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  Our new website is up and running at GOOD.is. We'll see you over there.
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  • Date: Sep 07 2008
  • Posted by Andrew Price

• We're Moving!

  GOOD is moving to a new location. We're going to spend the weekend hauling our things over there and getting settled. This will be the penultimate blog post on GOODMagazine.com. Our next, and final, post will give you directions to the new spot. Details about the housewarming party to follow.
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  • Date: Sep 05 2008
  • Posted by Andrew Price

• Holden On

  Anne Trubek, english professor at Oberlin College, fielded questions about Catcher in the Rye on NPR this weekend. She defended her suggestion in the current issue of GOOD to update the country's standard required reading list and dethrone Catcher from its position as the quintessential adolescent angst and alienation novel. While it's a classic, sure, Trubek points out that a novel about an upper-middle class white brat at prep school no longer represents the universal voice of American teens. And she tacks on The Perks of Being a Wallflower to her list of suggestions for a replacement in the literature curriculum. Photo: a 1950s portrait of J.D. Salinger, who has nothing to say on the matter, since he's not been interviewed since 1980. Thanks Maddie!
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  • Date: Sep 01 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• GOOD Weekend

  As we post, New Orleans will spend its Labor Day is carrying out its second mandatory evacuation in three years, in anticipation of Gustav. But the Gulf isn't alone in navigating natural disasters this weekend—Richter 6.1 earthquakes rocked both China and Vancouver. In the thrilling world of politics and modern technology, Wikipedia creates some controversy for McCain and his VP pick. Or, some additional controversy anyway. And thankfully, China released the Americans they'd detained after protesting at the Olympics; New Yorker James Powderly discusses his interrogation, and the hacking of his bank account. Photo: Republican VP nomination Sarah Palin from Alaska, a state with a total population smaller than that of Baltimore.
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  • Date: Aug 31 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• This Week In GOOD

  Did you guys cry during the big speech last night? We cried a little. This morning, however, we just laughed at the reality that this is the wackiest, most progressive election we young pups could imagine. Seriously, if McCain's elected, who's gonna be Secretary of Defense? Tyrannosaurus Rex?
  
  This week, we did some real-deal nose-to-the-grindstone journalism, sending a series of Dispatches from the DNC (next week we'll return the favor with our equally alliterative Reports from the RNC).
  
  To the roughly 700 new friends we made in Chicago last weekend, we love you all. Please indulge in a walk down short-term memory lane by laying your eyes on these photo booth and Flickr pics from Saturday's fun.
  
  See you in St. Paul!
  
  Photo shows the $10 "Time for Change" watch that our deputy editor bought on the way into Invesco Field last night. It should be noted that within half an hour of purchase, the watch had fallen behind by a few minutes...not that a crappy piece of swag should be taken as a harbinger or anything.
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  • Date: Aug 29 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• Choose GOOD Video Spot By Tim And Khushboo

  We're proud to report that the first video spot for our Choose GOOD campaign (whereby we donate 100% of our subscription revenue to our non-profit partners) was conceived by a member of our extended ranks rather than a hired firm. See the ad, and the story of its creation, below.
  
  
  
  Casey Caplowe, Creative Director, GOOD: "I was asked down to Virginia Commonwealth University's Brandcenter. I went out to lunch with the program’s director, Charles Hall, and a couple of the students who were particularly interested in GOOD. Towards the end of lunch Charles told me that Tim had worked on a project with GOOD as the 'client’ last term, and that he wanted to show me. We went back to the school, and Tim and his collaborator, Khushboo, showed me the video. I loved it. A lot."
  
  Bristol Baughan, Head of Motion Content, GOOD: "We were discussing the creation of an ad for the Choose GOOD campaign. [Tim's] was better than any idea we were discussing so we were thrilled that it also came from a member of our community rather than ourselves. We offered [Tim and Khushboo] a bit of money, advice and editing / animating support and they delivered an original ad celebrating our non-profit partners."
  
