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≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
Just a quick fyi that Amazon has released a free app on iTunes that lets you download Amazon ebooks to the iPhone. This means that you don’t necessarily have to buy a Kindle in order to purchase & read ebooks from the largest vendor of ebooks– although I find the Kindle reader to be considerably [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Our hunt to find universally accessible Hitchcock films brought us back to the Internet Archive yesterday, and it now seems worth highlighting some of the other gems buried in this collection. This archive of feature films contains some important classics from the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. We’ve featured ten good ones below, and don’t [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
For those of you who couldn’t see the Hitchcock films posted yesterday (down with Joost for geoblocking!), I’ve hopefully found an alternative resource. The Internet Archive hosts some classic films, and there you’ll find 4 of the 5 Hitchcock films mentioned yesterday. Folks on Twitter have confirmed that the films can be accessed in Mexico, [...]
≡ Category: Books, History | ≅ 2 Comments
The Wall Street Journal asked Gordon Wood, one of America’s leading historians, to pick his favorite works of US history, and here is what he had to say. 1) The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It - Richard Hofstadter 2) The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution – Bernard Bailyn 3) White Over Black – Winthrop [...]
≡ Category: History, Life | ≅ Leave a Comment
Appearing at the TED Conference in 2008, Pulitzer-Prize Winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can all learn from American presidents, including particularly Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. This is not another talk about what makes presidents great. It’s more about the balance between work, love, and play, and how we can generally be [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Quite the stat noted over on Seth Godin’s blog: “Amazon’s Kindle is cool and it’s gaining in traction and people who have one buy a lot of books. 10% of Amazon’s book sales are now on the Kindle. [For books where both versions are available].” Who knew that many e-books were being sold on Amazon?
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 3 Comments
Last week, we created a handy list of blogs & podcasts that regularly cover the financial crisis. And so it seemed worth flagging the latest episode of This American Life. It’s called “Bad Bank” (MP3 – iTunes – Feed). It just came out this weekend. And it takes a close and entertaining look at what [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 5 Comments
Definitely worth a mention. Craveonline has pulled together some classic Hitchcock films. The list includes The 39 Steps, The Secret Agent, The Man Who Knew Too Much (above), Young and Innocent, and Blackmail. And from what I can tell, they’re all available in full (surprisingly) and can be watched in full screen format. If you’re having [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
You can now find some new writings of the Beat author William S. Burroughs on eBay. What’s up for bid here is not a long lost novel, or an early draft of Naked Lunch. Nope, it’s simply Burroughs’ shopping list, a little note reminding him to pick up some cans of Coke, cat food, vodka, [...]
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