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Kevin Draper '10: Diss Guy Miss Guy, Vol. 43
Diss Guy: David SternI’ve criticized David Stern numerous times. If you go back into the lockout archives, I’m sure you can find places where Jacob or I called him not-very-nice names. What can I say,...
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6-8-2013Gillette Loop. 40 minutes. 6 miles.Mild, nice. Relaxed but steady pace.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Useful Billboards? Advertisements Extend Into Urban Space
[ By Delana in Design& Guerilla Ads & Marketing. ] At its best, advertising is entertaining, even useful. At its worst, it is invasive, abrasive, and perhaps even offensive. IBM’s new campaign...
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Avery Morrow '10: The Beauty of Unturned Stones
Natsume Soseki was once an English literature teacher, and a student attempted to render the phrase “I love you” into Japanese.The scene: a starry, moonlit, romantic night, the man turns to his lover...
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6-9-2013Town + Country Lisbon. 55 minutes. 8 miles.Mild and wet. Eased into a good pace. Felt pretty good. [Week: 36 miles]
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: As The Whirl Turns: 9 Abandoned Heliports & Helipads
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Like the last episode of M*A*S*H, the choppers won’t be back. These abandoned heliports and helipads stand in silent contrast with their past...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday, June...
It’s NBA finals time in Cleveland, Ohio.The Titles He Won, the Things They Lost Howard Beck New York TimesTim Duncan has been variously described as “boring”, “aloof”, “unassuming” and “quiet”. But if...
View ArticleChet Haase: Important American Vocabulary for Foreign Peoples (3)
Okay, it’s time for the third installment of this important vocabulary series. Today, I’ll cover words that are significant in that they are the next five on my list.detritus: This word’s alliterative...
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Micah Koller '12: PC270508 by micahhhhhhh
PC270508, a photo by micahhhhhhh on Flickr.Boating on the Essequibo.To see more pictures click on this one.Patience, captions to come.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Natural Lighting: Grow Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Plants
[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic& Technology. ] Imagine the possibilities: cities illuminated at night not with carbon dioxide-producing energy sources, but with real...
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John Tischer '71: Thoughts For Today
Uncertainty is more certain than certainty.Drawn to your own conclusions.Change is always painful…life is always changing…that’s why Buddha said “Life is suffering.”“Eat well, get plenty of exercise,...
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Alison Sommer '05: It's a living language, y'all
"Grammar nazis" are all the rage these days on the internet, or at least it seems that way to me, at least within my circle of friends on facebook/twitter/etc. And mostly I find it amusing. I love Red...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Let's have less democracy
Repression aheadON A recent stormy night, Moscow’s hip crowd gathered for the opening of the summer terrace at the Strelka architecture and design institute, which has one of the city’s trendiest bars....
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6-10-2013Short Abbe Hills. 41 minutes. 6 miles.Warm and wet. Relaxed and steady pace.
View ArticleLibrary News: New Online Resources: British Literary Manuscripts Online, 19th...
We've just added two new online resources to the Gould Library collection: British Literary Manuscripts Online and 19th Century Collections Online.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Abandoned on Film: 15 Terrifying Desolate Movie Settings
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Sometimes, the setting of a film is almost more important than the plot itself, and that’s particularly true with abandoned places. Crumbling ruins...
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Amy Csizmar Dalal: Grace Hopper in front of the UNIVAC
I have a t-shirt from Grace Hopper 2010 in Atlanta. The t-shirt (I believe it was the one from Google that year) has the famous picture (shown here) of Grace Hopper and the UNIVAC. Recently my daughter...
View ArticleCarleton News: Professor and Author Scott Dominic Carpenter to Appear at...
Acclaimed author and Carleton professor Scott Dominic Carpenter will appear Tuesday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Monkey See Monkey Read Bookstore in downtown Northfield. Carpenter will read from and...
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Kevin Draper '10: Monday Media: The Kawhi Leonard Conundrum Deconstructed
In response to last week’s piece on the pervasiveness of racism in basketball writing, many people—including the author himself—questioned my analysis of Andrew Sharp’s piece on Kawhi Leonard. This...
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