Brief Episode

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Until I can share the look and feel of the new Mac laptops with IRL passerby, here’s a quotation in its stead:

as Apple’s new releases always seem to do, the new models make the old ones look like a pile of puke.

New Apple MacBooks

Scientists watched brain activity of subjects while watching short film clips that grossed them out and then also gave them.

“What this means is that whether we see a movie or read a story, the same thing happens: we activate our bodily representations of what it feels like to be disgusted– and that is why reading a book and viewing a movie can both make us feel as if we literally feel what the protagonist is going through.”

Why An Exciting Book Is Just As Thrilling As A Hair-raising Movie

Movie image by Kenneth Lu. Book image by Rebecca Krebs.

You love his voice for Scarborough Fair and Bridge Over Troubled Waters.

You own all his recordings.

Well, now you can read everything he’s ever read!

He’s published his reading list, year by year.

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr.

Frank Beddor’s new book takes Alyss further into Wonderland

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Beowulf

violent, sexy, mythic, and in the original Old English (I wish!).

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• The billboards & online eyeball ads for Gossip Girl lack of versimilitude. All the girls are gossip-worthy themselves & don’t look like pro gossips.#
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