February 2012
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Maryland is about to become the eighth state to... →
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A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland was approved by the state Senate, which advanced a measure that narrowly cleared the House of Delegates last week.
The final vote by the state Senate ended a yearlong drama in Annapolis over the legislation, and marked the first time an East Coast state south of the Mason-Dixon line has supported gay nuptials.
With the...
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Maryland House Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage won approval in the Maryland House of Delegates on Friday night, capping a dramatic turnaround from a year ago and all but assuring the measure will be sent to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) for his promised signature.
After a day of emotional and contentious debate, the Democrat-led House voted 71-67 in favor of the bill, sending it to the Senate, which approved a...
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The lonely life of the lowly copy editor
The newsroom is a highly romanticized work environment. Reporters banging away at their keyboards, BlackBerrys buzzing with insider tips from networks of secret sources. Editors huddled in conference rooms, debating what news is important enough to make the paper. You can see why this setting has been idealized by Hollywood - and, for that matter, by most of the people who work there.
But there...
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“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create...”
– Whitney Houston
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Watchcuriositycounts:
If there can be book trailers and album trailers, why not magazine story trailers? Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab looks at whether Esquire’s recent trailer worked and why.
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January 2012
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Watchgood:
A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Lighting Storms Over Africa From Space
The world is beautiful, especially from a view like this.
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This time-lapse shot from the International Space Station reveals the Milky Way as storms illuminate Africa below. The video is courtesy of the Crew Earth Observations group at NASA Johnson Space Center.
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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)
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“The scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music...”
– Scientists find English is an overwhelmingly positive language. Further reading: Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. (via curiositycounts)
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Sopa plans set to be shelved as Obama comes out... →
The news is a major blow for Sopa’s backers in Hollywood, who had enjoyed broad support in Congress. But the Motion Pictures Association of America, one of the bill’s biggest sponsors, said it would continue to press for new laws.
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“While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem...”
– The White House • In an official response to the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT-IP, written by three officials with key views on the law: Intellectual property czar Victoria Espinel, US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Special Assistant to the President Howard Schmidt. Another key...
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Stieg Larsson’s Posthumous Gift to Journalism
In CJR, Eric Alterman writes: “The late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest—have already sold upward of fifty million copies worldwide, and spawned three pretty decent Swedish films… What make[s] the trilogy so valuable to the cause of journalism are the things it gets right. Over...
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December 2011
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40 dishes every Washingtonian must try →
The photos are fun to look at.