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  • Knife nerds

    Knife nerds

    If you’re an adult knife and sharp weapons aficionado, don’t worry: You don’t have to be a native Klingon speaker to think that knife design can be elegant and utilitarian. Especially when ou make products as cool as Cold Steel. By now, you’ve all seen the Great Sword videos where a host of strangely methodical [...]

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  • “The Play of the Century”

    “The Play of the Century”

    Am I cheering for Argentina even though the USA (where I’m from) and Chile (where my Dad’s from) are both in the World Cup? Yes. Why? 1) I studied abroad there when Messi was still coming up as a player so I feel a vague connection. 2) They speak Spanish. 3) They have a chance [...]

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  • David Remnick speaks at Google

    David Remnick speaks at Google

    Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick’s account of the Soviet Union’s collapse is one of my all time favorite books. Still, I rolled my eyes when I heard about Remnick’s 600 page biography of Barack Obama. With so much already written about the man, it seemed like intellectual hubris to claim that a 600 page tome wouldn’t [...]

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  • Matt Kindt’s <i>3 Story </i> pulls the weighty burden of a giant man

    Matt Kindt’s 3 Story pulls the weighty burden of a giant man

    Craig Pressgang, the larger than life character in 3 Story by Matt Kindt, is the subject of a cruel experiment executed on wide frame panels across nearly 200 gorgeous pages. He’s also also fantastically tall man turned CIA pawn only to be repeatedly abandoned and embraced throughout the painful duration of his life. 3 Story [...]

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  • I’m shocked at how bad web marketers are at marketing.

    I’m shocked at how bad web marketers are at marketing.

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  • Digital Salvation (?)

    Digital Salvation (?)

    Did everybody hear about (my current employer) Conde Nast’s plan to save magazine publishing? A partnership with Adobe to develop an interactive magazine platform for the iTablet. The first pub to get the treatment is Wired, and it’s going to be fantastic. Of course, Apple refuses to officially confirm or deny the iTablet’s development, which [...]

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  • Sotomayor, Obama, and the divide on racial politics

    Sotomayor, Obama, and the divide on racial politics

    Poster by Favianna Rodriguez It’s altogether unsurprising that racial politics have dominated the discussion of  President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama is the nations first Black president, and Sonia Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to serve on the Court. The language of “inspiring stories” and “empathy”, discussions of [...]

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  • Sonic Youth “The Eternal” Availibe Via Matador Records’ Buy Early Get Now

    Sonic Youth “The Eternal” Availibe Via Matador Records’ Buy Early Get Now

    I’m currently enjoying “The Eternal,” Sonic Youth’s first independent label record since the 1980′s. It’s great to hear a new record. It’s great to see the influential group supporting (and supported by) the great Matador. So far, so awesome. I’m loving it, well done. The official release date for “The Eternal”  is July June 9th, [...]

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  • Happy 100 Days

    Happy 100 Days

    100 Days of Fair and Balanced. Via the Nation. Fox News calling Obama a Socialist one day at a time.

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  • San Francisco International Film Festival: My picks, Trailers

    San Francisco International Film Festival: My picks, Trailers

    Art & Copy Doug Pray reveals the personal and professional stories behind some of the most influential advertising campaigns of our time. (Festival Page) The Good Life In taking on the ensemble narrative form, respected Chilean filmmaker Andrés Wood has created a complex and affectionate patchwork of stories about ordinary people struggling to follow their [...]

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