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...when its detractors start depicting themselves as radicals assaulting the intellectual status quo. This fall John Horgan (The End of Science) will come out with a book that, according to its publisher's catalog, "boldly contradicts all standard views" of psychology, "including those of Steven Pinker and E.O. Wilson." Ah, vindication at last...
...Ah, but scroll down the list far enough, hundreds of entries deep, and you'll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: "Enquire Within Upon Everything"--a nifty little computer program written nearly 20 years ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim Berners-Lee. Who knew then that from this modest hack would flow the civilization-altering, millionaire-spawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide...
...Ah, the divine decadence of Weimar Berlin! Brecht and Weill making acerbic music; Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau creating film metaphors for Germany in chaos; famous artists like Grosz and Ernst--and a failed painter named Hitler. It was all so exciting, also grim. But amid the ferment, a buoyant sound could be heard: the impish artistry of the Comedian Harmonists. From 1928 until it was banned and disbanded by the Nazis in 1934, this male sextet brought smiles to Berliners in the political and economic dumps. One could almost believe the sentiment behind its hit tune Wochenend und Sonnenschein...
...Ah well. At least Sarah knows her Miranda rights...
...iFilm.net post legitimate copies of mostly independent films that can be viewed for free. All you need is a Web browser and a program such as RealPlayer (available on each site). So why aren't these companies worried about piracy? "It's still too early," says AtomFilms' Mika Salmi. Ah, but that's what they said about music before MP3 came along...