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[from chimezie] HttpFox: The FireFox add-on you can't live without

"Regardless of why you want to dig under the hood, HttpFox is a great way to do it. It won't let you change or manipulate the requests and data like some add-ons, but it will let you see all the nitty-gritty details about them in a well-designed interface that's easy to open, close, and manipulate."

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[from amaah] Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah

a review damning Gurnah with faint prose - he wasn't convinced by the abrupt switch in the narrative, thinking that the novelist shouldn't desert the reader once engaged... I liked the ride however.. he also picked up on that quote that deserves amplification: "Irony is the unforgiving register that gives everything back to us"

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[from amaah] Shipping News

old review on Levinson, Cudahy and McPhee's various books on containers... the toli take on containers is long overdue

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[from amaah] ?uestlove " Music Is STILL the weapon

gushing review of the new Fela musical... All he needed to say was Antibalas... man I need to head to New York

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[from amaah] A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity

great hatchet job on Stephen Wolfram and his "A New Kind of Science". In lieu of superfluous comments, let us pass on to Gardner's list of the "five ways in which the sincere pseudo-scientist's paranoid tendencies are likely to be exhibited."

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[from amaah] Return to Paradise

Though he coined the name "Pandemonium"—"all the demons"—for the palace that Satan and his fallen crew build in Hell, he also coined the word "self-esteem," as contemporary a concept as there is and one that governed much of Milton's lif

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[from amaah] The Escape Artist: John Banville on Georges Simenon

appreciation and review of Simenon focusing mostly on the romans dur which are admittedly hardboiled and spare in their observations. Why however don't we see the same respect for the Maigret novels? There's joy in repetition and in the pulp genre

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[from amaah] Badu mixes it up onstage

review of last night's concert. The Roots should never be an opening act, they should have been the main event especially with Erykah Badu in full eclectic mode ala Zap Mama. Good concert though.

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[from amaah] Network power that works too well

favourable review of Dave's book... Much like any dinner time conversation with him... Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization is the title, the concerns are up my alley: coordination costs, adaptability, the human factor in networks and syste

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[from amaah] The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict, By W.H. Auden

The interest in the thriller is the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them. The interest in the study of a murderer is the observation, by the innocent many, of the sufferings of the guilty one. the dialectic of innocence

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[from amaah] After a Decade Away, Portishead Returns

every Portishead review uses the words 'otherworldy', introvert, loneliness, anxiety, shy and this one is no different...

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[from amaah] The cure for Bernard Shaw

Shaw was in fact a crank of the first water, who had the sophist's ability to present his publicity-generating eccentricities as the choices of a rational man. He was drawn to odd causes like a fly to ordure, provided they gave him a platform. One of th

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[from amaah] A Soul on the Planet' Approaches the Big Questions of Life From a Variety of Directions

Meshell Ndegeocello's music sounds as if it springs directly from a mind that's restlessly curious about ideas, people, interactions and possibilities, and is passionate about all of them.

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[from amaah] 'I Was Dancing': A Novel That's Still Light on Its Feet

It's a measure of the depth and skill of O'Connor's portrait that even as you want to wring his neck -- not to mention kick him out of the house -- you want to hug him. He's been a terrible father to his only son -- not to mention a terrible husband to th

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[from amaah] Dashiell Hammett: Let's Talk About the Black Bird

An appreciation of the creator of The Continental Op and Sam Spade and the spare, hardboiled noir genre.

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[from amaah] The poet of collision

James Ellroy expounds on Dashiell Hammett's day job. Dashiell Hammett was allegedly offered five Gs to perform a contract hit. It is most likely a mythic premise. He was a Pinkerton operative at the time. A stooge for Anaconda Copper made the offer.

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[from amaah] Some Revolutionaries March; Afrobeat Dances

30 years ago, Afrobeat was the most important new music in Africa, fusing James Brown-style funk, African rhythms and urgent messages of political confrontation. this profoundly African music has found a new home - in America.

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