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Stingy Kids: From Karachi to Cannes: A Review of "A Mighty Heart".

I also was intrigued how Angelina Jolie would pull off the part of Mariane Pearl and if and how her star presence would affect the film. After watching the film, I found myself thinking about the ethics of translation, friendship and fidelity, and Hollywood's self-congratulatory interest in the political. I wrote reams of critique and observation. And I mean reams. I could have kept going. I need to publish the albatross now.

TeacherTalk: What I Didn't Do This Summer.

Perhaps all professions dwell on the negative. The waitstaff at a restaurant probably worries about customers who are not being served efficiently more than they think about tables where the service has been good. Managers fret about the weak links on their team and often take for granted the players who do everything right. It’s easy to find fault with what we’ve done, and much harder to see the good in what we do. We appreciate compliments because we don’t give them to ourselves, so someone else has to do it.

And so I find myself near the beginning of the school year, nervous about all I wish I had read and planned, yet knowing that I’m probably as ready for my 150 charges as I’ll ever be. And, even though they don’t know it yet, they are ready for my class as well. No more Sunday night nerves—it’s Monday morning. Time to move forward, positively.

On "Blackle," the all-black homepage that purported to save energy, the Google blog says "...on flat-panel monitors (already estimated to be 75% of the market), displaying black may actually increase energy usage."

Just goes to show, the crowd is still dumb. How many people jumped at this meme?

More at The Numbers Guy and earth2tech. Earth2tech, "a publication devoted to intersection between the tech industry, their eco-moves and the next generation of tech innovation that will combat climate change" looks promising.

Paul Greenberg writes:

In case you're interested, I have a couple of pieces in today's Times:

A short food piece in the Times Magazine on small, local salmon operations in Alaska

A back page essay in the Book Review on Ernest Hemingway and his effect on the big pelagic fish like tuna and marlin

There's also an interview with me on the NY Times Book Review's podcast about the Hemingway piece.

The essence of being a Mets Fan

The essence of being a Mets Fan
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First place all year, but still wearing a rally cap in the second
inning.

The Sun is rising and setting on Apperceptive clients on three continents, so I'm sleeping less. With that in mind, I offer you the North Pole wikipedia page.