The Sporting Scene October 19, 2012 The Yankees are dead; the corpse arrived in the Bronx in the early hours today, with no George Steinbrenner on the scene to snap at the bones. Embarrassingly swept by the Tigers in four games in the American League Championship Series, they scored a total of six…

I had never heard the word “faitheist” before, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t a compliment. I blushed and ran my hands through my short hair — a nervous habit — and cleared my throat, asking if it was intended to be an insult. “Yes,” he said without inflection. “There’s nothing worse than a…

Shoreditch, east London, is home to a remarkable cluster of technology start-ups. Dozens of web and ‘new media’ firms, including Last.fm and TweetDeck, set up shop here and make this grimy but beguiling district their home. No one decided this would happen. It was urban alchemy — the chance…

Quick rundown of stuff bin up to... First up, piece on @TheLitPlatform about @SilentHistory & music, contrarily. http://t.co/dgAupEaL

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Reuters The Games have a lot of naysayers. But Vancouver's former planning chief says the 2010 games made his city stronger. As billions await the London Olympics' opening ceremonies, global urbanists are already deep into the sport of navel-gazing. Has London mimicked former host Beijing, focusing…

There are some good alternatives to driving—and long border lineups—if you’re heading down to Seattle or Portland, including the new BoltBus and the Amtrak Cascades train. I recently took the train to Portland as a guest of Amtrak, and as the following photos will show you, the scenery on the train…

The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. There is a curious passage early in Freud’s “Ego and the Id” where he remarks that the id behaves “as if” it were unconscious. The phrase is puzzling, but the meaning is clear: the id is the…

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Viewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the scraps of intelligence that led to it, the trail seems obvious. Tracing it from end to beginning obscures the level of difficulty: the years of frustration and patient effort, the technological innovation, the lives lost, the mistakes made, the…

On Sunday, skydiver Felix Baumgartner stepped out of a high-altitude balloon and plummeted 40 kilometers back to Earth. I wanted to watch it live but missed it due to an appointment I had to keep. I heard it was heart-pounding, and Twitter went nuts over it. I wish I had seen it! Still, my feelings…

Photo RZA stars in "The Man With the Iron Fists," a kung-fu adventure that he directed and co-wrote.Credit Chan Kam Chuen/Universal Pictures When one has an ample block of time to probe the mind of Robert Diggs, the hip-hop star, actor, filmmaker and chess master better known as the RZA, the…

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Noah was finally asleep. Sitting in the center seat, my wife was holding our 7-month-old son as he slept on her shoulder. The three of us were flying back home from a week in Colorado, and Noah had spent the first half of the flight fussing. Anna and I — as well as our fellow travelers — were…

# Let’s reconsider our “users” us·er /ˈyo͞ozər/ Noun 1. A person who uses or operates something, esp. a computer or other machine. 2. A person who takes illegal drugs; a drug user. Synonyms consumer During a Square Board meeting, our newest Director Howard Schultz, pulled me aside and asked a simple…

A woman views the YouTube video of Amanda Todd Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images Canadian teen Amanda Todd was pretty, caring, lonely, and bullied. Ultimately, the bullying cost the 15-year-old her life. Reportedly, someone online convinced her to send him pictures of herself, and he then…

Sometimes I hate the Internet. Then I remember that I love the Internet. In Portland last weekend, the first-ever XOXO Festival offered a heartwarming affirmation for 2012: despite the noise of profiteers, ranting analysts, and social media douchebags that saturate the internet, the most powerfully…

I’m resigning from the frater-nutty of sabermetricians, effective immediately. As a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) since 1979, I like to think I was among the first devotees of sabermetrics, a term that had not yet been created for the math wizards who claim they have…

In the Globe and Mail, Sandra Martin delivers a substantial obituary of James Coyne, one-time governor of the Bank of Canada and father of the well-known Canadian commentator, Andrew Coyne. James Coyne's famous dispute with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker established the principle that the Bank of…

James Coyne, who died Friday night in Winnipeg at the age of 102, will always be remembered as the man who won a Pyrrhic victory against former prime minister John Diefenbaker in what has come to be known as The Coyne Affair. As Governor of The Bank of Canada, Mr. Coyne was highly critical of the…

I attended the XOXO Festival in Portland, OR this past weekend. I don’t have a great deal to say about it because — and I’m not trying to be a dick here — you had to be there. As in, physically in the room with the speakers and the attendees. But I did want to mention a few things. - XOXO was put on…

I just got back from four days at the inaugural XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon and it’s hard to know exactly what to say about it. The conference’s official goal, described on its Kickstarter pag

Ritual declaration of self interest: I attended this festival on a press pass. That means I paid nothing. Some of the speakers were also acquaintances of mine. So you probably shouldn't trust a damn word I write. "This is SO much better than South by Southwest!" "This is like the first year of South…

Yancey Strickler spoke Sunday at the XOXO arts and technology festival. Leah Nash for The New York Times It’s easy to forget, sometimes, that behind all the screens, behind all the slide shows of funny animal photos and GIFs, the Internet is made of people. These are people who are making things and…

Kickstarter was on full and constant display at XOXO Festival, a two-day conference last weekend in Portland, Ore., focused on the disruptive technology that allows entrepreneurs and artists to direct

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(Photo By Lena Dunham. Photo: Getty) Caitlin Moran “literally could not give a shit” about the representation of people of colour in Lena Dunham’s show Girls. She said as much on Twitter on Friday, when queried over her interview with the up-and-coming American director and screenwriter. One can’t…

The book Moneyball was the last time the world noticed the Oakland A’s. The Michael Lewis bestseller chronicled the 2002 Athletics’ draft and subsequent season. It stated that a team could be smart, exploit market inefficiencies, and be successful. But often forgotten is the book’s subtitle,…

http://t.co/z1WVI5vB profiles a member of our team, including the first screenshot from The Silent History: http://t.co/y69rv90T

The first time I almost heard of The Silent History from Eli Horowitz was three or so years ago. The Kindle was getting lots of press at the time, and we started talking about ebooks, and their possibilities. Or rather, I started worrying aloud about ebook devices—worrying about them for the same…

Robin Sloan x Nick Bilton : http://t.co/uFGlaZ8c

I bike pretty much everywhere in the city these days. But I also have a driver’s license and 16 years of driving experience. And occasionally I still drive. Like the other day I ended up driving across town to run an errand. Now, if you live anywhere near a city, you know that the driving experience…