I already have a blog and a Twitter. How many other social media outlets does a gal need?
February 7, 2012
Why I don't have a Facebook account.
January 30, 2012
Missouri has never looked so good … Dave Imus’ map of the United States recently won the “Best of Show” at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society.
Slate magazine calls Imus’ cartographic work of art, “The Greatest Paper Map Of The United States You’ll Ever See.”
“What I did different than anybody else who ever made a map of the United States was that I brought into focus… the basic geography,” Imus told Here & Now’s Robin Young. “People that read this map or look at it on the wall can understand and appreciate more deeply the character of the United States… the lay of the land.”
(Image: A map of Missouri. Courtesy Dave Imus, Imus Geographics.)
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January 27, 2012
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Copyright made big headlines last week. File-sharing site Megaupload was shut down following a dramatic FBI raid. The Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) generated widespread web protests, resulting in a postponement of both bills. And the Supreme Court upheld a decision to restore copyright to works that previously had been part of the public domain - like Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.” We’ll break down these convoluted stories with our go-to copyright expert, intellectual property lawyer Jon Reichman.
January 27, 2012
January 9, 2012
Buzzfeed is taking a bunch of Rick Santorum quotes and pairing them with New Yorker cartoons.
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December 8, 2011
On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered this “Day of Infamy Speech,” shown here as the first draft. Immediately afterward, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II.
via Prologue: “FDR’s ‘Day of Infamy’ Speech: Crafting a Call to Arms”
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November 9, 2011
npr:
These Go To 11: Songs Best Heard Extra-Loud
There’s no denying certain songs are best experienced when played as loud as possible. Since this Friday, 11/11/11, is Nigel Tufnel Day — the unofficial holiday honoring the fictional Spinal Tap guitarist, who cranked his amplifiers past 10 — this week’s All Songs Considered episode is all about the songs that instantly make you want to turn the volume up. (NPR Music)
Agreed. Though, I maybe would have switched out Kelly Clarkson’s “I Do Not Hook Up” with Bob Dylan’s “Sooner or Later,” but to each their own.
