clock — watching time, the only true currency

Jim Fallows reminds us that The Atlantic’s efforts to be timeless rather than timely often result in scarily accurate predictions.
I wish 2005’s Countdown to a Meltdown were less accurate.
Just one of the many points, written as a memo to the incoming president of 2016:
For politicians every aspect of this cycle was a problem: [...]

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In my feed-reading this morning, I stopped my blitz on this short blurb in the NYTimes: “A Venerable Magazine Energizes Its Web Site” The nut graph?
Readership will get another boost starting Tuesday, when TheAtlantic.com will abolish the fire wall that has allowed only subscribers to the print magazine to see most of its articles online. [...]

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Clearing out the inbox of various links, as part of a Saturday night cleanup. No promised connection beyond the simple fact these caught my eye and were “worth” more than a del.icio.us link.

British history timeline, via Infosthetics.
There are so many things I want to improve about this blog. First and foremost would be actually posting [...]

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Unlike several family members, I no longer do the New York Times crossword puzzle on a regular basis. But I’ve been an intermittent member of the cruciverbalist cult, so Wordplay was a must-see. (Albeit on DVD.) And it is a great movie.
Will Shortz is the focal point of the film, since his life-long focus on [...]

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