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Call for bad handwriting
Call for bad handwriting
The New York Times wants to see your bad handwriting, for possible use in an article about grown-ups whose handwriting has gone awry.
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Call for bad handwriting
Eyes
Eyes
From Anna Karenina.
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Eyes
“Close the case”
“Close the case”
From The Drive by Night (dir. Raoul Walsh, 1940). Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino) walks out of the DA's office and toward the camera, sure that she’s off the hook.
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“Close the case”
What’d I do, NYT?
What’d I do, NYT?
I am disappointed to see that a comment I left this morning on the New York Times article about dfp-supporting politicians and "devil terms" has still not made it online. Humph.
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What’d I do, NYT?
Mary Miller in The New York Times
Mary Miller in The New York Times
Ms. Miller’s inflammatory words underscore the extent to which polarizing rhetoric is now entrenched among Republicans in the House of Representatives, especially among those like Ms. Miller who voted against certifying the Biden victory, according to an examination by The New York Times of partisan language over the past 10 years.
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Mary Miller in The New York Times
DuckDuckGo for Mac beta
DuckDuckGo for Mac beta
“With built-in protections that make the Internet less creepy and less cluttered”: the DuckDuckGo browser for Mac is now available to all. First impression: slow. But it’s still in beta.
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DuckDuckGo for Mac beta
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
From The Washington Post: “Some of the classified documents recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China, according to people familiar with the matter.”
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Iran, China, Mar-a-Largo
A Pete Seeger stamp
A Pete Seeger stamp
A good way to think about Pete Seeger’s appearance on a stamp: a man once viewed as “un-American” was of course a true American all along.
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A Pete Seeger stamp
Sold a Story again
Sold a Story again
Only last night did it occur to me to wonder: when college instructors outline the textbook in class and give out “study sheets” (i.e., questions and answers) for exams, are they merely slacking off, or are they compensating, consciously or not, for their students’ reading deficiencies?
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Sold a Story again
Sardine dreams
Sardine dreams
In The Harvard Crimson, Una R. Roven, college student, writes about sardines.
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Sardine dreams
Sold a Story
Sold a Story
Coming tomorrow, from American Public Media, a podcast series by Emily Hanford: Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.
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Sold a Story
Stemside
Stemside
“Coming up on Stemside: tomato sandwiches. Are they really as good as people say?”
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Stemside
La Fabrique de l’oeuvre
La Fabrique de l’oeuvre
A French National Library exhibition devoted to the evolution of À la recherche du temps perdu .
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La Fabrique de l’oeuvre
The reason is not because
The reason is not because
If “the reason is because” is far less common in writing, if it’s likely to stand out to many a reader as a known redundancy, it’s in a writer’s interest to change because to that. It doesn’t matter what Robert Frost did. Or Jane Austen.
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The reason is not because
NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire
It’s fast, easy to figure out, and free. It has a long history, with a developer, Brent Simmons, who has a sense of cultural purpose and doesn’t even invite donations. Here is the app’s website.
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NetNewsWire