One of the best things I saw at D: All Things Digital had absolutely nothing to do with technology, so I’m not going to blog about it at PC World. Here, however, there are no rules. So here, after a brief commercial message, is Jill Sobule singing a kind of amazing song about…Bobbie Gentry.
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(With apologies to Mark Mayerson) “There are two kinds of entertainment–circus and art.” Slate has been one of my favorite sites for a long time, and I’m happy to say that I’ve been doing a little writing for them lately. Here’s a new piece on GrandCentral, a service for folks with too many phones. Meanwhile, Slate has taken notice of the 1943 Disney employee manual that Jerry published on [...] I’m beginning to bring existing content on this site into WordPress, and at least in some cases, I’m enjoying revisiting stuff I’d more or less forgotten was here. This remains a thing of bizarre wonder. Visit AOL Video–which is, of course, owned by the company that also owns Bugs Bunny and cohorts–and you’ll find an odd mishmosh of cartoons that seem to skew towards the less memorable Warner Bros. efforts, and which, confusingly, includes links to Warner cartoons on other sites, such as YouTube, that have already been deleted. Perhaps [...] Here, for no particular reason other than that I just redesigned around here (and courtesy of Archive.org) is a glimpse of an early version of this site. I think it’s the second major iteration, from early 2000. Note that my background color hasn’t changed in all that time… By almost any measure, this has been the most eventful month of my life. I started it by quitting one of the best jobs in the world, a move that attracted far more interest than I ever dreamed it might. And then I returned to that job–something I never, ever expected to do–after an utterly improbable [...] |
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