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Computer Advice Needed
Paleo Retiree writes: After 17 years of being a contented user of their gadgets, I’ve recently found myself falling out of love with Apple. One factor: I don’t like the direction the company is steering its customers in. In fact, … Continue reading
Linkathon
Paleo Retiree writes: Don’t work such damn long hours. Ah, the benefits of the Arab Spring … Loving couple. (NSFW.) Read it, girl. (The visuals are innocuous but the audio is definitely NSFW.) Foseti is trying to make some sense of … Continue reading
Sailer on Broyard and “Passing”
Paleo Retiree writes: Steve Sailer has been writing (and leading discussions) about the topic of “passing” — the way some black people “pass” as white. (See here, here, here and here.) One of his examples has been the late writer … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Science
Tagged Anatole Broyard, books, publishing, race, Steve Sailer
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Golf Wildlife
Paleo Retiree writes: Quite amazing what a $200 pocketcam is capable of these days …
Linkathon
Paleo Retiree writes: Foseti takes a Game-influenced look at a Tom Wolfe novel. Best for the aspiring artist to avoid art school? Manolo the Shoeblogger shares some funny and sharp musings on style and fashion. An amusing (and easy-to-relate-to) account by a … Continue reading
“The Mercenary”
I found this 1968 spaghetti western from action legend Sergio Corbucci pretty entertaining, if in a relentlessly hyperbolic, showboating way. It’s an amusing mix of the buffoonish, the witty, the visually spectacular and the stirring. A group of Mexican miners … Continue reading
Architecture We Love 3: Corrugated Metal
Paleo Retiree writes: Among the many shortcomings of semi-official discussions of architecture: An overemphasis on architects, and particularly on star architects (aka “starchitects”). What the starchitects create represents less than 1% of the built environment. The rest of building-and-urbanism is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photography, The Good Life
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Ralphs’ New Campaign
Paleo Retiree writes: At my previous place of blogging I often marveled at what I called “nonsense brackets” — the tendency many graphic designers have these days of inserting parenthesis marks or brackets into their work for no grammatical/linguistic reason. … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Computers
Tagged ads, computers, Graphic Design, nonsense brackets, Ralphs
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House Style at The New Yorker
Paleo Retiree writes: Take a look at the following first-lines-of-articles-from-The-New-Yorker and tell me if you’re as struck by certain patterns and similarities as I’ve been. “In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several … Continue reading
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