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Excellent: Lethem is non-exclusively licencing several of his stories for adaptation for film or theatre for a dollar.
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Compare Andrew Kaufman. "Ragman is the poverty superhero, unable to afford a costume other than a big pile of rags. He never fights villains who can afford costumes at all. Instead he rescues starving kittens and breaks up three-card monte games."
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David Mills, writer on The Wire, etc.
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"“The Wire” has not only gone the opposite way, it’s resisted the idea that, in this post-modern America, individuals triumph over institutions. The institution is always bigger."
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See me gush about The Wire until the words make no sense.
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The operations, usability, resilience, trust, engagement and politics challenges in field operations and inventory management neatly illustrated courtesy of The Wire season 2 (2003) episode 5.
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Steve Wynn disagrees with Lloyds over of the value of the elbow hole and sues; some musing on where the value is if restoration is so good.
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Useful list for many customers, charity sector etc - keep it simple and put the budget into interesting stuff rather than "professional cmses" etc
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In which I imagine taking the external casing of the BlackBerry 7730 (RIM's best industrial design in my book), and sticking some modern internals into it.
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"An airplane or train car is one of life’s perfect traditional theaters, and we suffer its rupture by the Brechtian device of the mobile phone. [...] The cell phone user has made irony of our sincere drama of grudging togetherness." Great.
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Sea-level rise flood maps on top of Google maps. Tried but can't recreate the map from Will Self's Book of Dave.
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"Mr Wynn is suing his insurers, Lloyd's of London, for $54m (£27.6m), the amount he says the painting's value fell after the accident."
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