Final video essay from everyframeapainting discusses one of the coolest movies ever to wrap up year one. I could not be happier about this, nor more excited to see how year two goes.
From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary “Mad Max” franchise, comes “Mad Max: Fury Road,” a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky.
On Nov. 6, 2012, the night of Mr. Obama’s re-election, Mr. Schmidt was personally overseeing a voter-turnout software system for Mr. Obama. A few weeks later, Ms. Shelton and a senior antitrust lawyer at Google went to the White House to meet with one of Mr. Obama’s technology advisers.
Bob Garfield: The question mark. Which absolves you of any responsibility for the fundamental ridiculousness of the story.
Craig Silverman: The question mark is actually a very serious issue. It’s been studied and it’s called an innuendo headline. So if you’re going to put kind of a claim or an an accusation in a headline, and you’re going to put a question mark on the end of it. The way that people read that headline is first they have to understand the claim, so they process that as true. Then after that, they add on the question mark, and so in most cases the lean towards believing it as true.
When you see anyone using a questionmark in a headline, remember to stop and remember that it’s lazy journalism at best and manipulation at worst.
The Web browser was relatively easy to find, thanks to guys running long-forgotten FTP sites in the dusty corners of the Internet. MacWeb 2.0 was both old enough to run on my Plus and new enough to render HTML and speak HTTP. Sort of. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
“Anyone nostalgic for those halcyon days can now thank digital archivist and filmmaker Jason Scott for BBS: The Documentary, a five-and-a-half-hour paean to the era when computers were named Stacy and Lisa, and tech loyalists fought bitter battles over the superiority of Ataris to Amigas.” – Wired
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden’s example. ]]]
