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Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
We live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all. Already the characteristically modern relationship, it has in recent decades become the universal one: the form of connection in terms of which all others are understood, against which they are all measured, into which they have all dissolved. Romantic partners refer to each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. Spouses boast that they are each other's best friends. Parents urge their young children and beg their teenage ones to think of them as friends. Adult siblings, released from competition for parental resources that in traditional society made them anything but friends (think of Jacob and Esau), now treat one another in exactly those terms. Teachers, clergymen, and even bosses seek to mitigate and legitimate their authority by asking those they oversee to regard them as friends. We're all on a first-name basis, and when we vote for president, we ask ourselves whom we'd rather have a beer with. As the anthropologist Robert Brain has put it, we're friends with everyone now.
Op-Ed Columnist - A Jew in England - NYTimes.com
NEW YORK - When my father was about to emigrate from South Africa to England in the 1950s, a friend of the family suggested that a change of name was in order because it would be unwise to pursue his career in Britain while called "Cohen."
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And I still believe the greatest strength of America, its core advantage over the old world, is its lack of interest in where you’re from and consuming interest in what you can do.
Ahoy, mateys ! Thar be Jewish pirates! | Up Front | Jewish Journal
But now a forthcoming book hopes to change that image by focusing on Ladino-speaking Jews whose piracy grew out of the Inquisition. "The Jewish pirates were Sephardic. Once they were kicked out of Spain [in 1492], the more adventurous Jews went to the New World," said Ed Kritzler, whose yet-untitled book on Jewish pirates will be published by Doubleday in spring 2007.
Facebook privacy: a guide - Ars Technica
Facebook privacy: a guide
Facebook has decent privacy controls, but most users don't realize how to take full advantage of them. Ars guides you through Facebook's privacy settings so that you can be both social and respectable at the same time.
The Saturday Profile - With Sharp Satire, Enfant Terrible Challenges Czech Identity - Biography - NYTimes.com
DAVID CERNY sends a rude text message to two bronze sculptures of naked, urinating men, which proceed to swivel their hips and move their protruding penises to trace his four-letter words into a pond shaped like a map of the Czech Republic.
A sudden stop: Caltrain engineer recalls bringing his train to a halt, just inches away from hitting a woman - San Jose Mercury News
When a 65-year-old woman jumped onto the tracks just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, engineer Robert Orante's southbound train was approaching Mountain View's San Antonio station slowly because he had started braking early.
As soon as Orante saw her come off the platform he pushed the brake valve, slamming the train into emergency mode.
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Robert Orante's
Daily Kos: "I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL"
I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL \nthis morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration...
Create a tab-switching gesture shortcut in Firefox 3.5 | E-mail and Internet | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld
The recently-released Firefox 3.5 supports multi-touch gestures on newer Mac laptops, at least if you believe this Firefox features page. However, these gestures don’t seem to be documented in detail anywhere on the Firefox Web site—it’s acknowledged that they exist, but there’s no apparent documentation on which gestures do what.
No Holds Barred: Eulogy you won't hear for Jackson | Columnists | Jerusalem Post
When he witnessed the explosion of the atomic bomb he had worked so hard to develop, Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds." Anyone who witnessed the tragic implosion of the life of Michael Jackson and its circus aftermath over the last week might amend the saying to read, "I am fame, destroyer of lives."
Bluelounge CableDrop Review | Accessories | Mac Gems | Macworld
As someone with a laptop, several external hard drives, and a handful of other accessories that are frequently connected and disconnected, one of my most-frequently-suffered computing annoyances is cables that fall behind my desk, forcing me to crawl underneath or sprawl across the top to retrieve them. (I can’t count the number of times I’ve lunged at a loose MagSafe power cord just as it’s about to slip over the edge, out of easy reach.) Over the years I’ve devised various makeshift mechanisms to prevent such mishaps: twist-tying cables together so that plugged-in cables will keep the others from falling; taping or nailing homemade cable clips to the desk; lodging loose cables under paperweights or other gear…the list is long. While most of these methods have worked, they’ve also tended to be ugly, kludgy, or a hassle to use—or a combination of the three.
