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detroitblog » Another one bites the dust

drew_s — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:48:04 GMT

Quoted: Another downtown skyscraper from Detroit’s golden years is being torn down, the victim of a city unwilling to maintain it and developers unwilling to invest in it.

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Rach's Blog: Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

drew_s — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:44:25 GMT

I think Ba's latest dot deserves a follow-up.

Quoted: She ran out to the sidewalk to greet all her guests...."Hi! Thanks for coming to my party....GO INSIDE & SEE MY CAKE!!!!"

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AdamsDrafting - Justified Text Versus Ragged-Right Text

drew_s — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:02:20 GMT

I hate full justification. Now I just need to win over the bosses. I'm not prepared to take on the two-spaces-after-a-period issue just yet, though.

Quoted: After chewing that over, I’ve come to see that Ellen’s explanation makes sense. When it’s done properly, with good letter spacing, word spacing, and hyphenation, justified text is pleasing to the eye. And it also saves space, because playing with spacing and hyphenation allows you to fit more words on a page. But doing it properly requires a careful designer using a professional page-layout program. That’s a far cry from creating a document using Word or other word-processing software.

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The Baseball Card Blog: Casey at the Bat

drew_s — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:16:57 GMT

I wasn't a reader of the Baseball Card Blog until this final goodbye post, but I think I wish I had been. This is great.

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FIRE JOE MORGAN

drew_s — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:34:42 GMT

Farewell, FJM. You will be missed.

Quoted: Remember, the greatest intangible of all is love. Number two is grit.

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Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass -- New York Magazine

drew_s — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:06:01 GMT

Interesting story on the Gawker empire and its culture. Two of the main sources for this story quit Gawker since the story was published.

Quoted: The Gawker.com editors stand mostly to the side, in a cool-kid clique. Although they may in some sense be outsiders with their noses pressed to the glass, horrified by a world of New York that doesn’t quite want to have them as members, in the bubble of blogs, they’re the elite...

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Cass Sunstein: "Republic.com 2.0" | Salon News

drew_s — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:15:47 GMT

Topic: The Internets are making us stupid. Discuss...on the Internets.

Quoted: I don't like that Rush Limbaugh listeners call themselves "dittoheads." It's funny, but it's kind of horrible. Fox News is a self-identified conservative outlet. The more extreme elements on the left treat their fellow citizens as if they're idiots, or as if they're rich people who don't care about anybody. So, I look at some of our culture, I see demonization, and I think, where does that come from?

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Law Blog - WSJ.com : Spotlight On Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann

drew_s — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:20:49 GMT

Elliot Spitzer's successor is from the Cleve! The Midwest rises to the challenge again.

Quoted: As the subprime mortgage crisis unfolded over the past few months, the Law Blog has thought, Jeez, Eliot Spitzer would have fun with this one. With New York's former AG now ensconsed in the governor's mansion, it looks like Ohio AG Mark Dann is attempting to assume the roll of Wall Street's scourge. In a WSJ profile, he calls the subprime mortage mess the largest financial scam in American history.

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"that's what she said"

drew_s — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:32:34 GMT

This woman analyzes the liability Michael incurs in each episode of "The Office" and employment law issues that arise - as you can guess, Michael running over Meredith and the aftermath led to some good discussion.

Quoted: HRheroblogs.com - Blogs About Employment Law for HR Managers. That's what she said - Julie Elgar of Ford & Harrison blogs about NBC's The Office

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National Post - Brian Kalt: Poland's Jew-less Jewish Cultural Revival

drew_s — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:06:00 GMT

I noticed this article too - here's a take from my professor Brian Kalt, mentioned here before

Quoted: There is an interesting article in today's New York Times (registration required) on a revival of Jewish culture in Poland. Before World War II, 10% of Poland's population was Jewish; now only about 0.3% is. But the unique culture of that 10% is apparently

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