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In the Mood
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Surprisingly interesting: the LiveJournal mood tracker. Also: wow, the United Airlines flight attendant uniforms were beautiful in the late ’60s (and then took a drastic turn towards utter hideosity from which the airline still struggles to recover). (Both via Things.)

And from Gadgetopia: I want this keyboard to exist NOW.

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iTV
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From Unmediated:

From Boing Boing:

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RPC on the Record
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Snarkmarket favorite Roy Peter Clark laid down the immortal Truth about journalism in a Washington Post chat today.

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Gayglezon
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Nice! EPIC gets a mention on must-read gay blog Towleroad. Robin, Aaron, we have truly arrived.

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Memoirs of a Survivor
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“There is a sea of horror lapping at the edges of the everyday world … “

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Mum's the Word
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When I read the transcript of today’s White House press briefing with Scott McClellan, I knew someone was going to pull this “McClellan’s a rhetorical genius” bit. Nonsense. People did the same thing with Ari F., and I call foul. Dogged question avoidance does not make one the second coming of Cicero.

In fact, from The New Republic last March (subscription required):

Fleischer was in this sense the perfect Bush press secretary. His ability to prevaricate and dodge, without betraying himself through physical or verbal tics, represented a kind of genius. Alas, what came so easily to Fleischer utterly eludes McClellan. If the two of them ever sat down at a poker table, Fleischer would probably walk away with all of McClellan’s money and the shirt off his back.

Again, nonsense. In many of Fleischer’s most heated press exchanges, he reverted to the exact same rote repetition thing McClellan does here. Both men do a perfectly functional and transparent job of stonewalling the White House press corps. Wouldn’t a true rhetorical genius be so slick and insinuating about his point that you wouldn’t even recognize it was just the same thing with different wrapping paper?

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Paul's Google News
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Google Blogoscoped brings us a mock-up of “Paul’s” personalized Google News home page. Methinks Paul would quickly get bored with this arrangement.

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Coming Out
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I tried to reform. After leaving college, I had to confront the fact that my activities during those four years were not socially acceptable. I assiduously removed all references to that lifestyle, reforming some of those dead-giveaway behavioral tics, brushing up on new conversation topics, even tweaking my music collection.

It was hard. It had been a wild four years, and I was still in the thrall of college a cappella. I had to move on.

But last week, my former a cappella group’s CD was released, it arrived in my mailbox on Thursday, and folks, I have backslid completely. I have not stopped listening to this thing since I got it. I am absolutely swimming in six-part harmony cover versions of contemporary pop songs, and I’m no longer going to hide it. Call me a degenerate. I don’t care anymore.

In fact, I’m posting three snippets of the album, three of my favorite parts. How I love this stuff.

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My Interview with Scott McCloud
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He’s awesome. Can’t say I was the most inspired interviewer, but this was fun to do.

Update (7.14.2011): I’m updating this post 6 years later because Tim Carmody pointed out that the Fresno Bee link no longer works. Try this one.

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Fa
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The interactive short story Fa

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