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...Christopher Guest's garden ("my first sprout of the year") follows a bitter gibe from playwright David Mamet on New York magazine drama critic John Simon, fired last week "from the post he long disgraced." But there's no way to search, and the bloggers share a cluttered home page with sundry news links. If you're not a fan, you can find company on blogs like HUFFINGTON IS FULL OF CRAP. --By Jeremy Caplan
...driving this thing? More than anybody else it's a manic, shaven-headed character named J Allard. (Yes, it's just the one letter.) In 1993, as a 25-year-old wunderkind Microsoftie, Allard wrote an 11-page memo that almost single-handedly persuaded Gates that maybe personal computers should be able to connect to something known as the Internet. Now a 36-year- old V.P., Allard is one of the few people who can get the Microsoft juggernaut to change direction; he's known as one of the "Baby Bills," the company's young up-and-comers, and Gates...
There's a top-secret 147-page internal document at Microsoft called "The Book of Xenon." Xenon is Microsoft's private code name for the Xbox 360, and "The Book of Xenon" spells out the company's entire strategy for it. Large chunks of "The Book of Xenon" deal with something it calls the D.E.L., which stands for the Digital Entertainment Lifestyle. This is shorthand for the notion that all media--movies, music, games, cameras, phones, TV--are becoming digital media, and that's changing how we relate to them and how they relate to one another. They're merging...
Giles’ time as curator of the Nieman Foundation has been the subject of controversy recently. In February, a front page article in the Boston Globe lambasted Giles for stimulating alumni unrest concerning his expansion of the foundation’s focus to hold events and workshops for non-Nieman journalists...
...19th century, and the Naxos Music Library is one (perfectly legal) way to listen to some 85,000 songs (not Billboard top 100 stuff, but a good collection of classical and jazz works) all from the comfort of your desk chair. Both are accessible through the e-resources page at lib.harvard.edu. And if you want to feel like a good person, www.thehungersite.com can help: every time you click the button on their page they donate ad revenue to good causes. Just think how much harm you’re doing the world whenever you aren’t clicking?...