— clapclap.org, Hallelujah ¶“Twenty-five years ago, a character on the TV show The Young Ones named Neal–the hippie–said, “I’m beginning to feel like a Leonard Cohen record, cause nobody ever listens to me.” Today, in contrast, one particular Leonard Cohen song is featured prominently in no less than three separate episodes of teen uberdrama The OC, and can be heard in at least twenty-four separate movies and TV episodes, almost always as the soundtrack to a montage of people being sad. ”
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— E. J. Dionne, Clinton's Depressing Assault on Obama ¶“In many ways, Obama is running the 2008 version of the 1992 Clinton campaign. You have the feeling that if Bill Clinton did not have another candidate in this contest, he’d be advising Obama and cheering him on.”
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— Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, For John Edwards, A Moment of Truth - washingtonpost.com ¶“I’m going to get home and get under my bed and get in a fetal position and suck my thumb with my gun, and then get back out there.”
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— Reuters, Japanese women hairstyles track economy ups and downs ¶“Women tend to wear their hair long when Japan’s economy is doing well and short when there is a slump, the Nikkei business daily reported, citing a survey conducted by Japanese cosmetics company Kao Corp.”
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— Last.fm: Free music streams turn into increased music sales ¶“Last.fm’s free, ad-supported music streams have resulted in a 119 percent increase in music purchases through Amazon, the company said today. The service, which launched just over two months ago, has also brought on a number of new users, although old users are contributing to the trend as well. Last.fm believes that, while the service is still young, the proof is in the pudding: allowing users to have full-track previews drives music sales, both digital and physical.”
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— Interview: Jason Pierce of Spiritualized | Arts critics | guardian.co.uk Arts ¶“They were hampered by the sort of business decisions only people taking vast quantities of drugs can make.”
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— Tom Waits, NPR: Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits ¶“Q: What is a gentleman?
A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.Q: Favorite Bucky Fuller quote?
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— Anil Dash, Unsolicited Testimonial: Clear Card ¶“In all the bad dystopian future scifi movies I’ve ever seen, they never mention that the mysterious private corporation that will be performing the biometric scans would be so upscale I’d felt underdressed for my retina scan because I wasn’t wearing a tie.”
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— John Crowley, The Solitudes ¶“It didn’t seem to him, though, on this morning in the Faraways, such an unfortunate thing, that kind of small-town determinism. True, he had himself clambered out of it as fast as he could and into the Great World seeking growing-room and air to breathe; but he had in fact languished in the city, not growing but shrinking over time into a strange form of invisibility.
Almost no one that he’d known there knew anyone else he had known, and so to each new acquaintance Pierce was able to present a separate and partial character, an ad hoc personality specially adapted to the circumstances (bar, bookstore, Brooklyn) but too flimsy to support more than a single other person at close range…”
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— Tim Bray, Message From the Web (ongoing) ¶“She has the idea on Wednesday and gets the script working next Monday, and one quarter later, either gives up on the idea or is incredibly rich. Both are good outcomes.”
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— Daniel Radosh, The Play's the Thing - New York Times ¶“Like cinema, games will need to embrace the dynamics of failure, tragedy, comedy and romance. They will need to stop pandering to the player’s desire for mastery in favor of enhancing the player’s emotional and intellectual life.”