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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
James Fallows calls out David Mark of the Politico as exhibiting "classic and depressing Beltway 'could be perceived as problematic' style.... Please. If someone thinks certain views are outrageous, then say so. Not that they could be misperceived that way if not fully explained, et cetera." I don't see why America needs journalists like David Mark, or organizations like the Politico....
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Later On (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
And here’s one of his regulars: Brainstorm. I’ve not used it yet, but on Fallows’s recommendation alone, I’ve downloaded it for the 30-day free trial. Definitely worth a go, IMHO.
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Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
From James Fallows, writing in The Atlantic... The Clinton team doesn't worry about hurting Obama's prospects of winning in the fall, because they assess those prospects at zero. Always have. Obama might not win if he leads a bitterly divided party, but (in this view) he was never going to win. Not a chance. He would [...]
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Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Fallows, a man who pays attention to a multitude of details, credits "reader Rachel" with noticing an unmistakable parallel between Obama's Weslyan graduation speech and another speech delivered by Senator Kennedy years ago. ...Obama was there in place of the ailing Teddy Kennedy. Kennedy had given Obama a huge boost in the legitimacy-and-legacy category by endorsing him, even if it didn't...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
James Fallows notes: Via reader Rachel, a heads up on a sublime aspect of Barack Obama’s recent commencement speech at Wesleyan. (Previously on the speech here and here.) To review: Obama was there in place of the ailing Teddy Kennedy. Kennedy had given Obama a huge boost in the legitimacy-and-legacy category by endorsing him, even if it [...]
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
James Fallows points out one of the finer points in Obama’s Wesleyan commencement speech.
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
James Fallows continues his war against bad hardware and software: > My three computers (MacBook Air saga, cont..): > 1. The sublime elegance of VMWare Fusion... once it was installed, it let me run PC programs and Mac programs side by side, in normal screen windows from which you can cut and paste text back and forth. My cherished PC program Zoot is there in a window right alongside...
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Houston's Clear Thinkers (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
It's not all bad news out there on the business front. Over this past holiday weekend, Cirrus Design Corporation successfully completed the first 45-minute flight of the company's innovative "The-Jet" (H/T James Fallows ), which is a five-plus-two seat aircraft that many in the aviation industry believe is destined to ignite a revolution in general aviation. Aimed at the market of owner-pilots,...
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Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Coco Wang’s series of Earthquake Strips tells stories of the reactions of ordinary Chinese people to the 12th May earthquake. Panda Panda is my favourite of the ones I’ve read so far, closely followed by Getting A Refund. [Via James Fallows]
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China Environmental Law (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
This is Beijing on June 20, 2008: [Photo Credit: James Fallows] That is how it will look again about the first of October. In the meantime it will get better. China has undoubtedly made great efforts to improve Beijing’s air quality. As has been noted, given the city’s breakneck development, without these efforts, the situation would be much worse. [...]
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Apropos of this recent Foreign Affairs article, James Fallows writes on his Atlantic blog about Beijing's recent decisions -- some inadvertent, some deliberate -- which may end up turning the Olympics "into a source of friction rather than pride for China." Inadvertent ones include: For instance: the embarrassing recent disclosure that the ...
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Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Seems Firefox 3 is out and Mozilla is dancing as fast as it can to get their new browser downloaded enough times in 24 hours to set a record. I was vaguely aware because Blogsnow and Rocketboom were both on the story. James Fallows has the details. ...trying to gin up a world-wide effort to get as many people as possible to download the official version of Firefox 3 on its release day,...
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The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
James Fallows has a very interesting post about what it's like to be a foreigner in China, in which he writes: I think I now can explain why, despite the pollution and congestion and overall ceaseless hassle of big-city life in China, I always tell friends or visitors that I "like" Chinese people in general. The reason is that, most of the time, people in China treat me as ... a person....
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Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
... point that’s been raised on a growing number of blogs (here’s the Wall Street Journal’s take , and James Fallows from the Atlantic ) as well as anyone who looks out the window and thinks, “Who would want to run in this'”Thus far the government has tried to put a bright face on Beijing’s air quality, noting that emissions have declined since 2000 and “blue sky days,” where major pollutants...
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Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
... are willing to pay to avoid and as the economy grows the Chinese are willing to pay more and more. James Fallows, who is living in Beijing, suggests that pollution could be China's Silver Lining , and ours. I read the piece before arriving but after being here a while it rings true.
