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 Apologies for missing the Sunday Reader yesterday. Diesel Heaven is heaven's only seven-star hotel. It's the ultimate in afterlifestyle. And no, I'm not being paid to post this. It's just beautiful. Google has relaunched Writely, an online collaborative or single-user word processor application that replaces the most bloated typing program ever, Microsoft Word. Oh, and it's free. "[It] saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!)... features collaborative editing -- multiple editors on the same doc at once -- and can be used as the editor for writing your blog, saving out to a post instead of a file on your machine." [via BB] This article on child porn online and the loopholes exploited to get around laws of government and human decency troubled me so profoundly that I couldn't post the Sunday Reader. I closed my browser and did something else. It's in the Times, but the story is stomach-churning. 50 common interview questions. [via reddit] When presented with the choice of delicious food or a branded rock for breakfast, children overwhelmingly choose the rock. Danger Will Robinson. (Bonus: the design for this section at MSNBC is the worst professional design I've seen on the web yet this century. Horror quickly turned to admiration and wonder.) Only citizens of Turkey are less likely than Americans to believe that humans evolved from other forms of life. Christian Fundamentalism, much more steadfast and assertive in the United States than anywhere else, seems to be the cause. What's more important? Government surveillance being ruled unconstitutional or a murder case from 10 years ago involving one person and a potential suspect? The media (still searching for a better, more accurate term - suggestions?) made their decision. "ABC devoted twice as much time to Ramsey as it did to the NSA story. More egregiously, CBS offered seven times as much airtime to Ramsey as it did to the NSA story, while NBC devoted 15 times more airtime." Margaret A. McGurk, my favorite former movie critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer, discloses why star-ratings are bullshit. "The very fact these 'grades' exist suggest to readers that there is some sort of objective standard by which any and all critics rate all movies. This ludicrous notion is so easily absorbed that even journalism professionals carp about "the critics" in the same way Fox News commentators carp about 'the media' -- as if there were a single, monolithic entity following some secret, authoritarian rule." AMERICAblog sounds off on Bush's reaction to the NSA court ruling. "I've had it with this idiot. We've got the president of the fucking United States of America lecturing a US court of law that it's supposed to reach decisions NOT based on the rule of law, but on 'the nature of the world we live in.' You God damn stupid fuck." [via reddit] Beautiful cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya." Cannot remember where I found this. Much like the rest of the alleged war on drugs, the United States' actions to curb coca growing in Colombia have done absolutely nothing. Labels: Sunday Reader |
 
  
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