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George W. Bush, Thomas Jefferson, and religion
via Roger's Rules by Roger Kimball on July 08, 2008
My friend Andrew Stuttaford points to a piece at “Dispatches from the Culture Wars” that takes President Bush’s speech writers to task for misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson’s view of religion in a speech the President gave at Monticello on July 4. It was “telling,” the author writes, that Bush’s speech writers “cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote.”...
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Senselessness
via Three Percent by Chad W. Post on July 08, 2008
The first of El Salvadoran Horacio Castellano Moya’s books to be translated into English, Senselessness is frankly, one of the best books to be published this year. It’s one of those rare books written in a very specific, very stylized fashion that’s simultaneously accessible and captivating.I am not complete in the mind, said the sentence I highlighted with the yellow marker and ever...
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Latest Review: Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
via Three Percent by Chad W. Post on July 08, 2008
Shortly after arriving in Rochester with the goal of creating Open Letter, I was flipping through the Ray-Gude Merlin Agency rights list and came across Horacio Castellanos Moya. I immediately e-mailed Nicole Witt only to find out that New Directions had already purchased the rights to Senselessness.As a publisher I was disappointed for being late to the game . . . As a reader I was thrilled that...
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Design-Stricher wanted
via DESIGNSPOTTER by (author unknown) on July 08, 2008
Designers are lone fighters who must sometimes "prostitute" themselves to be successful. For “Designer Strich” we’re searching freel..
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Event: Berlin Calling Exhibition - 11 Jul - 09 Aug
via unlikeberlin by (author unknown) on July 08, 2008
With the release of new book, “Berlin Calling”, Berlin-native Alex Flach presents an impressive collection of photographs on life in the city over the span of twelve years. The collection includes prints in both color and black and white, and portraits from all walks of life in the city—artists, skateboarders, a dog, and even—in perhaps more tumultuous times—a write-up from the Berlin...
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packing tape jewelry
via Designboom - Weblog by (author unknown) on July 08, 2008
in the spirit of our previous article 'poor jewelry', comes this line of accessories and jewels which come on roles of packing tape. bracelets, watches, necklaces and belts can all be simple rolled out and applied. each roll holds 60m worth of accessories and can be worn or used for their intended use packaging. at such a low cost, these pieces can simply be thrown out after...
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An Earthshaking Use of Open Source
via Linux Today by (author unknown) on July 08, 2008
CIO: "A German scientific institute migrated to Linux and open-source software to monitor global seismic activity data for compliance with the nuclear test ban treaty..."
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Start Developing SharePoint Now
via DylanWolf.com Blog by (author unknown) on July 07, 2008
Last week, I started a new job where my responsibilities include quite a bit of SharePoint development. Not that my last job didn't, but I didn't really have the time to focus on it, and I was the SharePoint guy. (If you dig back through my blog archives, you're going to find a lot of posts where I wrestle with how to do certain things from a SharePoint perspective.)SharePoint is a...
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Rounding up...
via The F-Word Blog by Jess McCabe on July 07, 2008
Rapists face little risk of being convicted in this country - that much we know. But research by Fawcett out today shows that the situation is much worse in some parts of the country than others.But the society said the conviction rate had got worse in 18 out of 43 police areas. For example, in Bedfordshire the conviction rate four years ago was 8.3% but it had dropped to 3.2%. Northamptonshire...
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Live/Work: Working at Home, Living at Work
via MoCo Loco by Harry on July 07, 2008
For some, for me, the boundaries have blurred, working at home and living at work is very familiar (as I write this in the living room). The spaces in Live/Work are inspired, 30 in all presented with their owners "who share solutions for everything from design problems to meeting the conflicting emotional demands of work and leisure.". The book features an eclectic mix; house additions, renovated...
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