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All My Friends Are Dead (And I’m So Cutting Edge)

Way back in March of 2007 I posted a link to a cartoon called “All My Friends Are Dead” by Avery Monsen & Jory John. Back then, the cartoon was posted for all to see for free on the web – the link has since been removed. However, the very funny cartoon (and well worth [...]
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What To Read Before Taking $25 Billion In TARP Funds

A few (one?) of the new interns at JP Morgan had the guts to email Jamie Dimon for a recommended reading list. And he actually emailed them back. The following is his list of recommended books “which includes a variety of business and history books.” Business The World is Flat Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing [...]
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The Twitter Of Recipes

Mark Bittman has another “101″ recipe list out. This time it’s 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling. These recipes are excellent for their simplicity and ease. You’re not going to open a restaurant or win any cooking contests with these recipes, but they they will satisfy your taste-buds, tummy, and busy schedule. Previous 101 lists from [...]
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One Novel, One Day (Novels In Which The Action Takes Place Within 24 Hours)

While in drama the Classical Unity of Time prescribes that the action of a play is to take place during a single day, the novel more-often-than-not covers a much longer period of time. There are, however, some notable examples where the time narrated is only one day. The most prominent example is James Joyce’s Ulysses, [...]
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That’s About All I Can Tell You, Really.

photo courtesy of clusterflock. The stories mentioned above have been mentioned here back in 2007. As for any of Salinger’s manuscripts that might have hidden away in a cabinet somewhere to be printed posthumously, I believe his thoughts about them are the same as stated above, or we all would have seen them by now. [...]
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Banned Books Week

It’s the final days of 27th annual Banned Books Week here in the US. Created by the American Library Association, the event was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Since 2001 bans on 3,736 books and other materials have been [...]
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Fuckin’ Math

If my highschool math text books were more like this I probably would have grasped onto abstract algebra a lot easier – Fuckin’ Concrete Contemporary Abstract Algebra Introduction By First Course Radical Solution Dummies: Dummit, Foote, Hungerford, Shifrin, Gallian, Fraleigh, Beachy, Herstein, Saracino, Artin, Deskins (Paperback), by Nicolas Bourbaki Junior, ISBN 1441451579, 100 pages, published [...]
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2008: The Year In Literature

I haven’t read many novels this year. I think my top four include every book I read during the whole of 2008 (and it wasn’t much better last year). Ouch. Hopefully this will change dramatically in 2009. It would be nice to be able to at least make a top five this year. Despite my [...]
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Everybody’s A Winner

There was a package on the table when I came home yesterday. I was pleased to find out it was a limited edition (575) print created by Dan and Mike of Aesthetic Apparatus. The print celebrates the latest release of the Coudal Partners’ Field Tested Books which is a project in which people are asked [...]
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What A Cat Wants, What A Cat Needs

Since I’ve been doing the dog thing so much, I think it’s only fair that I do the cat thing for a bit. Below you’ll find the “mental model” of a cat (click to make the picture big and legible). The cat’s mental model, as well as the concept of metal modeling, can be credited [...]
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Mystery Book

About seven or eight years ago I was at a party when a girl I had a heavy crush on handed me a small coffee table book. After stating that the book somehow reminded her of me, I flipped through it. I really liked it and was flattered that it was me she thought of [...]
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2007: The Year In Literature

I haven’t read many novels this year. I think my top five includes every book I read during the whole of 2007. Despite my unfortunate lack of reading, here are my favorite: 1. The Good Times Are Killing Me 2. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 3. The Kite Runner 4. [...]
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Fictional Doctors

This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is simply a list of fictional doctors from literature, movies, and television. Mind you, it’s a very long list.
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Prospector

Dang! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before now. But Cass’, the incredibly cute young thing up in Laramie, pointed me out to Prospector. Prospector is a catalog of twenty three libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Through Prospector you have access to over 20 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials [...]
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Peanuts, By Charles Bukowski

These short stories and poems called “Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski” (actually by Hanstock) could possibly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen on the internet all year, maybe ever.
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