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2011.08.01: Prisoner of Aplus.net and Movable Type
2011.08.01: Prisoner of Aplus.net and Movable Type
2011.06.09: What Brooklyn Was Like In The Summer Of 1974
2011.06.01: These ads are just strange.
2011.05.23: Bob Dylan turns 70
2011.05.14: Yugoslavian Monuments
2011.05.10: Risk and the Bin Laden Raid
2011.03.23: Different devices and my love of paper
2011.03.22: Why it's worth riffing on fast-moving events.
2011.02.21: Creative Loafing
2011.02.19: My views on the iPad
2011.02.09: Guitar Heroes | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2011.02.08: Love Songs In Age by Philip Larkin
2011.01.19: Nancy Dickerson
2011.01.05: The role of the critic
2010.12.24: Marching Bands Are Just Homeless Orchestras
2010.12.24: Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want customers like himself.
2010.12.24: Risking Sentimentality
2010.12.14: A Video History of Every Book Ever Written - WSJ.com
2010.11.30: Greil Marcus on artists
2010.11.27: Things I am thankful for
2010.11.13: Songs of immediate uplift
2010.10.27: On Dylan's latest CD
2010.10.01: Hardy Boys
2010.09.28: Emerson on Parenting
2010.09.07: What Nancy Dickerson Sounded Like
2010.09.06: 15 Albums in 15 Minutes
2010.08.29: Primary (1960)
2010.08.26: Amazing photos of Russia from 100 years ago
2010.08.02: Some favorite podcasts from the weekend
2010.07.31: Two views of the Press
2010.07.29: Cell phone auto-correct fun
2010.07.29: What should president Obama read this summer?
2010.07.15: I guess it's a beach read
2010.07.14: Nieman Journalism Lab on Slate series
2010.07.12: When You Are Old W.B. Yeats
2010.07.10: General James Mattis named Centcom commander
2010.06.17: Procrastinate Better
2010.06.16: Student's bizarre attack on Hell's Angels
2010.06.15: North Korean fans not North Korean fans
2010.06.15: I love the internet
2010.06.15: Stupid Teenage Tricks, for a Virtual Audience
2010.06.10: Risk Taking: The Leap
2010.06.09: New York City pictures
2010.06.09: What the iPad Can't Do | The New York Review of Books
2010.06.09: Askers v. Guessers
2010.06.08: Rands In Repose: The Shop I Want
2010.06.07: Robert Samuelson on risk and the Deepwater accident
2010.06.02: Diet Coke and Mentos-powered car
2010.06.02: Atlantic Climbing School - Acadia and Camden, Maine
2010.06.02: George Washington rarely ate alone
2010.05.31: A sign
2010.05.29: Notes and Nuts: Susan Orlean's office floor
2010.05.14: An ad by lonelysandwich I just like
2010.05.13: Restraint and General Mattis
2010.05.07: Shop Class as Soulcraft
2010.05.04: Things you find on YouTube: Mom's documentary on Watergate
2010.04.27: The story of America's greatest idea: risk
2010.04.22: A mindmap of an early version of Girlyman story
2010.04.21: Girlyman on how the construct harmonies
2010.04.16: The photograph that defined the class divide | Society | The Guardian
2010.04.15: Don't Choke : The Frontal Cortex
2010.04.05: John Dickerson: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire
2010.03.26: Johnny Cash Show: Sunday Morning Coming Down
2010.03.10: Ant Superhighway
2010.03.09: Death's Bloom
2010.03.09: Kids Movie List Part 2
2010.03.09: How to stay on task in the Internet age
2010.03.08: Gabfest Live Show in New York
2010.03.07: Movies to Watch with the Kids Part 1
2010.03.07: The Original Rock Climbers
2010.03.01: Boy at the Window - Richard Wilbur
2010.02.21: Slaves to defunct economists.
