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Why One School District Killed Its Student Laptop Program, How Sitcoms Depict American Cities, Stop Eating Crap And Start Cooking, The Man Who Haunts Israel, Irony, Illustrated, Dissecting The Peerless Editing Of Satoshi Kon

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014


ANYONE NEED A BUNCH OF RUINED LAPTOPS?
Why One School District Killed Its Student Laptop Program
arstechnica.com
"There is no more determined hacker… than a 12-year-old who has a computer."


URBAN LEGENDS
How Sitcoms Depict American Cities
theguardian.com
From the suspiciously affordable West Village in "Friends" to the cosmopolitan Huxtable house in "The Cosby Show," sitcoms have shaped our most elemental images of urban America.


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SECOND LIFE
The Man Who Haunts Israel
time.com
Khaled Mashaal was nearly assassinated by Benjamin Netanyahu. Then Israel's Prime Minister was forced to bring the Hamas leader back to life. Now their deadly history hangs over the conflict that roils the Middle East.


ISN'T IT IRONIC? NO, IT'S COINCIDENCE
Irony, Illustrated
digg.com
Irony. The term people love to use... incorrectly. On TV, in literature, between friends — people misapply and misuse the word a million times a day. But now finally there's an illustrated guide explaining the difference between irony and mere coincidence.


LOST ART
Dissecting The Peerless Editing Of Satoshi Kon
digg.com
Four years after his passing, we still haven't quite caught up to Satoshi Kon, one of the great visionaries of modern film. In just four features and one TV series, he developed a unique style of editing that distorted and warped space and time.