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  • Arts & Letters Daily Writing on…writing, drawing, music and other culture. If the featured content doesn’t interest you something in the continually-changing ‘Nota Bene’ section down the left column will.
  • Jewish Ideas Daily Collected intelligent writing on a wide-ranging set of Judaic topics and opinions.
  • Powell's Book Blog If your travels take you to Portland, OR stop in at Powells for an afternoon. Just do it; trust me. In the meantime, read their blog on authors, publishers, trends, literature and booklovers for a taste of what you’re missing.
  • Signal vs. Noise Blogging on the design and usability of things in general by 37 Signals, a Chicago-based web design firm. If “design” sounds boring, it isn’t…
  • The Big Picture The news in pictures…and some of the most amazing pictures I’ve ever seen.
  • The Economist: Lexington The respected English magazine’s column devoted to all things American with their own distinctive flair; a look at ourselves from outside.
  • The Wordnik Word Of The Day The amazing, amusing and sometimes just-downright-bizarre English language, dolled out one word per day. A word-nerd’s paradise.
  • Unquiet Thoughts Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker magazine, writes on a bewildering range of music topics. When he sleeps, I know not.
  • When Saturday Comes In best self-deprecating British style: “the half-decent football magazine” (where football == what we in the U.S. label as soccer.) Even if I didn’t love soccer I’d enjoy WSC: exhibit #1 that “quality writing about sport” isn’t a complete oxymoron.

(Relatively) Recent Additions

  • Dragged Down By The Stone
  • Impressions, The Art Institute, May 29th 2010
  • The Mythical Fred Brooks Sequel…for real.
  • Spring break 2010…Connecticut & NYC style
  • Chag Sameach 2010!

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    News My goings-on (plus those of my family on occasion.)
    Quant Writing from the left brain: mostly technology but also the occasional musing on a marvel of science.
    Qual Writing (among other things) from the right brain: all the "head in the clouds" content anyone who knows me would assume I'd be interested in.
    et cetera Everything that doesn't fit somewhere else, neatly or otherwise.
    Everything on this site is copyright © 2005 - 2010 Eric Hogberg. Not that I'm planning on selling anything here but...play nice and please don't just scrape my stuff to fill your site! Thanks.