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...freelance writer and author of fake trivia. His second book, More Information Than You Require, contains factually incorrect passages about U.S. Presidents, gambling, and the secret underground world of mole-men. Hodgman plans to turn his trivia books into a trilogy, but for the time being readers must be content with only two. More Information Than You Require comes out Oct. 21; Hodgman talks to TIME about the financial crisis, his accidental role as a minor television personality, and of course, the mole...
...HHPR editors pulled down their Web site earlier this week in order to restrict access to Light’s article, reasoning that removing the content from just one issue would suggest that they had removed Light’s article as a result of pressure from the JHE editors...
...Harvard Law School student who helped code the algorithm. After adopting the algorithm to analyze text on political blogs, Knowles wrote, the team realized the software could have broader appeal for the general public. “I knew that other people could use our software for content analysis on the Internet,” he wrote. Several companies have already been using the technology to analyze customer reaction to their products and marketing tactics, King added. In the short term, King said, he believes companies will continue to use “readme” technology through Crimson Hexagon...
...probably would not have guessed that from Time Magazine’s loaded title (“Was Milan Kundera a Communist Snitch?”), which overshadows the reasonably balanced content of its article. A top Italian newspaper ran a headline that read, “Kundera helped the Czech secret police,” while the German paper Die Welt likened Kundera to Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize-winning author who hid his military service for the Nazis during most of his life. Several Czech journalists and intellectuals stated they are not surprised that Kundera...
...said, smiling. “The way we know you get it—if your eyes are shining at the end.”In a style reminiscent of the music lectures given by Leonard Bernstein ’39, Zander explained the background and content of the first piece on the program, Béla Bartók’s little known “Dance Suite.” Mentioning that Bartók collected Hungarian folk songs and wrote compositions that reflected these tunes with “fantastic sophistication,” he pointed...