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Inside the labs where Netflix is trying to make televisions suck lesstheverge.com
In a nondescript room in the center of Netflix’s headquarters, you can walk into a small, paper white chamber called the Shu. It’s an homage to the solitary confinement cell in Orange Is The New... -
Hot Content Went Viral In The 1800s, Toonpr.org
Page through a 19th-century newspaper and you'll be surprised at how 21st-century it looks. Northeastern University's Ryan Cordell tells NPR's Scott Simon about the listicles of the 1800s. -
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They're called the Unclimbables for a reasonsbnation.com
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Edi Weitz is writing a Common Lisp booklispblog.xach.com
This year marks the 10 year anniversary of Apress’s last Common Lisp book, Practical Common Lisp. Edi Weitz, who with cl-ppcre and many other libraries helped support the CL resurgence of the 2000s,... -
Extracting Audio from Picturesmediapreservation.wordpress.com
Three years ago, a survey team identified a staggering 569,148 time-based media objects on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University—that’s over half a million sound recordings, video recordings... -
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Researcher who exploits bug in Starbucks gift cards gets rebuke, not lovearstechnica.com
Plenty of poor manners to go around in fraudulent $1.70 purchase. -
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John F. Nash Jr. dies; Nobel laureate was subject of ‘A Beautiful Mind’washingtonpost.com
The mathematician, 86, and his wife, 82, were killed in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. - fooledbyrandomness.com
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Medieval Bargain Booksmedievalbooks.nl
If you are like me, you probably have two types of books on your shelves: some are new, others are second-hand. The two are very different entities: new copies are expensive, pristine and present a... -
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Ali-Liston 50 Years Later: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Sports Photo of All Timeslate.com
A version of this essay was originally printed in the Iowa Review. Sonny Liston landed on canvas below Muhammad Ali’s feet on May 25, 1965, and Neil Leifer snapped a photo: Afterward, several events unspooled: The photo languished unlauded—before it wa...