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5 Intriguing Things

August 13, 2014

1. A vigorous, fascinating attack on the anti-stuff/Apple aesthetic. "This is fine for the cyber elite; they can live as they wish. But why is their ideology...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 12, 2014

Thanks to all who sent in screenshots yesterday. We've identified that the formatting problem occurs with the Gmail and Mailbox apps for the iPhone. It's not...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 11, 2014

Hey Friends: I've heard from some of you that reading 5IT on mobile devices is not a good experience. Specifically, I've heard complaints that the text is...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 8, 2014

1. O, Excellent Air Bag: On the nitrous craze of 1799. "After an eternity he was brought back to earth by the sensation of Dr. Kinglake removing the...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 7, 2014

1. On the man behind Slack, enterprise software that's slicker than the slickest app. "Slack’s strategy is to insinuate itself into the workplace from the...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 6, 2014

1. On Judy Malloy and the forgotten female e-literature pioneers. "When Robert Coover anointed Michael Joyce the ‘granddaddy’ of hypertext literature in a...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 5, 2014

1. Museum reviews on Yelp as "vernacular criticism." "In this way, many Yelp reviews confront the engineered homogeneity of the museum experience, the...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 4, 2014

1. A challenging project. "Over the next year or so, as I’ve mentioned in recent posts, I plan on tracing out as much as possible of what can be known or...

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5 Intriguing Things

August 1, 2014

1. On the virtues of "democratic secrecy." "Regardless of the cause of this trend, by insisting upon greater transparency as a goal unto itself, critics have...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 31, 2014

1. Portland legalizes Airbnb, essentially. "Portland will start issuing permits for its first legal short-term rental operations in private homes as soon as...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 30, 2014

1. A warning about new image-recognition capabilities from a leader in the techniques. "Before, it would take months of my time to build a classifier for...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 29, 2014

1. The democratization of the Truman Show. "Previously, park visitors received a payment card-sized pass with a magnetic stripe and an embedded radio...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 28, 2014

1. Let's just go with the headline: "YouTube’s Biggest Star Is An Unknown Toy-Reviewing Toddler Whisperer." "DisneyCollectorBR is a faceless YouTube channel...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 25, 2014

1. How to become the world's only frozen-dumpling billionaire. "Using mechanical parts harvested from the hospital junk pile, Chen built a two-stage freezer...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 24, 2014

1. New web tracking strategies have evolved, which make it roughly impossible to use the Internet without generating data for someone. "The upshot? Not only...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 23, 2014

1. One of the best writers working, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, on the glories of autocorrect. "It's not too much of an exaggeration to call autocorrect the...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 22, 2014

1. Cities as molecules. "With colleagues, Ulm began analyzing cities the way you’d analyze a material, looking at factors such as the arrangement of...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 21, 2014

1. User-centered design... for animals. Although animals have been involved in machine interactions for a long time, their perspective has seldom driven the...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 18, 2014

An amazing reader of the newsletter—Mr. Jay H.—created an archive of all the things, or at least the intriguing ones. Check out the editions in chronological...

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5 Intriguing Things

July 17, 2014

1. A drone aerial photo contest! (When will the novelty of these angles wear off?) "I think it is a new visual language, a new way of discovering things and...

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