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Quoted: Carradine, 72, was found dead Thursday in his luxury hotel room in Thailand, where he had just begun filming a movie. Police said Carradine was found hanged in the closet. It was unclear whether the death was an accident or suicide.

Quoted: CBS "Late Show" comic David Letterman gave John McCain a serious roasting Wednesday night for scrubbing an appearance roughly one hour before the taping.

Quoted: LOUDON, NH—Shock, grief, and the overwhelming sense of loss that has swept the stock car racing community following the death by apparent suicide of writer David Foster Wallace has moved NASCAR to cancel the remainder of its 2008 season in...

Portfolio with illustration by David Mayzis

Quoted: Last week’s books lead, Steven Blum’s interview with David Sedaris, was a lot of fun to read. But people have asked: If Blum talked with Sedaris for an hour and a half, where the hell is the rest of the interview?

Good point

Quoted: From my perspective, watching alone from a hotel in Florida, I found it refreshing to have a political candidate who finally talks to us as mature adults and also appeals to what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.”
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We have become so accustomed to political “leaders” who treat us like children, spoon feeding us with platitudes and playing upon our prejudices, that we forget what it is like to have a serious conversation about our challenges as a people.

Interesting, a lot of this stuff has been out there for a while, but often you know its hit the mainstream when its in the New York Times.

Presentations from Startup School 08.

David is my HERO! Anyone interested in starting a business (esp. web 2.0 business) should listen to this talk and take it to heart. Going for the big-payday right out of the gate really seems kind of ridiculous in light of what he's saying.

Quoted: David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.