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dispatches from the restless mind of a media junkie
 
 

Your photo of the day.

• February 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Other
Tags: Christmas trees, elephants, Germany, waste disposal, zoos


Does anybody remember what regular news looks like?

• November 2, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in Politics
Tags: election, Germany, Japan, Kenya, media, Obama


Finalists announced for German Book Prize

• October 2, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books/Culture
Tags: book culture, German Book Prize, Germany, Sherko Fatah, The Dark Ship


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  • Art/Architecture/Urbanism

    • Animal
    • Archinect
    • ArtCal
    • Artforum
    • Bidoun
    • BLDGBLOG
    • Freize
    • Life Without Buildings
    • Pinakothek (Luc Sante)
    • Rhizome
    • The Moment
    • UBUWeb
    • We Make Money Not Art
  • Books/Culture

    • Bookforum
    • Context Magazine
    • Conversational Reading
    • Critical Mass
    • El Clarín’s Revista Ñ
    • El País’ Babelia
    • First Drafts
    • Guardian Book Blog
    • Guardian Books
    • Jacket Copy
    • London Review of Books
    • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
    • Moby Lives
    • N1BR
    • New Statesman Books
    • New York Review of Books
    • NYTimes Book Review
    • Paper Cuts
    • Paper Tiger
    • Powell’s Review-A-Day
    • Quarterly Conversation
    • Second Pass
    • Sentences
    • Sp!ked review of books
    • Telegraph Culture Section
    • The Elegant Variation
    • The Millions
    • The New Yorker
    • The New Yorker’s Book Bench
    • Three Percent
    • Times Literary Supplement
  • General places of interest

    • ALDaily
    • AlterNet
    • Atlantic Online
    • Boing Boing
    • BOMB
    • Boston Globe Ideas Section
    • Cabinet
    • Intellectual Affairs
    • James Wolcott’s Vanity Fair blog
    • Kottke.org
    • LA Times
    • More Intelligent Life
    • net critique
    • New York Magazine
    • Prospect
    • Sign & Sight
    • Slant
    • Slate
    • The Awl
    • The Morning News
    • The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross)
    • The Smart Set
    • Virginia Quarterly Review
  • Music

    • Brooklyn Vegan
    • Pitchfork
    • Prefix
    • Sasha Frere-Jones
    • The A.V. Club
    • Tiny Mix Tapes
    • WFMU
  • NYC

    • Brownstoner
    • Curbed
    • Flavorpill NYC
    • Gothamist
    • NYTimes Ft. Greene Local blog
  • Politics

    • Activate
    • Afuera y Adentro
    • Al Jazeera English
    • Der Spiegel International
    • Dissent
    • Fact Checker
    • Foreign Policy: Passport
    • Gallup Daily
    • GlobalPost
    • Huffington Post
    • Interesting Times (George Packer’s blog)
    • La Plaza- LA Times’ Latin America blog
    • Mama Said Wonk You Out (Ezra Klein)
    • Media Matters
    • Net.Effect
    • Opendemocracy
    • Politico
    • Real Clear Politics
    • Talking Points Memo
    • The Daily Beast
    • The Lede
    • The Nation
    • The New Republic
    • Think Tank (Steve Coll)
    • Truth Out
  • Science

    • 3 Quarks Daily
    • Edge
    • Frontal Cortex (Jonah Lehrer)
    • Human Nature – William Saletan
    • Kevin Kelly
    • New Scientist
    • Seed Magazine
    • Wired Science
  • Recent Posts

    • Op Olooping
    • Sunstein’s On Rumors
    • Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
    • Here’s to You, Michael Robinson
    • Cranioklepty

    Archives

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    RSS BBC News

    • End protectionism, China tells US
    • UK plans Afghan handover talks
    • Conjoined twins op 'successful'
    • Iran plays down UN nuclear report
    • US shuttle takes worms into space
    • Iraq election is 'Herculean task'
    • Palin says 2012 run not on radar

