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Monthly Archives: August 2007

links for 2007-08-18

Trapped in the closet
(tags: awesome)

links for 2007-08-17

Various Artists: The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 7: 1967: Pitchfork Record Review
(tags: records)

Junior Senior: Hey Hey My My Yo Yo - PopMatters Music Review
I daresay there’s even a hint of the dreaded power pop in Junior Senior’s approach to relentlessly catchy summer music, samplers and breakdancing notwithstanding.
(tags: records)

links for 2007-08-16

Invisible-Hand Career: ‘Nature’ Unmasks German Economist as Fabulist and Plagiarist - Chronicle.com
(tags: economics academia fraud)

links for 2007-08-15

Lights Off for the Apple iPhone
Lights Off is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game made even better with iPhone’s touch screen, created by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts.
(tags: iphone games)

Loud, Dumb, etc.
A comment on the comments at YouTube.
(tags: funny webcomic)

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch - New York Times
But since there would be [...]

links for 2007-08-10

Rerunning Film Noir
In a curious way, their defense of the city’s power was a defense of the turf they had always loved better than they did, say, the backyard barbecue, and sex in the city is much more exciting to ­them—­and perhaps to ­us—­than suburban ­adulter
(tags: cinema film noir)

Exit Wounds: Books: The New Yorker
After exposing [...]

links for 2007-08-09

An Economist’s Palate, Applied to Dining Around D.C. - washingtonpost.com
“Dupont has everything working against it. It’s hip, it’s easy to get to and attracts a lot of young people with disposable income.” The result: High rents and food that has to be only good enough not to drive people away.
(tags: dining food economics)

links for 2007-08-08

In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains by Myron Magnet, City Journal Summer 2007
Beginning around 1964, the rates of black high school graduation, workforce participation, crime, illegitimacy, and drug use all turned sharply in the wrong direction. While many blacks continued to move forward, a minority solidified into an underclass.
(tags: culture blackculture rap)

The downside of [...]

links for 2007-08-07

The Murals of Philadelphia - Photo Essays - TIME
Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program evolved from a simple 1984 project organized by muralist Jane Golden to combat the city’s graffiti problem.
(tags: philadelphia art)

Tyler Cowen’s Ethnic Dining Guide – June 2007, 23rd edition
(tags: dining food dc)

Food That Travels Well - New York Times
In other words, it is four [...]

links for 2007-08-05

Psychotic Leisure Music
(tags: music)

links for 2007-08-04

Rise of the Faux-cialists | Jewcy.com
. What follows is a troika of the worst poseur Marxists—faux-cialists, if you like—plus three world leaders who are actually literate in radical politics and willing to put their knowledge to good use.
(tags: socialism marxism)