Category: Miscellany

How do they do it? The Morning News is the kind of web publication I’ve always wanted to produce. They publish new stories every day, their design is succinct and tasty, they drive it all with Movable Type, I don’t see any typos, and I don’t imagine anyone’s getting paid. I could hate them but…

Looks like I jumped to conclusions. The news appears to be that Kerry will have surgery for prostate cancer, not that he will be dropping out of the race. When TPM posted that this news would “shake up” the race, I mistakenly assumed this meant a reshuffling of the candiates. My bad. Best wishes to…

For years I’ve been bugging my friends about an untenable, unmarketable, too-expensive-to-produce idea for a dynamic atlas. I’ve always been a huge fan of historical atlases, those books that show not just where the borders and populations are now but where they used to be and how they’ve changed. What I like about the idea…

With the demise of the nonpartisan exit-polling service and the news of uncheckable voting machines owned by Republican politicians, Douglas Rushkoff has concluded that voting rights in the U.S. are in even worse shape than some of the dirty tricks in the last two election cycles may have indicated: My farewell is also a sad…

Well, it looks like the remaining members of the Grateful Dead have shucked the played-out “Other Ones” monicker and have decided to call their new band simply “The Dead.” In doing so they’ve managed to split hairs, technically leaving the official name of the Jerry-era band retired but resurrecting a name that matches how most…

If you didn’t find Bush’s state of the union message convincing, maybe you need to read between the lines, as in this remixed version of the SOTU speech. [via Hyperbole]