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G.O.P. Senators Question Obama’s Health Reforms Christian Albin, Four Seasons Head Chef, Dies at 61

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inebriation resurrected a lightened movement spinning forward to laughter like breath beneath 10 million years of savagery erupting from machine as flesh as machine to rise into grunts of quiet violence tearing misery’s meat for a cause of lies spurring truth with dead boots.

As newspapers hunt for new revenues, what exactly would they be selling to their customers if they started charging for their online information? Or if I had an article in my pocket about a subject of my choosing, written in a way that I prefer, and I hinted at the content with nothing more than … Read more

Obama begins construction of a rhetorical road to the goal of a safer world with a speech on improving U.S.-Muslim relations, Hong Kongers celebrate freedom while China does not, more Americans are unable to afford prescription drugs while a few major pharmaceutical companies (1, 2, 3) made an average profit of $7.78 billion in 2008, … Read more

As the Chinese government faces memories of threats to its authority at Tiananmen Square, the power of new communication channels, such as Twitter, is seen in their neutralization by the powers that be.  The news fails to be run by Xinhua, the news organization of the communist state. Hong Kong, where there is far more free speech … Read more

In Sam Raimi’s new film, a woman, her goodness briefly unhinged by ambition and insecurity, is cursed with three days to battle a nasty demon before it, well, drags her to hell. Why watch it: It makes you jump (and laugh) with familiar film techniques but feels fresh. I attribute that success to one factor: … Read more

Microsoft wants more than 10.3% of searches. Google is in the way. Or maybe there really is a lot in a name after all. So Microsoft’s Live is gone. Hello, Bing. Did anyone in Redmond talk to Urban Dictionary first? I did two searches. An ego investigation, and the name of the engine. Here’s Google’s … Read more

Create a corresponding, real-world, tangible event, object or experience to join with digital information. Could every news article have a companion real-world event? What about this blog post? Maybe I could release 100 blog posts in a bottle. Throw ’em in the sea. Every info piece a universe; every moment a drama. Stories circle consumers … Read more

Information’s constant change on the Web is great and beneficial miracle, but the locked, discrete and contained knowledge experience of printed information gives me something that I can finish, and finishing, for a number of reasons, feels good. Reaching the end of a book unleashes the divine moment: a line goes through that piece of … Read more