Archive for January, 2008

With apologies to Dooce

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

IMG_0013.JPG We are bad, bad people. That said, no cats were harmed during the taking of this brief photo series, and indeed, all cats involved were monitored during the process and given catnip afterwards.

Oh, right, I remember now

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I’ve always disliked election night coverage, especially on primary nights, but it took a semester of journalism school and a couple of hours tonight flipping channels across cable news channels for the reason to crystallize: The lip-flapping, time-filling yammering coming out of the talking heads perched atopComo fazer download toques de. every lucite desk on [...]

First on-air

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I just got back from doing my very first paid on-air newscast — a two-minute local-news headlines summary bit at the top of the hour on WFUV, up in the Bronx. A little nervewracking, being the only one in the studio, and I went one or two words over the end of the two minutes, [...]

Jared Diamond on Consumption

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

What’s Your Consumption Factor? – New York Times Great op-ed in today’s Times by Jared “Guns, Germs, and Steel” Diamond, in which he talks about the difference in consumption rates between first-world countries and developing countries, and the long-term implications of that difference. [...] The only approach that China and other developing countries will accept [...]