2010.02.21: Inventory
2010.02.03: Morning Flakes
2010.01.11: No need for a crash pad
2010.01.04: Professions with daily measurement
2009.12.29: Susan Orlean on the writing that comes with a surprise
2009.12.23: Noted, Without Noteworthiness, by Rob Walker
2009.12.23: Hawkins deputies find working moonshine still - Kingsport Times-News
2009.12.20: The Blend of Craft and Community
2009.12.08: "Little Drummer Boy" Bob Dylan video
2009.12.06: Julie Orringer's Process
2009.12.06: Okay, sometimes there is an upside to checking your Amazon page
2009.12.04: Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg by Richard Hugo
2009.12.04: Music that makes you remember who you are
2009.11.23: Instructions on how to write in a journal for a 7 year old
2009.11.19: Twitter readers and hunger
2009.11.18: Facebook told me to put this here
2009.11.16: Best One-Handed Football Catch Ever
2009.11.16: What an actor can do with a face
2009.11.13: FlockdUp by Merlin Mann
2009.11.07: Facebook | John Dickerson
2009.11.05: One of my favorite Joseph Mitchell quotes
2009.11.04: Photo of the Week - In Transit Blog
2009.11.04: Girlyman "St. Peter's Bones" in Albuquerque
2009.10.31: When a fever returns: a victory for the Twitter hive mind
2009.10.29: Losing the Google.
2009.10.23: The Blog is Back
2009.09.24: Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found
2009.09.18: Michelle Obama Opens Farmers Market Near White House | The Farm At Sunnyside
2009.09.17: Bob Dylan Christmas In The Heart Sound Samples
2009.09.16: Monetizing the Hate
2009.09.08: Senator Al Franken draws map of USA
2009.09.02: 10 Secret Menu Items
2009.08.30: Hai Karate aftershave commercial ca. 1960
2009.08.28: Twitter Wit
2009.08.28: Something I want: A flash animation of U.S. History
2009.08.27: McSweeney's Recommends
2009.08.26: Amazing Hellen Keller Video
2009.08.04: Otter Cliffs
2009.08.03: World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo
2009.07.28: William Shatner on Palin
2009.07.27: Nicholson Baker on the Kindle
2009.07.27: Brainstorming Rules
2009.07.12: What would you put in your room?
2009.07.09: Character Sketch from Impressions of Amelia Earhart's Hands
2009.07.09: All in a Day's Work: Mr. Garavelli, Stonecutter
2009.07.09: Death of John Bachar
2009.07.09: Face The Nation, 7.5.09
2009.07.08: Naps, Learning and REM : The Frontal Cortex
2009.06.24: Farm Weekend
2009.06.23: Aerobie® AeroPress(TM) Coffee & Espresso Maker
2009.06.23: Roger Federer arrives as Michael Jackson
2009.06.15: A prayer from our wedding
2009.06.05: Edward R. Murrow's Report From Buchenwald
2009.06.04: Remembering Tank Man
2009.05.30: 25 And Over « Tomato Nation
2009.05.27: Memorial Day, 2009 - The Big Picture
2009.05.22: A president like me
2009.05.19: David Herbert Donald, Historian and Biographer, Dies at 88 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
2009.05.19: Obama as Spock
2009.05.18: SNL Jeopardy
2009.05.12: "Strategic allocation of attention"
2009.05.07: Twitshirt
2009.05.06: Obama meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres
2009.05.04: President Barack Obama holds a Homeland Security Council meeting to discuss H1N1 flu.
2009.04.29: White House photos on flickr
2009.04.27: Bob Dylan's Together Through Life, reviewed. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
2009.04.26: Five things I have learned from Twitter.
2009.04.24: Today's Pictures: The Amazon Rain Forest
2009.04.23: Bike Parkour!
