Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, has a short piece in the Times on the subject of gift giving. It’s pretty funny, but this part kind of blew me away:The problem with gifts is the expectation — the truth is that one good experience can ruin you for life. For me it was two [...]

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I was listening to this week’s Ante Up podcast, and the guys had a long argument about something that has always bugged people who play poker online: how do we know these sites aren’t screwing us over? It would be facile for a poker site to rig the deal in various ways, such that the [...]

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Catherine has written regularly about the harassment she faces from random assholes on the street—guys cat-calling or yelling out all sorts of sexually explicit, aggressive, and violent things at her as she walks around. Her experience, sadly, is far from unusual—it happens to women all the time. It happens often enough when I’m walking with [...]

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I have been sharing some really awesome stuff via Google Reader recently. You can see the last few things in the sidebar over here at en-dash.com, but you can also click

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After explaining why young NBA players and their wives/girlfriends sometimes clash, Gilbert Arenas goes on to make a very compelling observation:I know this is random, but I just want to clear this up for people out there.

There are these things called shark attacks, but there is no such thing as a shark attack. I have [...]

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I finished it. I thought it was pretty good, but my main feeling is relief that I can safely go online again. I missed you guys!

Brief discussion after the jump.

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Well, that didn’t take long.* The guy who drove me to my hotel from the airport? Had an iPhone. For what it’s worth, it did look pretty slick.

In other news, I have free wireless at my hotel, which is nice. I’ve spent the last 11 hours travelling, which is not nice. 8 of those hours [...]

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Made with Pictaps, whatever that is.

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