I’m a die-hard paper fan. I have a few shelves of books in almost every room of the house and I love taking a stack of magazines or newspapers on a plane – this is so ingrained in my psyche that I actually save magazines a few weeks before a long trip so I have something to read. But slowly, ever so slowly, this love of paper is leaving me. First I abandoned print journalism for the bare-knuckle… → Read More
A handy e-mail I just received has brought good news: Nintendo‘s Shigeru Miyamoto has been profiled in the New Yorker! About time the man has been honored with a sufficiently fancy interview from the sufficiently fancy magazine. → Read More
Set aside several minutes of your afternoon to read Seymour Hersh’s latest article in the New Yorker entitled “The Online Threat.” It’s a long, long yarn on the dangers of cyber war. It begins with the United Stats’ utter lack of respect for the technological capabilities of China, and then goes on to address a larger question: is the U.S. prepared for any sort of cyber attack? → Read More
Turns out it’s pretty easy to get free issues of several popular publications via an iPad hack of sorts. All credit to Italian site Il Post, which was shown the technique by a group named Dark Apples. Nice. Bottom line is, you can read publications like the New Yorker, Wired, and La Gazzetta dell Sport (note: YES~!) for free. Well, for the time being, you can. → Read More
Usually when I read a long article, I’ll say something like, “Free up 20 minutes so you can read the whole thing.” I’m not sure I’m going to say that today, having just finished an article in the New Yorker, which is usually good for a profile or two, about the Kindle. And it’s not because the article is down on the Kindle—I don’t own any Amazon stock, so I don’t care if Kindle sinks or… → Read More
Artist Jorge Colombo drew this entire New Yorker cover using Brushes for the iPhone, a $4.99 drawing app.
He recorded the entire process using Brushes Viewer, offering us a glimpse into the future of touch-screen art reproduced on the cover of a print magazine. → Read More
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