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FSJ goes off on the music industry and compares it to the PC industry of a decade ago.
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Angela Valdez, formerly of The Stranger, goes in depth into Late Night Shots, an exclusive conservative social network in DC.
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Another publication of Johann Hari’s piece about his time on the National Review cruise.
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A transcript of RU Sirius’s interview with David Talbot, the author of Brothers.
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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.
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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.
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John August on “silent evidence,” “the human tendency to consider only the samples presented, ignoring other relevant items”
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“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.”
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“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
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Tim Bray linked to this essay of his in one of his recent posts. It’s pretty interesting.
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Recent updates on drugs.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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Russ Pitts for The Escapist on the state of game reviews.
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Troy Goodfellow writes about how game journalism needs to change.
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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.
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Allen Varney writes aobut murder mystery party games’ popularity, and its implications for expanding the popularity of role-playing in general.