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overdressed: the high cost of cheap fashion

flex — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:28:04 -0800

The Afterlife of Cheap Clothes is an excerpt from Elizabeth Cline's book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. 10 facts from Overdressed. An interview with Cline on Salon. Cheap clothing's high cost (infographic). Previously: stuff we don't want. NPR "On Point" interview with Cline (text & 45 min. audio). The book website & Cline's blog, The Good Closet. Book reviews from Ms. & Financial Times. The Conversation: Counting the cost of cheap fashion Good (NZ): Slow Style vs. Fast Fashion (& the dark side of fashion) Lucy Siegle (author of To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?) in The Guardian: H&M is trying to remake itself as a greener option Cline's posts on the Etsy Blog: *High Stakes Sewing: Fair Wages, Real Risks (short book excerpt) *Who Put Americans in Jeans and T-Shirts? *What's Behind Cheap Chic Fabrics? *The History of a Cheap Dress (see also Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: How America Spends Money: 100 Years in the Life of the Family Budget) (more previously: the total-corporate state may have arrived - inside forever 21 - slashing... prices?)

Donald Knuth, Computing's Philosopher King

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:34:37 -0800

“I wanted to try to capture the intelligence of the design, not just the outcome of the design.” “In 1977, [Donald] Knuth halted research on his books for what he expected to be a one-year hiatus. Instead, it took 10. Accompanied by [his wife] Jill, Knuth took design classes from Stanford art professor Matthew Kahn. Knuth, trying to train his programmer’s brain to think like an artist’s, wanted to create a program [TeX] that would understand why each stroke in a typeface would be pleasing to the eye.”—from a profile of Knuth in the Stanford Magazine (May '06). Salon calls him “computing’s philosopher king” (Sep '99). NPR’s Morning Edition interviews Knuth as “the founding artist of computer science” (Mar '05). Perhaps a MeFite somewhere has one of these? (Previously)

Is this a typo?

bumppo — Tue, 01 May 2001 09:05:50 -0800

Is this a typo? Salon's David Talbot in the NYT: "'A lot of our audience pays $300 a year to join National Public Radio and they don't have to pay anything,' he said. As early as next year, Mr. Talbot said, Salon hopes to impose a fee of $75 to $150 a year to read any of its site with ads." Now, I would have read that last sentence as "to read any of its site without ads", but perhaps I'm just being naive.

NPR on the side of Corporate Radio?

baylink — Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:33:58 -0800

NPR on the side of Corporate Radio? Bird on a Wire spotted this Salon story that says that National Public Radio, those bast...ions of freedom of speech, are siding with Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting to try and restrict the proposed Low Power FM broadcasting service to third adjacent channels (90.1 -> 90.7) instead of second (90.1 -> 90.5)...

a change that will cut the number of possible stations from thousands... to 75.