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July 3, 2008
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Teddy wins!!!
June 11, 2008
→Big picture
Amazing new site from Boston.com with high-resolution press photos on various topics. A lot of these are really stunning images.A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income.David Brooks’ latest column in the NYT. Amazing stat.
May 23, 2008
∞Ron Rosenbaum in Slate, on “liberal guilt.” I do think it’s a bad idea to vote for someone because of their race, even if motivated by “good” guilt, but his point is very well taken nonetheless.Since when has guilt become shameful? Since when is shame shameful when it’s shame about a four-centuries-long historical crime? Not one of us is a slave owner today, segregation is no longer enshrined in law, and there are fewer overt racists than before, but if we want to praise America’s virtues, we have to concede—and feel guilty about—America’s sins, else we praise a false god, a golden calf, a whited sepulcher, a Potemkin village of virtue. (I’ve run out of metaphors, but you get the picture.)
Guilt is good, people! The only people who don’t suffer guilt are sociopaths and serial killers. Guilt means you have a conscience. You have self-awareness, you have—in the case of America’s history of racism—historical awareness. Just because things have gotten better in the present doesn’t mean we can erase racism from our past or ignore its enduring legacy.
May 22, 2008
→Dropbox
New online file storage and sync system designed by a high school friend of mine. Looks like a great product, especially when pitted against some of it’s rather pathetic competition. (I’m looking at you, .Mac iDisk!)May 15, 2008
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Line at the opening of the Boston Apple Store
May 13, 2008
→Man Says JetBlue Pilot Forced Him To Sit On Toilet
The headline here says it all.
This is such a cool idea for a music video!