  Tim, graduate student, VCU Brandcenter: "Khushboo and I came to the GOOD project mid way through our second year of graduate school. At the time we were both interested in creating a piece of communication for a company that contributed to society in a positive manner. Being a fan of GOOD Magazine prior to the project it was any easy fit for us. The donation through subscription model that GOOD has set up really appealed to us."
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  • Date: Aug 25 2008
  • Posted by Andrew Price

• GOOD Weekend

  The 2008 Olympics are over. China took 100 medals, and the NY Times blogs live from the closing ceremony, relaying the performances Olympians, dancers, David Beckham, Jimmy Page. Elsewhere across the ocean: the Afghan president calls for accountability in an air strike that killed 89 civilians, and the death toll from the Madrid runway crash keeps rising, to 154. A little uplifting news: the U.S. navy arrives in Georgia to deliver humanitarian aid. Stateside: Fay moved on from Florida, never having graduated from tropical storm to hurricane status, but still taking 11 lives and bringing new meaning to "raining cats and dogs" when it sprung a lion and a bengal tiger from their cages at a Florida zoo. In a moment of staggering unpreparedness, John McCain was caught by the press not knowing how many homes he owns, which you'd think he would've looked into after Brave New Films released that video about his ten multi-million dollar homes last week. (Note: This info will help you further balance out the effects of Obama Fatigue.) And, in a hostage situation at a Maryland hotel, police employed some high-tech new negotiation tactics, sending a robot to liaise with a burglary suspect; this backfired when the suspect threatened the robot's... uh... "life." (via Boing Boing) Photo: Beijing's closing ceremony, the Memory Tower, ringed in 396 performers.
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  • Date: Aug 24 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• This Week In GOOD

  No missing link this week, just another stinking pile of Bigfoot fraud. Fortunately, we have a bunch of the other type of link:
  
  Pakistan's President Musharraf surrendered his title (and his key to the executive washroom). Big Think brought out our inner nerd. And thought-leaders predicted the suburbs' fate.
  
  Genes came out of the closet, skateboarding slowed down, and Dubai's biggest building got shot.
  
  That old city of New York might be in for winds of change. In Beijing, where age is no object, things just blow (if you're a blogger, that is). Also, Photosynth is kind of up and running.
  
  Enjoy the end of the games. They're up and done come Sunday. Photo via the most amazing collection ever.
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  • Date: Aug 22 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• GOOD Weekend

  If you haven't spent the week feeling swept away by Olympics spirit, maybe you need to spend Sunday cycling through every nation's national anthem while catching up on the headlines. At the games: Michael Phelps is really good at swimming. Elsewhere across the Atlantic: A woman in Egypt gave birth to septuplets. Norway knights a king. Penguin. Nepalese Maoists are forming the first elected government after the abolition of their monarchy. Russia agreed to a ceasefire and said they'd leave Georgia, but, in the words of Condoleezza Rice, "are perhaps already not honoring their word." Just this morning, they redeployed their troops. And, foreboding news stateside: Florida declares a state of emergency for tropical storm Fay—before it even arrives. A school district in Texas sets a great example by allowing teachers to bring guns to school. That's a bad sign on so many levels.
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  • Date: Aug 17 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• This Week In GOOD

  This was our first week in our new office. We're still surrounded by cardboard and packing tape, but the walls and shelves of this big, new space already feel like they belong to us. We want to say thanks to our operations department, whose tireless work has been a godsend. We'd also like to thank you, person of the internet. The fact that you're reading (and that there are more of you than there used to be) is the reason we keep growing (and the reason we needed a bigger office in the first place). You keep reading, and we'll keep trying to get better. Thanks.
  
  There's a fun sociological experiment this weekend: the Saddleback Civil Form sees John McCain and Barack Obama meet in the heart of The O.C. Yikes.
  
  Photo of the old office, boxed-up, taken without permission from A Pocket Blog.
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  • Date: Aug 15 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James