Up Yours Some More, Told You So Edition
So Richard Greenfield, the ding dong who predicted failure for Pixar’s oh-so-risky Up, and the NY Times media reporter who helped spread the false doubt with out question have issued…
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Breaking Laws to Break the Story
Rupert Murdoch‘s U.K. tabloid News of the World, and its parent company News Group Newspapers (also owned by Murdoch), are under scrutiny after The Guardian reported that the group paid…
Meet John Craigie
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Morning Coffee
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Childhood as a Branch of Cartography
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IKEA Hacker
Your night editor was MIA yesterday for a very good reason: he inadvertantly got locked into the Emeryville IKEA overnight, and in the end there was nothing to be done…
Who Needs Philosophy?
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A Little Bit About AK Press
For the past couple years I have been an enthusiastic supporter of the Oakland-based AK Press, a small, “anarchist collective” press that publishes about twenty to thirty books a year,…
Through a Glass Darkly
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Why Do Scandinavians Seek The Darkness?
One of the biggest selling, most highly-praised novels at my bookstore right now is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Since it just came out in paperback,…
Random Media Notes
New York Times Magazine withdraws altered photo essay. Is unconcious plagiarism, ala Maureen Dowd, real? Yes and no. Pandora, online radio stations, reach fee deal. Analyst who made forecast about…
Dirty Pictures
21-year-old student Jesse Graves started putting up graffiti to promote environmental awareness nearly two years ago, and has never been harassed or arrested. Many of his pieces remain intact on…