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Harry Patch (In Memory Of) (August 8, 2009)
Britain’s last WWI veteran dies, and Radiohead remembers him
We Choose (July 20, 2009)
… to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
It’s Bastille Day! (July 14, 2009)
So, you know, go overthrow yourself a tyrant. Or something.
True Tales of High Adventure! With Boobs (July 9, 2009)
How does an artist go from doing interesting work for next to nothing to producing dreck and getting rich? Let’s find out!
Things I Learned the Hard Way, This Weekend Edition (June 29, 2009)
Further adventures in oops-ery
Hunch’d (June 15, 2009)
… or, how a simple user interface decision can make or break your first impression of a new site
In Praise of Remakes (May 7, 2009)
The problem with Hollywood? It doesn’t do ENOUGH of them
We May Need to Start a Support Group for Hacks Demolished by Jon Stewart (March 13, 2009)
Jim Cramer joins Tucker Carlson in the “Jon Stewart Crushed Me In Front of the Whole Nation” club
2008 (December 31, 2008)
The last word
One Way To Tell You’re Officially A Grown-Up (December 24, 2008)
Here’s one way
Things I Should Have Blogged At The Time (September 29, 2008)
I would look really smart today if I hadn’t been so f#@#ing lazy on Friday
Maybe You Can Explain This (September 12, 2008)
Another one of life’s little mysteries
Into the Marsh (September 7, 2008)
A random discovery along the Mount Vernon Trail
Good News or Bad News? No Idea (August 22, 2008)
There’s a Bill Hicks biopic in the works — but with a surprising lead
A Good Reason Not to Take Greyhound (August 7, 2008)
Namely, not being beheaded and cannibalized
In Case You Hadn’t Already Figured This Out (July 29, 2008)
Time for an episode of Tales of the Painfully Obvious
It’s George Carlin’s World, We Just Live in It (June 23, 2008)
A look back at the life and impact of a legendary comic
Marriage and Equality (June 17, 2008)
California opens its mind to same-sex marriage; I revisit a JWM classic on the subject
Inventing Situations (May 13, 2008)
The theme song for the YouTube age?
Goddamnit, Now I Have to Buy a Blu-Ray Player (May 9, 2008)
Criterion jumps on the HD bandwagon
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Highlights (April 18, 2008)
A new photo collection of some of the most interesting bits of the National Air and Space Museum’s new annex facility
Things I Am Unreasonably Excited About (January 3, 2008)
“There Will Be Blood”, for one
JWM: Best of 2007 (December 26, 2007)
Looking back on the posts from this year that sucked the least
Let Us Give Thanks For Once-Every-Five-Years Or So Redesigns (November 24, 2007)
Facelift for JWM
Questions That You Will Never Find Out the Answers To (November 19, 2007)
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