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Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the #codeyear project. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: blowing one’s own horn, burying one’s errors, resurrecting the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the Twitter hashtag #LessAmbitiousBooks. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotlight the Spin
Our first weekly media spin tactics thread for 2012: blowing one’s own horn, burying one’s errors, resurrecting the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
ACLU statement on Obama’s signing of NDAA
“Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today.”
Saturday NYE Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the tiger who is mothering five piglets as if they were her own cubs. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotlight the Spin
It’s the silly season, and thus it’s time for all good hacks and flacks to try and bury announcements they’d rather people didn’t pay any attention to in amidst the tinsel and stuffing. What examples have you noticed this week?
I won’t add my condemn to your condemn LII
What’s worthy of condemnation as we reach the arse-end of 2011? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
Saturday Yuletide Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Holiday reading/viewing
Anybody else got plans to lower the height of their reading pile over the next few weeks? If so, what are you going to be reading? And what about the telly box? or DVDs?
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