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Of Glass Ceilings: Primary ‘08 in hindsight
“Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove to avoid one; but it does not belittle the oppressions of gender to suggest that in America the oppressions of race have cut deeper. Clinton’s supporters would sometimes note that the Constitution did not extend the vote to women until a half century [...]
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Link, Space & Place
We can use the hands, but not the spirit?
“Developers in Tijuana would build entire neighborhoods of generic 400-square-foot houses — miniature versions of suburban America,” Mr. Cruz said in an interview. “What I noticed is how quickly these developments were retrofitted by the tenants.” Informal businesses like mechanics’ shops and taco stands would quickly sprout up on the front lawns and between the [...]
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Link, News
The wrath of the glue stick
Scrapbooking bloggers called it “Hall of Fame-Gate,” naming it the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007. They compared it to the performance-enhancing-drug controversies involving major league baseball player Barry Bonds and Olympic track star Marion Jones.
Fantastic, from the L.A. Times: A scrapbook career in shreds.
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Link, Music, Scribbles, University
Moving on up
Rolling Stone/Chicago Tribune columnist Greg Kot has noticed our boy Ezra; the very favorable piece ran in yesterday’s Trib, and Ezra (along with the rest of us) was pretty excited to see it.
Coupled that with an appearance on a Best of 2007 list at Time Out New York, and it would seem like the boy [...] -
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links for 2008-01-12
The Hardest Working Presidential Candidate Logo
In defense of Barack’s campaign logo, which I think is pretty gosh darn brilliant.
(tags: obama politics branding color graphicdesign design logo)Twelve Essential Photographic Rules - - PopPhotoSeptember 2007
A collection of rules of thumb for photography: how slow of a shutter speed you can pull off, calculate print size, and [...] -
Design, Link
Which Garamond do you prefer?
Some fascinating and well-written analysis of the many faces of one of the greats, in Garamond v Garamond: Physiology of a typeface
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My year in cities: 2007 edition
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Reprising last year’s meme, here is my year in cities. Alas, no foreign travel for me in 2007, though I did get around the northeast pretty handily - I guess that is what comes from a summer spent back in Boston. Our low-budget spring break road trip through California barely registers here, with [...] -
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How often is often?
The Times had a front page headline yesterday, “Obama’s Vote in Illinois Was Often Just ‘Present.’”
Call me an Obama shill (I am), but I have an itch to scratch: the article states that then-State Senator Obama used the “Present” vote to register disapproval of measures he found unconstitutional or by party instruction “nearly 130 times.” [...] -
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links for 2007-12-19
Stats, stats, baby! « Flickr Blog
Flickr launched a stats feature for Pro members with referrers, graphs, most viewed - amazing! This launched last week and I just noticed the button today (RSS overload to blame).
(tags: photography statistics flickr)
