Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 1
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haha
[Read the article: Chow down, dude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]tomreedtoon, stop wasting time posting on the internet and get back to your tireless, unending mission of working to help the poor!! achewood is a comic strip about humor, a sense of which you are clearly lacking. i'd recommend staying away from salon in the near future and going straight to mim notes.
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haha! wow
[Read the article: The joys of home fries and wine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]over-privileged guillotine fodder? because the ingredients for the recipe were a potato, salt, and oil? did i just step into some weird alternate reality where eating anything other than dirt scrapings from the street makes one a food snob? i figured a liberal site like this would draw a lot of weirdly humorless, self-rightous folks but never thought they would come out of the woodwork about a recipe posted by a fictional alcoholic cat.
rob, i might advise that you could sell your computer and stop stressing about online jokes like this... with the money you get back you'll likely find a wide range of delicious entrees, check out the mcdonalds dollar menu for starts. really a wide world of cuisine out there. after that maybe try the potato, salt and oil recipe, ya never know, it may prove enlightening. you can always go back to uncooked ramen or whatever you feel an "authentic" liberal meal is if it turns out you're losing your street cred amongst the homeless folk.
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well
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shrug.. In that same question she also asked how many of them could find Iran on a map. Turns out it was around 17% a few years ago. I'd guess it's a bit higher today but not by much.
-> http://archives.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography.quiz/
So maybe that is a rhetorical question, and maybe it's insufferably french to question the basic cognitive ability of most Americans, but I'm an american too and am forced to admit I wonder question those abilities too. How could 53 million Americans be so dumb indeed?
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quiet announcers
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i always liked the "crank it up" portion of fox's nascar coverage, where on some restarts they will turn off the announcers and turn up the mics on the track. it really drives home the sense of power and noise of what's going on, listening to the engines throttle up, the crazy doppler effects as they rush by, and so forth.
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what?
[Read the article: Is the iPod killing great paintings?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Concerning Puccini - why it still have no 'depth' if it was encoded at 256kbps? 512? Why would a vinyl recording count, where the dynamic range and frequency ranges are necessarily limited by the physical medium upon which it is imprinted, coming nowhere near to matching the true dynamics of a live performance? (And why do self-proclaimed arbiters of taste always use opera as an example of how literate their tastes are?)
Would Diddlypop no longer weep if he/she watched Lawrence of Arabia on youtube? Or does encoding it at terrible quality completely kill it's essence? Maybe for an audiophile and film geek, but a bad facsimile of an original (even, say, a poor photocopy of a picture of a Picasso) still is about the original.
I've seen many flash projects and web pages which could easily be considered as art. Transient in nature, often underdeveloped, but still borne of the maker's attempt to communicate images and sounds in ways that also require the viewer to help decide how they see it. Like the other posters said, the fact that 99% of what is on the web is crap is merely a symptom of how easy it is to put stuff on there regardless of its quality.
As far as the original point goes, I remain skeptical as well. Staring out the bus window while I listen to music is meditative, thought provoking, and fills me with a reverent sense of beauty or sadness depending on the neighborhood. I really think that an artist will be an artist whether they listen to music while they are traveling or not.
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front page
[Read the article: News you can abuse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of course the main headline and pic on salon right now is paris hilton related...
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edge network
[Read the article: Why I returned my iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the strangest thing i noticed about the edge network performance is that it was really fast while i was on vacation in michigan last week. i think san francisco's at+t cell network is bottlenecked with too many users for the amount of bandwidth it supports - i download at a reasonable speed, then it chugs and hangs for a while, then gives another spurt, and back and forth, as if i'm taking turns having at the downloads.. it seems ridiculous that it can't even update the weather info correctly half of the time. in michigan pages loaded 10x faster and most of those other features (even youtube) worked well just with the edge stuff..
at least sf has wifi all over the place but really i think at&t just needs to get their act together and fix their infrastructure capacity problems. that, imho, is the biggest problem with this phone, along with dumb omissions of customization like letting me use my own ringtones.
i agree with the other poster that trying to cast it's price as over $2000 due to the contract is a misnomer. they never mention the $1200 or whatever discount you are getting when you cancel your old phone. for me it was only a slight increase per month and i would've been paying that anyway, except without as many minutes or unlimited data.
anyway, it's still better than my old ipod, better than my old digital camera (i didn't have one), and way better than my old cell phone, and i'm generally pretty happy with it.