Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-27
Finishing up “A Meaningful Life” before the basketball game. What to read next? Anyone read “Nimrod Flipout?” #
Just made the mistake of updating the NYTimes iPhone app. They removed Magazine, Style, Week in Review, Books and more! So lame! #
Did everyone else lose access to the Magazine, Books, Style, and Week in Review sections in [...]
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-20
At Housing Works, waiting to see if Bjork will perform. #
I should have bought more Citigroup last week! #
n+1 looking for a photo editor, but won’t pay: http://tinyurl.com/c5xo7q #
Hoping to read Daniel Mendelsohn’s review of The Kindly Ones tonight: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22452 First, “She Said, She Said.” #
What if online branding will never take off because the [...]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
The wrong side of history
President Obama recently called out Republicans, who opposed his economic stimulus package, as being on “the wrong side of history.” The phrase is rhetorically potent, and at first, as a supporter of the stimulus and Obama, I found his usage of it powerful. He employed it before in his campaign and his inaugural address to [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-13
Anyone else notice the shared line between U2’s new “I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” and “Ultraviolet” from Achtung? #
Anyone interested in going to the NBCC finalists reading at the New School tonight at 6? #
Tried to go to Freebird today, but they were closed. Ended up at BookCourt and picked up [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Analyzing baseball statistics
I recently started using the free statistics software package, R, and stumbled upon an excellent primer for using it to analyze baseball stats. So, if you’re looking to calculate win-shares or anything else, head over to O’Reilly and check out their introduction to the software.
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Why independent bookstores lose to Barnes & Noble
One reason why independently owned bookstores have a tough time competing with BN is that they have a higher cost of equity. In this lecture, Aswath Damodaran of NYU estimates the cost of equity for a New York indie bookstore to be around 14%, while it’s only 8% for BN. This analysis makes the manner [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-06
#fnfw Edmund White: “…the challenge of teaching purpose-driven people the value of laziness.” #
If you read one article published this weekend, it should be Josh in the WSJ on Raoul Wallenberg: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/prager/ #
RT @R_Nash: David Silverman’s short list of the most pompous business words http://is.gd/k9YA #
“You gotta feed animals; otherwise, they die.” –Dr. Juan [...]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
The New Yorker profile of David Foster Wallace
D.T. Max’s profile of DFW, which runs in this week’s magazine, is available online one day early.
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Click here to read Josh Prager’s story about Raoul Wallenberg in this weekend’s Journal. Is it worth your click? Yes, it is. Still hesitant to click? Well, watch the video above first.
