Why Farhad Manjoo still watches The West Wing: The show is a fiction, certainly. There isn’t a politician in the world like Jed Bartlet, an exceedingly smart, (mostly) honest man with principles, who doesn’t govern by politics, who takes counsel from the cooler, calmer heads on his staff, and even from his opponents. Today in …
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great speeches of the 21st century
Robert F. Kennedy at the Sierra Club, September 10, 2005 [via Wil]: I do 40 speeches a year in red states, and there is no difference between how Republican audiences and Democratic audiences react when they hear what this White House and this Congress are doing. There is no difference except that the Republicans come …
shocking news!
shocking news! Originally uploaded by Esthr.
guy’s new blog
I ran into Guy Kawasaki at Macworld on Monday. He has a new blog. It’s got some material from his books mixed with commentary on current tech events. I liked the “10 lies” pieces.
steal these ideas
they aren’t mine anyway… at conferences, there should be a printer preloaded with perforated card stock for people to print up temporary business cards all cell phones should feature noise-cancelling microphones
interviewing sarah silverman
The Onion AV club interviews Sarah Silverman: AVC: How long do you think you would have stayed on SNL if you hadn’t been fired? SS: I don’t know. That’s a stupid question. You are a big dummy. AVC: What was it like to be fired from that show? SS: It was great!! You really are …
ordering wine
How to order wine without looking like an asshole.
W Lifestyle salon, Toronto
For Google: W Lifestyle Salon 721 Queen Street West Toronto ON M6J 1E6 416-361-9777 (Daniela, formerly of Xtraordinaire, works Saturdays.)
academia expands
My friend Leigh has a chapter in an anthology of academic works on Harry Potter. Now I’ve stumbled across a collect of student essays from a class called “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.”
athiesm 101
On NPR’s This I believe: There Is No God: Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. Richard Dawkins on Good and Bad Reasons …