Aughr’s Blog

• Chicken of the Sea - New York Times
  “WHEN my wife was pregnant with our son, her obstetrician gave her a list of food dos and don’ts. Chief among the don’ts: alcohol, unpasteurized cheeses and raw fish. Meanwhile, every French mother I know consumed alcohol and unpasteurized cheese in m
  (tags: food health)
• OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; Sushi For Two - New York Times
  “WITH the depletion of bluefin tuna in our oceans now front-page news, people around the country have been sharing with me their confusions and fears about eating sushi. I think that we — and our fish — would benefit from a new deal for American sushi:
  (tags: sushi)
• Public transit needs a future - Los Angeles Times
  Mike Feuer, California State Assmblymember for the 42nd Assembly District, writes an op-ed in the LA Times about public transportation and the state budget.
  (tags: budget california transportation)
• Remembering Bergman | Salon Arts
  Andrew O’Hehir of Salon remembers Ingmar Bergman.
  (tags: film)

• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: What’s that, retailers? I can’t hear you…
  FSJ goes off on the music industry and compares it to the PC industry of a decade ago.
  (tags: apple music business)
• Washington City Paper: Cover Story: Members Only
  Angela Valdez, formerly of The Stranger, goes in depth into Late Night Shots, an exclusive conservative social network in DC.
  (tags: republicans dc humor networking social)
• AlterNet: Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t Listening
  Another publication of Johann Hari’s piece about his time on the National Review cruise.
  (tags: politics america conservatives)
• Don’t Call It a Conspiracy — the Kennedy Brothers - 10 Zen Monkeys
  A transcript of RU Sirius’s interview with David Talbot, the author of Brothers.
  (tags: jfk conspiracy history usa rfk)
• Tiptoeing Around the Family Business - New York Times
  Clark Hoyt, the NY Times’ Public Editor, writes about how the Times should be covering the struggles of the Times’ business and its controlling family, the Ochs-Sulzbergers, in a much better and deeper fashion.
  (tags: nytimes media)
• Fuel for Thought: Financial Page: The New Yorker
  James Surowiecki compares how NHL players made “individually rational decisions” that add up “to a collectively irrational result,” when they actually want the opposite of the result, to the fuel-economy battle.
  (tags: politics economics psychology environment)
• johnaugust.com » Silent Evidence
  John August on “silent evidence,” “the human tendency to consider only the samples presented, ignoring other relevant items”
  (tags: history psychology)
• Matthew Yglesias: The Suburbanist Paradox
  “It’s not that we urbanists are unaware that many people live in low density areas because its cheaper, it’s precisely that we are aware of this fact that makes us believe that the “traditional unipolar downtown” could make a comeback.”
  (tags: economics sociology urban matthew.yglesias)
• Matthew Yglesias: My Necktie Problem, And Ours
  “What makes DC different is its aspiration to be a northeastern-style walkable urban center where you can walk four blocks, get on a Metro, ride a way, then find yourself just a four block walk from, say, some destination somewhere. Which is fine, except
  (tags: matthew.yglesias dc urban formal)
• ongoing · On Drugs
  Tim Bray linked to this essay of his in one of his recent posts. It’s pretty interesting.
  (tags: drugs police vancouver pot)
• ongoing · On Drugs
  Recent updates on drugs.
  (tags: drugs police war afghanistan pot tour.de.france)
• Stacking the Court - New York Times
  Jean Edward Smith suggests that historically, it is not out of the ordinary for a president and Congress to add justices to the Supreme Court in order to rebalance it.
  (tags: history law politics)
• I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car - New York Times
  Serge Schmemann writes: “What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.”
  (tags: france nytimes paris urban)
• Girls Just Want to Be Mean - New York Times
  Margaret Talbot writes in 2002 about the cliqueish and mean nature of middle school & high school girls’ social lives, and the efforts that are being made to understand it.
  (tags: nytimes sociology girls)
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: More on the Heathers
  Scott Lemieux writes about “Marc Ambinder’s remarkable, matter-of-fact admission that ‘healthy chunk of the national political press corps’ is out to get John Edwards and will give Mitt Romney a pass, because…he’s a -Republican- the frontrunner.”
  (tags: democrats media politics edwards journalism 2008)
• The Escapist : To Hear Ourselves Review
  Russ Pitts for The Escapist on the state of game reviews.
  (tags: games media journalism reviews)
• The Escapist : Can’t Wait Till Tomorrow
  Troy Goodfellow writes about how game journalism needs to change.
  (tags: gaming journalism media)
• The Escapist : Girlfriend, Rat
  Russ Pitts writes about Jonas Ferry’s RPG, One Can Have Her. I’d love to play it with my friends one time. It sounds really cool.
  (tags: cool rpg)
• The Escapist : Murder Parties
  Allen Varney writes aobut murder mystery party games’ popularity, and its implications for expanding the popularity of role-playing in general.
  (tags: rpg gaming)

• Off to Antonio’s #
• Going through my backlog of NetNewsWire tabs and posting interesting ones to del.icio.us #

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• War and Piece - WaPo Cheney piece is the “landscape of an internal war” at the paper
  Going through my tabs, I found this piece from War and Piece describing how the Cheney series in the Washington Post had scar marks from last-minute softening by editors. Additionally, there are signs that the series was supposed to run during the Iraq su
  (tags: washington.post cheney media)
• The Rittenhouse Review: Al Gore and the Alpha Girls: The Enduring Power of Cliques in a Post-High-School Wor
  This is fascinating. It’s an essay from late 2002 comparing social hierarchy among girls in high school to the appalling pundit media hierarchy.
  (tags: politics media essay)
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Amazing third-party iPhone apps
  FSJ links to the magician Marco Tempest displaying the capabilities of his amazing iPhone, such as a shaver, a coffee maker, and more.
  (tags: iphone apple funny cool magic)

• Bedtime. #
• Gym time, for the first time in a couple of weeks thanks to touring colleges and work #

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• Matthew Yglesias: Christians United for Israel
  Matt Yglesias links to Max Blumenthal’s disturbing video, “Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians Unifed for Israel Tour.”
  (tags: matthew.yglesias max.blumenthal cufi video)
• Real Men Love the Fifth Element
  I have got to see “The Fifth Element.”
  (tags: movies humor scifi)
• YouTube - Generation Chickenhawk: With The College Republicans
  Another of Max Blumenthal’s amazing videos.
  (tags: college republicans iraq video politics max.blumenthal)

• I hate traffic. #

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• Sitting at Logan. Even without our flight being delayed, I would have been here for 4 hours. Now it looks like our flight’s delayed 30 mins #
• Finally on the plane #

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• Just saw Amherst, on my way to Dartmouth #
• Lou’s! #

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• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Don’t be afraid, I just want to interoperate
  FSJ predicts the death of Red Hat through the coming onslought of the GPLv3 and PR problems resulting from not making a deal with Microsoft.
  (tags: microsoft linux fake.steve.jobs)