January 2010
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Selected Correspondence From My Sister's Workday
From: David Brooks Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:30 AM To: Elizabeth Summers Subject: Re: topics - early!! Meow. ———Original Message——— From: Elizabeth Summers To: David Brooks Subject: RE: topics - early!! Sent: Jan 29, 2010 10:20 AM Man up, Brooks. ——-Original Message——- From: David Brooks Sent: Friday, January 29,...
Jan 29th
Jan 29th
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Insanely Good
newsweek: Summers on the iPad: Fanboys understand that Apple is in the details. Apple is the way your music fades out when your iPhone gets a call; Apple is the combination scroll wheel and volume dial on the original iPod. Apple sells devices that, in Jobs’s famous formulation, “just work.” On stage in San Francisco, parts of the device that Jobs unveiled looked unpolished. Yes, the...
Jan 28th
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The Lives of U.S. Colored Troops →
New project from my dad, a sort of offshoot of the book he wrote about the slaves of Dr. Samuel Mudd.
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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The Case for 3-D
newsweek: Though we’re not totally convinced that people are going to want to pay $2,000 to sit around their living rooms in goggles that make them look ridiculous, Summers makes a good argument for why 3-D TV is the future: Why does anyone born after 1980 still pay for cable? That brings me to ESPN 3-D. For me, the only reason is sports. Mad Men, 30 Rock—if I canceled, I could still get these...
Jan 6th
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