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...this era of shifting global power, it is impossible to visit "Byzantium 330-1453" and not ponder how empires expand and recede across centuries, leaving future generations to pick through their remains. There will come a time, no doubt, when people will stare in puzzled wonder at the silicon chip or the desktop icon. The Byzantines' efforts to hide their own fragility ultimately remind us never to forget...
...covers sell books?I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own. Click here for a gallery of Chip Kidd's greatest book jackets...
...bucks?” (Umm, no, that is really only you.) According to T-Pain, he’s officially been chopped n skrewed. Now that’s catchy. Just makes you want to go to the nearest party and at the first sign of a failed pick-up, point, laugh, and yell, “Man, you just got chopped n skrewed!” Or not. Even in going along with Teddy’s abstract video, some parts just make you say: why? Why is there an elephant with headphones and a chain onscreen throughout Luda?...
...Lowdown: There are some who think that memoirs should be exciting, thrilling, full of tragedy or high comedy. John Grogan does not write those kind of memoirs. There are some who think that memoirs should look at the lives of screwed-up folk on their way down (who eventually pick themselves back up) as a way of peeking into a world not our own. John Grogan rejects that proposition outright. His two books operate under the premise that anyone's life is worthy of a memoir, no matter how boring or similar it is to everyone else's. Growing...
...Constitution and un-supervised access to AT&T customers' phone calls, the NSA transformed from a passive information gatherer to a "hunter," actively seeking information it wasn't allowed to take. But as The Shadow Factory points out, the more voices the NSA heard, the harder it was to pick out those that mattered. That Big Brother is watching is bad enough; it's worse to think he may not be doing any good...