    RSS El Clarín

    • Obama llama en China a respetar la prensa y los derechos humanos
    • "Obamao", un fenómeno entre los jóvenes chinos
    • El pacto climático será recién en 2010
    • Nuevo fracaso de la asamblea de la FAO contra el hambre
    • "Juan Pablo II fue el padre del cambio en Europa del Este"
    • Curas de Colombia y Venezuela se enfrentan en un partido por la paz
    • Apagón en Brasil: el gobierno admite que hubo un ataque de "hackers"

    RSS NYTimes Most Emailed

    • Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform
    • In Reversal, Panel Urges Mammograms at 50, Not 40
    • Op-Ed Columnist: Triumph of a Dreamer
    • Design: Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists
    • Small-Business Guide: How to Market Your Business With Facebook
    • Op-Ed Columnist: World Out of Balance
    • Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives

    RSS The New Yorker

    • Sam Shepard: "Indianapolis (Highway 74)"
    • Peter Schjeldahl: "1969" at P.S. 1.
    • Paul Goldberger: Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.
    • Nancy Franklin: Fox News Channel's latest blowhard.
    • Liz Waldner: "Sad Verso of the Sunny ____"
    • Lauren Collins: Metamorphosis
    • Kelefa Sanneh: The Joneses

    RSS Le Monde Europe

    • Afghanistan : attaque sanglante près d'une réunion de l'armée française
    • 100 questions sur la grippe A(H1N1)
    • Un juge français réélu à la tête de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme
    • Climat : "On a besoin de l'impulsion que pourraient donner les Etats-Unis et la Chine"
    • L'Union européenne manque de femmes pour occuper les fonctions stratégiques
    • Poutine et le rap russe, une histoire d'amour
    • L'Albanie tout près de l'Union européenne

    RSS The Washington Post

    • Opponents of health-care effort look to fund a critical economic study
    • So much for the power of incumbency
    • House health bill includes Medicaid relief for states
    • Immigration looms as sticking point in health-care legislation
    • Digest
    • U.S., Chinese emissions cuts are key to climate treaty
    • A Republican on every ballot

    RSS ELPAIS.com – Guerras, Conflictos y Malestar social

    • Hugo, ¿cazador de cocodrilos?
    • “Sin el apoyo regional, EE UU nunca ganará en Afganistán”
    • La huelga de hambre de la saharaui Haidar pone en aprietos a Exteriores
    • Un desertor confirma el plan para un ataque suicida en el metro barcelonés
    • El Sáhara bien vale un 'cantecito'

    RSS OpenDemocracy

    • Britain's pro-Israeli lobbby,
    • Iran warned time running out for negotiated nuclear settlement,
    • Drug addiction: not quite as simple as Russia v the West,
    • The twilight of the middle east peace process,
    • Contra Zadek: a global deal is worth the candle,
    • Iraqi Doctors in Britain and the War on Terror,
    • US ambassador's opposition to troop increases in Afghanistan revealed,

    RSS The New York Review of Books

    • Light on the Dark Side
    • Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?
    • With Berlusconi in the Soup
    • In Evin Prison
    • Velvet Revolution: The Prospects
    • Who Are the Blue Dogs?
    • A One-Term President?: The Choice

    RSS Reuters AlertNet

    • Great Barrier Reef survival "requires 25pct CO2 cut"
    • S.Korea targets 2020 emissions at 30 pct below f'cast
    • Guantanamo detainee move not security risk-officials
    • China "studying" plan to delay final climate deal
    • FEATURE-In Amazon, a frustrated search for cancer cures
    • Cairo poor still live in peril, Amnesty says
    • Australian opposition confident of carbon deal

    RSS Bookforum

    • THE DAILY REVIEW: The Humbling by Philip Roth, from The Guardian
    • OMNIVORE: Blog culture invades academia
    • OMNIVORE: When China rules
    • OMNIVORE: Shameless cultural franchises
    • OMNIVORE: The most authentic portrait of Shakespeare
    • IN PRINT: Dec/Jan 2010
    • IN PRINT: Bared Minimalist

    RSS Ben Smith’s Politico blog

    • Palin criticizes Newsweek cover
    • On Oprah, a contradiction
    • Remainders: Effigy
    • Minn. Dems sue T-Paw
    • The Nixon bow
    • Cory Booker in Newark
    • Democrat out at News Corp.

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