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Reader’s of last Monday’s Crimson were met with something of a confusing mixed message. A front page story advertised the debut of Wirehog—the latest from thefacebook.com creator Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07. Wirehog is a peer-to-peer file sharing tool that interfaces with thefacebook and allows its users to swap content—regardless of its copyright status—with friends at Harvard, and Stanford for the moment, and what will surely in short order be a wide network of colleges and universities...
Mnookin talked and answered questions about his debut book at the Harvard Coop on Wednesday, in front of a packed audience. “It gets more and more nervewracking every time I read, because I know more people” he said, noting the presence of many of his family members in the audience from his native Newton...
Primer, the directorial debut of Shane Carruth, lacks any narrative thread, but essentially is a story about four broke, 30-something engineers who create a mysterious box in their garage that defies scientific rationality and seems to give them inexplicable control over life. Two members of the group, Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), decide to probe what potential their creation might have: They explore the commercial possibilities of time-travel for a few hours each day, encounter dreadful mishaps in a Scooby Doo-esque fashion and finally, things end quite badly, with the audience, plot and characters...
...conflict started in the summer of 2004 when the Postal Service band faced a copyright infringement lawsuit from the Postal Service mail service. Why did the USPS care? Because the Postal Service band had earned far more fame and record sales than are appropriate to its label; its debut Give Up became Subpop’s second highest all-time seller, behind Bleach, the debut from another group of proud sell-outs. And also because the band’s burst of popularity was deemed nominally threatening to the massive government organization. It seemed certain that the duo, whose name...
Bill: I can certainly understand your fears of a sophomore slump from the Postal Service, considering how well they managed to capture that weird sound of theirs on the debut. Half their initial appeal to me was how different they sounded from most of what else I was listening to at the time, and of course that card is played out now. It’s completely possible that they’ve peaked, that their good luck will sour and that the follow-up will be quickly and deservedly disowned. But even if they’re headed down...