Touré: “Many fans are skeptical about the retirement talk and expect Jay-Z to pull a Michael Jordan and return in a few years.” A better comparison would have been Too Short, who said on the first track of Gettin' It (Album Number Ten), “we gonn
In response to this article, this letter to the editor, regarding pants: “In fact, I've always wondered why men ended up in the awful straitjackets to which we have been reduced.
Sasha Frere-Jones: “Before you start thinking Jay-Z has been sipping too much Armadale at the 40/40, producer Timbaland does what he does best: save the day with pure crunktion. (Yes, it's a word.
Weblogs without comments enabled. Come Sunday, this weblog will go back in that category. AccordionGuy who gives you 3 options for those sites that don't have comments enabled: 1) Yell at the screen; 2) Send an email; or 3) Get your own weblog.
For those few who were wondering what the poppy and the phrase "lest we forget" were all about, they are used to commorate the deaths of Canadian soldiers in the 20 century wars in which the Canadian army participated: WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and various peacekeeping missions. The poppy symbolizes the losses at Flanders Field, which was the scene of battle very much ingrained in the Canadian psyche.
Max Frankel: “Television thrives by presenting an alternating stream of fact and fiction and therefore bears a special responsibility to distinguish between the two. Yet it seems determined to do just the opposite, to blend fact and fiction into an indistinguishable froth.”
sillygwailo: there was a cute girl sitting across from me at the time.
sillygwailo: hmm, most of my stories either start or end like that.
idlyadam: with no one mentioning sex?
sillygwailo: pretty much.
sillygwailo: urge to blog...rising.
sillygwailo: urge to blog...checked by fact I would have to open comments.
Clay Shirky, in an essay pessimistic about the Semantic Web, writes briefly about "social software":
...or "When Vocabulary-Loss Attacks!":
Christopher Hitchens quotes the same passage by the current president's father as Joi Ito quoted, and comes to this conclusion as to why George W. Bush should ignore George H. W. Bush's advice: “Both [George H.
Not having read the forth or the fifth book of n the Harry Potter series, it was still interesting to see that evidently the latest book is causing "Hogwarts Headaches" in its young readers.
Anne Kingston: “Withholding a rape victim's name in no way aids the judicial system. More insidiously, the notion of protecting an alleged rape victim from potential "taint" of disclosure sustains the view that he or she is somehow to blame. And this, in a nice Catch-22, is why victims often fear to come forward.”
Alex: “Please believe me when I tell you that if a guy is going to be seeing your bra and panties, he's just happy to be there, and won't be paying too much attention to exactly what you're wearing.”
Zimran Ahmed on preferences in economics: “All else equal, a gain of $10 should be worth as much to you as not losing $10. In practice, losses loom larger than gains, and people prefer to forgo $10 new dollars over paying $10 old dollars out of pocket. People also use mental accounts, so they will create categories for expenditures and ignore the fact that money is fungible across categories.
