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...There had been high hopes for cool, at least initially. The play is set in Manhattan during the 80s. It takes place almost entirely in clubs and the offices of nifty little literary magazines. Most of its characters are coke addicts. It’s playing in the Adams Pool House Theatre, which used to be an actual swimming pool where Harvard’s artsy types would skinny dip and swap STDs...
What might those things be? Take the case Benkler makes in his 2006 book, The Wealth of Networks (available, free, at www.benkler.org) for the economic benefits of "peer production" of software and other information products--from journalism to scientific research to videos of people mixing Mentos and Diet Coke. Peer production by people who donate small or large quantities of their time and expertise isn't necessarily great at generating the original and the unique, but it's very good for improving existing products (like software) and bringing together dispersed information (Wikipedia). Often better, in Benkler's telling, than corporations...
...parts: those who see him as squeaky-clean Danny Tanner, of television’s “Full House,” and those who know him best as that guy in “Half Baked” who “used to suck dick for coke.” Not content with just those two personas, however, Saget has recently embarked on two new careers: directing and game-show hosting. Saget is the host of NBC’s “1 vs. 100,” a prime-time trivia competition in which contestants...
...latter spot, prominent moments in black American history are listed next to a shape-changing Coke bottle. At the conclusion, we’re informed that “Coca-Cola Celebrates Black History,” and, after a brief pause, “Especially Today...
...fact that there are two black coaches heading the teams in the Super Bowl represents some kind of grand achievement in the history of the race is insulting to the accomplishments of those who came before them. It belittles and downplays the immeasurable significance of the events that Coke lumps in with the Super Bowl. The two black guys in Miami in 2007 paled in comparison to the man in Washington, D.C. in 1963, the woman in Montgomery in 1955, or—the original barrier-breaking pioneer in the athletic world—the man who wore number...