#BEA14 #Editors' #Buzz panel: Seven titles to add to your reading wish list. It was all elbows at the ARC tables.
Understood in gambling terms, Twitter is a large and popular casino. There are design features that reward you for small victories while distracting you from commensurate failures. There are no clocks in Twitter. Time is displayed differently within its walls, measured not in dates but in distance from the present. All other visible numbers are cumulative, but you are given the impression that the past does not exist. It most certainly does, permanently and yet stripped of protective context.
An explainer on Twitter, by John Herrman. (via zzzzaaaacccchhh)
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First of three articles by The Boston Globe adapted from “The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,” by Ben Bradlee, Jr. to be published Tuesday by Little, Brown and Company.
Startling details about Ted Williams’s life unearthed
A monumental new biography reveals more about the Red Sox legend’s last hours, and his son’s bizarre hope that Teddy Ballgame would one day live again.
(PHOTO: John-Henry Williams, shown with his father in 1982, arranged for Ted to be frozen and then stored in a large “Dewar” by Alcor Life Extension. Boston Globe File 1982.)
Yesterday it was Gronk @simonandschuster and today it is @patriots Tom Brady
At the @AmericanRep's Loeb, ahem, theater, Diane Paulus introducing Teller, the normally wordless half of the famed magic duo: "...he was working on the Scottish play." Teller: "Macbeth!" Paulus: "Only a magician could get away with that!"
The calm before the crowds. Looks like Georgia is going to have to don the costume and start the tours. At Harvard Square. #may #harvardarts
Ben Taylor holds court at #Consenses concert to celebrate his sister #SallyTaylor's art installation at Wellesley College. #AndThenThisHappened
Just some musings and electronic gatherings of an ink-stained wretch turned social media junkie. As JADAL says: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this organic message. I do concede, however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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