Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Listen to Pandora Founder Tim Westergren
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I heard Pandora founder Tim Westergren speak at Housing Works tonight. I’ve been a fan of the Pandora service since it launched a few years ago, and it was great to hear him speak about [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Jonathan Lethem and Joseph O’Neill on the death of John Updike and fathers
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Jonathan Lethem and Joseph O’Neill both have essays in the current issue of Granta on photographs of their fathers. They spoke about these pieces and, more generally, fathers with Granta’s American editor, John Freeman at [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Watch Video of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
I would pay $100 for the NYTimes iPhone app
Ricky Opaterny makes the case that the New York Times should not give away its iPhone application or its content.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Postmortem on Cody’s Books
Okay, so they really called it an Autopsy. Whatever, it’s the same thing. Business Week has an article chronicling the rise and fall of Cody’s Books in Berkeley. I loved this store when I was in college and thought it was the best new bookstore in the Bay Area. Their selection of literary journals was unmatched, except, perhaps, by [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
US Airways jet lands in the Hudson River
Everyone survived. Read the full story here at the New York Times.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Jonathan Franzen on the social novel
The 5th Estate has some excerpts from an interview with Jonathan Franzen that is running in boundary 2. A lengthy snippet follows:
We may just be little specks. As a percentage of the total world population, we’re ever smaller specks, and what we are is ever more mediated by the structures we’ve created for ourselves to live in. And yet, [...]
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
A death in the family
In a line from Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary that has stuck with me for the past 15 years, the actor Billy Crystal says that the Dodgers move away from Brooklyn felt like “a death in the family.” So, I took notice when a traveler quoted in this week’s New Yorker reprised the analogy in the [...]
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Obama’s endorsement of BlackBerry worth $50 million?
That’s what an article in today’s Times suggests. A possible tag line for the ad campaign: “If Blagojevich can pick my replacement, I can pick my device.”
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
30% off at Posman Books
People usually don’t mention Posman among the best bookstores in Manhattan; it’s an omission that the store doesn’t deserve just because it’s located in Grand Central Terminal. And what better time to discover it than now when they’re having a sale on everyhing in the store, which ends tomorrow. So, stop in and browse if [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Launching the iPhone version of RickyOpaterny.com
Point your iPhone to RickyOpaterny.com, and you’ll automatically be redirected to our iPhone compatible version. It’s much easier to navigate, than the site’s full version, though, of course, lacks any Flash-based elements that I include in my posts. Setting this mobile version up took me about five minutes using the excellent WPtouch plug-in for Wordpress along with [...]
