Casey Pugh helped make Vimeo and is now the head of web development for Boxee. He also founded the crowdsourcing film project Star Wars: Uncut, which recently premiered at CPH: PIX, a Copenhagen film festival. The project broke the film down, and users were asked to recreate and submit the
Reading Agni editor and Harvard mentor (The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age) Sven Birkets at his best is like listening to an old-style baritone crooner like Johnny Hartmann squeeze every last nuance from a classic ballad. The occasion for this observation is Birket’s
Your roommate, your girlfriend, and her (and your) boss: It’s a tough table, and they’ll scrutinize your food—and your dwindling frame.
Coordinated attacks kill more than a hundred in Iraq, making Monday this year's bloodiest day so far. Lucid summary of the Euro bailout bazooka. Maine's Republicans now advocate a "return to the principles of Austrian Economics." Op: As government falls to relying on business
Leslie Jamison certainly has some weighty credentials—though I am in a quandary as to which element of her neophytic novelist capsule-bio/gestalt moved me to pick up her debut novel, The Gin Closet (Free Press). I am even considering the subliminal connection to my reading of Dan Okrent’
My guess is very few of you have read novelist Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew, Gold Fools), probably through no fault of yours, and most certainly through no fault of his. This accomplished writer, who was felled by the big C in 2006, had published over 30 books, mostly fiction, and
"I think he understood for the first time that Toyota was facing some very, very serious credibility problems..." The road to recovery. Gulf spill rig operator has been involved in nearly three out of every four federal rig safety investigations. Rising U.S. medical costs for treating cancer
Photographer Timothy Briner spent seven years on “Boonville,” which takes place in six towns in the U.S.—six different towns named Boonville where Briner lived for periods of time and shot portraits of private lives, overpasses, and wrestling squads.
War on AIDS crumbling; for every 100 people put on treatment, 250 are newly infected. Long read: Opacity of Mexico's "drug war" makes legends out of gangsters. See also: John Murray's Ciudad Juarez news tracking. Obama likes Kagan's "intellectual heft"
Probably everyone knows someone whose predilection for collecting has gone off the rails and might be viewed as a pathological condition. (Consider the two daffy uncles in Diane Keaton’s 1995 film Unstrung Heroes.) Randy Frost and Gail Steketee, social scientists and scholars, have taken their decade-long research into
