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The NYT: The low-budget alien movie “District 9” was No. 1 at the weekend box office with an estimated $37 million in ticket sales, a stronger than expected res...
Category: things
It’s just a technicality.
Ars Technica: “Domain tasters” take advantage of a five-day domain name grace period to perform risk-free cybersquatting. Since ICANN upped the pena...
movies
Movies are uniquely able to transport the viewer into another person’s life – to see the world from an alien point of view. The excellent movie Blame it o...
why the wii is a necessary progression in virtual interfaces
Ana was just raising the volume on our boombox. She could have held down the button (it’s the chiclet variety) but instead she clicked the button repeated...
walled gardens
John Gruber: “Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day.”
dept. of lost & found
like finding a $20 bill in one’s pocket: i just read the name Bharati Mukherjee for what must be the first time in nearly 20 years and it sparked pure del...
import, export
A wonderful, bitter tasting story about Venezuelan chocolate: With its reliance on cheap labor, the industry seems hard-wired for conflict, though chaos afflict...
intelligence
Reassuring: The researchers… generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneo...
television
Anthony Bourdain No Reservations in Mexico may be the best episodes of that show and probably the best of its genre. A gem.
come to jesus moment
I just had a come to Jesus moment on a well-indexed site for mass real-time blogging. We heard some rumbling far off. Sounded like fireworks. But I couldn’...
social smarts
apple has introduced a feature called the genius sidebar for your music listening pleasure. it may be very smart at finding related music but it has a funny bug...
retraction
Earlier I wrote all sorts of hype about Buraka Som Sistema. Good for a party. But, really, my summer belongs to The Field and “The More That I do”. ...