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The cruelest paper in Paris is also the funniest and most solvent Der Speigel on Le Canard Enchaîné ...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:04:03 +0000

The cruelest paper in Paris is also the funniest and most solvent

Canard, on the other hand, France’s only satirical weekly newspaper, is doing well in this ailing country. Circulation went up by 32 percent in the first two years after Sarkozy’s inauguration, and thanks the country’s numerous scandals it now prints 700,000 copies per week. Net profit was roughly €5 million ($6.9 million) in 2009. For decades, the paper has covered France’s scandals…

The Daily: Indexed

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:10:12 +0000

The Daily: Indexed:

This is amazing. Every story from The Daily, linked for free every day on the web. Doomed.

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Today’s Cover of The Daily

TAKEN BY STORM — The big dig begins today for millions of Americans buried under one of the largest snowstorms to…

Groundhog wild — Good news for everyone fed up with the snow and ice shellacking the nation: Spring is coming early!…

GABBY’S…

Gerry Adams singlehandedly changes British constitution by resigning from Westminster One of the...

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:35:48 +0000

Gerry Adams singlehandedly changes British constitution by resigning from Westminster

One of the joys of having an unwritten constitution, such as the one that the UK operates under, is that it can a) bend to new circumstances and b) change in a heartbeat if someone refuses to obey stupid rules.

For the past 400 years, MPs have not had the option of resigning their seat, their only way out was to be disqualified. The honourable way of being disqualified was to accept an office of profit…

New Yorker buys abandoned men’s club and turns it into a private residence Wow. Here’s the...

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:24:10 +0000

New Yorker buys abandoned men’s club and turns it into a private residence

Wow. Here’s the tour.

Remembering Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde Codex99 A beautiful little vignette on three 60s and 70s...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:08:39 +0000

Remembering Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde

Codex99

A beautiful little vignette on three 60s and 70s magazines published by Ralph Ginzburg, Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde.

Six months after Fact closed shop Ginzburg and Lubalin collaborated on their third periodical – Avant Garde. The magazine, which Ginzburg intended for “a rarified, even elitist audience” was both editorially and artistically equal parts of the sexuality of Eros, and counter-culture politics of Fact. Perhaps no…

Does a country still exist if it sinks under the sea? Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:08:39 +0000

Does a country still exist if it sinks under the sea?

Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two What happens if the 61,000 Marshallese must abandon their low-lying atolls? Would they still be a nation? With a U.N. seat? With control of their old fisheries and their undersea minerals? Where would they live, and how would they make a living? Who, precisely, would they and their…

A brief history of the octothorpe Robert Fulford, National Post The Big O is a sign with deep...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:08:39 +0000

A brief history of the octothorpe

Robert Fulford, National Post

The Big O is a sign with deep historical and cultural roots, part of our heritage. It didn’t deserve the neglect it suffered in recent times. It’s lived under many names: the hash, the crunch, the hex (that’s in Singapore), the flash, the grid. In some circles it’s called tic-tactoe, in others pig-pen. From a distance it looks like the sharp sign on a musical score. Whether you call it a pound sign or a number sign or…

An interview with Rick Meyerowitz on his National Lampoon book Not only does Rick Meyerowitz’s new...

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:17:19 +0000

An interview with Rick Meyerowitz on his National Lampoon book

Not only does Rick Meyerowitz’s new book, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great look amazing, it doesn’t use the fucking ‘We’ll shoot this dog cover.’

Rupert Murdoch is serious about his iPad newspaper It’s going to be called The Daily and he’s hired...

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:24:35 +0000

Rupert Murdoch is serious about his iPad newspaper

It’s going to be called The Daily and he’s hired New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones as culture editor

James Frey has a new business: mass producing books James Frey, author of the controversial...

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:08:27 +0000

James Frey has a new business: mass producing books

James Frey, author of the controversial fictionalised memoir A Million Little Pieces, has gone into the young adult book-packaging business, working with new writers to mass produce new works.

