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Will the Libyan war mean the end of .ly startups? (No, those URLs weren’t created just for twitter.)
Apple controls its app system too tightly and Android’s a mess. What’s an app developer to do?
AOL, the new owner of the HuffPo, has fired its newly acquired freelance journalists.
...moreCell phones are increasingly cropping up in prisons, giving inmates the resources to organize strikes and play FarmVille.
Travel websites Expedia and Orbitz are creating controversy by dropping American Airlines flights from search results.
Tech bubble 2.0: Facebook is worth $50 billion… Oh wait, Apple is worth $300 billion!
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Recently I rewatched a great film by Lynn Shelton called My Effortless Brilliance. I enjoyed it so much the first time that I wanted to show it to all of my friends, ideally while I sat beside them, beaming.
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Call it the Theory of Receptivity. It’s the idea, often stated by young people and applied as a dismissive accusation to even marginally older people, that one’s taste in music, or film, or literature, or fine cuisine, petrifies during life’s peak of happiness or nadir of misery, at any rate during the period(s) when one is most open to and absorbent of the things we can all agree make life worth living, most curious about the world and energetic in chasing down its offerings.
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You know, you come home from, say, a happening launch party, it’s around midnight and you’re feeling excellent, you turn on the TV so as not to consume your prophylactic course of pretzels and water in anomic silence, and see that channel 44 is about three minutes into its late nite movie, Good Will Hunting, and like that you’re way back, you’re circa 1997, and you remember everything: thinking Matt Damon was a mouth-breathing, bra-snapping punk, and sitting alone in the Uptown Theatre like you did every Tuesday afternoon, and liking them apples, and that scene they shot in your Canadian Lit classroom at St.
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