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More Journalists Doing Their Job

Speaking of how to write stories about Sony that aren’t shit, here’s Tim Kelly and Reiji Murai for Reuters also showing BusinessWeek how it’s done.

On Fad Diets

Who doesn’t love a good rant? Humanity isn’t static—you can’t just be okay with all development up until the invention of the sarong, and then declare all post-sarong technology to be “unnatural.” Sure, cavemen didn’t have shoes. Until they invented fucking shoes! (You know what else they didn’t have? Discarded hypodermic needles. Broken glass. Used [...]

A Better Sony Story

Remember the piece of shit story about Sony a few months back from BusinessWeek? The New York Times’ Hiroko Tabuchi actually interviewed people (OMG!) and wrote it up like a real reporter.

The Mark of a Masterpiece

This story is actually from 2010 so if you’ve seen it already you can skip it. But if you haven’t, I cannot recommend this highly enough. Fantastic writing.

Redemptive Reactionaries

This is a really good essay from Mark Lilla on the evolution of conservative politics in the United States. He explains that the important change has been the rise of redemptive reactionaries: people ‘who think the only way forward is to destroy what history has given us and wait for a new order to emerge [...]

What’s Wrong with Google?

Mat Honan: Google may have to get us to use Google+ if it wants to remain relevant. But it should be able to go about that in a fundamentally honest fashion. If it can’t keep its promises, if it can’t avoid resorting to trickery, if it can’t keep itself from subverting the power of its [...]

Rock’s Departure from the Mainstream

Fascinating article by Will Layman about how rock music can handle its transition to niche after being the dominant popular music form for so long.

Is Money the Problem in Politics?

As a tie-in to my link to the Lessig video I posted yesterday, here’s Ezra Klien’s review of Lessig’s ‘Republic, Lost’ for the New York Review of Books. Klein isn’t so convinced that money is the root problem with US politics.

Retraction

Incredible radio.

Lawrence Lessig’s ‘Buying Votes’

I wish I could employ Lawrence Lessig just to make presentations every day.