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“The thing you see in this space more than anything else is that if you...”

– Jonathan Miller of News Corp, the company that owns MySpace. (via Dan Claremont)

Oct 31st

“Compared to the technological progress of, say, the dinosaurs during their tens...”

– Michael Swaim in The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete, via Cracked.com. This entire piece is funny and thoughtful. And a little scary. There’s something about it that reminds me of conspiracy theories dreamed up by every/goth tech-y geeky guy in my high school. The ones who took...

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Could the possessive apostrophes become obsolete? Among Irish-named folk? On Birmingham roadsides? Maybe. I once knew a man named Sean O’Something who often grouched about his apostrophe. He didn’t like it. I didn’t like him. Or should I say didnt? What about the double capitals in McDonalds? Could they go away? Diabolical indeed! So many fascinating questions, so little time to...

Oct 30th

DC loses a comic book store because today's geeks... →

Or at least that’s my interpretation of the dire comic book store situation.

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“At the end of the day, language death is, ironically, a symptom of people coming...”

– John McWhorter in the journal World Affairs (Why Save Dying Languages? - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com)

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Some months ago over at Brokelyn, I wrote about my experience divorcing cable and my subsequent love affair with Roku. I’m actually not a big TV watcher, but I really do think Roku is pretty much the greatest. It meets all my television needs (except I can’t figure out how to get The Daily Show on it—but no one is perfect). So, it was with pleasure that I read this recent Wired...

Oct 30th

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Ira, take two.

A couple of days ago I was at the cafe on Third Avenue where I met Ira earlier this month. A few weeks ago I did an online video about payphones in which I interviewed Ira (You can see it here — the Ira part starts a little before the two-minute mark.) So, guess who I saw at the same cafe the other day! Ira! Ira and I hadn’t met until I talked to him on that street corner. We...

Oct 29th

“Filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists have an endless variety of gewgaws to...”

– Kevin Smokler in his lovely essay Letters Home on The Rumpus.net

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Celebrating obsolete library card-catalogs (via Boing Boing via resourceshelf)

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“I think I was really just on the cusp. If I had been a little bit younger, I...”

– —Christopher Walken I’d like to have lunch with Christopher Walken. If someone can make this happen I’d be much obliged. I’d even lend him my phone.

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Housing Works: Events: Cassette From My Ex Book... →

Cassette From My Ex is a brand new anthology of people writing about mixtapes they received. For those of you who don’t know, mixtapes were these plastic things that you put in walkm…sigh…never mind. I interview the book’s editor, Jason Bitner, in OBSOLETE’s section on mixes about his site, cassettefrommyex.com. (Yes, there was a site before the book; OBSOLETE was a...

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The blog equivalent of an embossed note card?

Just a quick post to thank some of the very nice linkage I’ve gotten in the last week or so: Much obliged, MaximumPC. With gratitude, Kitsune Noir. Appreciate it, Verbatim. Holla, The H Line. TNX! GlassesGlasses. Merci, 20Minutes.fr. Thank you, Fast Company.

Oct 27th

“A woman at the turn of the 20th century blamed the postcard craze for the fact...”

– Ben Yagoda in a New York Times Book Review of The Tyranny of E-Mail by John Freeman

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