- Sports journalism just hit a new low. My blog just hit a new low because I linked to it.
- I don’t know why but I have been intrigued with Hitler’s plan to remake Berlin in his own image. It seems to be rather Napoleonic in it’s vision (who for those of you who forgot, remade Paris so it would be easier to quell dissenters and riots). I guess why I find it so interesting is that despite the size of the projects, totalitarian cities are all of the same. Friendly for dictators, not so friendly for anyone else who has to live in them.
- I should have linked to this a long time ago but for those of you that haven’t seen the Big Picture by the Boston Globe, you really need to. A similar site is the Digital Journalist blog Since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, you can check out the Wall Street Journal rip off as well. via
- Did Condi Rice "misunderestimate" the Russian threat to Georgia or did she lose a power struggle in the Administration (which is what Secretaries of State seem to do best over the last eight years)
- The one book to read before you start at Harvard Business School this fall :: Broughton makes a delightfully clueless guide. His math skills are crude, and he can’t operate Microsoft Excel. When the other students flock off to Wall Street for summer jobs, he can’t get one and is forced to spend three hot months in a Harvard library writing a novel that, thankfully, he tells us little about. In fact, from the outset, he is entirely ambivalent about entering Corporate America. He doesn’t really want to work that hard, he admits. He wants to spend time with his family.
- An amazing collection of packaging from the 1970s
- When Vladimir Putin presented Russian teachers with their new textbook last year, Stalin appeared as "the most successful Russian ruler of the 20th century" – Peter the Great-meets-Bismarck. Stalin, the book gushes, expanded the empire further than any Romanov and created a Russian nuclear superpower. And his killings were a tool of necessary, if excessive, discipline.
- How a rising fuel and food prices are impacting the world.
- 14 ways to use Twitter politely
- WSJ on Rick Warren
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