2009.04.23: A special kind of genius
2009.04.22: Photographs from the White House walls. - By John Dickerson
2009.04.20: CBS News
2009.04.20: Define baseball in 150 words: a Slate contest
2009.04.20: Son House - Death Letter Blues
2009.04.15: Abandoned and abandoned and abandoned houses
2009.04.15: I don't like car crashes
2009.04.13: How my kids found peace and tranquillity at the White House Easter Egg Roll. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
2009.04.08: Warsaw during World War II
2009.04.07: The "Science" of Romance : The Frontal Cortex
2009.04.07: Cannonball in mercury
2009.04.06: Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts
2009.04.06: Did you Know 2.0
2009.04.03: I can't remember their original drummer
2009.04.03: Flutter: The New Twitter
2009.04.01: Kate Hepburn fabulous interview
2009.03.29: How cell phones have made us like the president of the last century
2009.03.23: Bob Dylan Talks About His New Record with Bill Flanagan
2009.03.23: AIG and Inequality : The Frontal Cortex
2009.03.23: 100 novels everyone should read - Telegraph
2009.03.16: Dylan talks about his new record
2009.03.16: How to write like an architect
2009.03.15: Thomas Merton - 1948
2009.03.14: The Offer Still Stands
2009.03.11: The Legend Behind a Lincoln Watch Whose Time for Truth Has Finally Come - washingtonpost.com
2009.03.11: A new view: is this the real Shakespeare?
2009.03.10: NYT Archive on Roosevelt March 4, 1934
2009.03.09: David Holt on mountain music how a steel guitar keeps you alive
2009.03.04: Why I like kottke.org
2009.03.04: Hand Signals at The Stork Club
2009.03.04: The Wire's David Simon goes back to beat reporting
2009.03.02: Steve Lopez on column writing
2009.02.27: Shyness v. Introversion
2009.02.27: A monk and a sailor
2009.02.24: The Obama family is just like us
2009.02.24: George Washington's First State of the Union Address
2009.02.20: The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo
2009.02.20: It's about passing - Larry Bird highlight reel
2009.02.19: Is this the theory of everything?
2009.02.19: Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) - "The Canterbury Tales"
2009.02.17: Free(ish) signed copies of On Her Trail
2009.02.17: Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"
2009.02.15: Times Article Skimmer
2009.02.15: Tom Ricks on his new book and the tough road in Iraq and Afghanistan
2009.02.12: Ohio Town Faces Economic Collapse- Wilmington, OH
2009.02.12: Search Features
2009.02.11: Anne Dickerson, just like Barack Obama, but sooner
2009.02.11: 18 and Under - The Cough-and-Sniffle Question - When to Keep a Child Home? - NYTimes.com
2009.02.09: David Herbert Donald's Lincoln
2009.02.06: Slate's Political Gabfest for Feb. 6.
2009.02.05: The E Street Band wasn't playing live!
2009.02.04: The Serious Need for Play: Scientific American
2009.02.03: Reflecting On The First Woman TV News Star : NPR
2009.02.03: I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com
2009.02.03: Ten new species of amphibian discovered in Colombia
2009.02.03: Your help needed
2009.01.31: The dynamic relationship between the federal funds rate and the Treasury bill rate: an empirical investigation
2009.01.30: Edmund L. Andrews - The New York Times
2009.01.29: This American Life- My Big Break
2009.01.29: Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses Michelle Obama with his Dad
2009.01.28: At the end of the day
2009.01.28: Thelonius Monk's advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)
2009.01.28: John Updike RIP
2009.01.27: Respect
2009.01.27: The Mask of Lincoln - What war did to his face
2009.01.27: Think Big - Chapter Six
2009.01.27: The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City
2009.01.27: Think Big - Prelude through Chapter Six
2009.01.27: Crazy now or crazy later
2009.01.26: Think Big - Chapter Five
2009.01.26: The Freewheelin' Barack Obama
2009.01.25: Think Big. Chapter Four
2009.01.24: Think Big, Chapters Two and Three
2009.01.23: How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama's Inaugural Address | David Bergman
2009.01.22: Think Big, a novel
2009.01.21: The Inauguration
2009.01.21: This is fake right?
