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Monthly Archives: November 2006

“The goats and father are well—especially the goats.”

Friday, November 10, 2006

The Civil War was the first “modern war.” Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided nation during a period of both technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever [...]

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Awful Name, Beautiful Effect: LED Throwies

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

There’s more at the Graffiti Research Lab, which invented the Throwies. Figure out a better name and go tell them about it.

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We’re #23!

Monday, November 6, 2006

Reporters Without Borders compiled a questionnaire with 52 criteria for assessing the state of press freedom in each country. It includes every kind of violation directly affecting journalists (such as murders, imprisonment, physical attacks and threats) and news media (censorship, confiscation of issues, searches and harassment).
It registers the degree of impunity enjoyed by those responsible [...]

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SEC. RUMSFELD: The problem is the word “it.”

Friday, November 3, 2006

As a creative exercise in history and language, let me plagiarize what the New York Times said about President Clinton in 1998:
Has the Defense Secretary read too much French literary theory? Is he our first postmodernist, poststructuralist, deconstructionist leader, averring that objectivity is impossible, meaning self-contradictory, and reality socially constructed through language?
No. Mr. Rumsfeld has [...]

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