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Photogrammaton

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    Comment #48928527

    How much time did I just spend on clicking links and reading comments? I love that I have almost no idea.

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    Comment #48359701

    This leaves me without words, and I only listened to the first track.

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    Comment #46796504

    Hugh Kenner is good on a surprisingly wide range of things. This is a publisher's description of a book called The Counterfeiters, first published around 1968: "Wide-ranging enough…

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    Comment #46615713

    I've been following Alex Wellerstein off and on for a few years now, since I discovered that he was a science adviser for a crazed nuclear-history TV series called Manh(a)ttan, so …

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    Comment #37435728

    Some newspapers in the 1970s used the Atex publishing system. The now-defunct Dallas Times Herald, a daily, used it when I worked there, roughly 1978 to 1980. The Atex system there…

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    Comment #36646152

    Right you are. In the 90s, ESPN covered each stage with a nicely edited but short recap, about 30 minutes each as I recall. Not much, but better than nothing. The race has since mo…

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    Comment #36646050

    I wonder whether Netflix will boost American interest in the Tour de France. Something of the kind happened with Formula 1. Interest in it here (I’m in NYC) was generally so-so, wh…

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    Comment #36454514

    This is the Tragedy of Delamination all over again. I coined the phrase half in jest, modeled on a TV-ad phrase (the tragedy of psoriasis, as I recall), after it turned out that a …

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    Comment #35499435

    For me, the story was a little too elaborate for its own good. (The film is based on a novel and may have tried to keep too much of its source.) But it addresses a lot of issues. A…

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    Comment #34347334

    My not very substantive response is that I like the project name. Maybe lots of text generators can come up with wordplay involving Subject ! and Subject 2, but I think you've alre…