Saturday night was about heroes and ghosts and everything in between. The marathon at Nationals Park included mastery and meltdowns, players warming their hands by a heater in the dugout and little-known relievers pitching their guts out. The Washington Nationals and the San Francisco Giants engaged…
"You can’t eat and breath twice as much the next day to make up for not eating and breathing one day" http://t.co/aDBhOiaEqm
— neil21 (@neil21) September 30, 2014
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Employee or freelancer? Web-based on-demand services find themselves in tension with labour roles.
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— Denim & Steel (@DenimAndSteel) September 23, 2014
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Stunning to see how this intersection has changed! Amazing video by @kathcorey & @bagould: http://t.co/wQL65rSmXv pic.twitter.com/l9rAVydIAY
— Andreas Lindinger (@lindinger) September 27, 2014
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Album Review
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has released his second solo album, “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes,” which is available by download.
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Translating technological terms throws up some peculiar challenges http://t.co/XZKSjln2de
— Will Pate (@WillPate) September 26, 2014
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Over the past month, people across this great nation found themselves looking in the mirror and asking themselves one thing: am I basic? "Basic" and its more aggressive counterpart, "basic bitch," have been in usage for years now, but there's been a spike in popularity of the slang term recently.…
Canada had arguably one of the world's best reputations as I grew up. Harper has shattered it in less than a decade. http://t.co/1MjNRHjEHO
— Steffani Cameron (@SnarkySteff) September 24, 2014
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Makerspaces connect people and projects in Vancouver http://t.co/1KmPegLv0j via @georgiastraight
— Scott Robarts (@srobarts) September 25, 2014
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Is it racist, not racist or kinda racist if you mention someone's Chineseness? A handy guide from #Hongcouver blog http://t.co/xDCoNEuCBJ
— Ian Young (@ianjamesyoung70) September 24, 2014
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Mark Buehrle's remarkable career, by the numbers, from 0 to 47,059: http://t.co/m8x0cCs1UQ #BlueJays
— John Lott (@LottOnBaseball) September 25, 2014
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Quinn Norton 17 min read· May 20, 2014 -- Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. He put it…
"the amount of energy used getting people to work has far more impact than the energy of the building itself" http://t.co/LNiGI9IdsP
— neil21 (@neil21) September 23, 2014
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Reminder: I put all the really bad parts of the first five Doctor Who stories in to one story. Top that, Moffat!
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— Joe Rosensteel (@joesteel) September 23, 2014
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“It is time that we all see gender on a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.” http://t.co/6sZQtIALYK
— Nicole Fenton (@nicoleslaw) September 23, 2014
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Independent Booksellers Week is coming to an end, and there's been a great deal of noise about how virtuous little bookshops are in danger of being trampled by wicked Goliath online retailers. Authors are being pilloried for linking their websites to online retailers, and well-meaning publishers are…
The retiring legend offers a photographer access to his private world—the first project in a new career that is all about control. Photographs by Christopher Anderson for Jeter Publishing By Chris Smith Photographs By Christopher Anderson for Jeter Publishing It’s a steamy Saturday morning, and…
Jeter in 1993, during his first spring-training camp.Credit...Andrea Modica One summer morning in 1991, Dick Groch was driving to a baseball game in Battle Creek, Mich., when he made an unplanned detour to a high-school field in Mount Morris, somewhere between the state’s thumb and forefinger.…
By this point in my bike blogging career, I’m probably programmed to be wary of anything with the words “death” and “bike” or “bicycle” in the title that appears on a mainstream news organization’s website. One doesn’t get over the shock of seeing Dorothy Rabinowitz in her bikelash debut, “Death by…
Everybody on the internet who exists, read this. Dan Dennett on How to Argue Intelligently. http://t.co/wRSRMWpodP
— Renée Stephen (@ReneeStephen) September 19, 2014
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1 I tell this story a lot. In 2011, I attended a conference for artists and designers interested in collaboration as a practice. I had a lovely time. We shared
Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy runs against San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Ray McDonald. McDonald was arrested in August on suspicion of domestic violence. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) After decades of soaring popularity and profits, professional football is at a moral…
“Bikelash” is a snappy little word that names a condition quite familiar to anyone who’s been following the politics of city streets in the United States over the past few years. It describes the resistance and hostility that the increasing presence of bikes on city streets sometimes produces in…
Last spring, I attended the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Design Conference in San Francisco. Ben Kaufman, the CEO of Quirky, was one of the speakers in a conference that unabashedly celebrated consumption (and only had three female speakers, but that’s another story). Kaufman went on at length about the…
The Financial Page September 15, 2014 Illustration by Christoph Niemann In 2005, Utah set out to fix a problem that’s often thought of as unfixable: chronic homelessness. The state had almost two thousand chronically homeless people. Most of them had mental-health or substance-abuse issues, or both.…
Intelligencer The Cut Vulture The Strategist Curbed Grub Street Subscribe to the Magazine Give a Gift Subscription Buy Back Issues Current Issue Contents New York Shop Subscribe Profile Saved for later Sign Out Politics Business Technology Ideas About Intelligencer Newsletters New York App NYMag.com…
By mandating helmets, does Vancouver get bike safety wrong? My 1st column for @VanCourierNews: http://t.co/fRexvqFxC0 pic.twitter.com/K7MCCG66Z3
— Chris Bruntlett (@modacitylife) September 17, 2014
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September 11, 2014
by Jeff Long Greg Maddux is one of the best pitchers of all time. Marcus Stroman, meanwhile, shut down a pretty lousy Cubs lineup this week*.
Inspired by @ftrain, I wrote How to be Polite… for Geeks. https://t.co/QMHnQrkrqC They say don’t be a dick, but they never tell you how.
— Quinn Norton (@quinnnorton) August 25, 2014
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Darren Barefoot Digital strategist, analyst and author In 2011, Project AWARE completely re-envisioned their organization–from mission, vision and programs to their brand and framework. Since then, the global nonprofit organization focused on ocean protection has shifted from a traditional…
People vs. the NFL http://t.co/4tpBgAysrW via @sbnation Really really good piece about being a conflicted football fan (I am one)
— Michelle Jones (@michellej) September 4, 2014
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Beards on white guys: celebrated. Beards on Middle Eastern & South Asian guys: stigmatized. http://t.co/T3Uy21DGYd (by @taimour_khan)
— Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions) September 8, 2014
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Good piece on Vancouver's bike lanes by @fabulavancouver. For me the bike lanes make it possible to ride my bike DT. http://t.co/Pqpvb86gu0
— Marsha Lederman (@marshalederman) September 2, 2014
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A good, balanced read. RT @Salon: The crisis of "bad feminism" is so much worse than you think http://t.co/sBWxchQifU
— Steffani Cameron (@SnarkySteff) September 2, 2014
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How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice "Take more advice. Mix people’s views into a cup" http://t.co/euCagM0C2b by @msuster
— Boris Mann (@bmann) September 3, 2014
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"It seems like a lot of women dress for other women." @SheilaHeti being smart, as usual. This time in @RookieMag http://t.co/UrxHHYOIMY
— Sarah Bowlin (@svbowlin) September 2, 2014
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