AP seems to be getting cheekier with their photojournalistic humor:
Photo: Gerald Herbert, Associated Press
Maybe Freakonomics has made me attuned to issues of statistical aggregation and receptive to counterintuitive claims, but two items recently have leapt out at me.
First, Carpundit makes the claim that increased speed limits do not lead to increased loss of life. It’s an incredible claim, though not necessarily wrong for it. I, like many, was […]
1) Check out HubArts.com, a new blog set up by a former Herald arts editor to collect and comment on arts news across the city. It’s an excellent site (see his post on the Bewitched statue); I only hope that he expands it a big to include links to blogs discussing the arts scene here. […]
Local blogger John Daley is back from his trip to China and has posted some excellent photos.
Last night, my friends and I went out for post-dinner birthday drinks at one of those bistro-y South End bars and in the process discovered an insidious trend. Reaching for the wine list lying next to the bar menu, we discovered that it was in fact a list, with prices, of all of the art […]
Just a note to let those local (and interested) know that I’ll be DJing this Wednesday at the Midway Cafe, on Washington St. in JP (near Doyle’s). They’ve started up a new Wednesday evening of DJ’s, America’s Top Model, and Mary Kay punk rock makeovers (not kidding). If you want to miss the last two […]
Random thought: it was clichÃ(c), even at the moment, that people of my generation would remember where they were when news came that Kurt Cobain had killed himself. Oddly enough, I do remember vividly. It was one of those warm, 75-degree sunny Knoxville spring days that I love, and walking down exhaust-filled Cumberland Avenue, I […]
I realize the standards for lifestyle journalism are a bit more lax, but this has to be one of the most fucked up things I’ve read in a while.
“Lanky and slender is popular right now,” said Teen People entertainment editor Laura Morgan. “Jude Law is hot at the moment, Adam Brody is a huge […]
I’m sure more year-end listmaking will be coming here at this blog, just as soon as I catch up on more the 2004 film and music releases. (Feel free to send suggestions of what I should look at/listen to.) Meanwhile, my friend Zoe (a/k/a Francine) has a great inaugural post up on her blog reflecting […]
I love Paul Solman’s economic/business beat reporting on the PBS NewsHour, but is he really so clueless?
GINA ESPINOZA: I was the only female manager at all of the meetings that we had, district meetings and such. And these guys were just, you know, wanting to have their meetings at Hooters.
PAUL SOLMAN: What’s Hooters?
CHRIS […]
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Thanks to Vector for the pointer.
Via Matthew Yglesias comes another fun internet quiz: Yankee or Dixie. And despite being a Yankeefied Massachusetts liberal, I still showed tenacity in my Southern dialect and managed to pull score of 85 percent (Dixie).
The test by the way is based on a dialect survey done at Harvard, though the author of that study […]