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...find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist on publishing about inaccessible European shows. But you, my reader beleaguered by that meandering and self-righteous introduction, are in for a treat. This review of an overseas exhibit does contain some of the smugness of the jet-setting...
...name for this paradigm is “end-to-end”—the idea, in some sense, that the intelligence of a network ought to be pushed out to the edges, to the computer on your desk, your cell phone, or your new Internet-enabled toaster. Not all networks are built this way. The original analog telephone system had complex call-routing hardware in the middle, while the phones themselves were little more than converters between audio and voltage signals. The Internet, though, wasn’t designed to carry just phone calls or just instant...
...interesting about the facebook isn’t what it looks like or eats; it’s what you can do with it. Some naming schemes for technologies exhibit this in very pure form: they’ve come from verbs, as with the venerable toaster. The rest of the time, though, smart people invent things and give them names. For a while we’re content to talk about them as objects, but sooner or later we realize that their use is inextricably intertwined with their description, and so when we want to talk about using them...
...Wolf Parade is not merely a new incarnation of the Arcade Fire, as their performance at TT the Bear’s last Thursday showed. For those unacquainted with the Central Square locale, TT’s was designed by Maytag as the world’s most efficient toaster oven. Its sweltering smallness makes it a good concert venue by other measures, though; you can pretty much see the band from anywhere, and it’s hard not to feel the energy of a performance, if only from a strange man grinding his chest against your back while...
...This $50 toaster will simultaneously brown your bread and poach an egg in the attached heating tray, producing a tasty breakfast sandwich in just four minutes...