cle

The tragic insight at the core of the Salon arti­cle is how the man who cre­ated and enforced this ideal — Mike Jef­fries — can­not attain it him­self, no mat­ter how much he wants to.

Wanna Be Like Mike? « Snarkmarket 2006

The guy pro­filed in the arti­cle is James Kakalios, a physics prof at the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota.

Superhero Physics « Snarkmarket 2005

The NYT arti­cle is a good run-through of what has hap­pened to it since its incep­tion, of the play­ers involved in the debate now and how they came by their posi­tions, and looks at some of the pos­si­ble treatments.

Hacking the NYT « Snarkmarket 2005

The 6,200-word arti­cle is some­how chock full of fas­ci­nat­ing lit­tle rev­e­la­tions.

Citizens of EverQuest « Snarkmarket 2005

In so far as the arti­cle is about any­thing, it’s about the replace­ment of a cen­tral­ized city orga­nized around indus­try and labor by a decen­tral­ized city orga­nized around infor­ma­tion and com­merce.

Detroit Tag City? What? « Snarkmarket 2005

Jan­ice Fraser, the author of this arti­cle, is facil­i­tat­ing a dis­cus­sion about what’s new on the Inter­net — what devel­op­ments like Flickr, Tech­no­rati, Del. icio.us, &c. mean.

Supernova: Whole New Internet? « Snarkmarket 2005

I won­der why — espe­cially since so much of the arti­cle is about EPIC — she didn’t write you guys and ask for com­ment, or at least let you know she was writ­ing the arti­cle.

EPIC Is Pretty in Pink « Snarkmarket 2005

Also, from the game­spy arti­cle is a link to last year’s com­pe­ti­tion, to cre­ate a LoveStory.

Emily Dickinson: The Game « Snarkmarket 2005

'W'en I k'n read my titles cle'r -- an' w'en I see de martins swawmin 'atter sundown -- an' w'en I year de peckerwoods confabbin 'togedder dese moonshiny nights in my een er town -- en I knows de hot wedder's a breakin' up, an 'I know it's 'bout time fer po' fokes fer ter be rastlin '' roun 'and huntin' up dere rashuns.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Hit useter be a _common_ sayin 'in Jones, an' cle'r 'cross into Jasper, that pa would 'a bin a rich man an ''a owned _niggers_ if it hadn't but 'a bin bekase he sot his head agin stintin' of his stomach.

Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878