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October 2008
I noticed this article yesterday in the New York Times about marquee marathons that are in danger of becoming too popular. Funny: “You are a victim of what you accomplish,” Morse said. “We want to be as big as we can be without compromising the integrity of the event. There’s a breaking point, and you may not [...]
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I was just out walking around on the snowy and limb-strewn streets of London (trying to find season 2 of The Wire by the way – y’all gotta return that, for real), listening to music, when I suddenly had the urge to listen to The Police. It’s funny that the aftermath of intense winter weather puts me in [...]
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If you don’t already know about behavioural economics I’m going to give you a choice: either become familiar with it — starting now by reading the rest of this post — or stop reading and never ever come back to this blog again. I mean it – have a nice confused and misled life. If you already know this stuff, we’re chill. Maybe [...]
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I truly hope this is a joke: A Russian communist group has attacked the newest Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko, for her “moral and intellectual betrayal” in starring in a film about the “enemy of the Soviet people.” Ukrainian-born Kurylenko, 28, stars in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, alongside English actor Daniel Craig. [...]
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About 2 days ago I got worried that maybe I’m worrying too much. So I suggested a few checkpoints for myself. For example, I suggested that if a year from now none of the big three automakers exists in their current form I’ll be vindicated. I also suggested I’ll be vindicated if by next year [...]
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Even if only to know how to pronounce it, check out Charlie Kaufman and Philip Seymour Hoffman on Charlie Rose talking about their new movie, Synecdoche, New York. In the movie, Hoffman’s character spends fifty years putting together a play with a cast of thousands that keeps developing and incorporating elements of his own life [...]
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I didn’t realize it has been ten years until I read Paul Wells this morning. Robert Fulford also looks back. Lately I tend to favour the Globe and Mail a little more. For a few years I didn’t read (or care to read) it at all. But during its first few years I had to read the National [...]
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A felicitous find in a used bookstore yesterday: The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs. Two bucks. The paper cover claims it was a “#1 National Bestseller” (in Canada, in 2000) but I doubt whether everyone who bought it actually read it. [They should!] I suspect a lot of left-leaning folks (as Robert Fulford pointed out, ironically, [...]
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Tim Brown of IDEO shares my curiosity: I am very interested in what new behaviors might emerge this time around and ultimately what innovations they may inspire. Will it be something to do with people changing their attitude toward saving versus spending? Will the growing uncertainty of the world encourage us to look for lives that [...]
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