Monthly Archives: August 2008

Predictions of the Future

I’m reading “The Wired Nation,” a 1970 piece by Ralph Lee Smith, assessing the great future of cable TV as a  medium of liberation. Some is pretty spot on: Looking a bit farther into the future, it may be that … Continue reading

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The world’s strongest geek

What happens when you mix geek with weightlifter?  Yuri Vlasov, one of the greatest lifters of all time.

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Free the Airwaves!

Google’s Free the Airwaves campaign!   I recorded this video in support, though for some reason I look kind of evil in the video. No more Mr. Not Nice Guy.

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How to make an Olympic Impression

[what follows is discarded prose, a story I started that went nowhere] Back in the third century BC, aiming to impress the world, Dionysius of Syracuse sent to the Olympics fancy pavilions and several teams of horses.  To entertain spectators, … Continue reading

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I love Weightlifting

So I am particularly proud of this piece about Olympic weightlifting that I wrote. For some reason I felt very moved to write it, rather like the Dumpling Manifesto. This is a picture of Vivian Lee, who is on the … Continue reading

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In Beijing

I’m in Beijing this week, writing some stuff for Slate.  The murder was about 10 mins from my house. This struck me as a rather odd photo of President Bush.

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OPEC 2.0

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