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box din
"It was a mistake--and a beaut--in Matt Bivens's piece "The Enron Box" where he confused the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers. It is hereby duly acknowledged and regretted. But what really astonished us..." (sidebar to rewritten article)
hammett time
"Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in rural Maryland in 1894. As a boy he wanted to read all the books in the Baltimore public library, but he had to quit high school at the age of fourteen to help out with the shaky family finances. (His father, whom he didn't like, was a spendthrift, drinker, sharp dresser, and womanizer; but unlike Hammett, who resembled him in all these respects, he was mean and stingy.) At twenty-one, Hammett got a job as a Pinkerton's detective agency operative, which he left in 1918 to join the army. He suffered the first of many severe respiratory illnesses then. During one recuperation he married a nurse he met at the infirmary; then he signed on at Pinkerton's once more, but his health broke down. It was then that he began writing crime stories for the pulps."
city zen
npr report on anime Metropolis.
read my book
the funniest presidential photo-op prop since buddy the dog. heres the wire story.
moldy oldies
df is behind the indie curve these days. he might have had to buy the moldy peaches by now and the new cornelius.
pick me
ye olde bloggies
gravastarved
"New Theories Dispute the Existence of Black Holes"
need we say more?
"Enron for Dummies"
plastic surgery
"Part One: The rise and fall of Plastic.com "
bertram rustles
bert has had a busy year. now hes at sundance.
stroke me, stroke me
hillary clinton gets one/two stroke pieces in the major dailies this week. coincidence?
white out
"What's it like to change your race? Here, Daniel de Gannes, a black hairdresser, reflects on swapping his skin colour - and marching with the National Front as a white man - for a BBC documentary on how race affects our feelings and attitudes."
krug errant
"You might think that the shock of the Enron scandal — and it is shocking, even to us hardened cynics — would make some conservatives reconsider their beliefs. But the die- hards prefer to sling muck at liberals, hoping it will stick.
Sorry, guys; I'm clean. The muck stops here."