February 2012
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Feb 3rd
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Some Recent Good Reads.
A clear-eyed look back at Obama’s first term. Mass Incarceration in America. More, more, more condemnation of Scientology. Will Israel Attack Iran?, by an investigative reporter from Israel’s largest paper with access to the highest levels of Israeli government. TL;DR: Yes.
Feb 2nd
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 24th
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Joe Paterno: The God Who Fell to Earth. →
Jan 24th
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Jan 20th
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Do Sports Build Character or Damage It? →
Philosopher-warrior inspection of the value of sports in society and how they relate in particular to a man’s psyche. Dude can WRITE.
Jan 20th
This Is My Jam →
Reblogged from palmspringsbeats: By my non-technical calculations, Music was the first entertainment industry to go through the diamond-toothed meatgrinder of sharing technology enabled by the Internet. I can remember downloading my first MP3 on Napster during my Freshman year of college. I had a brand new Dell desktop and a…
Jan 20th
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Roger Williams profile. →
Very interesting man I’d never heard of before today. He was the precursor to Thomas Jefferson and is largely responsible for the idea of separation of church and state.
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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The Myth of Japan’s Failure. →
Jan 11th
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Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? →
What’s old is new and what’s new is just a retread of the past two decades. Very interesting article from December’s Vanity Fair.
Jan 11th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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NY Times on why we should pay college athletes. →
Jan 1st
December 2011
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Solitude and Leadership.  →
Truly excellent and intellectual speech given to West Point students back in October 2009. As good as Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address. For real.
Dec 29th
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Recent Walter Isaacson follow-up interview to his... →
Goes deeper into Isaacson’s personal POV about Steve’s assholeishness and why he cried so much. Interesting addendum to the book.
Dec 29th
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Great Buzz Bissinger article about a young,... →
Dec 29th
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The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire... →
Dec 29th
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Shelley From Modular Records' Top 21 From 2011 →
Great taste in electro.
Dec 21st
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What I've Been Reading the Past 2 Months.
Last one for 2011. Probably won’t do these big compilations next year and will instead rapidfire them out, one-by-one, as I come across the good ones.  I think long-form journalism is the only way out for news publishers given that the news cycle is a commodity. This year proves how much really good stuff is out there. On an unrelated note, I killed my Wired and Economist subscriptions this...
Dec 20th
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Reznor, Karen O, and of course, David Fincher. So so rad.
Dec 13th
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Fave Music of 2011
(This is a cross-post from Palm Springs Beats) Okay, here we go. I’ve kept it simple this year — no albums, no videos, just my favorite tracks, which I’ve been logging in a spreadsheet all year. I’ve taken this more seriously than a lot of things I probably should have in 2011, but I don’t live with regrets. You’ll probably notice that I only spent about 10...
Dec 7th
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This is the coolest thing you’ll see today. Paths of Hate by Damian Nenow. UPDATE: Looks like the file was literally pulled down a minute after I watched it and posted this. You can peep the trailer here, but it doesn’t do the entire piece justice.
Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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Nov 28th
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Nov 15th
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Amon Tobin - Calculate.
Nov 8th
October 2011
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Oct 10th
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What I've Been Reading the Past 4 Months.
Some of the best long-form articles I’ve come across recently. SportsFeat is responsible for more sports stories making it into this iteration, and as ever, The New Yorker and NYTimes have a disproportionate amount of representation (because I’m a wannabe snob). Steve Jobs: The Beginning. I’m pretty torn up, like many others, about the loss of Jobs. He was a very complex guy and...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Steve Jobs →
drcairns: So, Steve Jobs has left his role as Apple’s CEO. Like, for good this time. It’s a shame, but it was inevitable, and it sounds like everything’s running pretty well down in Cupertino anyway. For the purposes of this anecdote, it’s worth noting that I grew up in a house entirely surrounded by Macs….
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