by | Jan 31, 2013 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic The Never-Before-Told Story of the World’s First Computer Art (It’s a Sexy Dame) In the late 1950s, an anonymous IBM employee made a lady from the pages of Esquire come to life on the screen of a $238 million military computer. During a...
by | Jan 30, 2013 | Weirdness
from AP via The NY Daily News ‘Gomer Pyle’ actor Jim Nabors marries longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle 82-year-old actor had been dating former Honolulu firefighter since 1975 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — Jim Nabors, the actor best known for...
by | Jan 29, 2013 | Weirdness
from The Times UK Nursing home defends prostitutes’ visits The former manager of a nursing home has been forced to defend the level of “holistic care” offered to her patients after East Sussex council suggested that allowing prostitutes to visit her residents was...
by | Jan 28, 2013 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
from Publishing Perspectives How James Frey’s “IP Factory” is Re-imagining Book Packaging By Rachel Aydt The multi-media packaging business Full Fathom Five, the brainchild of James Frey — who until Lance Armstrong appears on TV today, was likely Oprah’s most famous...
by | Jan 27, 2013 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from Vanity Fair THE IMPOSSIBLE INTERVIEW: Nikki Minaj speaks with Thomas L. Friedman [ click to view at readable size ]
