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...online the video content of the National Archives, including United Newsreel Motion Pictures from the Second World War, NASA documentaries from the ’60s, and a variety of other footage. Google video (video.google.com), once viewed by college students only as a tool for wasting time watching clever Super Bowl commercials and home movies of suburban teenagers blowing up Pepsi bottles with Mentos, may yet serve a more valuable purpose.Another organization, the Internet Archive (archive.org), was founded in 1996 to store old copies of the Internet so that we can now look at the contents of the web from...
...love story. "Writing it was a breeze," she recalls with a grin. "I wrote it in about 18 months, right after I finished my Ph.D." Her second novel, Affinity, followed in 1999, delving into the 19th century worlds of spiritualism and women's prisons, and then Fingersmith, the fiendishly clever appropriation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, in 2003. All three have been critically and commercially well-received, appealing to a wide variety of readers, prize judges and drama producers who have turned both Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith into successful bbc adaptations. Often touted as a role model...
...whole, this innocent, clever, winning little piece of chick-lit is for any romantic who isn’t too proud to enjoy a guilty pleasure...
...guys can be tough sells. Page, a computer geek from Michigan who as a boy idolized inventor Nikola Tesla (you know, the guy who developed AC power), has a Muppet's voice and a rocket scientist's brain. Brin, born in Russia and raised outside Washington, is no less clever but has a mischievous twinkle in his eye. When he drops little asides--"Let's make the little windows actually explode when you close them," he tells a group presenting new desktop software--no one seems certain whether to laugh or start writing the computer code. Both men often rise...
...gaudy ways it announces itself, with the degradation of native art into gift-shop kitsch and the elevation of celebrity sports gear into sacred bling. By conflating tribal fetish and consumer trophy, Jungen has managed to tie any number of cultural assumptions and anxieties into a wickedly clever knot...