September 2009
11 posts
Aleatory Composition book
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The Long Tail
A Wharton School study is skeptical of the “Long Tail” hypothesis:
The Wharton researchers find that the Long Tail effect holds true in some cases, but when factoring in expanding product variety and consumer demand, mass appeal products retain their importance. The researchers argue that new movies appear so fast that consumers do not have time to discover them, and that niche movies...
Peer to peer text sharing
What seems to be increasingly obvious, as the interview also states, is that one can find virtually all Ebooks and texts one needs via p2p networks and other file sharing community’s (the true Darknet in a way) – more and more people are offering (and asking for!) selections of texts and books (including the ones by Adorno) on openly available websites and blogs, or they are scanning them and...
David Levy on chatbots and sexbots
I think the sex robot will happen fairly soon because the bottom is dropping out of the adult entertainment market, because there’s so much sex available for nothing on the internet,” says Levy. “I think the market was worth something like $12bn a year, and they aren’t going to want to lose all their income, and this seems to me an obvious direction to go. The market must...
Felix Salmon on Ben Stein
Stein lives in a world,” Salmon wrote in March 2009, “where flying commercial is always a chore; where few hotels are as well-appointed as his own homes; where every day he spends in a vaguely public place is a day he risks being accosted and held to account for the uncountable gallons of extremely harmful drivel that he has inflicted on his readers and viewers for years. via...
Kim Stanley Robinson on the Booker Award
The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and author of the bestselling Mars trilogy, Robinson attacked the Booker for rewarding “what usually turn out to be historical novels”. Five are shortlisted for this year’s prize, from Hilary Mantel’s retelling of the life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall, to AS Byatt’s The Children’s Book, set at the turn of the 20th...
The mystery of creativity
But what swayed my view even more than these economic arguments was in fact, the poignant revelation that Brown shared a creative writing class at Amherst – one of the US’s finest small liberal arts colleges – with David Foster Wallace. No one, I am certain, takes a creative writing course with the aim of writing over-wrought, long-winded, critically-reviled thrillers. You take a creative...
Miss California Wows Conservatives - The Note →
Carrie Prejean, the new leader of the GOP.
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Absurdist literature, it appears, stimulates our brains. That’s the conclusion of a study recently published in the journal Psychological Science. Psychologists Travis Proulx of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Steven Heine of the University of British Columbia report our ability to find patterns is stimulated when we are faced with the task of making sense of an absurd...
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Papa
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Life magazine gallery of 20 unpublished photos that were to have run with the 1954 magazine publication of “The Old Man and the Sea”.
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