2009.01.19: Nancy Dickerson
2009.01.19: Blues Analysis Derek Walcott
2009.01.14: "The Noises Rest" by You Look Nice Today Players
2009.01.13: Macbook Wheel spoof. So true and great
2009.01.13: Comfortable rooms before there were big flat screen TVs
2009.01.11: Richard Hofstadter
2009.01.11: Me, me, me
2009.01.09: Ski Jumping World Cup - The Big Picture - Boston.com
2009.01.09: Girlyman: "Somewhere Different Now" in Albuquerque
2009.01.08: The Frontal Cortex : The Cognitive Benefits of Nature
2009.01.07: Tom Waits and 9th and Hennepin
2009.01.06: Fantastic time waster for soccer fans and an amazing display of skill
2009.01.06: Google Alerts and reasonable discourse
2009.01.04: Resolutions for 2009
2008.12.26: Newspaper Front Pages
2008.12.24: Devil Dan and His Roller-Derby Vision
2008.12.17: Early parkour
2008.12.17: The sisters of Mercy closing
2008.12.16: A letter about my Mom
2008.12.16: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas - Jeffrey Goldberg
2008.12.13: Jan Lievens Christ on the Cross
2008.12.10: Angels with Dirty Faces
2008.12.09: A new kind of firewall for email
2008.12.08: Five questions
2008.12.07: On the movie Frost/Nixon
2008.12.01: Keynes on the Financial Crisis
2008.11.30: Willard Wigan micro sculptor
2008.11.26: A new generation of Chicken Head Metaphors
2008.11.25: Loudon Wainwright - Thanksgiving
2008.11.24: Kids' questions about Obama's victory, and their parents' attempts to answer. - By Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
2008.11.22: Ani DiFranco iTunes Original
2008.11.21: Big Picture Photographs from the Congo
2008.11.21: Following the Pirates
2008.11.21: Monty Python Channel on YouTube
2008.11.20: Dylan Live 60s CD on iTunes
2008.11.20: Colour changing card trick
2008.11.18: Obama and dish-washing
2008.11.18: Life Treasure of Photos and Mom
2008.11.14: The Civil War In Four Minutes
2008.11.13: Intimate desktop photography
2008.11.12: Slings and Arrows
2008.11.04: Election Day Music
2008.10.26: Daily Show. So funny.
2008.10.21: John Hodgman on Love (stick with it 16 min)
2008.10.19: Pierre Bonnard The Open Window at the Phillips Collection
2008.10.18: Girlyman
2008.10.15: Malcolm Gladwell on late bloomers
2008.10.13: Monty Python Job Interview
2008.10.07: This American Life—The Giant Pool of Money
2008.10.06: Freaky Old Ads
2008.10.05: Math and the Art of Cooking
2008.10.04: Washington Week 10-3-08
2008.10.02: Bob Dylan's "Most of the Time"
2008.09.30: Breakfast of Champions - Saveur.com
2008.09.30: Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs' : NPR Music
2008.09.28: The Sevent Cent Nickle
2008.09.27: Far from the Madding Crowd
2008.09.27: Magic Moments in Past Presidential Debates
2008.09.25: Sarah Silverman for Obama
2008.09.25: When Politicians Speak
2008.09.25: Went To See The Gypsy
2008.09.24: Netflix Pick: Wonderfalls
2008.09.23: à la Sophia: David (Foster) Wallace's Syllabus
2008.09.23: How to process your hotel room
2008.09.23: My favorite political videos
2008.09.22: Consistent philosophers
2008.09.19: Kennedy and the Coulee Dam
2008.09.12: Great old political ads
2008.09.01: Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest | PBS
2008.08.31: Washington Week 8/29/08
2008.08.18: Power Readers in Politics
2008.08.11: Body Counts August 20, 1941
2008.08.07: NBCOlympics.com - Top eight will equal one great Games
2008.08.02: Attenborough alarmed as children are left flummoxed by test on the natural world
2008.07.31: Curious: I'm in a GOP attack ad against Al Franken
2008.07.23: McSweeney's Internet Tendency: OK, It's Time to Talk About the Elephant in the Room.
