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Gizmodo Embarrasses CNBC
This is why access is overrated. CNBC believed Apple's official pronouncements on the health of Steve Jobs, the computer company's CEO. Gizmodo relied on gossiping insiders. Who do you reckon was right? More »
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By Nick DentonComment by ADismalScience: I see you both aggressively playing the spin game. Here's the thing: the thesis of the Gizmodo item was that... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Life Beyond Blogging
Former Gawker editor Choire Sicha is now—for New Year's Eve at least—MSNBC's expert on the Obama girls. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Baroness: Did they coordinate their 90's tech-geek outfits? I'm having flashbacks to Soledad O'Brien's days as Manix Pixie Dream Techie... 1 Responses | Other threads
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and now he's dead
Harold Pinter, Nobel-winning Playwright
Pinter was known for plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker—and later in his career as a salon leftist with a reflexive and increasingly dated hostility to the United States. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by PinkPundit: "Increasingly dated" hostility to the U.S."? About 80% of world agreed with him. 23 Responses | Other threads
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things we actually like
Manhattan Brought To You By Pepsi Cola
Joergen Geerds' epic New York panoramas are on display this Friday in Newark. For those who prefer to look at the Hudson than cross the river, more modest versions of the photographer's immaculately stitched nighttime vistas are on the web. Check New York Panorama and Luminous New York—or click through on the image above. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Dickdogfood: These are quite good, if sometimes a little too HDR-y. Were they done with an actual panoramic camera, or were... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Nouriel roubini
The Secret Pleasures of Dr. Doom
One can tell the world's condition is dire because the practitioners of that famously dismal science, the economists, are the new celebrities. Putting aside Princeton's Paul Krugman—who this week won the Nobel prize for economics—one academic has emerged with a reputation of a seer, Nouriel Roubini. The NYU professor's once-mocked warnings—of a real-estate collapse, equity market slaughter, the systemic bust of the banking system—have largely come to pass. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Aaron Altman: My apartment is indented with debtors' dentures and indentured servants with no dental insurance. 6 Responses | Other threads
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Leave New York Alone!
It is understandable that film makers prefer to set the apocalypse in the only American conurbation that is recognizable—to international cinema-goers at least—as a city. (The original I Am Legend was set in Los Angeles, but the last year's movie was improved with Will Smith, computer-generated imagery and a Manhattan setting.) But New York has been destroyed so often recently that the suspense is draining from these plots. As soon as one sees the familiar profile of the Empire State Building, one knows something bad is going to happen. And one more thing: the city is in a delicate condition right now. We could have done without this trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still, which shows bad things happening to Central Park, the Giants stadium, St. Patrick's Cathedral—and the city as a whole. More stills after the jump. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by BadUncle: Once - just once - I'd like to see a Canadian city get trashed by a science fiction menace. Why... 8 Responses | Other threads
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The panic of '08
Deep Breath
If I run another illustration of the end of the world, I'm going to shoot myself. So, instead, here's a chart with some perspective. Note how miniscule a bump markets experienced during the supposed "crash" of 1987. Even after the today's drop in the Dow below 9,000 the index is roughly where one would expect it to be if the economy had grown modestly and the two asset bubbles—dot-com stocks last decade and real estate this one—had never happened. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by American Dreamer: I think it would do Americans (including myself) a world of good if our service economy completely collapses and the... 10 Responses | Other threads
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By Nick DentonComment by dantebenuto: 845 on your SATs and a 2.2 GPA? Definitely presidential material... by post 2000 standards. 18 Responses | Other threads
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