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Smoke ’em if you got ’em (and if you’re rich, white and drunk)
The Wall Street Journal today ran a great front-page piece on the hookah bars in Queens, which are coming under pressure (who are the “neighbors” that are complaining???) since they illegally permit smoking. The hookah bars do not qualify for … Continue reading
Your right to vote (and to have it counted)
If you’ve read about the nightmares of potential voting fraud all over the country, and the scary prospect of having your votes counted by Republican campaign contributors, then don’t think as a New Yorker you’ll be immune from those problems … Continue reading
What Red States?
I think the red-state blue-state view of the country is overly simplistic, but nonetheless this map from the Daily Kos is amusing.
Yes, I’m still a writer…
Back in the spring, I collaborated on a pair of brief articles with Barry Bealer, CEO of Really Strategies, a content-management consultancy, about standards and how they’re used in the real world. (Standards in this instance meaning markup languages for … Continue reading
Nikola Tesla and the Sparks From Mars
David Bowie to play Nikola Tesla in The Prestige, a new film by Christopher Nolan.
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I Can’t Do It
The nasty leer of Rudy Giuliani on a campaign mailing finally decided me: I cannot vote for Mike Bloomberg. Yes, he’s done a good job as mayor, certainly a better job than Ghouliani. But you must, to some extent, be … Continue reading
What’s going on? What the HELL is going on???
And I ain’t seen nothin but trouble baby Nobody really understands, no no And I go to the place where the good feelin’ awaits me Self-destruction in my hand. –Marvin Gaye, 1971 Billboard sighted on Flatbush Avenue, just north of … Continue reading
Overheard in email…
steelbrassnwood: Sometimes the attributions are as good as the quotes on Overheard In NY: Because Mr. Cruise is Clearly Well Balanced L. Ron Hubtard: Do you have stress? Man: I live in New York, what the fuck do you think? … Continue reading
Analog Curmudgeon Day
I just posted a response to Travis Nep Smith’s “Top 10 Reasons For Reading a News Site,” because today I seem to be in a particularly contrary, analog, curmudgeonly kind of mood. I think digital media has a great future, … Continue reading
The Tragedy Of the Communal
At this point, it seems fair to ask exactly when the intelligence in “collective intelligence” will begin to manifest itself. Blogger Nicholas Carr, talking about the badly written and frequently inaccurate Wikipedia in his skeptical article about the community-driven “Web … Continue reading