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A Visit from Uncle Charlie Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro 6:34:54 PM  comment []
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Freeman Dyson: "I do not agree that a division of physics into separate theories for large and small is unacceptable. I am happy with the situation in which we have lived for the last eighty years, with separate theories for the classical world of stars and planets and the quantum world of atoms and electrons. Instead of insisting dogmatically on unification, I prefer to ask the question whether a unified theory would have any real physical meaning." 6:23:48 PM comment []
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Today I went to a Banana Republic store for the first time. Someday, I will enter a Starbucks. 2:45:07 PM comment []
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Blogs feeding the media machine: Hoggard's coverage of the Aycock drumline has gone from his blog to the local daily to the AP. 2:44:10 PM comment []
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Shorter torture apologists: It wasn't torture, and you can't criticize it anyway unless you have a documented history of criticizing Saddam's torture, and the attacks on Rummy are just politics. Sorry, no: it was torture, even the stuff we've seen so far, which may not be the worst of it; the US holds itself to a higher standard, thank God, and we are responsible for our actions; and dealing with the outrage is key to winning the war on terror, which is why Bush and Rummy are apologizing even as their partisans miss the point. 11:09:08 AM comment []
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The N&R's weekly Inside Scoop column runs what appears to be the press release from Howard Coble's office on the congressman's new website, but offers no analysis of what is actually there...nor do they mention Coble's first Democratic challenger in 8 years -- although a news story tucked inside the local section does say that Will Jordan and another Democrat, Rick Miller of Summerfield, have filed as Democrats in the 6th district. Jordan has made a public statement about his candidacy that was posted on the Internet several days ago. Is that or is that not news that the N&R should have shared with its readers by now? Scoop also mentions school-board candidate Jim Kirkpatrick's campaign website, www.votekirkpatrick.com, which is well done. A blog would serve Kirkpatrick's grassroots message and breezy style. 11:01:33 AM comment []
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Why does the News & Record put nothing but TV listings in its weekly TV section? No gossip. No reviews. No photographs of starlets in revealing clothes. And (perhaps this is related) very few ads. The value of a TV section is diminished by the dedicated listings channel on cable. And even that channel runs clips above the listings. I understand that the N&R's demographics skew ancient, but I suspect that many readers watch TV the way I do -- remote in hand, not scheduling my week around shows that I can find out about anyway online, in the daily paper, or on channel 42. My Saturday TV section goes straight to the recycling, every week. 10:42:15 AM comment []
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