A fascinating read from Vanity Fair on the world’s most expensive residential building: A Tale of Two Londons .
It’s disturbing to think of such vast sums of money spent for something not even used as a primary home. On the other hand, it seems so small-minded and kind of sad. Who is the person that cannot be happy somewhere other than One Hide Park?
This is also a way to start thinking about Manhattan. It’s well on it’s way to being a playground of the global elite.
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Very important news
I had a Norman in Kenya? And he never called?
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So I won all this money
Except, you know, not really.
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Kitten freewrite
You have to type 100 words before the kitten appears. Apparently the youngsters all know about this. writtenkitten.net.
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Why are states so red and blue?
Leif Parsons via New York Times
Aside from the fact that they’re really not (even in the most partisan states, there’s still usually at least one out of every three people voting for the minor party), this piece from the New York Times is an interesting hypothesis. Also, just about the cutest durned Minnesota graphic I ever done seen.
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Maybe not, but it’s certainly pushing to quicker and blander consensus, according to Dana Milbank’s Washington Post column yesterday. That’s not a phenomenon unique to journalism: here are some quick thoughts on how social media encourages groupthink. The onus on journalists, of course, is that as they must serve as a check against establishments. And if journalists are all going to turn into analysts, it’d at least be nice to see some original thoughts.
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More debate haiku
Bits and wisdom from the final presidential debate of 2012. The third, obviously, is the winner:
would you put in no-fly zones
over Syria?
So you’re saying we’ve already made
that declaration?
our prospects as a nation.
I want to see peace.
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Debate haiku
If we’d had transcripts of the debate before it happened, I would have run it through my magical haiku machine, and here’s what we’d have gotten:
Jeremy get a job when
he comes out of school
magnets for people coming
here illegally
is making sure that we get
more people hired
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Dispense with the aircraft.
“Flying to me isn’t travel. It’s just getting from one place to another as fast as possible. I like to have plenty of luggage with me when I start out on a voyage. You never know how many months or years you’ll be gone or where you’ll go eventually. But flying is like television: you have to take what they give you because there’s nothing else. It’s impossible.”
~ Paul Bowles to The Paris Review, 1981
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