Archive for October 2006
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Refresh DC October meeting wrap-up
I’m blockquoting myself, from the Refresh DC newsletter that’ll be going out tomorrow morning:
“I’m going to eschew the typical third-person delivery for a moment because I feel it necessary that everyone knows this is coming from me.
“I want to first thank Alex and Joshua for delivering an outstanding presentation. It touched on so many important [...] -
Hemingway’s six word story
Caterina Fake posted this last month (and I’m now just catching up with it via this post on SvN):
Ernest Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. His answer, personally felt to be his best prose ever, was “For sale: baby shoes, never used.”
That, to me, is the most beautiful and [...] -
On the impending closing of Tower Records
Tonight I made what will likely be the first of many trips to my local Tower Records before the impending shutdown. By now you may have heard that all Tower Records stores will be closing by year’s end. On August 20, 2006, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (for the second time, apparently) [...]







