Matt Lehrer: Archive

Mar 31st

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The Beta Band - “Dry the Rain”

Mar 30th

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“Alright, I’ll admit it: when I first sat down with Steve Levitt in the econ...”

– Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics Documentary to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival I loved The King of Kong so much, I think I’d see anything Seth Gordon is a part of.

Mar 30th

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Mar 27th

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Mar 26th

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innonate: Check out the The Moment Project. We’re collecting videos of people talking about their favorite movie moments. It’s quite powerful. One of my favorites so far is from my friend Kenyatta Cheese, who recounts a powerful moment from The Silence of the Lambs. There are a lot of great moments recorded on the site from a lot of amazing people. We’d love to have your moment too, so submit...

Mar 26th

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Mar 25th

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“Facebook recently became the most visited site on the web. Yet their revenues...”

– Chris Dixon: Stickiness is bad for business

Mar 25th

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Mar 23rd

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Mar 23rd

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Mar 23rd

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Home Cook Superstar: The Peter Berley Roasted... →

Peter Berley knows more about food than almost anyone I’ve met. But even I was a skeptic when the former executive chef of Angelika’s Kitchen (a vegetarian spot) recommended this approach to roasting a chicken. Knowing it was a variation of the old school Thomas Keller approach, I decided to… No joke, this is the easiest and most delicious chicken you will ever make.

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Mar 21st

“Why do we have an abortion rate 20% higher than France’s (and more than twice as...”

– Michael Moore (via azspot)

Mar 21st

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“As kids, we say stupid things, and because there’s not a record of it, nobody is...”

– Christopher Poole in NYT interview with Nick Bilton. This is one of the most thought provoking quotes on online identity / privacy I have come across in a while. (via continuations)

Mar 20th

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Mar 17th

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“Experts in the math of probability and statistics are well aware of these...”

– Tom Siegfried: Odds Are, It’s Wrong

Mar 16th

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China Wants to Connect its High-Speed Rail to... →

The goal of this project would be a two-day trip from Beijing to London. The Trans-Siberian Railway, which I’ve seriously considered doing and would still love to, currently takes six days to cover the almost 9,000 km from Moscow to Beijing. Who doesn’t romanticize traveling by train? It’s a shame it’s pretty impractical outside of the northeast corridor in the US....

Mar 15th

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The New Commandments by Christopher Hitchens. This video is essentially a summary of the excellent article.

Mar 14th

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“‘But now movies will be more formulaic than ever!’ purists whine. Au...”

– Scott Brown talking about a company called MindSign Neuromarketing which uses fMRI scans instead of focus groups - How Movies Activate Your Neural G-Spot This sounds fascinating and terrifying.

Mar 13th

Aaron's Life: So Long, Farewell Print Newspaper →

I was just at Murray’s reading the weekend Wall Street Journal and found a great piece about the importance of defending terrorists that I was anxious to pass on to all of you. Unfortunately, I was reading the print edition. A moment of catharses? I grew up inside the beltway, the…

Mar 13th

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“James Sikes, who made a dramatic 911 call from his Prius on Interstate 8 in San...”

– Theodore H. Frank: I am not afraid of my Toyota Prius

Mar 12th

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“In other news, stay tuned, because in our top story tonight, some really good...”

– Ian Chillag, In Which I Try To Use All 119 Of WGN’s Newly Banned “Newsspeak” Words In One Sentence

Mar 12th

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“We wake up every day and there is some new competitor out there — a Roku...”

– Melinda Witmer, Time Warner Cable Inc.’s programming chief, in “Apple Waits in Wings as Cable’s TV Everywhere Stamps Out Free” If the cable providers made any effort to deliver extra value for consumers instead of cable companies, they’d face a lot less competition. The...

Mar 12th

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Mar 12th

“A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high...”

– Mississippi Prom Canceled After Lesbian Date Requested I get it, a lot of people hate the gays. What I don’t get is that this town hates this one girl enough to cancel prom? I am sure she probably already feels pretty crummy being an out lesbian in the bible belt and now she’s responsible for...

Mar 11th

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Happy birthday, foursquare.

foursquare: It was exactly a year ago when Naveen and I flipped the switch on foursquare. It was the day before we headed down to SXSW - back when we were still feeling 50/50 on whether people would think the “let’s turn real life into a game!” idea was really interesting or whether they’d laugh us out of Austin. We took separate flights. I remember walking down the tarmac into the plane...

Mar 11th

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“[W]hile settling seems like an enormous act of resignation when you’re looking...”

– Lori Gottlieb An honest, daring, interesting read.

Mar 11th

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Mar 10th

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Mar 10th

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David M. Cutler: Health Reform Passes the Cost... →

Many people are worried that the health-care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats will fail to bend the “cost curve.” A number of commentators are urging no votes because of this, and Republicans have asked the president to start health reform over, focusing squarely on the issue of cost reduction. These calls overlook the actual legislation. Over the past...

Mar 9th

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