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Steven Berlin Johnson makes a pretty compelling case for touch sensitive displays coming from Apple

Grilled plums

100 Year Old Man Kicks Teenage Gang’s Ass with ‘Kung Fu’

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If vegetarianism has settled comfortably into Western culture by now, it’s because the term vegetarian has become so vast and shapeless that it describes just about everybody who isn’t on the Atkins diet.

—from Slate’s review of The Bloodless Revolution, a book about the history of vegetarianism

Verbarius, a humane clock

Craig Newmark on the Daily Show

Mr. Bobrinskoy knows as much about newspapers and the needs and news appetites of the readers of The Los Angeles Times as I know about astrophysics.

—Jim O’Shea, LA Times editor in chief, responding to an interview given to Frontline about the future of newspapers.

…we desperately need to look into the mirror and realize it’s time to get back to the core and make the changes necessary to evoke the heritage, the tradition, and the passion that we all have for the true Starbucks experience.

—Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz on the commoditization of the Starbucks experience