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Mexican fans watching Mexico v. Argentina on a giant TV on the waterfront in Copenhagen, June 27, 2010.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Copenhagen
I’m headed to Copenhagen next week for a journalism workshop. While the workshop will fill most of my time there, I’ve scheduled a few extra days to play. Suggestions?
The Gulf Mess – Compared to What?
David Appell triggered an interesting discussion over at his blog about comparing the Gulf oil mess to other ecological disasters, presaging a nice piece by Justin Gillis exploring a lot of the same issues. As I mentioned over at David’s, this raises what has long been for me a discomfort about the ecological insults we …
California Über Alles
I had breakfast this morning with a bunch of California expats. It’s a weird label. We don’t normally think of ourselves that way. But I’ve been feeling nostalgic about the land of my birth lately. Not sure why, but it probably has something to do with seeing palm trees, citrus groves and bougainvillea last month …
KGLP and the magic of radio
HOLBROOK, ARIZ – I grew up entranced by radio. There was something about the magic of the disembodied voice, always deep-throated, speaking to me from a world I could only imagine. It was Vin Scully calling a baseball game, or the mystery of hockey play by play (imagine a kid lying in the dark with …
Giant Scissors, an Update
Longtime Inkstain readers will know of my interest in giant scissors (see here and here, for example). I’m happy to report that Stuff Journalists Like has advanced this important story with an exploration of its close relationship with really giant fake checks: The giant check screams: “Giving anonymously is for suckas.” Journalists wonder how much …
Test Post
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Poem of Protest
This picture of student protests at UCLA, which came across the twitter today, reminded me of one of my all time favorite bits of graffiti: It must have been 1975 or ’76, and I was at UCLA with my dad to see art. In the parking garage elevator was this poem, written in black felt …
Peak Frozen Waffle?
Is this how it begins? Kelloggs said today production problems have led to a shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffle products. They say they will be able to restore full waffle production by the middle of next year. Of course that’s what they’re going to say – that it’s all OK, that this is …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere I: Big Think Nukes
Lots of accumulated blathering from me in this morning’s newspaper. First up, a fun thumbsucker on the Obama administration’s rhetoric regarding zero nuclear weapons (sub/ad req.) and what it might mean in practice: Supporters of a world without nuclear weapons, who include prominent hawks like former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, argue the world would …
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