There is apparently a debate about whether the Northwest has its own accent. It’s surprising that there is even a debate. If you talk to anyone who grew up in this area; especially the non-urban outskirts, you can immediately tell — and the accent is definitely different from California and Canada.
I think the reason that [...]
Since moving to Seattle from Detroit 7 years ago, one of the things I have missed most is quality local radio. Being used to talents like Bushman, Electrifying Mojo, and “The Reverend Doctor Deacon Doug”, Seattle radio was a joke. The whole Northwest has never had a real hip-hop station.
But about a year ago, x104 [...]
Zimran Ahmed is asking why the alarm about the Yuan. I have my own questions. If it is good for the Europeans to share a common currency, why shouldn’t the U.S. become more competitive by forming a single-currency trading bloc with China? Pegging yuan to the dollar means that we’ve alreadycreated a de facto common [...]
With all due respect to Tyler and Bill, this oneis wrong. It is not an insightful question about globalization at all.
“Twenty years ago would you rather have been a B-student in Poughkeepsie or a genius in Shanghai? And today?”
Thechange in answersis purely becausethe political climate in Shanghaihas changed; it has nothing to do with globalization. [...]
Seth Godin, having discovered RSS just a few weeks ago, is now ready to proclaim that RSS is part of the new litmus test to distinguish between digerati and the lumpen. Most people I know who fit his litmus test would not fit my concept of ‘digerati’, though, so it goes to show that such [...]