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"Parents of child offenders who fail to complete their sentence will in future face fines, compulsory parenting orders and possibly even prison under proposals outlined by the government" - prison?!
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109 (self-proclaimed) Superhumans in Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible, by the author. Are all the Doctors villains?
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"2. Most negative effects from interfaces are unintentional [...] 3. People’s actions are completely colored by their current experiences [...] So when people complain, they’re probably only complaining because they’re still in the moment."
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Colleague alexlaurie hasn't regretted switching from BlackBerry to iPhone for a second. I still fear touch screens without haptics.
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"Freud, if he was one thing only, was a great Gothic novelist"
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"[When] he writes about a memory of Manhattan’s skyline [...] he is hovering, like some novelistic Google Earther, over the sentence grids and prose plateaus of the last page of “The Great Gatsby.”" Compare Kunkel's review in LRB.
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Not nearly as gushing as The Woods's review in the New Yorker.
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"they feel a strong need to tell their version of their own story, to restore the complexity and inwardness to the public version of selves which, very often, exist purely as caricature"
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