March 2011
“Much as the creative minds of Wall Street found a way to divorce investing from...”
– All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate - NYTimes.com
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“But they were down there naked, with temperatures reaching fifty degrees...”
– On Chernobyl — an interview with the director of the Chernobyl museum, excerpted by n+1.
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“Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s...”
– Zing! New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller on AOL’s buyout of Huffington Post. Excellent editorial on “meditat[ing] on the meta of media” vs. actual journalism.
All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate
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“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and...”
– The first sentence of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (via HTMLGIANT)
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“He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (via sherry)
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"Libya’s Patient Revolutionaries" →
I have barely any time to write: I’m spending my days among the crowds. I would rather live the revolution now than write it — it’s still fresh, newborn, untainted by additions and blind custom. It is a Libyan-flavored revolution, a mixture of spice and salt and light that smells like the blessings that come from the lanterns of saints.
For years, I have run into old friends only occasionally,...
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