Common-place publishes the occasional “Object Lessons” column with good reason: knowing your material culture is important. For instance, when cataloging the office furniture purchases of ex-Merrill-Lynch CEO John Thain, The Consumerist‘s Ben Popken makes a horrible mistake, and then corrects himself with the help of a little eighteenth-century know-how.
(hat tip, BPM)
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RT @stltoday: A Look Back • St. Louis fights off British-led raid during American Revolution http://t.co/zfFuCr00CQ 3 hours ago
@markcheathem @TheBellTolls68 @kmjones70 Strange choice for a Jackson scene. Article is mostly about the Jefferson cheese, as it should be. 16 hours ago
RT @markcheathem: @TheBellTolls68 @kmjones70 True story: http://t.co/EfQywCafyD @jlpasley also wrote about Jefferson's Mammoth Cheese: http… 16 hours ago
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RT @jhrees: Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX (Their Usage of edX) |e-Literate http://t.co/2qJ5ZXWeO8 Good for them! 18 hours ago
Pity that we will probably have to rely on Europe to reform a travesty of American politics: off-shore tax avoidance: http://t.co/xPzFYKMDkE 2 days ago
Elite class interests & culture a little too naked here: "Torches and Pitchforks for I.R.S. but Cheers for Apple" http://t.co/I7mUofxnv2 2 days ago
RT @profragsdale: RT if u have more books than shoes 4 days ago
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Comparatively, the area occupied by India is slightly more than one-third the size of the United States. China claims part of Arunachal Pradesh. Continental India extends 3,214 km (1,997 mi) n–s and 2,933 km (1,822 mi) e–w.
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