Links tagged with “slate”
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The FBI is going crazy stringboard crazy.
Crazy walls in Slate, with a quote from me.
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John Perry Barlow gave internet activists only half the mission they need.
Because it hasn’t quite occurred to me that all that “keep your hands out of our internet, you stupid governments” stuff meant that we left a space in which corporations could do whatever they liked. (via @michalmigurski)
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The Americans: Slate TV Club Insider by Slate Magazine on iTunes
Episode-by-episode from season three, for when we get there. (via Beeker)
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Oslo attacks: Why did so many experts blame Islamic terrorists? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
I liked this, simply because of its description of the many varying angles of extremism and how the things they hate contrast and overlap. (Also Slate’s automatic iPad web display is rather nice.) (via Great Dismal)
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Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O’Rourke - Slate Magazine
Interesting interview. Sees the show “as a 66-hour movie” and “a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it’s the Postmodern institutions that are the gods” (via Kottke)
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My coffeehouse nightmare. By Michael Idov
Why not to dream about running a coffeeshop.