by Editor | 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 Editor | 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 Editor | 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 Editor | 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 Editor | 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 ]