pantsfarm

I’ve been neglecting this here pantsfarm for a while now. However I have started up a tumblelog which I call tweedhouse. Just because I am no longer taking the time to write up long form posts doesn’t mean I’ve stopped looking at interesting things online.
When I have the time or inclination [...]

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I saw this article which was published in Wired by way of both Lifehacker and 43 Folders.
The article talks about how as people use technology to store information such as phone numbers and the like more and more, they are getting worse and worse at remembering them.
This strikes me as a pretty obvious [...]

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Late as usual to game, I’m only now getting around to typing up some thoughts I had in response to columns published earlier in the week by the NYTimes. The first I read was David Brooks’ The Odyssey Years” discovered because I am a daily peruser of the top 10 items on the most [...]

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A little while ago I remarked about the NYTimes Essay Contest about the “End of College”. I even managed to convince a friend to enter.
I’d been meaning to come back to this ever since they decided to put all of the essays online (about 450) in a search-able database. I’ve only looked at [...]

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Evidently there’s been a bit of controversey about sagging pants lately.
Reading this article I was rather surprised by a lot of things.
I find the idea of indecency ordinances unreasonable to begin with. What is it that indecency is doing to harm people? It comes as no surprise to me [...]

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Thanks to my incessant badgering, on overtfiasco there’s an essay written, prompted by the contest mentioned here just earlier today.

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I originally wrote this a few weeks ago with the intention of having it paired with a response from a friend. However, things haven’t worked out and so before it gets too dated, I figure I’ll go ahead and post it here.
I’m also going to ask Jerry of overtfiasco to post the essay [...]

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My god! He’s done more!.
But my crappy connection here is too slow to watch them. ARRGH

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The taxis got it covered. I’m told that next week Beijing is going to do a trial run of dramatically reducing the number of cars on the road. This I want to see. I feel like I should take a cab across town just to see if it’s faster without all the other [...]

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I laughed.

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