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Redirecting the Attacks on Apple
This morning Larry Dignan used a post to the Between the Lines blog on ZDNet to give “equal time” to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, in the face of the beating that Apple has been taking from two extended reports in The New York Times by Charles Duhigg,...
Even Unconsciously, Sound Helps Us See
“Imagine you are playing ping-pong with a friend. Your friend makes a serve. Information about where and when the ball hit the table is provided by both vision and hearing. Scientists have believed that each of the senses produces an estimate relevant...
Occupy the World!
Now that Occupy Wall Street has inspired spin-off protests that literally appear to be circling the globe, it is next to impossible for our mass media to maintain the masquerade that it does not exist. Nevertheless, the consciousness industry has...
You’ve Got Arianna Huffington!
The best way to approach this morning’s news about AOL and Huffington Post may well be through the first sentence of the story filed by Associated Press Technology Writer Michael Liedtke: Internet company AOL Inc. is buying news hub Huffington Post...
Peter Travers Misses the Point
The buzz around The Social Network has become too deafening to avoid, which, in terms of box office numbers, may make it the most successful self-fulfilling prophecy in the history of the film industry.? The real point however is that the buzz has...
‘That’s the Way It Is’
As Bill Carter reported last night on his Media Decoder blog for The New York Times, Jon Stewart used latest broadcast on The Daily Show to announce that he would be staging a rally of his own in Washington. He has apparently secured the National...
Virus And Insignificance
I seem to be finally appreciating the significance of the “viral” capacity of the Internet. Basically, it flaunts Andy Warhol’s most famous declaration. When he proclaimed that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes, he was...
49 Year Old Male Diver Rescued Near the Farne Islands
Humber Coastguard coordinated assistance to a 49 year old male diver this weekend who, it was reported, was unconscious and very poorly after returning from his dive. He had no particular medical history and he had dived to 13 meters over 30 minutes....
