January 2012
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“And with this New Pulp has come a New Hero. And his name is Player One.”
– “Why Video Games Are the New Pulps” by Marc Bernardin
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Which Handgun Should You Use for a Murder? →
“….In any crime a hundred things can go wrong and if the criminal thinks of even half of them, he’s a genius. The best forensic countermeasure would be to use a revolver. The fired shell casings stay in the gun’s cylinder…”
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Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy avoiding... →
“They never touched the floor — that would have set off an alarm.
They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They cut a hole in the roof and came in at a spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners.
And they left with some $26,000 in laptop computers, departing the same way they came in — down a 3-inch gas pipe that runs from the roof to the ground outside the...
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What You Own Is Holding You Back →
I will be honest: the ownership people feel toward characters–characters like Captain America, Sherlock Holmes, Marylin Monroe’s screen persona–has always baffled me.
I mean, it’s one thing to identify with a character, to yourself, or your idealized self, in that fiction. I am certainly not one to throw stones at that, what with my glass house and all. Rather, what confuses me in the...
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How Copyright Industries Con Congress →
“…So, to stay focused on movies, Siwek takes an estimate of $6.1 billion in piracy losses to the U.S. movie industry, and through the magic of multipliers gets us to a more impressive sounding $20.5 billion. That original $6.1 billion figure, by the way, was produced by a study commissioned from LEK Consulting by the Motion Picture Association of America. Since even the GAO was...
“Any company that is providing great content online in a way that’s easy to use...”
– Tim O’Reilly on SOPA: it protects the wrong people - Boing Boing
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“House of the Rising Sun,” Jerry...
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“We wanted the wardrobe to heighten the characterizations and help tell the...”
– Costume designer Eniola Dawodu, on storytelling via character’s clothes, for the film Pariah
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Born in Unity, South Sudan Is Torn Again →
“…Eight thousand fighters just besieged this small town in the middle of a vast expanse, razing huts, burning granaries, stealing tens of thousands of cows and methodically killing hundreds, possibly thousands, of men, women and children hiding in the bush.
The raiders had even broadcast their massacre plans.
“We have decided to invade Murleland and wipe out the entire Murle tribe...
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The Lesson Of 2012 →
In which I talk about how nobody cares, and why that’s the most freeing thought of all.
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This American Life #454: Mr. Daisey and the Apple... →
“Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out…”