December 15, 2011
Longreads: 5280 Magazine's Geoff Van Dyke: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011

longreads:

Geoff Van Dyke is deputy editor of 5280 Magazine in Denver. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Outside, and Men’s Journal.

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• “The Food at our Feet,” by Jane Kramer, The New Yorker

Kramer can almost make you smell and taste the stuff she’s picking: mint,…

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December 14, 2011
"I feel as if the whole culture is stoned, listening to an LP that’s been skipping for decades, playing the same groove over and over. Nobody has the wit or gumption to stand up and lift the stylus."

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Kurt Andersen on our decades-long cultural rut

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-201201

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November 29, 2011
"A birthday card that sings ‘Happy Birthday’ to you — that birthday card has a chip in it with more computer power than all the Allied Forces of 1945. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill would have killed to get that chip that you simply throw away in the garbage."

— Physicist Michio Kaku on Moore’s Law. (via nprfreshair)

(via nprfreshair)

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November 22, 2011

Florida in the fall.

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November 22, 2011
"SIR – Thanks for the story nine years ago on the benefits of office clutter (“In praise of clutter”, December 21st 2002). I located the article this week in a pile of important material set aside for review. The system has worked perfectly, as you said it would."

— A letter from Australia. (via theeconomist)

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November 22, 2011
Aida Battle in the New Yorker

As my friend-of-Aida would say about the New Yorker’s recent profile of the accidental coffee scion: “Delightful.” I now realize how badly I ruin the yuppie-trash coffee beans I buy. However, due to the usual early hour of preparation, that’s not likely to change.

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November 22, 2011
Why can’t they be shrunk?

Why can’t they be shrunk?

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