September 2009
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Suddenly the big rap on indie was that it was po-faced and insular and lacking...
– Nitsuh Abebe, The Decade in Indie - Pitchfork
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Engagement rings took off in the U.S. when the courts refused to hear “breach of...
– Tim Harford, Undercover Economist
I had a strange feeling of being back in high school writing this. To get a good...
– Paul Graham
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When filmmakers want to shoot an elevator scene, they will spin the elevator...
– Nick Paumgarten, Up and Then Down
The secret lives of elevators in the New Yorker
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The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower its rate...
– Michael Pollan, Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch
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[Scrappy] What does it mean, exactly? It’s basically the diminutive form...
– Paul Graham, What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley