Archive for the ‘Shoptalk’ Category
Will Steve Jobs’ #iPad kill free speech?
I would have seen that headline and rolled my eyes, except for this: The man who just won the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons can’t sell his cartoons on Apple because the company thinks his work is “defamatory.” Apparently they’ve never heard of satire (which may explain why they, possibly, got so cranky about the Fake [...]
Obama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read: One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as the Director of War Atrocities and Civilian Protection. At least that’s what the Daily Beast is calling David Pressman’s new job, in an article that I found pretty confusing. Let’s hope [...]
Watch for it
This book, I mean. This discovery saved what would otherwise have been a wasted hour screwing around on the Internet, link to link to link, but bam, suddenly, I can’t even remember how, I somehow found out about an upcoming book called Day of Honey. It looks so good it should have a trailer, like [...]
Meaning and myth through the photographer’s lens
Much ado about pictures lately. Not long after I asked last week whether portraits of Rwandan survivors that got a nod from the NYT really told us much, the Lens Blog followed up with portraits of Holocaust survivors. Here’s what duckrabbit had to say (thanks, Scarlettlion): Do the photos really tell us anything about the [...]
Creepiest Google searcher ever, and a confidentiality conundrum
Like a lot of bloggers, weird Google search terms will send people my way. I used the word “thighs” in a blog headline once, and now every week I get a few people who I’m pretty sure are just looking for porn. Awesome. But here’s a Google search term that’s also a reminder of how [...]
Farm aid from space
This is the title of my newest Christian Science Monitor article, which is actually about weather-indexed insurance programs in sub-Saharan Africa. All kinds of cool science-and-tech stuff has come together in the last five years to allow big insurance companies to offer super-small insurance policies — low-premiums, comparatively low-payout, to the usually poor, always vulnerable [...]
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