Why Catcher in the Rye isn’t a movie.

Letters of Note posts a 1957 letter from Salinger cordially, yet resolutely, explaining why he’ll (probably) never sell rights to his book.

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(via Wesley Hill)

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Of course wind makes cold seem colder, but the windchill factor is still ridiculous.

On windchill:

[C]reating a formula that quantifies a “feeling” illustrates the dressing-up of science for a goal which is unsuitable for it.

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Why I’m rarely mean on my blog even though I’m not really that nice of a guy.

There are numerous people I’d enjoy critiquing—nay, lambasting—here, but I guarantee all of you like at least one of them.

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Watching the news is fine…just like watching Seinfeld or the Simpsons is fine.

Sometimes people mention watching “The News” as if it’s what intelligent people use TV for…

I’m not sure.

Consider this from WCCO:

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The Beatles 1000 Years Later: What will we know about the Beatles in the year 3000?

The answer is that we’ll know a lot more about them then than we do now.

Turns out they were pretty influential:

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