December 2010
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Streets full of snow. Please advise.
seedz:
International Bar at 7:30. I won’t do this all the time but I have no phone and no watch so think of this as me pinning a note to a corkboard, or like it’s a Hemingway novel and I’m leaving a message with the concierge. Or even better a telegram.
UNAVOIDABLY DETAINED MEET ME INTL BAR 730 ALL MY LOVE SEEDZ.
Why aren’t there as many concierges around anymore? Oh yeah, cell phones. Come...
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“We look forward to welcoming you back on May 27, 2011 when the Island re-opens...”
– Happy Holidays from Governors Island
My Top 5 Travel Longreads of 2010
longreads:
Paul Brady is an editor at Condé Nast Traveler.
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This isn’t a list of the best travel writing of the year, but if this is what travel writing could be every time, the genre wouldn’t have such a shaky reputation. I didn’t pick anything from Traveler because that would be lame.
Pass the Bucks (Steve Boggan, The Guardian, Dec. 11, 2010)
The story of following the same $10 around...
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“This central insight of Tor is brilliantly tautological: What can’t be known...”
– Virginia Heffernan’s terrific article on secrecy and anonymity online
“Governors Island today … will offer free off-season access as part of the...”
– NewYorkology
Boats leave Whitehall at 11 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
“Based on programs now successfully used in New York and Boston, Metro Transit...”
– D.C. Metro Transit Police to step up system security
I encourage you to join me in always declining to let the police detain you to search your belongings when you want to use public transportation. Stay strong: It’s just a short walk to the next station where they aren’t searching...
“Torrington, a city of 36,000 in northwestern Connecticut, pockmarked with...”
– In Torrington, Conn., a Brave Foray Into New Media Territory
Would go there.
“Bring postcards and write them while you dine at the bar. Invariably, people...”
– Dorothy McGivney
File under: protips.
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“TSA doesn’t really dispute anything. Instead, it offers a second and true set of...”
– Chris Elliott expertly deconstructs the TSA blog
While Brooks was eating, hotel staff entered the... →
seedz:
McGeveran!
They may call it The Front now but to me it’ll always be Wood Wars.
“We’re cycling three abreast, which lets us argue. Flash argues that cafés like...”
– Still a Terrifically Bad Idea by Elisha Cooper
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“The irony is that this place represents in many ways the epitome of free-market...”
– Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance
Previously in government intervention on 42nd Street.
“Maybe I’ll feel differently some day, but for now, [I’m] not interested in...”
– Q and A with Jim Brady about TBD.com, hyperlocal and what’s next
File under: relevant to my interests.
Still mad from when The Post went up from a...
Lots of media people in New York are speculating about this new iPad app that will come out early next year called The Daily. It is a new thing from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and has been simultaneously described as “a horrible venture from a horrible man,” “indescribably magical” and “the most exciting news media start-up of the millennium,” in the...