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Amazon today announced that the Kindle iPhone app supports purchasing of Kindle e-books. This should bring a compelling e-book offering to the more than 35 million iPhone and iPod touches already in the marketplace. In one simple update, the market for ebooks just got a whole lot bigger. I’ve seen a lot of sites discussing [...]
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How meta can you get? The New York Times is reporting that big-screen e-readers are coming to the aid of beleaguered newspaper and print publications and that Amazon will be the first to the party, as early as this week: An Amazon spokesman would not comment, but some news organizations, including The New York Times, [...]
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This looks like a cute love story, not in the “Benny and Joon” sense, but more like if whimsical Benny wanted to date a well-adjusted female. [via Coudal Partners]
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As a child growing up watching a dominant Mike Tyson but listening to my dad tell stories about his hero Muhammad Ali, this is something I’ve got to see. It would be especially fascinating to make it a double feature night with the new “Tyson” movie. We’ll call it “A Study in Contrasts” just so [...]
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This looks to be incredible. It received outstanding reviews in Britain. I wonder when we’ll get it in the US?
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This makes me happy (although I find the Arcade Fire song a bit of an odd choice for the trailer…).
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The Television Cultural Centre by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture burned down in Beijing last night. Exquisite photos of the aftermath as well as the fire itself can be seen on Andrew Lih’s Flickr Album. While I don’t have any fascination with chaos and destruction, the thought of these urban symbols of time do interest [...]
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A new design documentary from Gary Hustwit is coming to SxSW this year in March. Hustwit also directed the acclaimed “Helvetica,” which recently made its way to NBC and seems to reside just below my shipping DVDs on Netflix all the time. This trailer features the dulcet tones of Jony Ive (amongst others) to start [...]
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Come on, you know I had to post this one! Thankfully, it looks beautifully composed, dark, and edgy with that Neil Gaiman meets “City of Lost Children” meets “Dark City” vibe. According to the trailer website: Franklyn is set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic metropolis of Meanwhile City, and weaves [...]
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I was introduced to Thomas Pynchon as a young literary lad at the University of Santa Cruz. My friend and housemate, a Political Theory student and TA, recommended “Crying of Lot 49″ to me and it got it’s hooks into me – deep. After reading that short little book, I’d cruise around campus and see [...]
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