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Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time
Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments
Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia
Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute
Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
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Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments
Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?
There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?
Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the past…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark UK government acts to prevent arrest of Pope
The UK government is said to have set in motion a law change that will prevent the Pope from being arrested when he visits the country in September. Officials in Whitehall…

July 25 2010, 7:14am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: These marks in printer's ink The Táin lithographs In 1967 Louis le Brocquy was commissioned to illustrate Thomas Kinsella's translation of the great Irish prose epic the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The resulting collaborative volume is widely acknowledged as the great Irish Livre d'Artiste of the twentieth century; Le…

June 6 2009, 3:04am | Comments
Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments

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