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Good MEX piece on real-world use, battery life etc: "If one were to glance at their specifications, the N95 would out perform the Sidekick and the Blackberry in almost every respect. However, it delivers far-and-away the worst mobile email experience."
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Peter Cole on newspapers, 3 of 4.
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Peter Cole on newspapers, 4 of 4.
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On Nick Davies’s Flat Earth News, which diagnoses the structural problems in UK newspaper media, but offers no prescription.
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"two characteristics made users think the process was faster, even if it wasn't: 1. progress bars that moved smoothly towards completion, 2. progress bars that sped up towards the end"
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Uptake graphs for consumption/technologies. Have always wanted to see "goodness", "doubt" etc on these kinds of graphs.
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Bookshelf staircase.
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Witty arty Philly Rocky: "Pitting Marcel Duchamp against Rocky Balboa in a silent struggle over the Statue of Liberty and the American Dream"
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Cai Guo-Qiang's installation, with commentary by outgoing Gugg director Thomas Krens.
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1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5. Tag five people.
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"The elusive quality of the Mona Lisa's smile can be explained by the fact that her smile is almost entirely in low spatial frequencies, and so is seen best by your peripheral vision"
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"entire Moon Museum, with drawings by six leading contemporary artists of the day [Warhol, Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg et al] supposedly installed [...] after attempts to move the project forward through NASA's official channels were unsuccessful."
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All such lists must remain, necessarily, incompletable.
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On Massachussets MoCA disagreement and subsequent court case with Christoph Buchel.
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"It must be a perverted version of this idea [that "manuscripts don't burn"] — an appeal to a higher authority than the fallible individual — that motivates people who refuse to burn manuscripts even though they are ordered to do so by dying artists"
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D- review, funny.
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"His only other peeve is the way the magazine treats the semi-colon. “The New Yorker will try as often as possible to change it into a colon,” he says – ascribing it to an attempt to mimic English properness. “I love semi-colons,” he says"
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