And God Created Woman. At least according to Roger Vadim, who made the film Et Dieu Crea la Femme , which was Brigitte Bardot's launch vehicle into stellar celebrity. Bardot created a role that define

Credit...Tony Cenicola/The New York Times THERE are white-meat people and there are dark-meat people; there are those who swear by the drumstick, thigh or breast. And then there are skin people. They are the ones who cannot help themselves around roast or fried chicken, ripping off the crispiest…

When libertarians (and liberals) argue that increasing the supply of urban housing will lower the price of urban housing, they're drawing on some pretty basic and well-established economic concepts. And yet, the coexistence of gentrification and housing supply growth seem to put a lie to that theory…

THE “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli ...” or “it’s more…

by David Roth and David Raposa When the full, all-outtakes-taken-in version of Yakkin’ About Baseball is released as a three-VHS set around Christmas (by Vestron Video: check for it!), much will be revealed. How much like a S.E. Hinton novel David Roth found this year’s Royals to be; how much David…

Managing yourself September 28, 2011 Leer en españolLer em português They say, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” So why do we repeat things that we know aren’t working? is president of Career Strategies, Inc., a Boston-area firm offering career…

When Alexander Cartwright drew up the first modern baseball rules in 1845, I don’t believe he envisioned players with $100 million contracts or games played on fake grass inside domed stadiums. He certainly didn’t envision nights like this. Four games with playoff implications, three going to the…

The Boston Red Sox’s odds of reaching the playoffs peaked on Sept. 3. Following a 12-7 win against the Texas Rangers, they held a 9-game lead over the Tampa Bay Rays with 24 games to play, giving them a 99.6 percent chance of making the post-season. The Red Sox, of course, once had a reputation for…

When you own a domain you're a first class citizen of the web. A householder and landowner. What you can do on your own website is only very broadly constrained by law and convention. You can post the content you like. You can run the software you want, including software you've written or…

This past summer, ESPN The Magazine, in its annual ranking of sports franchises, identified Toronto as the worst city for sports in North America. Inevitably, the assessment provoked a fury of denial. Brian Burke, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ president and general manager (and probably the best…

About New York Last week, a girl in the Bronx pulled out a can of pepper spray and used it in a fight with two other girls in her high school, an event that resulted in her arrest, her mother’s arrest and a report on WNBC. The mother got locked up because she bought the stuff and gave it to her…

January 22, 2026 As AI supercharges phishing scams, 1Password introduces built-in protection by Elaine Atwell AI is making phishing attacks tougher to spot, but 1Password’s new feature helps prevent people and businesses from being victimized. NewsTips & advice January 21, 2026 How to interview with…

How we planned, built and tested a truly real-time location-based game with Socket.io, Redis, Node.js, and what we learned along the way. Over the past few months, we spent the majority our free time building a real-time game as a test for our location platform, Geoloqi. We built the first prototype…

GET THE FULL STORY EVERY DAY We've got you covered. Get Truthout's daily edition delivered straight to your inbox. Friday, 23 September 2011 04:34 By Nathan Schneider , Truthout | Report #OccupyWallStreet protesters gathering in New York's financial district on September 17, 2011. (Photo: David…

When I discovered R.E.M., which on Wednesday disbanded, through Out Of Time as a 12-year-old schoolkid in 1991, it was the beginning of a long love affair with music made by some of the most creative, humble and well-intentioned people I could imagine. My ongoing appreciation of that band has…

Liz Parle can't drive. "I did try to learn," says the 24-year-old, Birmingham-born cafe owner, "but I failed my test a few times." Then she moved to London, where running a car can be a nightmare. Instead she cycles everywhere. "It's cheap, keeps me fit, and is of course better for the environment."…

OTTAWA — Environmental concerns over Canada’s oil sands have driven a debate over the process that has lasted for years. Now, some in Canada are trying to change the conversation. Advocates of oil sand production are arguing that the human rights record of Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern oil…

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um, plague. But it’s useful to have a catchy phrase that can stick in someone’s mind, particularly if you’re trying to spread knowledge or change behaviour.…

Rich MillerSeptember 23, 2011 3 Min Read moneyball-brad-pitt-jonah-h Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in the film "Moneyball," which hits theaters today. Hill's character is based on Mets executive Paul DePodesta, who spoke at the Strata Summit this week. Long before "Big Data" analysis was cool, Paul…

At lunchtime each day, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ian Binnie joins his eight colleagues in their private dining room. They joke, gripe and gossip about lawyers and other judges, covering every conceivable topic except the one foremost on their minds – the cases they must decide. Lunching…

View full sizeBrent Wojahn/The OregonianGeoloqi co-founder Amber Case (right), helps Maria Scileppi set up her mobile phone for a game of MapAttack in Southeast Portland. Geoloqi tapped a hidden network of Oregon investment resources and expertise to develop its business -- location tracking…

I wonder if that is ever going change. “That is never going to change,” says Yankees supreme exchequer Randy Levine. Fine. “That” refers to the playing of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium. And “that” is too bad. I could argue that songs oozing religious…

The world of DVDs is a tiny island in the sea of cinema. So many movies have not been released in the format. Where, for instance, is Laurence Olivier in A Beggar’s Opera , or Meryl Streep in Still of the Night , or Grace Kelly in her penultimate feature, The Swan ? Where is Robert Altman’s Brewster…

Words by Tweet A Chinese gentleman wants to buy a big tract of land in the Northeast, and a central weakness of Icelandic politics is revealed. It is all about opinion. A government minister comes on television and starts talking about the Chinese who are buying up all the land in the world. The…

The new film documents the problems and prospects of global urbanization Urbanized , the new documentary from director Gary Hustwit, is a globe-trotting, project-touring, expert-filled survey of city design and modern urbanity. From Mumbai to Copenhagen to Beijing to New York, the film documents the…

Currents CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Amazon.com, the books-to-diapers-to-machetes Internet superstore, is a perfect snapshot of the American Dream, circa 2011. It grows by the hour, fueled by a relentless optimism that has made America America. First it sold books. Then it realized that buying…

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Letter from China BEIJING — Mix in a caldron: lots of fear of Communist domination, one billionaire property developer with a poet’s soul, a dash of James Bond and a soupçon of “yellow peril” — the story of Huang Nubo’s bid for a piece of Iceland shows, above all, widespread unease about China’s…

When the first edition of my book “Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac” came out, just over 5 years ago, running Windows at anything approaching full speed on a Mac was still a novelty. At that time, the leading options were Apple’s Boot Camp dual-boot system and Parallels Desktop, a…

New ways to find your way: An interview about TransLink’s new transportation wayfinding strategy September 8, 2011 New ways to find your way: An interview about TransLink’s new transportation wayfindi

United States | Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard professor, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know how to dumb it down |4 min read By W.W. | IOWA CITY ELIZABETH WARREN, a former TARP overseer and architect of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is running for senate against…

Thomas Boyd/The OregonianDuane Richardson does finish work for a new house built in Sellwood by Renaissance Homes. The company, once known for suburban subdivisions, now builds most of its homes in the City of Portland. When Renaissance Homes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008, the builder was…

During his first company-wide meeting two weeks ago, Nick Denton declared that Gawker Media is a technology company, not an editorial one, according to a report published on The Awl. The recasting of the Gawker blog network left at least one current editor scratching his head, but it was clearly a…

It’s our own damn fault we haven’t tracked the best video games made in Vancouver before now. What’s distinguished the list of video games developed here in the past year isn’t the number, but the variety. Among the best are social, mobile, and downloadable games, as well as the expected console…