Monday, November 1, 2010

"Funeral for a Friend" - Virginia Heffernan

Title:  Funeral for a Friend
Author:  Virginia Heffernan
Source:  New York Times Magazine
Date: October 29, 2010

"Mourning the Analog Telephone"

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Friday, October 29, 2010

"Redeeming the Almanac" - Molly McCarthy

Title:  Redeeming the Almanac
Author:  Molly McCarthy
Source:  Common-Place.org
Date: October 2010

"Learning to Appreciate the iPhone of Early America"

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

"Inside Think Geek, Where Mythical Meat can Make Millions" - Mathew Honan

Title:  Inside Think Geek, Where Mythical Meat can Make Millions
Author:  Mathew Honan
Source: Wired
Date: September 27, 2010

"Liotta takes another slug of coffee as he types on his MacBook Pro. 'What happened to my shipment of mini unicorns?' he mutters."

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Monday, October 25, 2010

"Life Aboard the International Space Station" - Ian Sample

Title:  Life Aboard the International Space Station
Author:  Ian Sample
Source:  The Guardian
Date: October 24, 2010

"It's 10 years since the first crew entered the International Space Station 220 miles above the Earth. But what is it like aboard a big tin can travelling at 17,500mph?"

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

"The Chameleon" - David Grann

Title:  The Chameleon
Author:  David Grann
Source:  The New Yorker
Date: August 11, 2008

The story of serial French child imposter.

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"TV Review - NBC's 'Outsourced'" - Daniel Fienberg

Title:  TV Review - NBC's "Outsourced"
Author:  Daniel Fienberg
Source:  HitFix.com
Date: September 23, 2010

A well-worded review about why this show is so completely terrible.

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Monday, October 18, 2010

"This Side of Ultima Thule" - Jeffrey Tayler

Title:  This Side of Ultima Thule
Author:  Jeffrey Tayler
Source:  The Atlantic
Date:  April 2004

"A dispatch from eastern Siberia, a realm of steel-shattering cold, nullifying vastness, and withered hopes, which is sometimes called “the white hell.”

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