January 9, 2005 Archive

Culture

• StuffBak.com

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Jan 09, 2005

• Fomer Packer Tight End Victim of White Expectations?

  Mark Chmura is relegated to a dark corner of Packer history, I can’t help wondering if his skin color played a role.

  in Culture — by Eric James — on Jan 09, 2005

• Day By Day for January 09, 2005

  Chris Muir's Day By Day cartoon, for January 09, 2005

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Jan 09, 2005

• Boutique Maille - Fresh mustard, on tap

  in Culture — by bookofjoe — on Jan 09, 2005

• I can save the Airlines!

  in Culture — by Lono — on Jan 09, 2005

• North Korea: Out of the Car, Longhair!

  in Culture — by Z.Z. Bachman — on Jan 09, 2005

Books

• Having An Entrepreneurial Seizure? Time For "The Art of the Start"

  A new book by an influential Silicon Valley venture capital executive can help budding entrepreneurs avoid critical mistakes.

  in Books — by Ed Driscoll — on Jan 09, 2005

• Missing in Action: Where Are Their New Books?

  Is it just the post-Christmas slump? Or are there really fewer truly-new hard sci-fi novels on the shelf right now?

  in Books — by DrPat — on Jan 09, 2005

• Chandler Homage with Kangaroos

  Jonathan Lethem has written a noir-flavored homage to Raymond Chandler that succeeds as both mystery and sciene fiction.

  in Books — by DrPat — on Jan 09, 2005

• Book(fly) review: Mixed Bruen

  in Books — by BookFly — on Jan 09, 2005

• Marcel Proust was cooler than you are. A Review of How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton.

  in Books — by Katharine Donelson — on Jan 09, 2005

• Girl Trouble

  in Books — by Neal Gardner — on Jan 09, 2005

Politics

• Character [of law] matters

  A Globe article reports on 4 economists who have tracked the correlations between legal structure, financial markets, and economic prosperity.

  in Politics — by Harry Forbes — on Jan 09, 2005

• Civilian Deaths in Iraq: Bad Methodology on Parade

  How many civilians have really died in Iraq and whose numbers should you believe?

  in Politics — by Dave Nalle — on Jan 09, 2005

• A Shadow of Things to Come?

  in Politics — by Z.Z. Bachman — on Jan 09, 2005

• Another Suit Makes the Case for Tort Reform

  When something on the TV screen offends or annoys, you can still change the channel or turn the blasted thing off.

  in Politics — by Mike Kole — on Jan 09, 2005

• Gallophobia — Word of the Day

  So, why do so many of my fellow countrymen hate the French? Perhaps it's their air of condescension and cultural superiority; perhaps it's their inexplicable embracement of American goofballs like Jerry Lewis and Noam Chomsky; or perhaps it's simply that people can't bring themselves to trust a country that's shaped like a hexagon.

  in Politics — by Pete Blackwell — on Jan 09, 2005

Music

• OMG! It's Hi-5

  What do you get when you mix Sesame Street with MTV? Hi-5 of course!

  in Music — by David Flanagan — on Jan 09, 2005

• The Mutts- The Mutts EP, FatCat 2004

  in Music — by Jen Rajkowski — on Jan 09, 2005

• You got a top 10 song list?

  in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Jan 09, 2005

Video

• I Do Desperate Housewives

  in Video — by Jim Carruthers — on Jan 09, 2005

• 24 Rebounds In Season Three

  in Video — by David Hogberg — on Jan 09, 2005

• TV Preview - 24 Season 4

  in Video — by Brian Eagles — on Jan 09, 2005

• "24" series opener - A show of its times

  Sure, the action, the plot is all about manipulation. If recognized early you will enjoy the ride that much more. Tick...tick...tick...tick

  in Video — by Temple Stark — on Jan 09, 2005

• TV Review: Medium - "Pilot"

  in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jan 09, 2005

• Danny Deckchair: So (s)light, it floats away

  "(Deckchair's) quirks can't overcome the general sense or ordinariness that plagues it."

  in Video — by Brian Eagles — on Jan 09, 2005

• Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo in Hotel Rwanda: A View from the West

  When I say that I would happily watch Cheadle and Okonedo in anything I don't mean more movies like Hotel Rwanda.

  in Video — by Alan Dale — on Jan 09, 2005

• City of God

  in Video — by Barry — on Jan 09, 2005

Tastes

• "Gastronauts"

  Apparently there are a lot of people who plan their entire vacations around food.

  News in Tastes — by lklawless — on Jan 09, 2005