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≡ Category: Books | ≅ 1 Comment
Talk has recently focused on the passing of Norman Mailer, a novelist remembered for many things. As The New York Times put it, he was “a prodigious drinker and drug taker, a womanizer, a devoted family man, a would-be politician who ran for mayor of New York, a hipster existentialist, an antiwar protester, an opponent [...]
≡ Category: Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
Interesting stats: In December 2005, how often did Wikipedia come up as the first search engine result in a given search? Just about never in Google’s case, and 7% of the time in Yahoo’s case. Now, Wikipedia is the first search result 27% of the time on Google and 31% of the time on Yahoo. [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ 1 Comment
Earlier today, we linked you to The Economist’s predictions for 2008. Then we stumbled upon this: Ladies Home Journal issued in 1901 far more audacious predictions for what the world will look like in 2001. It turns out that many guesses were pretty close to the mark, if not spot on. Here are a few [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ 1 Comment
After recently publishing its list of 100 Notable Books of 2007, The New York Times has narrowed things down and selected The 10 Best Books of 2007 – five fiction, and five nonfiction. Have a look. Subscribe to Our Feed
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 1 Comment
The Economist has issued its predictions for the world in 2008, and here’s what they’re banking on: The Democrats, and particularly Hillary Clinton, narrowly win the upcoming presidential election. Meanwhile the United States, which has never met a bubble it doesn’t like, will get mired down with housing and credit problems. And looking for a [...]
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MIT has released a new search engine that draws on speech recognition technology and lets users search MIT audio & video lectures by keyword. For example, if you type “NASA” into the search box, the search results will include all of the instances where a speaker utters the word NASA in a recorded lecture. (You [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 1 Comment
Below, you’ll find excerpts from TIME Magazine’s conversation with Stephen King. You can access the full interview here. King turns up the heat after the jump. STEPHEN KING: So who’s going to be TIME Person of the Year? TIME: I really don’t know, there’s a very small group of people who make that decision. STEPHEN [...]
≡ Category: Podcast Articles and Resources, Web/Tech | ≅ 1 Comment
The answer is simple: Handbrake. This free, open source software (which works on MacOS X, Linux and Windows) makes it simple to load and watch DVDs on your video iPod. Here are some helpful instructions to get you started. Subscribe to Our Feed
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
The film that spoke to a generation of alienated youth during the 1960s is now 40 years old (and actually looking much tamer than it first did). To mark the occasion, a 40th anniversary collector’s edition DVD has been released, filled with a good amount of extra materials. Also, Fresh Air broadcasted a show last [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Media | ≅ 2 Comments
WNYC’s latest On The Media (iTunes – Feed – Site) covers the crisis of traditional book publishing in a new media age. While Amazon rolls out the Kindle and more and more content comes out in pure digital form, we’re still publishing more books than ever before. One interesting note from the program is that [...]
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