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Color My (Ancient) World
Thanks mostly to a Renaissance aesthetic notion, we’ve come to imagine ancient Greece and Rome as places of stark beauty—pure white marble...
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Brain Drain
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Breaking News
URLesque has a swell collection of videos in which ham-handed news reporters callously or carelessly destroy things—often the very things...
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The Best Magazine Articles Eve...
Kevin Kelly has begun curating a list of the “best magazine articles ever” as suggested by him and his site’s audience. It’s...
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posted on: Aug 18, 2008 | author: Mr. Ferrell
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posted on: Aug 8, 2008 | author: Mr. Ferrell
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posted on: Feb 6, 2008 | author: Mr. Ferrell
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Protagony.
posted on: Jan 9, 2008 | author: Mr. Ferrell
I stumbled across Protagonize today, and thought I’d mention it here, for what it’s worth. I think I remember doing this in some English...
More Hardcore
posted on: Jan 3, 2008 | author: Mr. Ferrell
A little while ago, I plugged Dan Carlin’s excellent Hardcore History podcast. I thought I’d bring it up again because he just released a...
The Year in Buzzwords.
posted on: Jan 2, 2008 | author: Mr. Ferrell
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Sweet merciful heaven. Its— You— I mean… it’s a sort of game, see? Where you… or this guy… anyway, there’s...
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posted on: Dec 20, 2007 | author: Mr. Ferrell
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