January 2008
44 posts
WatchStill Making Great Stories Trent Gilliss, Online Editor A couple of years ago, Bill Buzenberg, the former executive producer of SOF, embarked on a new endeavor as executive director of The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) in the District. Bill’s a veteran journalist and a newsman who believes in the power of investigative journalism. He’s the man responsible for helping Krista get SOF...
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Boca Raton, FL: Watching Carville dismiss... →
Have I said how much I dig her Twitterhumor. Damn.
had a vocal cuts and copy session about the ed husein show
If Rudolph Valentino had a Webcam →
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The Photographs Not Taken →
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windsor castle actually has a chief french polisher — that means there’s an assistant french polisher…
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“If Romney spokesdude Kevin Madden talks about “medals”...”
– from Ana Marie Cox’s twitterfeed as she covers the Republican campaign in South Carolina for TIME
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
– Eric Hoffer, an American social philosopher, quoted from “The Secret of Happiness” in The Economist
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Google.org: "Don't Be Evil"
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor I’m confused. An immense amount of media coverage has been dedicated this past year to philanthropic organizations associated with high-power people and companies doing charitable work in a different way. Bill Clinton has argued that pharmaceutical companies can even make a fair margin off of cheap drugs to developing countries in Africa. Does corporate social...
Luscious ancient French papercraft activity book... →
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Tom Cruise on "Tom Cruise, Scientologist"
I discussed posting this on the SOF Observed blog, but, after discussing it with my boss, decided not to. Why? Well, is it what SOF does? *shrug* And, probably more importantly, I would have had to link to Gawker’s site for readers to view the video and they’re so opinionated that I feared it might look like a recommendation.
In the past few days, a Church of Scientology video...
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Tutorial: Creating HDR Images →
Nicely done walk-through with a photographer who recognizes how absurd some of the HDR images out there look with that superficial “glow.”
A List Apart
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor The List Universe assembles all types of “top 15” lists. Well, they’ve started a series on religious and atheist thinkers. I couldn’t help note the contrast in quotes from the great 13th-century philosopher Thomas Aquinas: “Wonder is the desire for knowledge.” and one of America’s great 20th-century writers, Ernest Hemingway:...
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Pope Cancels, Crowd Applauds (but not why you... →
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor I’m guessing since we’re a public radio program a good number of you probably heard Sylvia Poggioli’s piece (I just love her style of reporting) on the brouhaha at Rome University. There’s a healthy debate going on within the Roman Catholic Church about the pope’s current proclamations and his former papers as a Cardinal Ratzinger. But, I...
watching a great doc on tom dowd. what an incredible man
Speakers to Make the Ride Roll →
A few road trips have taught me the value of diversion. The last trek to Fargo we didn’t rely on any mechanical means, but a longer trip to Bismarck oh yeah. But try listening to The Incredibles streaming out of laptop speakers while riding in a tin can Hyundai, which is basically an echo chamber for car wheels on a concrete highway.
These speakers could be the ticket.
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Playback, Mnemosyne
Every good netizen should have a Google alert for his or her name. Most of the time, it’s fairly mundane. This morning’s news? I’m torn. The Bismarck Tribune’s regular time capsule feature in the sports section spurred a wrestling flashback:
20 years ago (1988): Bismarck Century High School is the official name, but for now it’s a chamber of horrors for the Bismarck...
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How-to Edit Portraits in Photoshop →
Even if you don’t want to give your friends and lover the Cosmo effect, it’s a helpful tutorial for just knowing what you can do to tone your photos.
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Hill House: 1936 →
Shorpy surfaces a lot of interesting images, but this Dorothea Lange photo of 1936 Mississippi somehow gives me hope.
"Great Tunes for a Lazy Saturday" →
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor I take a lot of pleasure in reading blogs and newsfeeds, especially when I receive a Google alert notifying me that something’s been posted about SOF. Not only do I get to see what they’re saying about the program or a particular show, I get to learn something more about our own content or be exposed to a new band or idea. With that, I’m giving a...
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Body Doubles
I’m certain this hasn’t escaped other people, but I saw this picture of Cohen and felt like watching No Reservations and eating some lepin oh, and smoking a cigar.
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Paglia's Scathing Critique of Clinton
Camille Paglia’s condemnation of Hillary Clinton in Slate shows no mercy for her personal and public life as a woman, a politician, a First Lady, or a presidential candidate. Paglia essentially labels her as the literary equivalent of a castrating female who can’t quite be her own person because of her political ambitions.
And, she takes a whack at Gloria Steinem and her opinion...
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"Putting Blogs into Context" →
The International Herald Tribune developers don’t blog all that frequently, but I appreciate how they share their insights about how their audience navigates their site. They modify with those tendencies in mind. It’s wise and isn’t glossy. I dig that.
My experience tells me that their integration of blogs relevant to content is spot-on. Too many news organizations (including...
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"On the Street....Puffer with Bungee, Soho" →
I’m from the Midwest and live in the Midwest. The Sartorialist is spot on. Street fashion takes many forms, and he gets it. (Disclaimer: He’s buying Jil Sander; I’m sporting a $70 REI version. Doh!) Check out his post.
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Minarc - Greenfield House →
A familiar house I’ve seen in Dwell, but I hadn’t seen this great reference list of images of the joint.
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"Noontime Web Video Revitalizes Lunch at Desk" →
As soon as I saw this, I thought of my wife and her John Stewart consumption addiction. What the article states is so obvious, yet where are the common sense online editors making this a priority?
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Exposing Google's Hidden Search Gems →
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Roughnecks and Grasshoppers →
Some friends back home told me that western NoDak is a hotbed for oil exploration right now. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and visited that part of the state many times. The sites of depressed towns and lonely derricks frozen in mid-motion told the story of hope extinguished in the sauntering horizontal cloak of ranch land. Oil companies skimmed what they could off the surface and rode away without...
A Jewish Santa Claus
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor This wonderful anecdote about the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel brings wonderful meaning to the holiday season and cultural relations: “In 1965, after walking in the Selma-to-Montgomery civil-rights march with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was at the Montgomery, Ala., airport, trying to find something to eat. A surly...
The Buddha Project →
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor The online photography magazine Lens Culture has compiled a fabulous group of images (over 300 now) of the Buddha in the far reaches of Asia to the grounds of the Golden Bears in Berkeley. A fair number of photography, design, architectural magazines and blogs — the ones I read — usually focus on the aesthetic, the theory, the economics, and so on of an object....