Archive for October, 2009

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A Habit Worse Than Heroin

Simon Read begins War of Words: A Tale of Newsprint and Murder with two quotations, the first an excerpt from the Daily Dramatic Chronicle (later the San Francisco Chronicle) comparing the marksmanship of American journalists to that of their French counterparts and the second a fitting quote from Thompson’s indelible The Great Shark Hunt [...]

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Children of the Office, I Implore You

I am forced to sit here and suffer through another long afternoon of pretending to work largely because I have become more efficient as a worker. I wouldn’t even go as far as to say that I’ve automated everything because, in truth, I haven’t automated anything. I’ve simply succeeded in cutting down the number of steps it takes to complete [...]