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Andrew Keen, amateurs, Wikipedia, and the Oxford English Dictionary

"He misses the real point of the Internet: not that it makes everyone an expert (it doesn't of course), but that it allows independent expertise on countless specific points to flourish."

#culture #technology

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 8, 2009

Andrew Keen, amateurs, Wikipedia, and the Oxford English Dictionary

Ducks amuck

On the use of kazoo-like instruments to promote amphibious-vehicle tours in San Francisco, with references to Merrie Melodies and John Ashbery.

#culture #cartoons #JohnAshbery #poetry

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 8, 2009

Ducks amuck

Donkey Kong

After a high score

#culture

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 3, 2009

Donkey Kong

Real housewives fifth-graders

The Real Housewives of New York makes better sense if you think of the cast as fifth-graders.

#culture #television

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 2, 2009

Real housewives fifth-graders

"Proud non-reader"

"I am a proud non-reader of books": Kanye West, on the occasion of his first book.

#books #culture #reading

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 28, 2009

"Proud non-reader"

Review: Squeezed, the orange juice book

Review of Alissa Hamilton's Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice

#books #culture #food

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 26, 2009

Review: Squeezed, the orange juice book

Memorial Day

From 1909

#culture

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 26, 2009

Memorial Day

No mercy

Abu Ghraib? Guantánamo? No, Irish orphanages, reformatories, and schools.

#culture

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 26, 2009

No mercy

The flag of equal marriage

Six stars and counting

#culture

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 8, 2009

The flag of equal marriage

A blue ribbon for free speech

A blog rally in support of Roxana Saberi

#culture

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 27, 2009

A blue ribbon for free speech

"[S]imply a controlled acute episode"

"I suspect that 'controlled acute episode' will join 'enhanced interrogation techniques' as historical shorthand for the George W. Bush administration's utter corruption of language, moral reasoning, and democratic principles."

#culture #language #politics #words #GeorgeOrwell

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 19, 2009

"[S]imply a controlled acute episode"

R-word

03.31.09: end the r-word

#culture #language #words

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 2, 2009

R-word

The Brooklyn National Anthem

"Spring has sprung, the grass has riz. I wonder where the birdies is."

#Brooklyn #culture #poetry

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 24, 2009

The Brooklyn National Anthem

Spinal Tap and the BBC

Volume sliders up to eleven!

#culture

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 20, 2009

Spinal Tap and the BBC

"Ambercroombie & Flitch"

And other ways to be "cool"

#culture #humor #lists

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 2, 2009

"Ambercroombie & Flitch"

David Frauenfelder on fear and spending

"Though no one's job is perfectly safe, if we all decide we must have two years' of savings in the bank before we spend again, eventually no one will have a job except the security guard at the bank."

#culture #life

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 2, 2009

David Frauenfelder on fear and spending

NEDAwareness Week

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

#culture #food

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 2, 2009

NEDAwareness Week

The American List

100+ companies whose stuff is made in the United States

#culture #shopping

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 24, 2009