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Allow two classes of apps in the App Store: those approved by Apple and those not approved by Apple. The unapproved apps would only be accessed through direct searches (they would not appear in top 10 lists or be featured on the front page), would carry cigarette-grade warnings that it might ...
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From Making Of, a further look at how the animation of Fantastic Mr. Fox was coordinated through the use of a custom-built software system that allowed for remote direction.
The best part about the setup is that the software interface for the cameras has a "Live to Wes" button that ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
Bell's telegraph killer orig. from Nov 23, 2009
* Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
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For her latest GOOP newsletter, Gwynyth Paltrow asks a few friends -- Ferran Adria, Nora Ephron, Mario Batali -- to recount their most memorable meals . Tags: food gwynethpaltrow
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Nora Ephron
Mario
For today's installment of The Big Picture , Alan picked a selection of photos from National Geographic's International Photography Contest . I am a sucker for pictures of waves:
Tags: photography
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Scans of the illustrations that Andy Warhol did for a children's story called The Little Red Hen. Tags: Andy Warhol books
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Whoa, Amazon has the BBC version of Planet Earth on sale for ~60% off... $30.49 for the DVD and $40.99 for Blu-ray .
Note: this edition features the original narration by David Attenborough
Sigourney Weaver, I'm really happy for you and I'ma let you finish but David Attenborough was one ...
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Planet Earth
Sigourney Weaver
BLDGBLOG has a fascinating interview with geoscientist Abraham Van Luik about how to confine nuclear waste for 1,000,000 years at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. One of the problems is keeping people away from the site in the far future:
We have looked very closely at ...
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Word is trickling out of Bell Labs that Alexander Graham Bell is developing a device that will supplant the telegraph .
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist's horn or ear-candle in form. We found the ...
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Free Errol! orig. from Nov 20, 2009
* Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
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Free Errol! orig. from Nov 20, 2009
* Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
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For some dumbcrap reason, the NY Times has redirected Errol Morris' excellent blog about photography and the truth -- formerly at http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com -- to some new thing called Opinionator . They did the same with Dick Cavett, Olivia Judson, etc. Oh, all the content is still there ...
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Robert Parker, the world's foremost wine taster, tasted a bunch of bottles from Bordeaux 2005 (a great year for Bordeaux) and couldn't tell which one was which and ranked them differently than he had before .
Blind tasting removes preconceptions about wines while maintaining the ability to ...
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Sarah Jessica Parker
Jonah
Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire.
Drawn by Keith Thompson ...prints are available if you like. (thx, zoe) Tags: Keith Thompson maps wwi
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The Trabant 601, 1963:
Wikipedia notes of the Trabant:
For advocates of capitalism it is often cited as an example of the disadvantages of centralized planning as even refueling the car required lifting the hood, filling the tank with gasoline (only 24 litres), then adding two-stroke ...
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This article in the NY Times fits nicely with my belief that carbon offsets are bullshit.
"The carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card," Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, one of the world's largest green travel companies to ...
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From advertisements for a Portuguese independent film group, several ideas and their enemies .
(via heavy backpack ) Tags: advertising
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Dead Caulfields maintains an unauthorized online collection of the 22 stories written by J.D. Salinger and published in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, etc. These stories have never been collected into a book due to the reclusive author's resistance.
Spanning his literary ...
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Jeanne-Claude, one-half of the art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, has died at the age of 74 . The front page of the couple's web site has a short tribute. I loved The Gates . Tags: art Christo Jeanne-Claude obituaries The Gates
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Over at Edible Geography, Nicola Twilley collects some information about wine and beer recovered from shipwrecks , some of which has been sold for thousands of dollars per bottle.
It appears the ocean floor, if treated as a single entity, might actually be the world's largest wine cellar -- ...
