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Jeremy Hatch
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Flash vs. HTML5
Over on TechCrunch, one of the developers who helped build the Flash platform was asked to speculate about the technical future of web content — essentially, whether he thinks the Flash platform will be made obsolete as HTML5 is adopted.…
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Six Free Documentaries at Criterion
In honor of the True/False Film Fest, the Criterion Collection is making available for free online viewing six films that previously showed at the festival. They will be available through February 28th. The titles are Son of a Gun, Someday…
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The Most Mysterious Book Now Online
The Codex Seraphinianus — a mysterious book by an artist named Luigi Serafini, which is often described as seeming to be “a visual encyclopedia of an unknown planet” — has been placed online in its entirety. Back in 2007, Justin…
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Influencing Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino gave an interview to the LA Times, in which he discusses the films that influenced Inglourious Basterds, although he first expresses annoyance with critics who, instead of reviewing his movies, really try to “match wits” with him, and…
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Robert Walser’s Microscripts
The Center for the Art of Translation has an interview up with Susan Bernofsky, translator of Robert Walser’s novel The Tanners, among other works. She talks about the six volumes of Robert Walser’s miniaturized shorthand that has come to be…
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Just Call Me Otto
Last month Nerve published a really fantastic piece by Andy Horowitz about Repo Man, and why this studio picture from a British director is actually the seminal American indie film. “Shot after shot,” Horowitz writes, “you find yourself saying, ‘Where…
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Eyeglasses For Everyone; No, Really: Everyone
The Washington Post reports that an English physician, Joshua Silver, has designed eyeglasses that absolutely anybody in the world, no matter how poor, can afford, and he has plans to distribute a million pairs in India this year. The glasses are…
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Researchers Show How to Hijack Clicks on Facebook
CNET has a short piece up about a number of security vulnerabilities on Facebook that have recently been demonstrated by researchers — and they’re more serious than the notion that some random employee there might check out your profile. In…
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Handwriting on the Way Out
The history of handwriting and handwriting systems is sketched out in this article by Oberlin professor and GOOD columnist Anne Trubek. Trubek also sketches out the history of the writing machines that began to replace handwriting from 1874 onward, with…
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Pictory Magazine’s San Francisco Feature
The newly-launched and amazing Pictory Magazine just published a beautiful and interesting showcase of twenty-eight photos of San Francisco; don’t miss their first showcase, Overseas and Overwhelmed, either!
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Seth on the Quiet Art of Cartooning
Recently I was reminded of this lovely little essay by the cartoonist Seth, about the solitary art of cartooning. From his description I’d say that cartooning — at least fiction cartooning such as Seth practices — sounds exactly like fiction…
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How to Destroy the Book: A Guide
Last month Cory Doctorow gave an eloquent and often-amusing speech at the National Reading Summit to an audience of “librarians, educators, publishers, authors and students” called “How to Destroy the Book.” The transcript was published yesterday by the University of…