2008.07.20: Nieman Reports
2008.07.15: The Boys and the Subway - Niemann Opinion Art Blog - Abstract City - NYTimes.com
2008.07.15: Vacation Snaps
2008.06.05: Great Times Piece on Sarcasm
2008.05.27: Rosanne Cash on Songwriting
2008.05.26: Reggie Love, Obama's Personal Aide
2008.05.19: Amazing Times Story about Couple Trapped in Rubble
2008.05.18: Florence Owens Thompson
2008.05.18: Wikipedia Understatement
2008.05.12: Lightning in a Volcano cloud
2008.05.10: The Day's Important Project
2008.05.08: My Recent Trip to New York
2008.05.04: Covering Obama at Great Skate in Lafayette, IN
2008.04.30: Intriguing Olive Dish
2008.04.29: Lincoln and Obama and Mexican War
2008.04.23: Charlie Rose Interviews Himself
2008.04.17: Fabulous wired story about rescuing this ship
2008.04.15: Makes My Hands Sweaty
2008.04.05: A piece in the Washington Post Outlook Section
2008.04.02: Girlyman Live CD
2008.03.30: Face the Nation
2008.03.29: Saturday on the Mall
2008.03.27: Why is George Hamilton on McCain's Campaign Plane?
2008.03.26: First kill all the Gophers
2008.03.25: Cabage Match
2008.03.25: The Mann Act
2008.03.24: Six Gun Pea Shooter
2008.03.20: John Kennedy 1963
2008.03.19: Very funny slide show
2008.03.17: The Have a Beer test replaced by the Hang test
2008.03.13: Deliberate Practice
2008.03.13: Put that on the List
2008.03.09: Bad day for a Pimp
2008.03.07: Listening to songs on Shuffle
2008.02.28: Billy Collins
2008.02.28: W. C. Heinz RIP
2008.02.27: Beautiful Argument
2008.02.27: How people count money
2008.02.27: William F. Buckley RIP
2008.02.26: One Door I can Close
2008.02.26: New Favorite Song
2008.02.26: You know the campaign is getting old
2008.02.26: Worker retraining and Ford
2008.02.18: Sunday afternoon park mushroom
2008.02.16: And with a good iPod
2008.02.05: A shark a squid or a pebble
2008.01.31: Katie Couric
2008.01.31: Duck
2008.01.31: Great, true Gail Colins line about Obama support
2008.01.29: Romney looks like a president
2008.01.29: Times Front Page
2008.01.23: Tuna sushi should not be eaten by handful
2008.01.22: Global Market Mayhem
2008.01.21: NYT on Twittering Journalism
2008.01.15: Katie Couric off air
2008.01.12: Video about Bacon that is is very funny
2008.01.10: My moment in the New Hampshire news
2008.01.10: Hillary found her voice in New Hampshire!
2005.12.31: 2 found quotes in old notebook
2005.12.31: Deja Vu
2005.12.27: Today's Cab
2005.12.23: Adens Abound
2005.12.23: Packing Ham
2005.12.22: John Coltrane
2005.12.21: Panera Bread
2005.12.21: Starbucks in Tennessee
2005.12.16: My son's rules for Alec Baldwin, narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine
2005.12.16: Croup
2005.12.11: I woke up
2005.12.10: Daniel in the Lions' Den
2005.12.10: Chief Justice of the United States and his Associate
2005.12.10: Overheard
2005.12.09: Plowists
2005.12.08: Driving around Dupont Circle
2005.11.30: One thing we've taught the Iraqis
2005.11.30: This is going to be huge in the 2008 race
2005.11.30: Hugh Sidey, RIP
2005.11.22: Surley Turkey Boy
2005.11.22: Sitter
2005.11.19: John Kerry is Running For President
2005.11.18: Gingerbread men
2005.11.17: I Had to Move my car
2005.11.17: Swing Set

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