as we hit the slower weeks of summer take five minutes to play jason rohrers passage a contemplative art game created for last years gamma 256 competition in montreal which challenged indie designers to create games with tiny irregular aspect ratios of no more than 256256 pixels. in its halfyear of existence rohrers entry has become a micro sensation on its own garnering kudos in scads of the most...
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the first gaze armed with a rudimentary portable movie camera robert drew captured jfks presidential campaign with unprecedented candor. the resulting film 1960s primary helped introduce cinma vrit to american journalism. released by drew associates in 2008 a president to remember in the company of john f. kennedy is a naturalistic retrospective on the kennedy administration.......
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theres never been a better time to be a halfassed vegetarian. five years ago the american dialect society honored the word flexitarian for its utility in describing a growing demographicthe vegetarian who occasionally eats meat. now theres evidence that going flexi is good for the environment and good for your health. a study released last october found that a plantbased diet augmented with a smal...
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how do they ever get time to actually think and regain control of their narratives and their lives john dickerson has a smart piece on the subject. i hope obama gets a real vacation this august. and that he isnt pilloried as an elitist for taking a real one.......
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dude you stole my article they say everyones a critic but in this case the critic is everyone. today in slate jody rosen uncovers what just might be in purely statistical terms ... the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of american journalism. via stolen from zoilus.......
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sara mosle of slate writes about traveling with her kid and doesnt feel the love for the gogo kidz travelmate which has been a staple of our family travel for over a dozen trips in three years now. its not perfect but weve never had to remove the wheels at security. they either send it through a larger machine or wand it. weve been able to forgo taking a stroller when we visit family and the thing...
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filed under humor videos entertainment sports listlessthe 2008 beijing summer olympics are upon us as is the requisite ridiculous internet censorship. the games promise to be an exciting display of athletic prowess and impending disaster and we can think of no better way to train your absurdity receptors than a trip back through saturday night lives significant collection of summer olympics comedy...
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its no secret that i tend to think folks who worry about plagiarism quite often blow the issue out of proportion. luckily over the last few years weve seen more and more folks start to recognize that plagiarism isnt always so bad. in fact quite often the plagiarists do something more interesting with your content sometimes taking plagiarism to a new level of artform. the more you look at it the...
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filed under john edwards 2008 president scandal investigationsfrom uks daily mail this story is breaking open until the photograph emerged mr edwards who was john kerrys running mate in the 2004 presidential election had managed to avoid questions about the affair. but by yesterday afternoon newspapers television stations and websites across america were running the story infuriating democrati...
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the nimrods who are always kvetching about fast food never seem to grasp its true tragedy no one place has a monopoly on the good stuff which means that the ideal quickie meal requires you to stop at several locations and pick a la carte which of course youre never going to do. now imagine that its no actual hassle at all one thing that ive always wanted to see is one place one drivethrough one...
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the latest metro area unemployment report from uncle sam says that as of june the unemployment rate in metro chicago home of the one i refer to as mr. boohooouch barack obomba overseas hussein obambi obama objectively unfit coddler of haters was 7.1. meanwhile the unemployment rates in the home state of the presidential candidate i refer to as js3m3 john sidney the mad maverick mccain iii were 4...
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can you stockpile gasoline when prices are cheap yes but you have to be very very careful. if you dont do it right your stash of gasoline might spoil or blow up. for safety reasons the epa discourages consumers from storing more than 1 to 5 gallons and the national fire protection association proposes a limit of 25 gallons. local fire codes determine whether your stockpile is legal.......
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writes dylan hales via dan mccarthy at the tac blog the politico reports that ron suskinds new book claims the bush administration suborned the cia to forge a backdated handwritten letter from the head of iraqi intelligence to saddam hussein linking iraq to alqaeda. what the politco doesnt mention but the anonymous liberal blog picks up is that the allegedly forged letter also advanced the niger u...
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mastering google good whitepaper for marketers twitters business model well ummmm mobile operator zain rebrands celtel africa operations brand republic news brand republic interesting branding move particularly when you think about the borderless mobile banking that zain also allows tmobile signs ikea mvno mobile news interesting brand extension for ikea rob enderle does not know the meaning...
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a certain type of experience may now be the coin of the us army realm according to fred kaplan last november when gen. david petraeus was named to chair the promotion board that picks the armys new onestar generals the move was seen as potentially the first rumble of a seismic shift in the core of the military establishment. the selections were announced in july and they have more than fulfilled...
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how nice of slate to combine two of my favorite things data visualization and scandals. each scandal is represented by a colored circle that encompasses the people who are implicated. hence venndiagram heaven......
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continuing our talk about the rookies and their performance sunday night what did you think of undrafted free agent cb matteral richardson hes showed a lot of promise and good size. he made that interception at the end of the game which caught some eyes. matteral richardson did you spot anything watching him that we might have missed his biggest learning curve and i thought he did a pretty good j...
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somebody copied slate writer jody rosens old article on jimmy buffetthe found it plagiarized in a small texas altweekly called the bulletin. so he decided to hunt him down. thats when things got weird and he discovered that basically the history of the entire paper was plagiarized from a cornucopia of sources the bulletins site has no masthead and most articles dating from the past few years are u...
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im a relatively patient person a dog twin 3year old daughters the angelfan wife and being a cubs fan do that to a person. but the antics of bob howry have grown tiresome. and yeah im probably the last on that bandwagon see above about being patient.i mean he was good for us in 2006 and 2007. not great but good as he posted eras of 3.17 and 3.32 along with respectable win probabilty added scores o...
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nbcs scheduled coverage of the 2008 olympics is absolutely breathtaking in its scope its broadcasting over 3600 hours of the worlds greatest athletes performing feats that reveal how shapeless and amoebic the rest of humanity isthats 1000 more hours than the last 12 summer olympics combined. the internet is a huge component of their nearly omniscient coverage. you can even download and watch fulll...
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you would think liberals would get bored looking for coded racism. since they can find it absolutely anywhere it must be like shooting fish in a barrel. but then so is making fun of moonbats like timothy noah who declares that its racist to notice how scrawny obama is. noah denounces a wsj piece proposing that obamas skinniness could be a liability. his keen insight has discerned that by skinnine...
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...n a vocal critic of the bush administration and its foreign policy. unfortunately his rote and partisan attacks have often obscured his valid critiques of u.s. military shortcomings. kaplan writes in slate.com the u.s. army has finally rectified an unjust and unwise personnel decision that has continued for too long. last november when gen. david petraeus was named to chair the promotion board that p...
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john mccain hasnt given us much straight talk this election but he has stayed surprisingly firm on his principled stand against unescessary subsidies for large commercial farms and against ridiculous ethanol subsidies. problem is the upper midwest is expected to be a key battleground in the upcoming presidential election. is john mccain jeopardizing his chance of victory maybe he is. but im glad t...
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