April 2011
5 posts
January 2011
2 posts
Culpability and the Best of 2010
After compiling my selection of the best articles of 2010, I’ve concluded this past year’s theme was culpability. We’re guilty of being ignorant or worse, being complacent. We’re guilty of not knowing boundaries, or trusting—out of fear or passion—ourselves too much.
The New York Times
World: “In Icy Tip of Afghanistan, War Seems Remote”
by...
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Me: That's how Katy Perry wants us to feel on the inside.
Me: Because we'll never be as pretty as her on the outside.
December 2010
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Dry Goods (for Web Developers)
In anticipation of the alkalineapp.com launch, here’s a sampling of the goods that some of your favorite Web sites are running:
Content management: Movable Type ($395), ExpressionEngine ($150-300)
eCommerce: Many options, very expensive
Message boards: vBulletin ($195), Invision Board ($150), XenForo ($140)
Image management: 4images ($130), Pixaria ($250), Alkaline ($TBA)
Statistics:...
November 2010
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The Sane and Silent Majority
Let’s not ignore yesterday was not only a referendum on the President but also on the Tea Party. Do voters connect with candidates who hold empty or fanatical political positions? The answer is a resounding no.
The most-publicized Tea Party-backed Senate candidates lost—O’Donnell (DE), Angle (NV), Miller (AK) as well as the superrich political novices Fiorina (CA) and McMahon (CT)...
October 2010
2 posts
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Photographer: I used to shoot politicians.
Me: As in bang-bang?
Me: Oh.
Me: Nevermind.
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August 2010
2 posts
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"Hero"
Let’s all agree to reconsider our collective use the word “hero,” at least until we can come to some sort of consensus about what the word means. And yes, CNN, I’m also talking to you. I remember a few years ago you did a piece on a elementary schoolteacher who, after one of her students was accidentally stabbed by another, had enough common sense not to pull out the pair of scissors...
July 2010
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“I fell asleep watching this movie. Completely stupid. I found myself thinking of...”
– ztb 1127774, a Netflix review for Sweet Home Alabama
June 2010
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“Jeb Bush believes President Obama could learn something from his immediate...”
– Matt Bai, “Defending the Family Name” (NYT)
I didn’t know Jeb Bush became a comedian.
May 2010
2 posts
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One in 16.7 Million
As I approach the midpoint in the development of Alkaline, the time has come to develop some of its more awesome (or superfluous) features. One of those features is Alkaline’s proprietary color analysis algorithm, Colorcode.
With the surge in popularity of services like Adobe’s Kuler and Colour Lovers, I wanted Alkaline to not only recognize generic colors (for say, searching) but...
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April 2010
4 posts
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Network Neutrality and the Marketplace
NYT’s Op-Ed “How to Regulate the Internet Tap”:
When it comes to the Internet and net neutrality, ensuring transparency promises to enhance the evolution of this dynamic market. Imposing heavy-handed rules about how providers can operate will only hinder it.
The Internet needs to be regulated just like traditional phone companies have been for decades. Why? Because...
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"The TV" by Ben Loory →
Could it be, the New Yorker is actually publishing fiction worth reading again?
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“I picture Karl Rove sitting there in his underwear, staring at [the New York...”
– Chelsea Handler, “I’m Chelsea Handler. And You’re Not.” (NYT)
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Mean Girls
The Times’ Op-Ed piece yesterday “The Myth of Mean Girls” by Mike Males and Meda-Chesney Lind completely missed the ball.
This mythical wave of girls’ violence and meanness is, in the end, contradicted by reams of evidence from almost every available and reliable source. […] Why, in an era when slandering a group of people based on the misdeeds of a few has...
March 2010
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Department of Happiness
Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Everybody Have Fun” for the New Yorker:
Over the past three and a half decades, real per-capita income in the United States has risen from just over seventeen thousand dollars to almost twenty-seven thousand dollars. During that same period, the average new home in the U.S. grew in size by almost fifty per cent; the number of cars in the country increased...
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