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Apollo Robbins, in actie op bovenstaand filmpje, heeft de psychologie achter het succesvol zakkenrollen doorgrond. Eigenlijk is hij de ordinaire classificatie van zakkenroller ver ontstegen, hij is een artiest en wetenschapper. Ook universiteiten, de CIA en het leger hebben al een beroep gedaan om zijn expertise. The New Yorker schreef onlangs een fabuleus profiel over hem. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_green

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Illustrator Birgit Schõssow on learning that her image would be on this week’s cover: “For a German illustrator, the goal can seem so very far away. Now, I’m so thrilled. I’ve never made an image with so few things on it, and there it is.”
 
Click-through for a slideshow of past New Yorker covers about winter sports: http://nyr.kr/YzAF1F

Brilliant <3

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We delude them”—customers—“into believing that they’re in a book. They’re in a Web page.” There was a ripple of laughter, cut off by the moderator, who asked, expectantly, “But you want to sell them a book?” “We’ll sell them a book,” said MacInnis. “Or a cow. Or a monkey. We’ll sell them the content.
Matt MacInnis (founder of interactive-book company Inkling) on digital reading, publishing and the book of the future, sliced and diced in The New Yorker.

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Posted 5 months ago

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“Time Names Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912”

“It was very close between but Romney and the Titanic guy, but we gave it to Romney because it took him slightly longer to sink.”

De beste grap over Time’s benoeming van Obama tot persoon van het jaar komt van Andy Borowitz, held van The New Yorker.

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Posted 9 months ago

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I like writing out of confusion, panic, a sense of everything being perilously close to collapse. So I try to embrace the fiction of all things.
Keith Ridgway, Everything is Fiction - The New Yorker.

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Posted 10 months ago
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“Hey Google, can I have a little privacy here?”

Leuke wedstrijd van The New Yorker: Wat zou jij tweeten namens Planeet Aarde als dat kon? Het winnende bericht is de oproep aan Google zoals hierboven in de titel, volgens de jury combineerde deze het best ‘technology, human greed, and the dignity of the planet.’ “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty apes” haalde het net niet.

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In this week’s Questioningly contest, we asked people to imagine that they were tweeting from an imaginary official Twitter account for Earth.  The results took two tacks, some people imagined they were representing humanity, while others tweeted as the Earth itself.  Click-through to see the best entries: http://nyr.kr/MTIqDW

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Posted 11 months ago
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newyorker: Cartoon of the day. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/NGzwA9

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Cartoon of the day. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/NGzwA9

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Posted 11 months ago

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The pilot of “The Newsroom” is full of yelling and self-righteousness, but it’s got energy, just like “The West Wing […]. The second episode is more obviously stuffed with piety and syrup, although there’s one amusing segment, when McAvoy mocks some right-wing idiots. After that, “The Newsroom” gets so bad so quickly that I found my jaw dropping. The third episode is lousy […]. The fourth episode is the worst. There are six to go.
OOF. The New Yorker is niet bepaald lovend over Aaron Sorkins nieuwe serie The Newsroom, een show over de achter de schermen-gebeurtenissen bij een fictief, groot “eerlijk” nieuwskanaal. Zie hier de trailer.

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What will Mark Zuckerberg do next? Who cares! You do, in an involuntary, Pavlovian way, which is why you’re reading me when you should be outdoors, talking with a loved one, listening to live music, knitting, doing nearly anything else!
Damnit, Teddy Wayne (The New Yorker) heeft gelijk. Lees zijn internetartikel over zijn artikel op internet daarom absoluut NIET! Of doe het wel, want het is best wel grappig. Zie maar. Ik ga even buiten breien.

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