Archive for February 22nd, 2007

Monkey news, Vol. 3 »

By William M. Hartnett on Feb 22, 2007 in oddities | 0 Comments

>Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons (Wash Post)
I want to know so much more about how one goes about gaining the trust of spearmaking chimpanzees.

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Better is better »

By William M. Hartnett on Feb 22, 2007 in newspapers | 0 Comments

The Washington Post’s work on The Other Walter Reed has, clearly, been outstanding. (And can someone please give Anne Hull a Pulitzer already? It’s criminally overdue. Una Vida Mejor was robbed, I tell you. So was Rim of the New World. And while we’re throwing links about, please read A Baseball Story if you’ve forgotten [...]

Why didn’t he just fix it? »

By William M. Hartnett on Feb 22, 2007 in geekery | 0 Comments

>A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source (NYT)
As the story quotes Jimmy Wales, they shouldn’t be citing encyclopedias of any kind. But, as one of what surely must be a rather limited pool of people with expertise on such an extremely specific topic with, let’s be honest, little practical application to the [...]

Swim with dolphins »

By William M. Hartnett on Feb 22, 2007 in newspapers | 0 Comments

>What would you do if you ran The (Cincinnati) Post and had a year to live? (CityBeat)
(Via Romenesko)
Obviously, upon learning that you have but a year to live, you should immediately quit your job running The Cincinnati Post and climb Mount Kilimanjaro. You should then sail around the world, but only after reading this incredibly [...]