At Nick Denton's wedding, one of the few images I remember vividly is Craggs grinding with his girlfriend up against a mirrored wall, completely shithoused, looking at himself in the mirror (tuxedo-clad, flawless, primal, sweaty) before looking down at her. Up and down, up and down, gyrating, shallow thrusts. Read more
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Matt Novak is a reporter at Gizmodo and founder of Paleofuture.com.
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It's an ongoing fight. In 2003 the League of American Theatres and Producers proposed to reduce minimum orchestra size requirements (for live theater shows) from 24-26 to as low as 7 members, with a virtual orchestra filling the gaps. Producers also threatened to replace all musicians with a virtual orchestra if they… Read more
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Big centralized online libraries were built in the 1970s and 1980s. The National Library of Medicine in Maryland, Mead Data Central (Lexis/Nexis), and the New York Times archive were all successful centralized paid services. Expensive ones. Read more
This was a big concern in the early days of computers. It seemed like a few people would "own" all history and knowledge, able to edit that one big library to show whatever they wanted to have happened, whatever they wanted to be true. Wikipedia, for all its flaws, saved us.
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The downside is that all the information in the world is useless if one doesn't have good critical thinking skills, or isn't scientifically literate. Read more
But I'm an Internet apologist. The ability of average people to obtain information instantaneously is just phenomenal. I wouldn't have it any other way. Read more
way way late, but I had to chime in that I used to LOVE this place in Pasadena. It was where Rosco's is now, on Lake Ave above the 210, and I used to beg my parents to take me there. We went to the restaurant at least once a month, and though I was only 6 or 7, I remember it very well. It was genuinely astonishing to… Read more
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While the robot waiters of mid-’80s Pasadena were serving up chow mein at the Two Panda Deli in sunny California,…
From the vantage point of 2012 we often associate flying cars with the slick, Jetsonian ideas of the 1950s and ‘60s.…