http://rickyopaterny.com/blog Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:59:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2010/03/08/drawing-google-street-view/ http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/2010/03/08/drawing-google-street-view/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:15:04 +0000 Rick http://rickyopaterny.com/blog/?p=887

Who’s reading your blog in Google Reader? Someone once said that weblogs contain a gold mine of...

So: is Google a good thing? John Lanchester asks, “Is Google a good thing?” in the...

Google is the answer to the problem we didn’t have Jason Zengerie has a very good profile of Malcolm Gladwell...

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New York Times Coverage John Markoff has an article about the closing of Kepler’s...

Piper Jaffray on Apple’s iPhone I’ve been planning a post on Apple’s iPhone for a...

Run This Town (New York Yankees Version) Before the Yankees game on Friday night, the stadium’s PA...

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Yves Bonnefoy out of obscurity When I was a freshman in college, I asked one...

Jonathan Franzen and Charlie Brown Jonathan Franzen has an essay on Charles Schulz in this...

Delays this week Sorry for the absence of posts. We know, we know—You’re...

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Photoshop for real From Flickr, here is a real life version of the Adobe...

Can the NYT’s glossy-style sections subsidize real news coverage? Is his Public Editor column in Sunday’s New York Times,...

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Reactions to the iPad Adam Gopnik and other New Yorker staffers responded to Apple’s...

How to get AppleCare cheap? The answer is eBay. Like many but not enough people, I understand that extended...

My favorite things of 2009 Here’s a list of things from 2009 that I particularly...

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Capitola Book Cafe launching memberships The Capitola Book Cafe is launching a membership program similar...

The price of a logo I had a few logos made for projects over the...

Leica’s new digital cameras Leica will be announcing its new lineup of cameras on...

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Why the iPad buzz doesn’t matter A lot of people are saying a lot of...

The New Yorker digital edition is already a disappointment I spent two hours yesterday waiting in line, unsuccessfully,...

My favorite things of 2009 Here’s a list of things from 2009 that I particularly...

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Memories of Kepler’s and Weekend Photos People from all over have been sending in their memories...

Like a vigil Here’s what the area near the main entrance to Kepler’s...

Sarah Bettens concert, or six years ago in France In the fall of 2000, while shopping at FNAC in...

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My favorite iPhone and iPod Touch apps I’ve been playing around with these devices for most of...

Why the iPad buzz doesn’t matter A lot of people are saying a lot of...

Orhan Pamuk’s father and his suitcase For weeks, the New Yorkers in my mail stack pile...

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They might not know it’s dog food, but they know it doesn’t taste good A recent study from the American Association of Wine Economists...

Professors don’t influence students’ politics The Times published a story this week about studies showing...

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