Bout of Context

2009

December 29
November 44
October 26
September 21
August 25
July 8
June 9
May 17
April 13
March 33
February 41
January 37

2008

December 26
November 17
October 23
September 46
August 55
July 53
June 67
May 46
April 88
March 157
February 122
January 76

2007

December 6
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
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Regarding yesterday’s spirited references to parties so epic they warrant befouling root...
Dec 31st
Consecutive messages awaiting me after holiday. At least we...
Dec 30th
“Democrats, who speak passionately about the hungry and...”
— Nicholas D....
Dec 30th
“I don’t understand closure…That word never resonated...”
— William Shatner, working...
Dec 27th
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Please enjoy, fashionably late, Christmas In New York (a 9/11 tribute) by Shilelagh Law.  The...
Dec 27th
“Strip shows are to gender what minstrel shows are to race.”
— Randy Cohen, The Ethicist: The...
Dec 23rd
Pythias, An inlay commemorating the Knights of Pythias, our...
Dec 23rd

Annie Leibovitz On 'Celebrity' [Time...

Reader: Why do you continue to do celebrity portraits when many of them have their photographs plastered all over?
Leibovitz: I've never liked the word celebrity. I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. I think the real problem today is, the Internet has created the demand for so much more information that we need to almost drum up more celebrities. We've run out, and now what we're doing is, we're making them up.
Link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1862461,00.html
Dec 22nd
Human Scentuality
Dec 20th

Visual Search

continuations: recently wrote that the reason we can now get some real AI results is that we have...
Dec 17th

Fed Sets Record Low Range for Benchmark...

soupsoup: The Federal Reserve entered a new era on Tuesday, reducing its benchmark interest rate...
Dec 16th
“Minnesotans aren’t used to Latin Americans.”
— Joel Klein, speculating...
Dec 15th

Outliers [And Research-By-Wikipedia]

karmcity: ”just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s fairly disappointing Outliers,” and was ...
Dec 15th

Patrick Fitzgerald, Slow Your Roll

US Attorney Fitzgerald was treated to a somewhat rare, bipartisan pile-on courtesy of the Wall...
Dec 15th
Universal Muscles Redbox Over $1 DVD-Rental...
Dec 12th

Bailing Out Everything On Wheels...

With domestic attention focused on the agreement-in-principle to bailout GM and Chrysler; a critical...
Dec 10th

Illinois: Corrupt Governors More Common...

A little Wikipedia surfing to find out more about this Governor, the mere pronunciation of whose...
Dec 9th
“It’s people like you who are causing the second Great...”
— John Carney on...
Dec 8th

On Being "Ladylike"

mandalay: It’s a funny thing, being ladylike. Some things are obvious and are simply good manners:...
Dec 8th
Warch Watch
MSNBC has kindly animated our national workforce’s misery with...
Dec 5th
Warch Watch
Counseling a friend losing interest in his field a semester away from his second,...
Dec 4th
“No matter how hard it tries, business can never escape the...”
— Philip Delves Broughton, Ahead...
Dec 4th

Women Still A Business School Minority

Julia Allison, writing about the below, is “not surprised it wasn’t 50/50, but … wow. 36%??...
Dec 1st