. gulfstream/1784
“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
John Seigenthaler’s Wikipedia entry was wrong for 132 days, which makes him unhappy. gulfstream/1893
Adam L. Penenberg proposes that Apple run iTunes like a stock market, with price determined by demand. “The more people who download the … gulfstream/1901
The Red Cross is apparently running an ad that ridicules almost all well-meaning attempts to “save the world”—except donating blood, … gulfstream/1944
Awesome: some guy’s list of the best 65 music videos of 2005. A lot of bands I’ve never heard of, but good descriptions, and every single … gulfstream/1948
How to write about Africa: “Broad brushstrokes throughout are good. Avoid having the African characters laugh, or struggle to educate their kids, or … gulfstream/2000
Good news, bad news: BBC news stories classified by mood. gulfstream/2005
Dick Cheney’s “Downtime Suite” requirements. All televisions are to be tuned to Fox News! Can’t the Secret Service leave the lights on after … gulfstream/2033
James Surowiecki says the newspaper business is still a decent business to be in: whilst there’s no potential for extreme growth (unlike high-tech stocks, … gulfstream/2036
History of The New Yorker via the recently-released CD anthology. Less than affectionate; attempts to diminish. (e.g. “The New Yorker is the only magazine … gulfstream/2089
Live geographic traffic stats for the BBC news. This is pretty sweet, despite not being very usable. (The colours that represent different traffic levels … gulfstream/2137
The New Yorker has redesigned! Some notes: overall, much cleaner, nicer and more modern (though it does feel a lot like New York Magazine) cartoons … gulfstream/2255
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