The terms of the writers’ agreement with Frey, however, are somewhat one-sided:

In exchange for delivering a finished book within a set number of months, the writer would receive $250 (some contracts allowed for another $250 upon…

The Onion begins franchising to other US cities I’ve known that The Onion has been interested in...

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:51:20 +0100

The Onion begins franchising to other US cities

I’ve known that The Onion has been interested in franchising the paper to other cities for quite some time, but this is the first public request for inquiries that I have seen. You know I love freesheets, but it may be a little late, especially if the franchisees don’t get a cut of the web income. The Onion, Inc. already run company-owned weekly papers in Austin, Madison, Chicago, Denver, the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, and New York.

How Google avoids tax from its world wide income Bloomberg Businessweek When a company in Europe,...

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:06:36 +0100

How Google avoids tax from its world wide income

Bloomberg Businessweek

When a company in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa purchases a search ad through Google, it sends the money to Google Ireland. The Irish government taxes corporate profits at 12.5 percent, but Google mostly escapes that tax because its earnings don’t stay in the Dublin office, which reported a pretax profit of less than 1 percent of revenues in 2008.
Irish law makes it difficult for Google to send the money…

Goodbye to the Netherlands Antilles Andrew Cusack This morning, one country disappeared, two more...

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:06:36 +0100

Goodbye to the Netherlands Antilles

Andrew Cusack

This morning, one country disappeared, two more were born, a fourth was expanded, and all are part of a single kingdom. The Netherlands Antilles, the collective islands of the Dutch West Indies which since 1954 has formed a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was dissolved. Two of the islands in the archipelago, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, have become full constituent countries of the Kingdom (alongside Aruba, which was…

A ghost airport in North West Washington state along the I-5 Still in the 70s. I recall very clearly...

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:46:21 +0100

A ghost airport in North West Washington state along the I-5

Still in the 70s. I recall very clearly being driven down the I-5 from the Canadian border to somewhere south – Bellingham, probably, but possibly the seaside oasis of Birch Bay or the Emerald City. As we entered the farmland outside of the border town, Blaine, there was what appeared to be a wooden control tower, maybe five stories high. Sitting in a field. No planes, no runway. Blackberries taking over. Then it was gone….

National Lampoon’s 1971 parody of Mad Magazine As a kid in the 70s, I loved Mad Magazine. By...

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:46:21 +0100

National Lampoon’s 1971 parody of Mad Magazine

As a kid in the 70s, I loved Mad Magazine. By the late 70s, early 80s, I had switched my loyalty to the National Lampoon. But I had never heard of this brutally dead-on 1971 National Lampoon parody of Mad. So much hate. It can only be a love affair gone wrong.

A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship Michael Klarman The (US) Supreme Court for much of its...

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:53:13 +0100

A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship

Michael Klarman

The (US) Supreme Court for much of its history has approved of racial segregation and disenfranchisement, the subordination of women and gays and lesbians, the criminalization of dissident speech, and a very narrow conception of the separation of church and state and of the rights of criminal defendants.

In the end, we, the American people, determine what sort of country we live in–the Constitution and the courts play a…

Every Mad magazine cover from 1952 to 2010 Beautiful. Every time I happen to come across a 21st...

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:53:13 +0100

Every Mad magazine cover from 1952 to 2010

Beautiful.

Every time I happen to come across a 21st century Mad, I’m horrified that they are peddling this stuff to kids. They still have it.

Good fucking design advice Use only space after a period. Hallelujah. #

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:30:56 +0100

Good fucking design advice

Use only space after a period. Hallelujah.

NYT web design director Khoi Vinh on designing for journalism Part of a new lecture series that...

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:30:56 +0100

NYT web design director Khoi Vinh on designing for journalism

Part of a new lecture series that clothing company Frietag is curating in Zuruch Next up – tomorrow – is Wired UK editor David Rowan.

Great end credits I don’t know anything about the Other Guys. It doesn’t even seem worth sticking on...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:17:16 +0100

Great end credits

I don’t know anything about the Other Guys. It doesn’t even seem worth sticking on my LoveFilm queue. But there is something great about its end credits.