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February 09 2010
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February 07 2010
Chatroulette
I spent about 30 minutes on Friday night on Chatroulette (very NSFW). You push the start button and you're instantly in a video chat with some random person. During my session, the average "chat" lasted about 5 seconds and I observed several people drinking malt liquor, two girls making out, many many guys who disconnected as soon as they saw I wasn't female, several girls who disconnected...
February 06 2010
Estonia – The Return of a Baltic Tiger?
by Andreas Hoffmann*
The new member states of the EU were hit hard by the current crisis. Especially the former Baltic tigers (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) have seen a tremendous decline in GDP. While our economies face difficulties to cope with a decline of about five percent of the GDP, they lost 10 to 15 percent. In my opinion, Estonia is the most interesting of the three as it chose a...
February 05 2010
If Famous Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl ...
Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Wes Anderson, and Werner Herzog are ready for some football! A surprisingly entertaining imagining.
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Filed Under: movies, clickables, david lynch, jean-luc godard, quentin tarantino, super bowl 2010, video, werner herzog, wes anderson
The Importance of E-Mail to Romance (With Commentary by Abigail Adams)
Lately—and who knows why only lately—several of my friends, some male, some female, all of them currently in crawl position in the dating trenches, and all of them writers, have suffered cruelly from what I'll call Disproportionate E-mail Response syndrome. This occurs when one party writes a crafted, light-hearted e-mail intended to establish a rapport with a second party, and receives in...
February 04 2010
News for those obsessed with public opinion in Slovakia
Those of you who are not deeply interested in the topic (a group whose size can be defined approximately as the population of the world minus six) can tune out. Those of you who are interested, I understand your pain and you can now find all of this blog’s monthly public opinion graphs available in one place by clicking the “Dashboard” link on the top of every page. If it doesn’t work for...
Nakatomi Space
Shared by Whet[Image: From Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe].
While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself easily one of the best and most...
February 03 2010
New publication: How much difference do parties really make?
To watch American television news coverage of political questions (something I can no longer bring myself to do) or even to read American newspapers (only slightly less painful) is to learn that leaders matter. Whether a policy succeeds or fails, whether a candidate wins or loses depends on tactical decisions, on turns of phrase, on the right color tie. To read some America scholarly work on ...
The People's Historian?
Last week, The New York Times' somnolent columnist Herbert complained that we live in a "nit-wit era," a time when is "fashionable to bad-mouth labor unions and feminists even workers throughout the land are treated like so much trash and culture is so riddled with sexism that most people don’t notice it."
One person who did notice, says Herbert, was Boston Universityacademic...
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