William M. Hartnett

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>Romanov goes bananas with new tirade (The Guardian)
This one hits three of my five primary interests: Monkey news, soccer and journalism. (Missing: Cat pictures and BSG.) For background purposes, Vladimir Romanov is the Lithuanian owner of the Scottish Premier League club Hearts. From the story:
“Addressing the media, who Romanov has taken to describing as ‘monkeys’, [...]

>Indonesia to try to plug mud volcano with concrete balls (CNN)
(Via my brother)
I have nothing to say about this, aside from expressing my sincere hope that Indonesia’s giant concrete balls, when inserted into the crater of the mud volcano, can finally stem the gushing brown flow that has tormented so many people these past nine [...]

>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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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 [...]

>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 [...]

>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 [...]

Anything catch your eye in this screen shot from my Google Analytics account? And, on a completely unrelated note, have I mentioned lately how much admiration I have for all the fine men and women at the U.S. Department of Justice?
Speaking of my site stats … People, please upgrade your web browsers! I shudder to [...]

>Fire the Wire — And Hire Locally (E&P)
(Via Romenesko)
We hated wire copy during my college newspaper days. (Which, alarming realization, were a decade ago.) It was a last resort, filler of no unique value to our audience. Why put something that anyone could get anywhere on pages so carefully targeted at a specific audience?
A quick [...]

>From video gamer to surgery ace? It could happen, study suggests (LA Times)
(Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker)
The story doesn’t specifically state whether playing Contra and Silent Service for seven hours a day for most of the early 1990s is correlated with fewer errors while performing common surgical tasks, but, if so, I am SO quitting [...]