Here is a selection from a really interesting article from Slate:"Not to sound like a theocratic crank, but I'm actually shocked that students aren't compelled to read huge chunks of the Bible in high school and college, the way they must read Shakespeare or the Constitution or Mark Twain."After rea...

DC has adopted its first gay landmark! It is the second “official” gay landmark in America, right after the Stonewall Inn in New York and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. [DCist] (more…) Prince George County schools cut 800 jobs and more Maryland schools may cut “music and...

What's this, a high-end slate from Motorola that we can all cautiously get behind? Hard as it may be to believe, it seems that Moto might be working on some serious hardware to compete with... well, anything. We don't have any information on this device we're seeing here beyond what we can make out ...

Interesting article here (”Not All Information Wants to Be Free“) by Jack Shafer of Slate. He notes that many people focus on why “pay wall” business models don’t work online, but few people discuss those models that do (i.e., the ones that successfully get customers to...

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For all of you who've found yourself wondering what it might be like to date an 80's era porn stud (we know you're out there), we're happy to present this touching, romantic tale from Slate. Okay, maybe "touching" and "romantic" aren't quite the right words to describe this story—but it's stil...

As you may recall David Carr triggered a firestorm of discussion in the media industry about micropayments with his 11 January column in The New York Times when he suggested that newspaper publishers should think about how Apple's iTunes platform does quite handily charging consumers for by-the-song...

You have to love the still-chugging-along online magazine Slate for its "sorta-smug semi-contrarianism equals clicks" business model. Following in the footsteps of its super-nontroversial Billy Joel takedown that amazingly lit up the blogosphere and its not-really-bold pro-DRM screed, the mag's crit...

Remember how back in November former Observer 'Edgy Enthusiast' columnist Ron Rosenbaum used his Slate 'Spectator' column to call out Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis as "the Sarah Palin of Gurus"? At the time, Mr. Jarvis—a former magazine editor-turned-digital evangelist—responded by calling...

Billy Joel will be dissed, forever, by various critics. Now we're told the singer is a whiny misogynist — and 'The Worst Pop Singer Ever' — by Ron Rosenbaum in Slate. Joel is the the third rail of American pop culture. Though Rosenbaum doesn't seem aware of it, his isn't even Slate's fir...