January 2008
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What did you eat today? →
A kind of disgusting overview of what various LiveJournal users, and members of thequestionclub, ate on January 27th.
William Brodie →
William Brodie (1741–1788)…was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of the trades guild and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling… At night, however, Brodie became a burglar and thief. He used his daytime job as a way to gain knowledge about the security mechanisms of his clients and to copy their keys...
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“2. as you address your audience, consider stroking a cat or cleaning your mom’s...”
– Five presentation tips for delivering your Internet Manifesto
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to... →
You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots...
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Mountain Goats Press Kit 08 →
For the 2008 Mountain Goats album Heretic Pride, Mountain Goats songwriter John Darnielle wrote descriptions of each song on the album for Jeff to illustrate. Scroll down for the resulting 3-page ‘comic book press kit’ used for album promo.
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“Nice work guys. Nice work on the album and on letting your domain expire so some...”
– Butter Cow of Doom
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“There are many reasons why a woman might seek a late abortion, and she should be...”
– “Abortion law repeal (sort of): a warning to women” by Lucinda Cisler
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Frontline Documentary: Abortion Clinic →
This FRONTLINE documentary was first broadcast on PBS on April 18, 1983. It was filmed at a clinic in Chester, Pa., a small city which at that time had a 30% unemployment rate. The clinic was chosen because it was representative of abortion clinics in the United States. The clinic also offered individual counseling in which the reasons behind the decision are explored. During their five months at...
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“With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you’d think that the economy...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, in “Clitoral Economics”
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WatchJonah Goldberg on “The Daily Show”
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“REALLY, REALLY, REALLY GOOD LOOKING I was walking down Broadway when I noticed...”
– This I Saw U Rules
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“And it also bothers me when—this is a real paradox for me: My entire life...”
– “Running with Diablo,” An Interview with Diablo Cody