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Felons
via hicksdesign - journal by Jon Hicks on June 16, 2008
Newport in 1875 was a hotbed of crime, as documented here regarding the theft of a LARGECUCUMBER from Mrs Holland’s garden:
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Edgar Allen Poe, Disguised As PowerPoint
via Good Magazine: Blog by andrewprice on June 17, 2008
To encourage the computer-reliant to read (and to facilitate covert reading at work), the New Zealand Book Council has disguised classic works of literature as PowerPoint presentations and created a Potemkin windows desktop to house them. You can contemplate Tolstoy, Twain, and Poe while appearing to pore over, you know, whatever PowerPoints normally contain. At the end of the day, we still...
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Welcome Home: 1925
via Shorpy :: History in HD - High-Resolution Historical Photos by Dave on March 04, 2008
The White Sox in Washington playing the Senators. "Schalk & Mostil, Chicago, 1925." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Observed: Rybczynski on Public Libraries
via Design Observer: Observed by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
Witold Rybczynski: How do you build a public library in the age of Google? (Thanks to Joe Marianek.) [MB]
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Forget the Film, Watch the Titles
via Coudal Partners Blended Feed by (author unknown) on March 05, 2008
Fantastic, there goes the morning. Forget the Film, Watch the Titles.
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The Favorite Movies of the Presidential Candidates
via |Film by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) on March 03, 2008
We’re not a political site, so I won’t bore you with the important issues involved in the upcoming 2008 elections. Instead we have at some real hard facts which might help you decide who to vote for. That’s right, we’re taking a look at the leading candidates favorite movies.Hillary Clinton (D-New York)Favorite Movies: The Wizard of Oz (“When I was much younger [it] was my favorite...
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Burn After Reading Gets Release Date
via Awards Daily 2008 by Sasha Stone on March 03, 2008
Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand, has gotten a September 12 release date, the AP reports.While Oscar watchers will pin their hopes on the Coens, lightning doesn’t often strike twice, unless you’re Clint Eastwood, John Ford or Oliver Stone. This one sounds like the “funny Coens,” like O Brother or Barton Fink. ...
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Platinum Dunes to Remake Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby
via |Film by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) on March 02, 2008
Follow me as we once again ride the slippery mud (shit?) slide that is Hollywood’s modern remake obsession. Blowing a loud horn all across Movieland today, STYD reports that Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, is on the hunt for writers to pen a remake of Rosemary’s Baby, the 1968 classic horror film directed by Roman Polanski.Platinum Dunes is already on many a horror...
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If Saul Bass did the titles for Star Wars. (thx,...
via kottke.org by deronbauman@gmail.com on March 02, 2008
If Saul Bass did the titles for Star Wars. (thx, jason) (link)
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Speak, ‘Tootsie’
via NYT > Movies by VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN on February 28, 2008
The indelible Hollywood comedy — like so much great art — was practically made to be memorized.
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