How do we know if a new search engine is any good?
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By Chris Wilson
In a 1966 review of the new Random House Dictionary, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that the key to understanding a new dictionary was to "look up ain't and like." These two definitions are the quickest way, Vonnegut promises us, to determine whether a dictionary is "descriptive" or "prescriptive"—if it explains how language is used or if it decrees how it ought to be.[more ...]
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"Swifts"
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5 days ago
By Dan Chiasson
A weekly poem, read by the author.[more ...]
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Merrill Mahaffey: Interior Landscapes of the West (Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 9:00 AM)
http://www.scottsdale.com/calendar/Merrill+Mahaffey%3A+Interior+Landscapes+of+th
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This exhibit is a unique inquiry into the meaning of western landscapes and their role in American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. His works focus on the dramatic contrast between the glassy, reflective surfaces of rivers and lakes and the textured rock walls that tower above them.
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Handyman fined for smoking in van. (Moonbat Tuesday?)
http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.php/weblog/handyman_fined_for_smoking_in_va
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... are willing to put up with. I’d have thought with the kinds of technology and advances made in medicine and more ppl having more access to books and education then ever before, we’d produce a smarter culture. But it really doesn’t look that way at all. Seems to be going the other way.
From MSN News.
A painter and decorator who received a £30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned ...
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Report reveals new details about how politics affected hiring at the Justice Department.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slate/~3/349314845/
5 days ago
By Daniel Politi
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead, while the Washington Post goes across Page One, with an internal Justice Department report that details how department aides broke Civil Service laws by taking politics into account in hiring decisions. Close aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asked inappropriate questions at interviews for nonpolitical jobs ...
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Obamanomics 101
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5 days ago
By James Ledbetter
Fresh from his lengthy tour abroad, presumed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded himself with economic heavyweights on Monday in what the BBC and others labeled an "economic summit," even though the entry on the on the official Obama blog called it an "economic meeting." (The campaign also misspelled the name of legendary investor Warren Buffett.) The account on Marketwatch ...
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New York, muse des architectes, exposée au MoMa
http://actualite.aol.fr/new-york-muse-des-architectes-exposee/article/2008072905
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New York est une ville choc où le fantastique se heurte au pragmatisme économique et cette dualité, qui a inspiré les architectes du monde entier, fait l'objet d'une exposition au Musée d'Art moderne (MoMA), à Manhattan.
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Pas d'examens du coeur de Chopin pour révéler le secret de sa mort
http://actualite.aol.fr/pas-dexamens-du-coeur-de-chopin/article/2008072808530267
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Le ministère polonais de la Culture a refusé une analyse de l'ADN du coeur du compositeur Frédéric Chopin, demandée par des scientifiques pour tenter de révéler le secret de sa mort prématurée, a annoncé lundi un porte-parole du ministère, Piotr Szymanski.
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One culture, two culture, three culture, four
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The recent upswell in two-culture talk around Scienceblogs is driving me nuts (here's a good jumping in point). One might question the so very many unquestioned assumptions in the current ... I'll repost below something I contributed to The Education of Oronte Churm earlier this year. Call it the problem of the 13 culture divide.
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Jeanne Moreau parmi le jury de sélection du film français aux Oscars 2009
http://actualite.aol.fr/jeanne-moreau-parmi-le-jury-de/article/20080728110145850
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L'actrice Jeanne Moreau ou le réalisateur Jean-Jacques Annaud ont été désignés par Christine Albanel pour faire partie de la commission qui sélectionne le film représentant la France dans la sélection pour l'Oscar du meilleur film étranger 2009, selon un communiqué du ministère de la Culture.
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