July 2011
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Secret used bookstore operating out of an Upper... →
Amy Zimmer, DNAinfo:
Michael Seidenberg wasn’t ready to give up his love of selling second-hand books even after rental pressures forced his store, Brazenhead Books, out of business.
So, he set up shop — secretly — in an Upper East Side apartment.
“It is a second hand bookshop in every way, but it’s not on the street,” Seidenberg explains in a three-minute...
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White-washed AKIRA movie dead →
Andy Khouri, writing for Comics Alliance, brings us some fabulous news:
In what is possibly the best comics-to-film news we’ll report this year, the live-action American adaptation of AKIRA that pretty much everyone agreed was a terrible idea has apparently been shelved.
Why am I so happy about this? Just like The Last Airbender, they were planning on recasting it with white actors....
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F.B.I. Opens Inquiry Into Hacking of 9/11 Victims →
William K. Rashbaum for The New York Times:
In response to requests from members of Congress and to at least one news report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York opened a preliminary inquiry on Thursday into allegations that News Corporation journalists sought to gain access to the phone records of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to several people briefed on the matter.
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Nanolaw with Daughter: Why privacy mattered →
Wonderful short story from Paul Ford. Here’s a bit to whet the appetite:
Here is how it would go, I imagined. Daughter and Mother would walk together to the park. They would talk about this morning’s conversation. Mother would confirm that handling your own suits is a serious responsibility, that you can’t let them pile up or that will send the signal that you were...
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Let's go with "entertaining" →
The self-described “largest collection of Metallica Midis on the internet”. OK then.
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Everyone loves the software company Cyan because...
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Stanford prison experiment interviews, 40 years... →
One of the guards, Dave Eschelman, had this to say:
What came over me was not an accident. It was planned. I set out with a definite plan in mind, to try to force the action, force something to happen, so that the researchers would have something to work with. After all, what could they possibly learn from guys sitting around like it was a country club? So I consciously created this...
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Rupert Murdoch gives up BSkyB takeover bid →
Patrick Wintour, Dan Sabbagh, and Nicholas Watt for The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch capitulated to parliament and abandoned News Corporation’s £8bn bid for BSkyB, as he faced the prospect of appearing in front of a judicial public inquiry to salvage his personal reputation and the right for his company to continue to broadcast in the UK.
After 10 days of sustained public outcry over phone...
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Tippie College of Business uses social media in... →
Brittany Trevick for The Daily Iowan:
The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business has garnered plenty of attention recently for a new web-based initiative, but leaders in other UI programs say the idea isn’t likely to catch on.
College officials recently announced that the most creative answer to the question “ What makes you an exceptional Tippie full-time M.B.A. candidate and future...
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Reagan mythology is leading US off a cliff →
Paul Rosenberg of Los Angeles’s Random Lengths News (who, apropos of nothing, looks like “Orson Welles playing a hobo” in Colin’s words) wrote a long opinion piece for Al Jazeera on the deification of Reagonomics in the United States:
Entirely forgetting the real history of how Franklin D Roosevelt used activist government to save American capitalism from itself, the...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington's end credits theme →
Last night I saw the final couple of minutes of the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It’s a good one; I ought to rewatch the whole thing some time.
I completely forgot, or never realized until now, that the music that plays during the end credits is an incredibly silly thirty-five second medley of “Oh My Darling, Clementine,” “Yankee Doodle,” and “My Country,...
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Graphing Calculator: Still Alive
Here’s a bit of follow up on yesterday’s post about the inimitable Graphing Calculator.
Mac OS X has never shipped with Graphing Calculator.1 However, you can now fix this for less than $10.2
Pacific Tech (the company that Ron and Greg started after GC 1.0 shipped) now sells two applications in the Mac App Store: Graphing Calculator Lite and Equation Editor.
Graphing Calculator...
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The Graphing Calculator Story →
One of my favorite pieces of software of all time is Graphing Calculator, a calculator application which can plot graphs of 2D and 3D functions. It shipped free with Apple computers in the ’90s, and I spent an enormous amount of time playing with the thing, even though I didn’t have a major understanding of how it worked the majority of the time.
Bear in mind I was (and still am) a...
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