When news came in on Friday afternoon about an explosion in Oslo, Norway, most people in Iceland first asked: Was it a bomb, or was it some other type of explosion? A bomb in Norway sounded unlikely. Who would attack friendly and peaceful Norway? Some recalled the support of Norway for the fighting…

16 juillet 2011, Montréal, Canada La littérature fonde notre rapport direct à l’autre, construit notre regard sur le monde, par la possibilité même d’écart et de loisir dans la turbulence des choses, écart réflexif qui fonde le langage comme nôtre, et la possibilité même de se conduire dans le…

I like to tell people that I have three framed photographs in my home, but if I’m honest, three is probably a stretch. I do have three photographs in my home, one graduation portrait for each of my sisters. But they’re all in the cardboard envelopes they came in, the kind that are embossed to look…

I have always hated Los Angeles, and I’ve never been shy to make it known. In my mind it’s always seemed like a glorified parking lot, devoid of anything but mediocre Mexican food, anorexic celebrities, and enough smog to keep The Lorax from even trying to help. Oh, and self-centeredness. Lots of…

The /b/ Boys: Odd Future and the Swag Generation Talented, hilarious, villainous, immature, precocious, and viral-- L.A.'s complex and often vile Odd Future are at the vanguard of modern hip-hop. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are a 10-deep hip-hop collective. But don't dare call them the new…

The above footage from Tuesday’s Giants-Dodgers broadcast has been making its way around the internet. As you will see in the video, a young man, having missed a shot at a foul ball proceeds to pout, get noticed by the gentlemen in the broadcast booth, and have a ball hand-delivered to his seat. The…

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. -- Charles "The Dudmaston Devastator" Babbage Social systems are determined by technological systems -- Leslie A. White In business as in Baseball, technology triggers innovation which affects comparative advantage. The…

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Find books you’ll love Get book news, recommendations and more Sign in with Facebook Sign in options Join Goodreads News and Interviews Posted by Patrick Brown on July 20, 2011 Yesterday, in the Guardian, John Self wrote a very entertaining post about why it seems that so many authors' best known…

There are a lot of useless Google Labs features. A few examples: Play, a failed attempt to make scrolling through your RSS feeds in Google Reader more interesting; Tashkeel, an entire service meant to help you find which diacritics are missing from Arabic text; and Realtime MyTracks, which allows…

Dick Williams (1929 - 2011) is all over the Management by Baseball book, because he was one of the greatest management and life teachers I've ever had. He advanced through all four bases of the MBB Model, and if you never saw him manage or hear him talk about the game, the quick stop at each base…

Last Fall I wrote about Geoloqi, a bootstrapped geolocation platform that points to where I hope location technology will go in the future. The service offers an app and today launches an API that uses persistent location tracking to trigger notifications tied to real-world places. Maybe it’s a note…

So if anybody deserves to be beaten into a coma by Dodger fans, it’s Frank McCourt. The guy who makes Rupert Murdoch seems like a responsible, locally involved owner needs a fist right in his smug, buff-shined face, and needs it badly, needs it today. The Dodgers’ bankruptcy filing this morning —…