by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 5, 2009 | Asides
PostSecret stands as the most moving site I know of on the Web. The embedded video should give you some small sense of what I mean. On PostSecret tour, a WoW confession | via CNET News.
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 3, 2009 | Asides
So I admit it, I’m a total Mac butt-boy, but this is frigging hilarious. Oh, and useless… Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 2, 2009 | Asides
So… you’re probably starting to wonder if Ira Glass has me on his payroll. (No, he doesn’t, but Ira, if you’re listening, it would be a gig I’d love. Feel free to give me a call!) This week, once again, Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 2, 2009 | Asides
Two scanned pages from David Foster Wallace’s most recent manuscript and some of his wife, Karen’s, Â artwork |Â via The New Yorker.
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 2, 2009 | Asides
There is a new, long, essay in the New Yorker about David Foster Wallace and, to a great degree, his work on his final, unfinished novel, although it seems to be more about the life and writing of David Foster Wallace and the depression that lead to his suicide this...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 2, 2009 | Asides
Scott Simon, on Weekend Edition Sunday, offered up a very nice tribute to broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey.
