Archive for March, 2010
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-27
Clearly, @FrancesSF is the best new restaurant in San Francisco: http://bit.ly/cZyzhR # I'm hoping for big wins today from Coach K and Speaker Pelosi, who can redeem herself after having wrecked the economy. @atcal #BeatCal # RT @BarackObama: Yes we can. # A great piece by William Deresiewicz on leadership: http://bit.ly/bG7j6P #
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-20
"…these days, it seems, the really unhappy people are working in offices." http://s.nyt.com/u/xQd # This video's form mirrors my personal motto: "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" http://bit.ly/cWYk8f (via @GinaGarzaNYC) # On @MLBNetwork John Hart just said Kenshin Kawakami has "Asian hesitation" and that the Braves bullpen is full of "Irish rogues." [...]
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-13
Is there a translated work of literature that readers consider to actually be better than the original work? # It's a testament to Sushi Zone that its waitresses waited 30 minutes for seats at the bar on their day off tonight. # “[It] is in failure and through failure, that the subject constitutes itself." –Michel [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Hear Tracey Thorn’s “Oh, the Divorces!” from “Love and Its Opposite”
More than, perhaps, any other songwriter, I’ve found Tracey Thorn’s songs from the past three decades to be consistently evocative. Every album has something that ignites my memory or feeling, and her new one is no exception. Love and Its Opposite is due in May, and its first track, “Oh, the Divorces!” isn’t a pop [...]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Drawing Google Street View
This is the best use I’ve seen of Google Street View.
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Yanidel street photography Aperture presets
I’m a big fan of Yanidel’s photo blog of his street photography in Paris. I’ve long tried to get a similar look to his photos by decreasing the desaturation slider and then selectively increasing the saturation of colors or spots in my photos. However, I’m nowhere near as good at it as he is. I [...]
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-06
What a comeback by Finland in the Bronze Medal game! Nice to see Selanne still out there. # Where are the technologists who oppose this personal branding trend? http://s.nyt.com/u/70p # That was the best hockey game I've ever seen. (No, the perfect ending didn't hurt.) # RT @paidContent Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Adam Gopnik on Canada’s gold
I’ll be writing about Canada’s hockey victory at the Olympics shortly. In the meantime, enjoy this piece and the following line by Adam Gopnik on the subject: Anything that depends on a single bounce or giveaway, though it can fairly be called victory, can’t really be called a triumph. But anyone who didn’t understand the [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
I’m not a doctor but I still want to save lives
I just recalled one of my favorite quotes from anyone: Ricky Moody in an interview with the Times Book Review stated his aspiration to “save lives” with his fiction. After all, why shoot for anything less? I still want short stories to save lives. I want people to feel about the short story the way [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
New York in miniature
Sam O’Hare spent a week making a neat video of New York City. He shot the entire thing with consumer-grade lenses on a Nikon D3 in burst mode. He added stabilization and the tilt-shift effect in post-processing. You can find more details about the production of the video here.
