The overwelming impression throughout "Stop Making Sense" is of enormous energy, of life being lived at a joyous high. And it's not the frenetic,
“Or how about a health plan that integrates the retail clinics into its primary care coverage, avoiding some more expensive sites in the traditional model? With the seemingly endless assault of Amazon, could one imagine that CVS plans for the day when their prime real estate locations could be...
Fun With Amazon X-Ray While riding on the train the other day, I was watching The Man in the High Castle on Prime and thought I recognized the actor on screen. “Too bad they only show the main actors. It would be nice if we could get a listing of who is in each scene,” I...
First released in 1984, Jonathan Demme's acclaimed concert film Stop Making Sense featured the Talking Heads at the height of their creative and musical powers. Open Culture, openculture.com
3. Emotional Impulse Spending Many joke about retail therapy but it's a very real thing. Sadness is strongly associated with a sense that you're not in control of the outcomes in your life, according to The Benefits of Retail Therapystudyby the University of Michigan's Ross School of Busin...
I thought as a memoir this was absolutely fantastic, truly exceptional – the use of surreal techniques, the switch between second and third person, the use of academic close readings (most memorablyLittle House on the Prairie, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Swallows and Amazon,, Dorothy Wordsworth’...
Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB). But developing games from scratch appears to be too heavy a lift (with not enough return) for even these companies with vir...
Also, the Amazon URL you mention looks valid, and technically there is nothing wrong with “long” URLs (although they can be unwieldy to work with). As Mathias mentions in the previous comment, it’s up to browsers to properly encode/escape URLs before sending the request, but I’m not...
At all times, whether it be in a military drama likeThe Covenantor a period dramedy likeThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Ritchie feels in control of the movie he’s made. That adds a level of comfort — a sense of security that you’re in capable hands — to the act of watchin...
that every book I release is going to sell thirty copies before its Amazon sales rank slips to an eight-figure number, I get up and drive to the city. I park my car in the parking garage and walk down an alley strewn with dead pigeon parts (because peregrines are brutal creatures). ...