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Great, now I can justify the collector's impulse to buy each one. Thanks a lot, guys!
My wife can vouch for my totally useless superpower: identifying voices from the smallest snippets of dialogue. This is right up my alley.
Also, I finally see how Billy West performs Zoidberg--and it's just as awkwardly impossible as it seems.
From journalist Steve Coll, a history of the gargantuan oil company ExxonMobil. A mesmerizing account of a corporation large enough to be its own political entity, and the consequences of its behavior as such. The only problem with this book is that after the first 200 pages or so, I began to experience "outrage fatigue": the revelations of misbehavior and unbelievable arrogance grew so numerous, I stopped being angry and just became sad, instead.
The blog for the people who make info graphics for the New York Times. A time-sink, but not as deadly as TV Tropes.
From the "Twisted Princess" project. Reimagining the Disney princesses as either villainous murderers, or, in the case of Pocahontas and Mulan, capable warriors in their own right. This one's the best of the bunch.
Second, and much more dangerous, it can draw people into thinking that because that's the company motto, they can't be evil. That's the real mistake. Google's staff are just as capable of being evil, through omission or commission, as anyone else. And now that the company is so gigantic, it becomes easier for bad practices to slip through at a low level and because everyone trusts everyone, because nobody thinks that they're the bad one, bad things can in fact happen.
Another problem with corporate language--falling into the trap that the motto is descriptive, instead of prescriptive.
Hilarious. And, since I've watched too many of his movies, I can't help but read it in his inimitable accent.
The Atlantic pulls out some of the best photos from the recently-released NYC archives.
The Atlantic pulls out some of the best photos from the recently-released NYC archives.
Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free.
Someone buy Charlie Stross a beer.
The problem is, we think that the twists and turns that we're going through would probably drive people more crazy than just being silent about it, until we can be very crisp about what's happening next," he continued.
An interesting thought about advance publicity when it comes to creations. There are so many process-related articles, interviews, blog posts, and podcasts that the alternative--allowing the work to speak for itself--seems like a quaint relic.
Just watched this on the Netflix, and it should have been titled Bruce Banner of Mars. What the animators didn't quite get is that if you've got an invincible green monster capable of infinite, face-punching ferocity, then you need something else to generate dramatic tension.
Spoiler alert: Hulk wins by punching. By punching everything.
Compiling the covers produced for a contest about redesigning the jacket of Nabokov's Lolita.
[P]iracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to "disrupt" them, and whose chief executive said recently "even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation" (where "innovation" is code-speak for "opportunities for me to turn a profit").via antipope.org
Related to the last post, Charlie Stross sums up the immediate future of the electronic publishing world. Insightful and remarkably accessible enumeration of the issues.
All of the apparent copycat books that Fortune found on Amazon were made through CreateSpace, which is a division of Amazon. Authors can use CreateSpace's system to design and self-publish their own books. The books then go on sale on Amazon and other sites. Amazon splits the proceeds with authors. It's a different relationship than most publishers have with their authors, but there is no way for consumers to know that. On Amazon and other sites, CreateSpace is listed as the publisher of the books.
Like Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
In a confidential report to his superiors, Wal-Mart’s lead investigator, a former F.B.I. special agent, summed up their initial findings this way: “There is reasonable suspicion to believe that Mexican and USA laws have been violated.”
The lead investigator recommended that Wal-Mart expand the investigation.
Instead, an examination by The New York Times found, Wal-Mart’s leaders shut it down.
Surprise, surprise.
Like a Bravo competition show, but with a soul. Also, Charles Burns is completely daffy.
I am a good dancer and a bad singer. I have traveled on three continents, failed to learn how to juggle, and I have held a koala, who had a very poor disposition. I have photographed weddings, written for the school newspaper, narrated a documentary, and been on the local news (my second grade report on the Olympics was that good). In kindergarten, I received an award for “Most Dapper,” and my fashion sense has since been on the decline.
