From a series advertising the Pilot Extra Fine Point ball pen.
Steve Jobs’s Reality Distortion Field
Taiwanese news animation covering recent events at Apple, including the recent iPhone 4 antenna problems. I love many things about this, not least of which that it was made for the ‘news’.
Talking Carl Scream Fight
Talking Carl is an iPhone app that repeats whatever you say, only in a higher voice. Get two of them together and they try to outdo one another.
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Harvey Pekar, Cleveland comic-book legend, dies at age 70
Pekar was the author of the celebrated comic book American Splendor.
“He’s the soul of Cleveland,” Crumb told The Plain Dealer in 1994. “He’s passionate and articulate. He’s grim. He’s Jewish. I appreciate the way he embraces all that darkness.”
Yet the darkness came with a humorous silver lining. As Pekar said, “The humor of everyday life is way funnier than what the comedians do on TV. It’s the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there’s no routine and everything is unexpected. That’s what I want to write about.”
RIP.
Ringo Starr Turns 70
Short interview with the ex-Beatle on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Newly Published Mark Twain Essay, ‘Concerning the Interview’
Essay by Mark Twain on being interviewed, published for the first time by PBS NewsHour.
No one likes to be interviewed, and yet no one likes to say no; for interviewers are courteous and gentle-mannered, even when they come to destroy. I must not be understood to mean that they ever come consciously to destroy or are aware afterward that they have destroyed; no, I think their attitude is more that of the cyclone, which comes with the gracious purpose of cooling off a sweltering village, and is not aware, afterward, that it has done that village anything but a favor.