August 2010
35 posts
“‘I like to let my meat speak for itself,’ can we use that as a pull quote?”
– Overheard in the Newsroom » Blog Archive » #5653
“Biologists still do not fully understand the mechanics of squid aeronautics, but...”
– Fact or Fiction: Can a Squid Fly Out of the Water?: Scientific American
A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer... →
Nice idea, especially for couples or kids.
It's like bizzaro St. Louis! →
NPR station in Florida buys Christian radio station, converts it to all-classical format.
Ballad of Steven Slater | MeFi Music →
(Steven Slater is the disgruntled flight attendant who spectacularly quit his job the other day)
WatchIGN Video: Kinect Xbox 360 Series - Kinect: The Greatest Anything Ever
“This is a story about the way one book—on old-fashioned, ink-on-paper kind...”
– The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers: I’ll Be Hoping For the Big One Out of the Blue
VIDEO: Carl Kasell responds to Howard Stern’s... →
“…along with plenty of tabloidy stuff to drive clicks, like photos of...”
– Has Arianna Huffington Figured Out the Future? - Newsweek
July 2010
83 posts
MC Escher panorama - Boing Boing →
What Are Mazes For?
fakescience:
“So writing and shooting for their college newspaper websites doesn’t...”
– Michael Koretzky: College Journalists Are Good at Consuming Multimedia but Bad at Making It. Why?
“Journalism is obviously not a religion, and newsrooms are hardly cathedrals. But...”
– The Guy Who Fired Me Was Right - New York Times
“There is basically no better kind of crime story than “real-life events...”
– Man Breaks Into Closed-Down Bar, Reopens It, Gets Arrested
“…editors do the things for text that designers did for visual products.”
– Why Editing Could Make a Comeback - The Atlantic
“The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think...”
– Tweetage Wasteland : The Web’s Five Most Endangered Words