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...computer enthusiast who wants to Google Google couldn't find a more dedicated guide than Stross, the New York Times' "Digital Domain" columnist. A true Internet scholar (there are 57 pages of footnotes), he both marvels at and takes issue with life in the Googleplex and the unrivaled (unbridled?) ambition of the young enterprise. Stross's access to the company pays off nicely for both Google's fans and people who read books on paper...
...will serve as a nexus for things in the public domain, and a crossroads for interdisciplinary research,” Spiegelman said in an interview before the meeting...
...rich cultural legacy of the Hindu Majapahit culture drew bohemian Western visitors in the 1930s who were mystified as to why most Balinese turned their backs on the lovely beaches, even forsaking fish from their normal diets. (The answer was, in part, because the coasts are considered the domain of demons...
...course of reporting for an article - and it's obvious. The sympathetic, at times fawning, book relies heavily on sources several circles outward from those who actually know Michelle. The end result is a book that reveals little about Michelle Obama not already in the public domain. There are tidbits here and there - as a corporate lawyer, Michelle handled accounts for Barney, the purple dinosaur - but readers already familiar with Michelle's life story will be disappointed...
...Fifth Avenue, "a magnificent building constructed of a pale grey sandstone in the classic lines of the deco era." There was a time when writers and artists could live there--a few still do--but now the apartments start at $1 million-plus, making it strictly the domain of the wealthy. ("Money wants what it can't buy," Bushnell writes, "class and talent.") The friction between those two worlds--rich and poor, crass and cultured, New York present and New York past--gives the book its heat. Well, that...