How to Fake a Clean House
When you’re short on time, here’s how to give your living spaces the illusion of cleanliness.
FOXNews.com - Ten High-Tech Weapons to Repel Pirates - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
How does a small gang of lightly armed Somali pirates hijack a modern cargo ship?
Speed and weaponry, mainly. Modern pirates, whether off the coast of Somalia or in the crowded shipping lanes of southeast Asia, typically use fast speedboats to zoom up to the sterns of slow-moving cargo ships. They then toss grappling hooks up to the rails and climb up ropes to clamber on deck.
AppleInsider | Mac Pricing Matrix: Find the best prices on Macs
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AppleInsider's Mac Pricing Matrix aims to make it easy for readers to find the lowest price on all of Apple's current generation Mac models.
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AppleInsider's Mac Pricing Matrix aims to make it easy for readers to find the lowest price on all of Apple's current generation Mac models.
Tips / Rules When Confronted By The Police
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Tips/ Rules When Confronted By The Police
If you have a confrontation with the police - know your rights and know what you should or should not do to give them up. Just follow these 10 rules: -
Tips/ Rules When Confronted By The Police
If you have a confrontation with the police - know your rights and know what you should or should not do to give them up. Just follow these 10 rules:
Firefox Tip: Prevent Firefox from Hogging Memory When Minimized
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Prevent Firefox from Hogging Memory When Minimized
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Prevent Firefox from Hogging Memory When Minimized
WritersPub.com Web site launches, for writers | Macworld
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What is writerspub.com?
Writerspub.com, a totally free web site designed for writers of all types - from novelists, screenwriters, short story writers, to technical and casual writers - anyone with a keyboard, to publicly share and critique their work, and the work of others. Writerspub.com is an environment for the writer to engage with one another. To interact. Those who are new to writing are especially encouraged to participate, as it will allow them to interconnect with both amateur and professional writers. -
What is writerspub.com?
Writerspub.com, a totally free web site designed for writers of all types - from novelists, screenwriters, short story writers, to technical and casual writers - anyone with a keyboard, to publicly share and critique their work, and the work of others. Writerspub.com is an environment for the writer to engage with one another. To interact. Those who are new to writing are especially encouraged to participate, as it will allow them to interconnect with both amateur and professional writers.
Winter: Honey Lemon Ginger Infusion Soothes Throats, Improves Water
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Why bother with a natural concoction that sounds like a tea bar specialty? Researchers (and lots of anecdotal tales) have shown that honey, specifically the buckwheat variety, can be more effective than cough syrup (second item) at suppressing coughs.
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Why bother with a natural concoction that sounds like a tea bar specialty? Researchers (and lots of anecdotal tales) have shown that honey, specifically the buckwheat variety, can be more effective than cough syrup (second item) at suppressing coughs.
6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck
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This article is part of a series called How to Write a Resume.
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This article is part of a series called How to Write a Resume.
Reflections: Memento Mori: The New Yorker
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MEMENTO MORI
When gifts come back to haunt you.
For the past ten years or so, I’ve made it a habit to carry a small notebook in my front pocket. The model I favor is called the Europa, and I pull it out an average of ten times a day, jotting down grocery lists, observations, and little thoughts on how to make money, or torment people. The last page is always reserved for phone numbers, and the second to last I use for gift ideas. These are not things I might give to other people, but things that they might give to me: a shoehorn, for instance—always wanted one. The same goes for a pencil case, which, on the low end, probably costs no more than a doughnut. -
MEMENTO MORI
When gifts come back to haunt you.
For the past ten years or so, I’ve made it a habit to carry a small notebook in my front pocket. The model I favor is called the Europa, and I pull it out an average of ten times a day, jotting down grocery lists, observations, and little thoughts on how to make money, or torment people. The last page is always reserved for phone numbers, and the second to last I use for gift ideas. These are not things I might give to other people, but things that they might give to me: a shoehorn, for instance—always wanted one. The same goes for a pencil case, which, on the low end, probably costs no more than a doughnut.
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