Jul 21, 2009
Shorter Deborah Solomon: Kids today just sit on lawns, which is why the economy crashed. Why won’t the President GET THESE KIDS OFF MY LAWN?
Jul 20, 2009
40 years ago today: Whitey on the Moon http://bit.ly/uXQc9 — relive it at http://kottke.org/apollo-11/
Jul 20, 2009
_The Thick of It_ must be one of the best TV shows of the decade. It’s like _The Office_ plus _The Wire_. Absolutely brilliant.
Jul 13, 2009
DC highway sign: “George Bush Center for Intelligence”
Jul 5, 2009
I’m back. Did you miss me? (My guess: no.)
Jun 5, 2009
about to go offline: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/offline
Jun 5, 2009
this is your last chance to talk to me if you need something this month
May 27, 2009
This is Water?
Here’s something I’ve been wondering: How did Little Brown manage to take David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, which is at most 10-20 pages, and turn it into a 120 page book? A big font size can only get you so far, I figured. They must have added some additional material. Perhaps “Federer as Religious Experience”, which hasn’t been collected anywhere yet. Or maybe a bit from the forthcoming The Pale King, which covers the same ground as the commencement speech.
I clearly wasn’t creative enough. First, it’s a tiny, tiny book. And the font size is indeed huge. But the real secret of the book, the real way they made it stretch to 120 pages?
They printed each sentence on a different page.
Literally.
Each sentence.
May 27, 2009
This is your annual reminder to read _Fortune’s Formula_. Math, money, the mob, movies — what’s not to like?
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