Archive for February, 2010
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Random List #4 – Ways in Which the Winter Olympics are Better than Summer
Speed. In the Summer Olympics you’re pretty much limited to the speed at which humans can run or bicycle, but a bobsled travels at 90 miles an hour.
Danger. Summer has the marathon, during which you can drop dead. But Winter has the skeleton, luge, aerial skiing and guns.
Curling, which is totally something that you should [...]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Well Said, Ted Arrington
My motto is ‘never pick a fight with the person who buys ink by the barrel.’ – Ted Arrington, professor at UNC-Charlotte.
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Disaster Journalism
One month ago today, a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. News agencies immediately descended on Port-au-Prince, jockeying to see who could show the most heart-rending story. This seems distasteful and exploitative to a lot of people, and I do understand their perspective. On the whole, though, I believe that without media coverage Haiti would [...]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Audiobook update
I wrote about my love for audiobooks in 2007, but it’s long past time for an update. At last count I had 96 audiobooks on my iPod, which seems a bit much even to me.
I started out only listening to audiobooks while I was driving. It made long trips more bearable to have a [...]
