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October 30, 2012
The First Twitter Superstorm Was Itself a Storm
The hidden downside of storm tweeting.
October 30, 2012
As Sandy Strikes, Storm-Night Exploring, Instagram and Ruin Porn
It turns out the most risk-embracing New Yorkers are the dog owners, closely followed by the smokers, and then the amateur photographers.
October 30, 2012
As Sandy Strikes, Storm-Night Exploring, Instagram and Ruin Porn
It turns out the most risk-embracing New Yorkers are the dog owners, closely followed by the smokers, and then the amateur photographers.
October 29, 2012
How Hurricane Sandy Could Spoil Election Day
There's almost no legal precedent for how to deal with electoral fallout from a storm.
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home.
October 24, 2012
The Most Important Tech Issue Nobody’s Talking About
Software patents aren't great debate fodder. But you'd think the candidates would at least recognize their importance when talking to nerds.
October 23, 2012
Where Woody Guthrie's Anti-Commercial Legacy has Lived On
Woody Guthrie was one of the fathers of free culture before it was a movement, the Lawrence Lessig of the guitar.
October 19, 2012
The Critic Wall Street Loves to Lunch With
Felix Salmon’s foppish war on the banks.
October 19, 2012
Mike Bloomberg’s Genius Idea
Thanks to Mike Bloomberg, politicians around the country will now be like starving artists: hoping for the call that anoints them a lucky winner.
October 19, 2012
The Campaign to Steal Ohio
Meet the Republican former punk rocker who could decide the election.
